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- Singapore reigns as the world’s most expensive city for the fifth year in a row.
- Despite its status, the country is also known for its inexpensive street food.
- From delectable chili crab to rice cake topped with savory vegetables, Singapore boasts a variety of street foods to get your hands on.
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Singapore is officially one of the most expensive cities in the world, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual report.
But that doesn’t mean you have to blow a ton of cash on fantastic food in Singapore.
While Singapore has plenty of five-star fine dining options, most people opt to eat street food in the city’s inexpensive hawker centers, which are open-air food courts where vendors prepare everything from Malaysian curries to Indian roti and Chinese noodle soups.
We ate our way through Singapore, trying everything from hawker centers to fine restaurants. Here are the best things we ate.
Disclosure: Our trip to Singapore, including travel and lodging expenses, was sponsored by the Singapore Tourism Board.
Chicken rice is Singapore’s unofficial national dish. First, chicken is boiled in a flavorful broth. Then the rice is cooked in that same broth. The result is a fragrant, flavorful, succulent rice that pairs perfectly with the juicy chicken.
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Chili crab is another one of Singapore’s national dishes. The crab is doused in a spicy chili-tomato gravy. Eating it is a messy affair — the best way to eat it is to crack the shell with your hands and slurp out the meat. Then mop up the gravy with doughy buns.
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Choy sum is a Chinese vegetable that’s a thinner version of bok choy. It’s prepared with garlic as a side dish that complements chili crab.
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