First Time Eating at a Hawker Centre in Singapore! It's SUPER CHEAP & YUMMY 🇸🇬
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- čas přidán 16. 07. 2024
- Join us on a mouthwatering adventure as we delve into the vibrant food scene of Singapore! In this episode, we explore the renowned Old Airport Road Food Centre, a local gem favoured by Singaporeans. Get ready to indulge in authentic hawker delights as we immerse ourselves in a truly authentic culinary experience. No tourists, just pure local flavour!
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Old Airport Road Food Centre
00:39 Michelin Fried Kway Teow
02:48 Sugarcane Juice
06:01 Tasting Fried Kway Teow
09:32 Hainanese Chicken Rice
17:51 Soya Beancurd
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The place is called Old Airport Road because that area used to be Singapore's very first civil airport, Kallang Airport, from 1937 to 1955. This is way before when Changi Airport first opened in 1981.
@@riptide101Dude why so worked up? certain cultures associate slurping noodles as a sign of how delicious the food is or it’s just how they eat. Read: Korea/China.
Both you really know how to choose a good food centre.
One of the cheapest and best food you can find in Singapore!👍👍👍
Loved your interaction with the people at the hawker centres! how friendly and proud of their food they are. wholesome video i loved this. made me so hungry!
Our pleasure! (And we loved every bit of it too 🥰)
You both did it right! You're suppose to mix the chilli and black sauce w the rice we won't hate u for that 😆
😂😂😂 Thanks!
Love how Karolina describes the sugar cane drink with “taste like sugar” 😂 I’m already waiting for more videos to follow your exciting journey 🤩⭐️ you both rock!
Haha yeah 😂 Sometimes really when there are a lot of different flavours but there's a ton of sugar added it overpowers the other tastes and it's hard to describe the first taste impression!
@@JayandKarolina Sugarcane is fresly squeezed with no sugar added. Those who prefer zero sugar should go for other beverages.
Sugar literally comes from sugar cane 😂😂
@@JayandKarolina sugar comes from sugar cane hahaha, so its literally 100% sugar
@@JayandKarolinayou're funny 🤣 sugar is literally made from sugar cane. 😅
Typical soya beancurd stalls will sell soya bean milk, chilled grass jelly and grass jelly drink as well. Some of these stalls freshly make the soya beancurd themselves, using Calcium Sulfate (gypsum) as the coagulant. Such stalls serve the beancurd hot or at room temperature with sugar syrup. Sugar syrup is added before the soya bean milk. Soya bean milk can be served with ice (not recommended because it is very diluted) or warm (highly recommended because it is just the right temperature). Grass jelly and its drink are served chilled.
I would highly recommend those stalls selling both soya bean milk and grass jelly drink, like the one at 18:14.
You made us curious now how the fresh soya bean curd tastes! Need to try it out very soon then! 😍
History of the Old Airport Road Hawker:-
One of the draws to the Old Airport Road Food Centre in Singapore is that it’s a historic attraction in itself! The complex was built in 1972 as a home for the hundreds of street venders outside the closed down Kallang Airport.
An estate was built with low-cost housing in 1955 on the old airport grounds and this is where the hawker stalls would congregate.
It wasn’t until the Hawker Centre movement in the 1970’s where the new building was constructed that you see today. Old Airport Road Food Centre now consists of over 160 food stalls!
It’s history and number of different food options from around Southeast Asia make it one of the oldest and largest hawker centres in Singapore. There is also a shopping area on the 2nd floor with miscellaneous stores and items.
Sugarcane Juice:-
Sugarcane juice is the liquid extracted from pressed sugarcane. It is consumed as a beverage in many places, especially where sugarcane is commercially grown, such as Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North Africa, and Latin America. Sugarcane juice is obtained by crushing peeled sugar cane in a mill and is one of the main precursors of rum.
Char Kway Teow:-
Char kway teow (sometimes also spelled as char kuey teow, Chinese: 炒粿條; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhá-kóe-tiâu) is a stir-fried rice noodle dish from Maritime Southeast Asia of southern Chinese origin. In Hokkien and Teochew, char means 'stir-fried' and kway teow refers to flat rice noodles. It is made from flat rice noodles (Chinese: 河粉; pinyin: hé fěn; Cantonese Yale: hó fán) or kway teow (Chinese: 粿條; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kóe-tiâu; pinyin: guǒ tiáo; Cantonese Yale: gwó tìuh) of approximately 1 cm or about 0.5 cm in width, stir-fried over very high heat with garlic, light and dark soy sauce, chilli paste, whole prawns, shelled blood cockles, chopped Chinese chives, slices of Chinese sausage, and bean sprouts. Other common ingredients include fishcake and belachan.
