Malay food is often spicy and flavourful. Their ingredients are normally pandan leaves, lemon grass and kaffir lime leaves. Most of the meals are eaten by fingers.
Our Recommendations:
Nasi Lemak
Coconut Flavoured Rice with ikan bilis, fried fish, hard boiled egg, sliced cucumber and dry sambal sauce. It is wrapped in banana leaf during the traditional days.
Recommended Stores/Restaurants In Singapore:
Selera Rasa Nasi Lemak (Adam Road) - 2 Adam Road Stall 2 Adam Road Food Centre Singapore 7am – 10pm
Fong Seng Fast Food Nasi Lemak (Clementi) - 22 Clementi Road Singapore 6am – 4am
Chong Pang Nasi Lemak (Sembawang) - 447 Sembawang Road Sembawang Park Singapore 5pm – 7am
Rojak
Fried tofu (tau pok), golden brown deep fried strip of dough (youtiao), beansprouts, cucumber,greens and a sprinkle of chopped roasted peanuts with a sweet and spicy prawn paste sauce.
Recommended Stores/Restaurants:
Gurney Drive (Ang Mo Kio) - 61 Ang Mo Kio Ave 8 #01-09/10 Jubilee Entertainment Complex Singapore Mon–Fri: 10am – 10pm, Sat–Sun & PH: 9am – 10pm
Toa Payoh Rojak - Blk 51 Old Airport Road #01-108 Old Airport Rd Market Hawker's Food Centre Singapore 12.00pm – 8.00pm (Closed on Sun)
Apa Rojak - 18 Raffles Quay Stall #114 Lau Pa Sat Festival Market Singapore Mon–Sat: 11am – 11pm (Closed on Sun)
Mee Goreng
Yellow noodles with fried garlic, onion, chicken or beef, fried prawns, sliced meatballs (bakso), vegetables, tomatoes, hard boiled egg, pickles (acar) and chilli.
Recommended Stores/Restaurants:
Old Satay Club Mee Goreng - 8 Raffles Avenue Stall #D, Makansutra Gluttons Bay Hawker Centre, Esplanade Mall Singapore 6pm – 3am
Mee Siam
Thin rice noodles with spicy, sour and sweet gravy. Hard boiled egg is one of the ingredients you can find in Mee Siam. It is eaten together with the sambal chilli.
Recommended Stores/Restaurants:
Robert Mee Siam & Lontong - Blk 91 Whampoa Drive #01-43 Whampoa Drive Food Centre 8am – 2pm (Closed on Mondays)
Montfort Mee Siam - Blk 162 Ang Mo Kio Ave 4 #01-24 Singapore Tue–Sun: 06.30am – 1.30pm (Closed on Mondays)
Satay
Bundles stick of different meats, mainly chicken, mutton, beef and goat. Consumers can choose their preferred meat. It is dipped in the spicy and sweet peanut sauce and normally accompanied with ketupat (malay rice), cucumber and chopped onion.
Recommended Stores/Restaurants:
King Satay - 3B River Valley Road #01-07 The Foundry, Clarke Quay Singapore 6pm – 5am
Fatman Satay (Lau Pa Sat) - 18 Raffles Quay Stall #1 Lau Pa Sat Festival Market Singapore 7pm – 1am
Fatman Satay (Old Airport Road) - Blk 51 Old Airport Road #01-45 Old Airport Road Food Centre 7pm – 11pm( Closed on Tue)
Rendang
Meat that is cooked in coconut milk and spices for several hours. The meats are normally beef and occasionally chicken, duck, mutton, water buffalo or vegetables like jackfruit. Rendang can be dried or wet.
Recommended Stores/Restaurants:
Garuda Padang Cuisine - 181 Orchard Road #07-07/08 Orchard Central Singapore 11.30am – 10pm
The Curry Wok - 5 Coronation Road #01-04 Coronation Arcade Singapore Wed – Mon: 11am – 9pm
Warung M Nasir - 69 Killiney Road Singapore 11.30 am – 9.30 pm
