Singaporean breakfast is something of a varied concept. It not must be any grain, croissant, egg benedict etc. Singaporeans used to take breakfast at hawkers and kopitiam, especially during working days. It is as common in Singapore as Starbucks is in the US. Those foods must not only can be lunch or dinner, if an eating house or hawker is serving it in the morning, it can be breakfast, it can be eaten at any time of day. No anyone will look twice if you get a plate of wantan noodle or fried noodle for your breakfast. We are living in a bustle country, but if you have a few minutes to spare, sit down to take your traditional Singaporean breakfast at hawker centers or kopitiams, it is a kind of enjoyable moment in the morning. Append below are just 5 breakfast options to get your day started energetic.
1. Roti Prata
An Indian food which most commonly to be seen in Singapore and Malaysia, a fried flatbread and usually served with a meat-based curry sauce for dipping. Depends by every different food store, you can ask if can get chicken curry sauce or fish curry sauce instead. The roti is thinner and less chewy, with more of a crisp tender contrast. You can choose to eat roti prata (plain roti) or even with butter/chopped onion/eggs/sardine fish added in. But... Singaporean style "one roti prata and one egg prata"!
Location: Tampines Central 1, Blk 505
2. Wanton Noodle
Wanton mee (Wanton noodle) is probably one of everyone's favorite local dish. Wanton is the small dumpling that usually served with the noodle, either steamed or fried. Two types of wanton mee are soup based and dried based. As what I knew in Singapore Malaysia Hong Kong, wanton mee used to be eaten for breakfast and lunch. And so, when it comes to breakfast, I prefer dried based wanton mee over the soup based. Don't really like to take hot soup especially in a busy weekday morning. Second characteristic of wanton mee is char siu slices (the Chinese style barbecued pork), it has to be a bit fatty to make dish palatable.
Location: First Love Wanton, Kopitiam, Tampines Mart, Tampines Street 32
3. Chwee Kueh
Chwee kueh is one kind of breakfast which popular in Singapore and Malaysia. It is a type of steamed rice cake and every single piece has shaped as mini bowl, it served with chye poh (fried chopped radish) and Chinese style chili sauce. Most of the Chye poh provided taste salty, some are sweet. Perfect taste combined with the plain steamed rice cake plus salted fried chye poh and homemade chili sauce. Singaporeans will request for "more chye poh" when buying chwee kueh, food store owners usually are happy to give you even more without extra charges.
Location: First Love Noodle, Kopitiam, Tampines Mart, Tampines Street 32
4. Youtiao With Coffee
Youtiao known as Chinese style fried stick, called as Chinese doughnut sometimes. It is a long golden fried bread-stick (about 25cm length), two youtiao (bread-stick) as one piece. A traditional snack in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Youtiao can be eaten plain without any sauce, especially enjoy its crisp texture when just deep fried from hot oil. As breakfast, Singaporeans used to dunk it into a hot coffee, sometimes replaced by hot milo or hot soy bean milk.
Location: Koufu Shop, Commonwealth MRT Station
5. Economical Fried Noodle/Beehoon/KueyTeow
A common and humble local dish, it serves as a delightful breakfast for the locals here in Singapore. Singaporeans used to dabao (take away) economical fried noodle/beehoon/kueyteow to work, or sit at the hawker to dine. It is literally perfectly-flavored and with some side dish like sausage, luncheon meat, poached egg, otak-otak, fried chicken wing, fish cake etc. If anyone was here as a tourist, forget about the egg benedict in any classy cafeteria, and this fried noodle will definitely brighten up your Singapore trip indeed.
Location: Holland Village Fried Noodle, Tampines Central 1, Blk 505
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