Hainanese Chicken Rice:-
Hainanese chicken rice is a dish of poached chicken and seasoned rice, served with chilli sauce and usually with cucumber garnishes. It was created by immigrants from Hainan in southern China and adapted from the Hainanese dish Wenchang chicken. It is considered one of the national dishes of Singapore and is most commonly associated with Singaporean cuisine, being widely available in most food courts and hawker centres around the country. Variants of the dish can also be seen throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Thailand, where it remains a culinary staple.
Soya Bean Curd:-
Tofu, also called bean curd, soft, relatively flavourless food product made from soybeans. Tofu is an important source of protein in the cuisines of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Bean curd, also known as tofu, is made out of soybeans that have been soaked, ground, and pressed into a tender block of protein. Bean curd is nearly tasteless by itself, but it soaks up the flavors that it is cooked with to create tasty dishes that have a variety of textures.
Soya Bean Benefits:-
•Good source of protein.
•Lower in saturated fat as compared to meat.
•Lactose free and hence people who are lactose intolerant can consume it without any undesirable symptoms (e.g. diarrhoea).
•Good source of calcium.
•A source of isoflavones, which is an antioxidant that may be beneficial for the body.
Loving your videos, I used to live in Singapore for 6 years. This brings back lots of fond memories. Love Hawker centers
So cool! 🏙️ Glad you like them!
Great video, catching up on some of your older content. Always enjoy your enthusiasm for whatever you are experiencing.
Welcome! I appreciate that!
Proud of you both. You did not fall for those tourist traps… like eating the overrated chicken rice in Maxwell Food Centre, etc etc. That char kway teow: I knew that it would be spicy although you said ‘Less chilli’. It happened to me ( an elderly local). I found it too spicy although I stressed that I want very very little chilli. So during my future visits I said ‘ No chilli’. Anyway, my favourite char kway teow stall is somewhere else
Hi Mandy! We want to immerse ourselves in Southeast Asia and the customs of the locals, so trying to avoid typical tourist attractions! However, it may not always be possible.
🌶️ It's so true that even if we say less spicy, it still has a kick 🤪
That char kway teow with black sweet sauce with chilli is perfect balance. If want want white and savory go without chilli.
Just say no chilli. These old school cooker will be inevitably mixed. So it will be a lil spicy,just nice.
Singaporean here. Absolutely love my hainanese chicken rice. And yes, on some days I mix the black sauce and chilli sauce into the rice (cooked from chicken broth, sesame oil and a bunch of other ingredients giving it its fragrance), which elevates it into another level of flavour. On some days, I leave out the black sauce. But the chilli sauce, ALWAYS.
Believe it or not, Karolina tolerates spicy food more than I do 🤪 Although chilli sauce always adds value to a delicious dish as an addition!
Singaporean will add black soy sauce into the chilli as a dipping sauce for the chicken.
Singapore Char Kway Teow is also the best
The tissue paper seller is actually them needing money but if you want or need tissue paper, you can get it or if you wanna donate your money to the tissue seller, you can actually just give her $1 :) a few more hawker Centers i recommend will be the people’s park (hawker) Center, Maxwell food Center, Whampoa makan(eating) Center (has a $9 chicken rice with 2 plates of rice, 2 plates of white chicken 2 bowls of soup and tou fu)and Lau Pa Sat (Lau pa sat is famous for its stay!)
Wow, such good tips! Thank you!
We could have seen that buying some tissues is a way of supporting those people 🤗 It's such a nice way to do such small things that might mean a lot to them!
Also, vendors don't give napkins, so it's always good to have a few packs of tissues... 😉
chicken rice, everything on ur plate has a purpose , they complement each other super well.
put everything in one mouthful and down it, chili chicken rice ,a little black sauce.... and enjoy the flavors in ur mouth
You guys need to come back to Singapore again for more good local food. Hope to see you both soon. Stay safe. 💕
We hope one day (soon)!!! We really enjoyed the city and the culture 🙏🏽😌
Actually the old airport hawker has tourist dining there except thet day you guys are the only ones. Lunch popular and getting touristy after covid there as i drop by lunch often. Hope you guys come back again
07:55 I think Jay realised just what he had said, with a slightly embarrassed laugh afterwards 😊
佩服你们一天去这么多地方品尝美食！ 有机会再来❤❤
Soya bean curd is good for skin too :) if you are in chinatown complex, do try the Ah Balling Peanut Soup desserts. It's good. Some foreign expats from Europe and Asutralia live at the opposite condominiums facing the old airport road hawker centre . Sometimes they will buy takeaway after work or dine in.
