Anne & Jonny

Food

If you were to do only 1 thing in Singapore, it would be to eat. This must be the top attraction in Singapore. Some of our favorite foods include:

Hawker Center Food

(any hawker center is usually decent, but here are some of the more famous / touristy ones: Maxwell, Lau Pa Sat, Hong Lim food complex)

Tian Tian is overhyped, but try it and let us know what you think
Bak Chor Mee (Jonny’s favorite dish - he calls it the ‘vinegar noodles’)
Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle Crawford lane is the only 1 michelin star hawker food (which Jonny blames me for never letting him try it)
Char Kway Teow
Specifically Outram Park char kway tiao in Hong Lim complex - the only place we would wait 1 hour for
Laksa (Anne’s favorite dish)
328 Katong Laksa used to be great, it’s still good, but not as good as when Gordon Ramsay visited in the past
Hokkien Mee
Carrot cake (chai tow kuey) - Anne likes the black more than the white
Chwee kueh - Anne loves but Jonny does not like the texture of this
Roti Prata - must eat with curry
Sugar Cane juice - Jonny thinks the ice is a scam and asks for no ice 😅
Ice Cream in sliced bread - pretty hard to find these days but you may see some pop-up here and there

Fine Dining

(not) Fine Dining

Jumbo seafood restaurant - must get the chili crab and mantou
Violet Oon - upscale peranakan food (Ps. Say it’s a bday celebration and get a free upside down pineapple cake and polaroid)
Hotpot - Haidilao as a staple, Beauty in the Pot (for their collagen broth), or Coucou (love the unlimited braised pork rice here)
Dimsum - Canton Paradise, Crystal Jade, Timhowan are staples
Canton Paradise group - Anne especially likes the spicy wonton noodles from Le Nu
Din Tai Fung - yes we know it’s Taiwanese but for those people who haven’t tried it yet - TRY IT PLEASE

Breakfast/Cafes/Dessert

Yakun Cafe - Must try kaya toast and soft boiled eggs for breakfast
P.S. Cafe - Just look at how thick their chocolate cake is, but we also like their truffle fries and twist on local Singapore food
McDonalds - for the McSpicy and seasonal flavored items
Birds of Paradise icecream - love their white chrysanthemum in thyme cone
Hay gelato - have you ever heard of hay-flavored gelato??
Apiary icecream
Tiong Bahru Bakery for croissants
Bread talk or Four leaves (try the local buns - like kaya bun, red bean bun, pork floss buns)
Mr. Bean - soybean icecream or soy beancurd
Lao Ban - Anne likes this soy beancurd
Janice Wong - for local flavored chocolates
Too many other cafes / pastry places 🙃

Drinks

Bubble Tea

Koi - Anne’s most drank local bubble tea
PlayMade - Anne would drink more if it was closer to where she lived - has unique flavored pearls such as pink cactus pearls
Chicha San Chen - love love love (but yes it’s from Taiwan)

Bars