Singaporeans love food, and people regularly go out to eat and track down their favorite foods with great enthusiasm. This vigour, coupled with the wide range of fresh produce offered, means eating here is an experience you will not soon forget. While there are a number of Western, Thai, Korean, and Japanese cooking styles available, a trip to Singapore is not really complete until you've taken a journey through the following cuisines, which are found all over town.
Malay cooking has a long and rich history.
Rice or nasi is eaten with every meal and comes in many forms, from plain white rice to the elaborate nasi minyak, a saffron rice cooked in ghee and served at weddings. Ingredients such as banana leaf used for steaming food, dried fish, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass and turmeric also feature prominently. Chilli is also present in many dishes. This is often incorporated into the sauce or mixed into a rich paste and used as a condiment called sambal. Satay, popular throughout the region, is the Malay version of the kebab.