I Asked a Taxi Driver to Take me to the Best Food in Town | Toa Payoh
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Singapore is food heaven. For foreigners, it can be difficult to choose where to visit, as there are just too many good eateries. So I decided I'll just ask a taxi driver. It shouldn't go wrong, right?
I visited the Toa Payoh area for this video but if you have any other suggestions on areas I should visit, let me know in the comment below. Thanks for watching!
Chapters
00:00 Asking a Taxi Driver the Best Place To Eat
01:00 Introduction of Toa Payoh
01:41 Food Review at Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Food Centre
09:40 Conclusion
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This is same way as Japanese TV show. A taxi driver have usually a good restaurant because they are going around a town and know not only map but also more information to get lots of customers👥
This should be a series. Now, all it needs is a memorable and eye-catching series name. Ill throw out "Local Knows Best" or "Your Taxi Lobang"
That bowl of beef noodle is really worth it for $ 5 . So much Beef and ingredients !!! This hawker foodcentre dishes look really nice and authentic. Ghib, you are really a Singapore foodie.....you know what is wok- hey even ! Eating is great past- time in Singapore .
You know, you can compile your eating adventure in a book titled
"Makan or Eat...where to go" ?
There's another beef noodle stall inside, but don't buy from them, very attitude
Omg the beef noodle looks so good….makes me realize how diverse hawker food can be in SG. Love the idea of asking the cab drivers for their recommendations. Hopefully this will lead you to more hidden gems in different areas!
Good idea to follow taxi uncle for good food….we found the char kway Teoh stall in yr video. The stall moved many years ago. We are going to visit the stall soonest. Think many people may find their long lost favourite food stalls in your video. THANK YOU AND GO GO GO…
I really love this video, the concept and music, everything :) please make this series more :)
Appreciating the effort you put in with the editing and the inserts ghib! Great job
This is an awesome concept, please make more series like this
Welcome Ghib to Lorong 8 Toa Payoh Food Centre! Hope you enjoyed the hawker food here! 👍😊
Enjoyed the food! Thanks to the taxi uncle 😀
keep up the food series ghib! loved it
This is a brilliant idea, Ghib!!!! Looking forward to more of this series!!!
Good idea with the taxi -recommendation series! Looking forward to more of it!
So nice to see you back. Great food today.
I love this series! Please do more of this
Thanks for all the content you put out here 👍🏻
I feel like I am traveling with you around these places I have never been to. Experiencing your work makes me feel like I'm somewhere else. Thank you so much! 😁😁😁
Ghib, thanks for showing us more hawker food, it all looks delicious!! Take care.
Love this video. Giving me ideas for my future trip.
Hope you’ll enjoy your trip!
Really great idea 😂👍🏼❤️🇸🇬
Yes!!! My old haunt, everytime I go back for a visit I would go there.
this is good thanks for the video
Great idea! Taxi uncle series!
Nice, you visited my fav beef noodles in TPY haha (I like the La Mian soup the best)! The Lor Mee not too bad too.The wanton mee (Hougang Meng Kee Wanton Mee), which I think is a franchise (a few stalls across the island) is also pretty good for the portion and price.
Beef Noodle Soup is so comforting on a rainy day 🌧️ hearty and warming
Toa Payoh Lor 1, Blk 128, Che Rose Nasi Pandang - this one also knock out GOOD. Sotong soup, Rendang Beef, Sambal Chicken! Then go to the opposite hawker center 10m away, 2nd floor, got the hand made char siew pau, also worth your time and the Fish Head Noodles. The Hockien Mee Tian Tian Lai.
Ojisan after eating the beef noodle probably an idea came into his mind… maybe one day if he ever decide to return to Japan he will open a shop selling Singapore Beef Ramen.
That’ll be so fun! Would Iove to bring SG food to Japan o
Love the Taxi Uncle series idea. And love the look of that char kway teow even more 😍😍🚗
This is a great series and quite professionally done! Beef noodles is not that uncommon, but not all are great. Usually people order the dry version. Dry beef noodles in SG usually means noodles with a thick syrupy sauce like the lor mee type and the soup served separately. The lime is supposed to be squeezed into the chili sauce LOL! $5 looks very worthwhile. Wonder if it's because you were holding a camera?