Wow! It’s great to know that! Karolina will probably love eating it even more 🤪🫰🏽
The point of chicken rice is the rice. The chicken is boiled with ginger garlic and spring onions and then the rice is made with the resulting broth and fat. I’m simplifying but that’s generally it. You should try the rice by itself too. You can also ask for extra rice when you order.
Exactly. It's chicken rice and not "chicken with rice", the rice is the star of the dish. Also you can usually get a set with bok choi or kailan, which is my preference.
Jay thank you so much for the video you made 😄
Karolina you are fantastic 😘
bingo on mixing the black sauce and chilli sauce! (p.s. sometimes i put abit of the black sauce in the broth to make it taste stronger) . Hainanese Chicken Rice is white because it's steamed. The other one is Roasted Chicken Rice, less soft and abit dryer compared to the white version. The rice is cooked in chicken oil broth.
We can recall the taste of that Chicken and Rice Balls even now... It was so tasty! 😋
The Char Kuay Teow you should try the black one with chili. Hainanese chicken rice is correct, chili and dark sauce together with the chicken meat and rice. Besides the bean curd, you should try the Chendol too. Normally when we drink freshly squeezed sugar cane juice, we don't add anymore sugar instead I like to add a piece of lemon.
So much useful information! Thank you sooo much 🙏
Well done guys! Love your new friend 😍
i wish i am this good at finding good local stuff like you guys in a foreign country xDDDDD you guys rock man, got alot of stuff right and really respectful. I am so glad that you guys enjoyed yourself ! hope for only the best experience for your future travels as well
We always like to do some research before entering a country to embrace to local culture! You can do it too! Thanks for watching 😇
White sugar is made from sugar cane. Its the refined version of brown/raw sugar, from sugar cane.
u got it right. that's how i eat chicken rice with the chilli and dark soy sauce mixed.
Omg . Yes the food ❤
It is hot in Singapore. Another way to enjoy Sugar Cane Juice is ask to add a little lemon to it. A mix of sweetness with sourness, taste super...that quench your thirst!!🤗🤗
I'm due to be going end of this month - so excited!! is there much fish/veggie options?
Yes it is! 😍🙏
Hi Jay enjoyed you videos….you guys had missed the Murtabak and Tulang or Bone Steak in Singapore. I think you both would like it.
Sounds great! Next time for sure 😋
Your choices are absolutely correct 👍😂
Glad you think so! It was our first time eating at a Hawker Centre so we were all over the place because it was so exciting 😬
I hope you guys got to try the black carrot cake too, black IMO is better
For me, my mom's cooking is Michelin 10 if you ask me^^
Great video Jyaesh!!
Love that! Thanks 😄
My neighborhood more than a decade ago. Char Kway Teow is my favorite. Wondering if #10 Dakota Crescent is still there. Nevertheless, will go back there next year. 😊
So good! We hope to be back soon too 🥳
New subscriber here,nice change from delivery 😊😊😊
Thanks and welcome!
yea mix the black suace!! its good that way :D
aaah i miss hawker center in Singapore!
hainan chicken rice!! yum!! ❤
anyway beancurd in Singapore served cold meanwhile in Indonesia served warm with ginger brown sugar soup ^^
and i love the herbal jelly (guilinggao) in Singapore 😁
Hainanese Chicken Rice was my favourite dish and even throughout our travels I'm having it quite regularly hehe 😋 [Karolina] Jay loves all sorts of the Beancurd though lol
For $4 Hainanese Chicken Rice, I must say that's A LOT of chicken meat given!! Chicken Rice is available at almost every hawker centres, but not for Char Kway Teow, (meaning fried rice noodles) so most people will prefer to go for the Char Kway Teow unless they have a preference for rice. The white version of Char Kway Teow is less common and not many places have that option, usually is the black (sweet sauce) version available. The beancurb stall is a legendary one cos it sparked off a chain of franchiese stalls about a decade ago, all started from this flagship stall at Old Airport Road (there was an airport nearby last time and this road was thus known as Airport Road). And yes, the queue for that Michelin-star Char Kway Teow stall (name: Lao Fu Zi which is a cartoon-character created by Hong Kong cartoonist) can be ridiculously long during peak hours.
Oh, wow! So many insights! We’ll know for the next time 🙌 Many thanks!!!
