Singapore

🇨🇳China

Pao Fan

泡饭

Rice cooked or steeped in a rich seafood broth until the grains loosen, served with prawns, crab or fish and topped with crisped rice puffs.

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Pasembur

Rojak Bandung

Indian rojak with various ingredients, fresh ingredients with spicy peanut sauce and variety of components.

🇲🇾Penang, Malaysia

Penang Hokkien Mee

福建虾面

Penang-style prawn noodle soup with pork ribs, prawns, and egg noodles, deep prawn broth with spicy kick.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pie Tee

Kueh Pie Tee

Crispy tart shells filled with jicama, prawns, and savory toppings, crispy shell with generous filling and fresh ingredients.

🇲🇾Malaysia

Pineapple Tart

Tart Nenas

Buttery pastry filled with pineapple jam, melt-in-mouth pastry with balanced sweet-tart filling.

🇨🇳China

Png Kueh

饭粿

Pink peach-shaped rice cake stamped from a wooden mould, its glutinous rice filling seasoned with dried shrimp, mushroom and peanut, then pan-fried.

🇨🇳China

Popiah

潤餅

Fresh spring rolls with jicama, bean sprouts, lettuce, and sauce in thin wrapper, thin wrapper with crunchy jicama and fresh vegetables, a Nyonya street food classic

🇮🇩Indonesia

Potato Patties

Perkedel

Mashed potato patties with egg, ground meat, and spices, fried until golden

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Prawn Paste Chicken

虾酱鸡

Chicken wings marinated in fermented shrimp paste, battered and deep-fried; the paste turns funky-savoury and dark under the crust.

🇨🇳China

Preserved Radish

菜脯

Daikon salted and sun-dried for months or years until it turns dark and intensely savoury, chopped into omelettes and rice.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Putu Piring

Putu Piring is a steamed rice-flour cake filled with palm sugar and served with grated coconut.

🇨🇷Costa Rica

Rambutan

Mamón chino

Rambutan, red hairy fruit with sweet translucent flesh, slightly acidic, season July-October, a popular Costa Rican tropical fruit

🇧🇳West Sumatra, Brunei

Rendang

Beef Rendang

World-famous slow-cooked beef curry with coconut milk and spices from Minangkabau cuisine

🇭🇰Guangdong, Hong Kong

Rice Noodle Rolls

肠粉

Sheets of rice batter steamed on cloth, rolled around prawn, beef or fried dough stick, and flooded with sweetened light soy

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Roti Canai

Roti Prata

Flaky flatbread made with flour and ghee, stretched and folded, served with dhal and curry, flaky layers with crispy exterior and soft interior.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Roti John

French toast sandwich with minced meat, crispy bread with savory meat filling and well-seasoned flavor, a mamak street food creation, hearty and satisfying

🇮🇩Singapore, Indonesia

Rujak

Rojak Buah

An Indonesian fruit salad with a sharp palm-sugar and chilli dressing

🇧🇳Brunei

Sambal

Surinamese Sambal

Sambal is a chilli condiment made across Indonesian and Malay kitchens, with ground aromatics, oil, and regional ingredients

🇧🇳Brunei

Satay

Marinated meat skewers grilled over charcoal, served with peanut sauce and cucumber

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Satay Bee Hoon

沙爹米粉

Rice vermicelli under a warm peanut satay gravy with cockles, cuttlefish, prawns, kangkong and fried beancurd — a Teochew invention that uses satay sauce as a dressing.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Savory Martabak

Martabak Telur

Savory stuffed pancake with spiced meat, eggs, and scallions, fried until crispy and flaky

🇮🇩Indonesia

Sayur Lodeh

Vegetable curry in coconut milk with various vegetables, jackfruit, and tempeh, creamy coconut broth with tender vegetables and balanced flavors, a Malay staple

🇧🇳Brunei

Shrimp Paste

Belacan

Fermented shrimp paste blocks made from tiny geragau shrimp, essential umami ingredient in Malay cooking, deep purple-brown color with strong pungent aroma, foundational

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Singapore Fried Radish Cake

菜头粿

Steamed radish and rice-flour cake cut into cubes and fried hard with egg, garlic and preserved radish; served white, or black with sweet dark soy

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Singapore Hokkien Mee

福建炒虾面

Yellow egg noodles and rice vermicelli braised together in prawn and pork stock until the liquid is absorbed, with prawn, squid, egg and pork lard, served with sambal and calamansi.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Singapore Sling

Gin, cherry brandy, Bénédictine, Cointreau, pineapple and lime juice with grenadine and bitters, shaken to a foamy pink and served long over ice.

🇨🇳China

Soon Kueh

笋粿

Translucent steamed dumpling of wheat-starch skin filled with shredded bamboo shoot, turnip, dried shrimp and mushroom, eaten with dark soy and chilli.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Soup Tulang

Soup tulang merah

Mutton or beef leg bones stewed in a fiercely red, sweet-spicy tomato and chilli gravy; the marrow is the point and is pushed out with a straw or a finger.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Spicy Dried Shrimp Sambal

虾米辣

Dried shrimp pounded with chilli, shallot, garlic, lemongrass and belacan.

🇨🇳China

Sticky Rice in Bamboo Leaves

粽子

A pyramid of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves and boiled, filled with pork belly and egg yolk in the south or eaten plain with sugar in the north.

🇮🇩Indonesia

Sup Kambing

Soup Kambing

Goat meat soup with spices, clear greenish-gold broth with tender meat and aromatic spices.

🇨🇳China

Tau Suan

豆爽

Split mung beans steamed until they hold their shape, suspended in a thin pandan-scented starch syrup and eaten hot with fried dough sticks broken in.

🇲🇾Singapore, Malaysia

Teh Halia

Black tea brewed with crushed ginger, sweetened with condensed milk and pulled between two jugs until it foams

🇲🇾Malaysia

Teh Tarik

Pulled tea with condensed milk, frothy top with good pull aeration and balanced sweetness.

🇨🇳China

Teochew Porridge

潮州糜

Loose rice congee eaten as the plain centre of a spread of small salty dishes: braised pork, salted egg, preserved vegetable, fried fish, steamed minced pork.

🇸🇬Singapore, Singapore

Tiger Beer

Pale lager first brewed in Singapore in 1932, light and dry, poured everywhere from hawker centres to Boat Quay bars.