Also, it is a must to have chinese sausage aka lup cheong (without it is rare hahaha) in char kway tiao! It looks not bad not like those very wet ones.
That's grass jelly not gula melaka jello. Like the grass jelly drink you get from soya bean drink stalls. They will usually add it in ice kacang.
This is one of my favourite hawker centres in Singapore. It has a wide selection of food stalls to choose from, many offering delicious dishes to tuck into. At any time of the day until 3am, you can get something nice to eat. Try out fried fritters, kway chup, hokkien mee, char kuay teow, Teochew seafood beehoon, Szechuan cuisine, minced pork noodles in soup, chendol. Then go to the adjacent coffeeshop Epic Haus to wash down your meal with a pint of German beer.
Previously, there were 2 groups of buskers performing there on Fri and Sat nights, one inside the hawker centre and one outside in the plaza. Don't know whether they have resumed.
We were in Penang for only a couple of days after a trip to Langkawi and we did the same as you. Just called a Grab and asked the driver to take us to his favorite makan stall. Worked out beautifully😄😋👍
Hi Ghib-san! You may want to try it out at Bedok North Blk 511 & 538. Their hawker food is great! almost all of the food I would say is great! I'm quite sure you will love it! I'm staying nearby that area and hope to see you soon!
You should head East to Bedok (10 hawker centres) and then head West to Clementi (4 hawker centres but Clementi is a smaller estate)... Then maybe Ang Mo Kio (8 hawker centres). After all these old neighbourhoods usually have the best food...
Vamos Ghib!
I was eating dinner while watching this one, I'm saved from eating twice tonight lol! Good work once again Ghib-san. Even I have not been to this hawker center lol!
Hi Ghib how are you and I am Zack from Malaysia and nice video
タクシードライバーシリーズ、すごく楽しめました。Toa Payohは私にとって思い出の町です。やっぱりホーカーズセンターですよ！次の町がどこになるか、何を食べるか、期待しています。🥰
The beef noodle which the taxi uncle recommended still looked the most delicious. 😂 Taxi uncle knows best 👍🏼
I’m staying near Lor 8, it’s good! You should try the kway chap in the morning! It’s usually sold out really quick
Really like the episodes where you recommend Japanese snacks/ foods to Singaporeans. Hope to see that some time :) Happy eating!
There are a few you have missed. Of course the seafood beehoon is one of my favourite where I normally eat that stall whenever I am there
i like the chendol - never seen the blended drink. The one we always get is the ice ball version in bowl. Lovely
Toa Payoh is full of stalls selling good food. Great video!
Thanks
Thanks Kaya Butter 🧈😁
Nice to see you back! I feel like these food reviews are very honest and chill and makes me feel like I'm travelling Singapore with you :)
Thanks for the feedback 😁
Good idea for a series. Hardest challenge would be Sengkang. The taxi driver will probably take you to Hougang instead 🤣
Sengkang is bad , but imagine ponggol lol .
Taxi Driver will most likely take you to the town which he wishes to go.... because all street foods in Singapore are the same.
@@markkoh888 you must have no concept of what is good street food. You have my sympathy.
no good food in sk!!! prove me wrong guys 😭
@@sk8tergal995 i mean Simon road Hokkien mee still not bad, quality drop a little. Still not bad though
Wah, testing our taxi uncles on Sg yummy food. Lucky you got into cab with a foodie taxi uncle.
Hi Ghib San. Come to Clementi West Hawker Centre. Come in the morning. Fried dough sticks is nice. Also two stalls away fishball noodle. Every morning, very long Q.
Also Main Purpose - can get to say hello to you.😁🤗
When you first alighted, on your right , good dim sum and nice fish porridge
You should have tried the Changi Village Hokien Mee at Lorong 8 hawker center. It's one of the best.