Chicken rice is Singapore's national dish
According to google:
"Hainanese chicken rice
Hainanese chicken rice (海南鸡饭; Hǎinán jī fàn) is based on the Hainanese dish Wenchang chicken. It is considered Singapore's national dish."
The tissue thing is just use to get your seats as if you go to a crowded places, if you don't chope your seats with the tissue, you won't have seats to eat in the end and you will be holding your hot food without a table.
We've been told that it is not that polite to do that...
I mean those that says that is because they forgotten to get their seats and they are sour about it. I mean think about it, I guess you did see that usually these food centres that have people who does that comes in groups. They can easily get one of their friends to take care of the table. That is technically right to ask someone to guard the table and seats. The tissue just replace the person so that he or she could buy their food too. It represents the same thing even though it doesn't seems like it.
Oh gosh, the food are very nice...
A bit expensive but it's worth the taste... Yummy licious foods.
I live nearby! This is the absolute best place to find good food.
It's so good! This hawker Centre from a foreigner perspective was such a hidden gem 😍 90% of people there were the locals which was amazing to watch!
@@JayandKarolina Hey Jayesh, if you're coming back to singapore and more interested to explore more heartland spots rather than the usual touristy food spots, let me know! I don't mind hosting for a private tour for free as a collab!
@@YokNg Send me a DM on Instagram @jayeshchhaya - I'm sure we will be back to SG at some point and this sounds like a great idea!
“Wrong choice” to order the white version of char Kway Teow. Black version is the popular version.
Oops 👀
IKR. Idk how the young seller is so bad at explaining. And the cockles keep say clams.
I think the light one is msia version? First time seeing light version. Usually is carrot cake with black white choice.
This is making me so hungryy 🥲
🤭 We’re missing the Singapore Hawker centres so much!
Sugar Cane is great for cooling your body, even without the ice.
I didn’t know this! I’ll have it without ice next time :)
In the past people used to chew n suck on the cane itself.
15:31 Well, the lady behind you is also mixing the sauce into the rice. That's how some people eat it.
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Chicken rice to put chili and black oil make together eat
Try an advocado and gula melaka shake.
Wow, that sounds interesting!
You can find similar in Indonesia. Look for avacado coffee... 😉
You can customise the sugarcane drink to your own preference, although you will have to pay more.
Customisations include no ice, add lemon, add preserved sour plum. I would personally go for no ice and add lemon because the lemon helps to balance the sweetness and mask the grassy taste from the sugarcane.
For the Char Kway Teow dish, the clams that the female stall assistant mentioned are actually blood cockles. Blood Cockles are an essential ingredient in Char Kway Teow. I believe there are people who even request for additional cockles. There are Char Kway Teow stalls that still use Pork Lard, so the Char Kway Teow dish will contain a few pieces of the Crispy Pork Lard as proof.
The bits of ingredient that you were unsure of is actually scrambled eggs. Eggs are cooked first before the other ingredients. Cockles are the last to go in.
For Singapore Hainanese Chicken Rice, there will always be a bowl of soup provided for each plate of chicken rice served. The difference in price of $4 or $5 can also be from the choice of chicken parts, with the breast meat being the cheapest at $4 while the thigh and/or drumstick meat is the most expensive at $5.
Oh wow! Thank you very much for the valuable instructions - they will be useful for the future (and for our viewers) 🙏🏽
Business for Hainanese chicken rice stall is good. They are closing stall early. 😂
Wherever we go, we look for the longest queue because it means that the food is good 😂 And then we do our research if it’s actually worth it or not haha so we were not surprised!
Good Polandia..
Did u guys even try the malay food in Singapore? Coz it seems like u guys kept trying all the Chinese food.
We were going to Malaysia afterwards so saved our appetite for it!
@JayeshChhaya actually u should try the malay food here too coz it's different in some ways tho..and...in a way, it will help others to know that Singapore has other Asian race too. A lot of foreigners often mistaken Singapore to be part of China. Vloggers definitely could help to clarify that if the other races are featured too.. just my 2 cents.. all the best tho..
"I think we cracked it guys; you're supposed to mix it" Haha!
Haha did we actually crack it though? That is the question 😂
@@JayandKarolina: It's an option. Even some locals do just that. There's no one strict way to do it.
Old airport Road Hawker Centre is not the cheapest. In fact the prices are quite high by hawker standards. But the food is generally nice.
True! Everything was really delicious!
Actually the correct way of eating the chivken rice is to mix all the sauce together. And since both of you are eating it. You should get half of the chicken. Your gf is not copying what you said. Every Hainan chicken rice lovers says the samething. You should buy all the foods at one shot instead buying them after you finished them to prevent from long queue.
