[Singapore] Hawker Centre Food

We had a long weekend in Korea at the start of May.  I searched flight tickets to 'anywhere', just wanted to get away from my ordinary course of life.
There I found tickets to Singapore, having lay over in Ho Chi Minh city and Hanoi, Vietnam, respectively on the way forth and back.

So my first post will be 'Hawker Centre', food stalls gathered within a building (usually ground floor) but with open air, in Singapore.  The food there are delicious yet inexpensive, if you give away sanity worries, which I usually do.

<Dried Ban Mee @Boat Quay>

It was in Boat Quay, after had a wonderful adventure in Night Safari, I suddenly found out that I had eaten completely nothing that day (but drank).  A local friends led me here, saying that this is her favourite hawker centre.  The noodle is thin and easy to chew, with fishballs, pork, some scallions and spicy sauce.  Very yummy and only S$3,5.

<Hainanese Chicken Rice @Tian Tian Chicken Rice @Maxwell Food Centre>

It is famous in Singapore, 'It's Singapore vs Ramsay'.

Gordon Ramsay came to have food fights against 1) chicken rice, 2) Katong laksa, and 3) chili crab.  The first two dishes are prepared by famous hawker heroes and they won!  This Chicken rice is that chicken rice.

 It seems so plain, it's simply a chicken top on rice.

But the chicken is soft yet chewy but not tough at all.
The sauce is sweet but not too sweet.  I can eat it everyday.

<Katong Laksa>

There are three famous laksa hawker in East Coast, with the mixed culture of Malay and Singapore, which is called Peranakan.  I visited two of them.

(1) 328 Katong Laksa @East Coast

It was in a very small hawker centre, but also one of the two hawker heroes which won over Gordon Ramsay.

The soup was rich and it was more of fish and clams than coconut milk.  The noodle is (unlike in Korea, for sure) cut glass noodles so that we do not need to use chopsticks.  Though cilantro smell was too thick for the soup, I totally loved this hearty bowl.

(2) Original Katong Laksa (Janggut Laksa)

This place makes the original, the first-ever laksa with fresh coconut milk and cook the glass noodle in the coconut milk.  The soup tastes simple compare to the laksa above, but was great as well.