Also visit Tech Ghee Court and Maket Food Center in Ang Mo Kio next time. Bah Kuh teh and Pig Trotter are soooo good :)
Most Taxi drivers, especially the more senior ones will know all the great food around Singapore.
This Toa Payoh hawker centre is very popular among locals, usually very crowded during meal time.
The char kway tiao uncle looks so pro with his wok!! 👍👍👍, gonna make a trip to toa payoh from west side. Hahhaha!
Bendemeer Market & Food Centre
Food Stalls to try: Bendemeer Prawn Noodle
& Changi Village Cooked Food
Toa Payoh Lorong 8 Hawker is da bomb! for beef noodles, is always the soup that's worth it
Hi ghib i love ur content and videos you make and as a young viewer that lives around TPY I would like to recommend you some dishes you have missed out there,
1. Lor mee stall
2. Kway chap stall that sells out VERY QUICKLY in the morning
3. Last but not least the beef noodles you had I RECOMMEND U TRY THE DRY VERSION YOU WILL LOVE IT EVEN MORE THAN THE SOUP, THEY POUR THIS STICKY AND ROBUST GRAVY ALL OVER THE NOODLES GIVING A VERY DEEP FLAVOUR TO THE DISH and would also serve some soup on the side.
Thanks for your recommendations Bruce!
Ghib makes my CZcams life complete
Thanks for the support always! 🥰
The chendol there is really good!
If you like fried carrot cake, Toa Payoh West Market & Food Centre @ Block 127 Toa Payoh Lorong 1 has arguably the best one in Singapore. They're called Chey Sua Carrot Cake, and queues are constantly upwards of 30-45 mins, but it's always worth the wait. Highly recommend checking them out, and definitely order more than the smallest portion cos you will want more!!
You should go for the char kway teow at the store that issue you a queue number instead of Da Lao.
Okie 👍👍 Thanks for the recommendation 😄😄
Visit Kampung Admiralty (2nd level hawker centre) back of Admiralty MRT....it is also Singapore first Elderly Village....
Yes.. its nice there. I live nearby.
I had the great opportunity to live in this marvelous city state for nearly 8years since my working days with keppel shipyard. 2001 to 2008. And the impression that I have about this beautiful city state is that it has limit less quality life style to offer . One thing to be notice is that it keeps developing 24x7 . Every thing about singapore is exciting whether its the food it has limitless to offer as far food is concerned.... The MRT is another factor which adss to it's charm.....each and every mrt station is well connected with huge malls and also with the Beautiful and so accessable bus transit system . And ofcourse I don't have to mention about the people so well behaved and stylish and the buildings roads the work culture the quality of services the green and clean environment.....is something which cannot be described in words. Love form India.🇮🇳🇮🇳
Good series. Come to bedok north road blk 85 market and hawker center we have the famous bak chor Mee here plus many other good food like satay bee hoon
Hi Ghib, i havent eat kwetiao for a few months now, the cktang one i tried not so bad,, u make me hungry now 😅, n that chendol , i like chendol the gula melaka, indonesian call it gula jawa”” 😃, thks for the info Ghib, Huat Ah,,👍🍲🍧🍜😎, btw at cktang FC there is a malaysian penang kwetiau i think, not bad u can try it,, 5$50 small plate,
U can try jimmy char kway teow at Bedok interchange hawker too (prob not related to uncle jimmy 😂). Jelly in the chendol looks like grass jelly
You should try the Amoy street food center " Teochew Beef kuey teow soup with mixed beef ingredients" it's the best brot and had good depth to the soup. There are two beef noodle stall. The one run by an old 70+ couple at the ground floor in back of building nearer to toilets.
Very humble old couple doing this for over 40 yrs. Best in class.
Lorong 8 Hawker has more stalls open in the evening. Should have satay and BBQ wings and hokkien mee there too
Hi Ghib, Next time you should try the dry versions of the beef noodle from that same stall
Oh, nice ah? Will do🤤
Nice
@@GhibOjisan yeah actually people usually order the dry version of beef noodle from any beef noodle stall.
