Singapore

🇲🇾Malaysia

Ais Kacang

Ice Kacang

Shaved ice with sweet corn, red beans, grass jelly, syrup.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Apam Balik

Min Chiang Kueh

Thick or thin pancake with peanut and corn filling, crispy edges with generous filling and balanced sweetness.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Ayam Buah Keluak

Peranakan chicken stew built on buah keluak, the fermented nut of the kepayang tree, cracked and scooped out to make a black, earthy.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Bak Chor Mee

肉脞面

Egg noodles tossed in vinegar, chilli and pork lard, topped with minced pork, liver, meatballs, fried sole fish and a small bowl of soup on the side.

🇲🇾Selangor, Malaysia

Bak Kut Teh

肉骨茶

Pork rib soup with medicinal herbs and spices, Klang style is darker and herbal, deep herbal flavor with tender meat falling off bone.

🇨🇳China

Bakkwa

肉干

Bakkwa is thinly sliced meat marinated in a sweet-savoury mixture, grilled until caramelised at the edges, and sold as a festive Chinese New Year snack.

🇮🇳India

Banana Leaf Rice

South Indian meal served on banana leaf with various vegetable curries and rice, fresh banana leaf with variety of vegetables and crispy papadum, a Malaysian Indian icon

🇲🇾Malaysia

Bandung

Rose syrup milk drink, pink and sweet.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Black Pepper Crab

Ketam Lada Hitam

Crab cooked with black pepper sauce, fresh crab with aromatic pepper sauce and proper spice level, a Malaysian seafood specialty, bold and peppery

🇨🇳China

Braised Duck Rice

卤鸭饭

Duck braised for hours in dark soy, galangal and star anise, sliced over rice cooked with yam or over plain rice with the braising liquor spooned across.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Bubur Cha Cha

Coconut milk dessert with sweet potato, taro, and tapioca pearls, creamy coconut broth with tender root vegetables and balanced sweetness.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Cendol

Chendol

Green jelly noodles in coconut milk with palm sugar syrup and red beans, firm green jelly with fragrant gula melaka and creamy coconut, a legendary Malaysian dessert icon

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Cereal Prawns

麦片虾

Whole prawns fried in their shells then tossed in butter, curry leaves, chilli padi and toasted breakfast cereal that clumps into sweet, savoury crumbs.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Char Kway Teow

Flat rice noodles wok-fried with prawns, egg, beansprouts and chives over high heat.

🇨🇳China

Cheng Tng

清汤

A clear, barely-sweet syrup served hot or over ice with longan, dried persimmon, barley, white fungus, gingko nut, lotus seed and strips of agar.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Chicken Soto

Soto Ayam

Indonesia's most popular soto with turmeric-yellow broth, chicken, compressed rice cakes, and vermicelli

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Chilli Crab

Ketam Cili

Crab in spicy sour sauce with egg, fresh crab with balanced spicy-sweet sauce and mantou bread, a Malaysian seafood restaurant specialty, rich and messy

🇨🇳China

Chin Chow Drink

仙草

Black grass jelly boiled from mesona leaves, chilled, chopped and served in its own lightly sweetened syrup as a cooling drink.

🇨🇳China

Chwee Kueh

水粿

Steamed cups of soft rice-flour pudding, unmoulded and topped with salty preserved radish fried with garlic and chilli.

🇧🇳Brunei

Compressed Rice Cake

Lontong

Rice compressed in banana leaves and boiled until firm, served with various dishes as a staple

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Crab Bee Hoon

螃蟹米粉

Whole mud crab steamed or braised over rice vermicelli, the noodles absorbing crab liquor, stock and often evaporated milk.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Curry Laksa

咖喱面

Coconut milk-based curry noodle soup with fish cake, tofu puffs, and cockles, rich coconut broth with aromatic laksa leaves.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Dendeng Paru

Beef lung boiled, sliced thin, dried and fried until brittle, then coated in a sweet-spicy chilli and tamarind sauce

🇲🇾Malacca, Malaysia

Devil's Curry

Kari debal

Eurasian curry of leftover roast meats stewed with candlenut, vinegar, mustard seed and a great deal of dried chilli, traditionally eaten at Christmas.

🇧🇳Brunei

Dodol

Sticky coconut and palm sugar toffee, slow-cooked for hours, sticky chewy texture with deep caramel flavor and glossy appearance, a festive sweet

🇮🇳India

Dosa

दोसा

A thin, crispy fermented crepe made from rice and urad dal batter. It is a staple breakfast across South India, served with sambar and chutneys

🇮🇩Indonesia

Durian

King of fruits with creamy custard-like flesh and strong aroma, creamy texture with balanced bitter-sweet and ripe flesh, a legendary Malaysian icon, and divisive

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Fish Head Curry

Kari Kepala Ikan

Fish head cooked in tangy curry with vegetables, fresh fish head with tender meat and tangy curry, a Malaysian Indian specialty, rich and flavorful

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Fish Soup Bee Hoon

鱼汤米粉

Rice vermicelli in fish-bone broth with fried fish slices or fish balls, tomato and leafy greens; the fried version gives the broth a toasted edge

🇨🇳China

Fried Dough Sticks

油条

Long twisted lengths of salted dough deep-fried until hollow and golden, eaten at breakfast dunked in soy milk or congee

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Frog Leg Porridge

田鸡粥

Frog legs braised in dried chilli and dark soy or ginger and spring onion, served with a separate bowl of plain congee to eat them over.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Grilled Fish Cake

Otak-Otak

Grilled fish cakes spiced with turmeric, wrapped in banana leaves, served with peanut sauce

🇲🇾Malaysia

Grilled Stingray

Ikan Pari Bakar

Grilled stingray with sambal, fresh stingray with spicy sambal and charred flavor, wrapped in banana leaf, bold and spicy.

🇨🇳Singapore, China

Hainanese Chicken Rice

海南鸡饭

Poached chicken with fragrant oily rice cooked in chicken fat, served with chili sauce and soup, tender juicy chicken with aromatic rice.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Hainanese Curry Rice

海南咖喱饭

White rice flooded with curry gravy, braised pork gravy and cabbage stew all at once, with pork chop, chap chye and braised pork belly heaped on top.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Ice Cream Sandwich

A thick slab cut from a block of local ice cream and clamped between two rainbow wafers or a folded slice of coloured bread.