Cost of food has increased drastically even in food courts. It is a rare occurrence to come across stalls that are selling a dish under $3.50. Extremely unbearable to be dining out for cheap food like we could a little over 2-3 years ago.
It's a pity that those times are behind us ☹️ But we are still trying to choose tasty food for less money!
Char Kuay Teow we locals often ask for extra dark (black soya sauce) & extra chilli..haha
It would compliment the dish for sure well!
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Hahaha. U squeeze and the juice is come out behind.
Word to all tourist, always order the non-spicy, no chilli version first
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That’s a great tip haha
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Ikr.... As a local i dont even eat most of the dishes with chilli. Even my chicken rice also just a little dip nia.
Putting tissue or anything down to reserve (chop) seat is perfectly alright here. Noone will comment that action is selfish especially during peak hours.
Oh, really?? We were told by some of the Singaporean people that definitely we should avoid doing it since it’s not respectable 😅
@@JayandKarolina Thats the idea of reserving seats during peak hours... it has been an unwritten culture here for 4 decades... one of the uniqueness of Singapore. And noone ever commented or complain. I guess those who said that are new Singaporean.
Using tissue to chop seat is only happened in recent decade.. we used to chop seat with our personal thing like pagers, bags, wallets etc during our olden days. Tertiary students will chopped seats using their laptop, tablets in the campus.
16:15
Sugar cane juice = sweet grass drink.
There's no right way to eat the chix rice
Some mixed with the sauce and some takes the meat to dip it to eat.
Amyway welcome to Singapore!
YNWA
That's great to know! Thank you for explaining it!
Sugar is from sugar cane 😊 so this is original sugar, not processed sugar
Indeed!
Go maxwell hawker centre for Tian Tian chicken rice you will love it for sure 😊
Thanks for the tip! We'll definitely have it on the list for next time visit!!!
Did y’all manage to catch the nightlife scene?
Yes we did! We loved strolling around the city which was lit up and obviously the Gardens by the Bay night show 🌃🎆
Should have bought the fish noodles
I'm not the biggest fun of fish haha
That was actually cockles, not clams...😂
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well.... it is where "cane sugar" comes from xD You need to try the real traditional Soy Bean Curd. The store you visited is more like a pudding than the traditional bean curd. I like mine served with soy bean milk instead of sugar syrup.
I’ve just had the Soya Beancurd drink yesterday from the iconic Kim Soya Bean stall in KL 🥳
Yes actually you are right, we do mix the sauces with the rice!
For the char kway teow, you should order the black one which the locals like it more.
Good choice to explore the local hawker centres without the tourists!
Really appreciate that you have nice reviews on SG!!
We love to explore places beloved by the locals 😍 Already looking forward to our return visit!
Not really cheap
It’s not clam. It’s cockle.
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People will stare cuz ure holding a camera not so much of being a foreigner. Older folks are just more curious of people talking to their cameras in general 😂
That's true! But we didn't feel as if its anything bad - most of the time people in SG were smiling to us which was nice 😊
You must have done some homework before you went! Well done 👍❤
Sugarcane is basically a type of overgrown grass!
Overgrown grass tastes delicious!
Say Siemka to Karolina
Siemaaaaa 😎
too much of the sauce. not meant to dip it in. but rather, scoop a little and mix with the chicken and rice and wat together with the chili..
all sauces should only be in little portions.
Thanks for the tip! We actually had a hard time judging how much sauce we should add to make the taste authentic, so we didn't always get it perfect haha
There is no one way to enjoy chicken rice lol.
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Is unhealthy if u eat often..
Which food or drink are you referring to?
i ususally do it the way u do, ur supposed to mix the chilli sauce and rice and eat it with the chicken,
HELLO JAYESH❤
CAN YOU HELP ME THAT I CAN COME AND LIVE IN SINGAPORE PLEASE?🙏🏻🫣
I don’t live in Singapore 😅
A lot of sugar in drinks??
Wow hope you never see American drinks get made!!
Especially soda
That’s so true 🤪
Are you that deliveroo guy ?
They call me Gig Hustle 😎
you heard about Hainan chicken earlier but didn't attempt to learn anything about it?
There's so many things that we need to educate ourselves before going to a specific country. We cannot be experts in everything 😂
This chicken rice stall is my fav
There is no rule when jt comes to eating so lonh as you both enjoy it.. and yes mixing the rice with black sauce is one great way to 'makan' (makan is malay for eating)
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