I like this series, film more.
Gotcha!
The beef noodles look yummy 🤤
Boon Lay Place Food Village: Wanton mee (shuts by 10am daily) the stall that is Stingray stall by night time, duck noodle stall that faces main road, Hakka Thunder Tea rice, Malay Power Nasi Lemak (but I think Chinese Nasi Lemak either red or white signboards are nice too). Whampoa soyabean curd stall too! 🤓
For beef rendang, go to Pondok Daun Upih at Tampines.
Yes that's right "Queue Length" is surely one reliable indicator because most Singaporeans are practical people and we don't want to use our time waiting for food that is not so good. However sometimes too long a queue at one stall may cause hawkers of other stalls besides it feel very "sian" ah 😅😅
You made me drool...😋
いつものジブおじさんチョイス飯もおいしそうなんだけど、他の人のオススメ飯もいつもとちょっとだけテイストが違って新鮮！このシリーズおもしろくなりそう。
ありがとうございます！日本の番組にインスパイアされました！
Try going to ang mo kio!!
Tiong Bahru Market is the lunch time place to go.
Lime is suppose to squeeze into the chillies, not into the soup
Oops 😅
Hi Ghib nice vid. You may want to go to Block 216 Bedok North St 1. The hawker centre is called Blk 216 Bedok Food Centre and Market. Try Hon Ni nasi lemak (you will be frightened of the super long queue), Joo Chiat Fish Ball Noodle and look out for those with super long queues too. Enjoy!
I starred them on Google Maps! Thanks Roger!
@@GhibOjisan Welcome Ghib-san
Come to Serangoon North Ave 1, there are some nice food there which I could recommend =).
Hi Ghib Ojisan! Since you like char kway teow, I would like to recommend the best place that does singaporean char kway teow! Please go to Ghim Moh road market and food centre and do come early because the char kway teow has snaking queues and would close up shop around early afternoon due to high popularity and no stock for the day haha. And please also get the famous 'Chwee Kueh', my family has been eating there for many years since I was a child and the owner is still there too! Carrot cake, fish soup, wanton mee are also quite good too! 👍🏻
Wah thanks for this!!
Hougang! I have a whole list for you lol
Love this ep! Pls do more! I am drooling from watching you eat. 🤣
Front row :Chicken rice, popiah.
In the other isles :
Bak kut teh and sugar cane with ginger. (stalls side by side )
Bbq chicken wings
Blended coconut shakes!
I think you should do this 3 meal breakfast, lunch and dinner all ask taxi driver on what is good to eat I think is a good idea hahaha
I can only imagine the heat and humidity
i think you should ask uncle where did he go for lunch usually instead without restricting the area.
Lor 8 TP kway chup is very delicious. There are 2 stalls there. Both are good.
U are one very lucky stay here. 😂 Can try all kinds varieties food here.
wow, that beef noodle...nice nice nice
Hee I'm a musician and building my website right now, great timing and thanks for the discount code!
hi bro, come to ghim moh hawker centre. they have many stalls and amazing vibe. see you soon. will join the vlog/video
Thks
Oh Ojisan you have missed the delicious BBQ chicken wings at Lorong 8 hawker centre!!!
Aiya maybe next time 🤤🤤
bro.. the line suppose to be squeeze the line into the chilli :P
Hi Ghib Ojisan, have you tried recording in 60 or more fps?
I like the kway chap store with pig braised trotters.
Singapore food is world best is so Diverse you will never get bored with the food..
Agreed!🥰
@@GhibOjisan fun fact.. mostly Singapore market close on Monday..
Nice content. But why is the camera so shaky?
Oh gosh, ghib san is eating too much liao 😲🙉! Each time he asked for a recommendation, he went on to buy that food. Aiyoh he's going to get his single pack (big tummy) if he goes on like this ah🤔🥴. For the food, I think the beef noodles for $5 is a good deal (worth it) coz the serving is generous. These days, food isn't alot even for $5dol.
Original char kway teow comes with lap qeong (chinese sausage)
chinese sausage is a must for ckt