Hi everyone!
Now that I'm getting close to my departure date, I'm getting excited (and tbh a bit relieved) to go back home to SG and eat all my favourite food again! If you didn't know, I've been away in Finland for about 4 months.
I previously posted about Singapore's hawker food, breakfast food, and fried chicken. So this post will be about snack foods! And by snacks I mean those typically eaten for tea break at coffee shops / hawker centres, not snacks like potato chips or biscuits (that'll be in another post!). Warning: this post will most likely make you hungry! 🤤
1) Curry puff (Karipap / 咖哩饺)
A curry puff is a small pie consisting of curry with chicken and potatoes (and sometimes egg) in a deep-fried or baked pastry shell. The curry is quite thick to prevent it from oozing out of the pastry. A common snack in Malaysia and Singapore, the curry puff is one of several "puff" type pastries with different fillings, though curry is by far the most common. Other common varieties include sardines and onions or sweet fillings such as yam.
I think the most famous curry puff in Singapore is from Old Chang Kee. It's called Curry'O, and costs $1.60. A little pricey, but it's never let me down. Crispy on the outside, hot on the inside, and the curry filling is just right. It's the perfect snack to eat on a rainy day.
I've never tried their Nasi Lemak chicken puff but it looks good too!
2) Peanut pancake (Apam balik / Min chiang kueh 面煎糕)
Min chiang kueh, or apam balik in malay, is a traditional turnover pancake that is sandwiched with fillings such as crushed peanuts or red bean paste. It's very common across Southeast Asian street stalls but is believed to have origins in Fujian, China. It's Chinese name, mian jian gao (曼煎糕) alludes to its batter, which is a blend of flour, eggs, yeast, sugar and baking soda. Now there are so many more different flavours like nutella, matcha, chocolate, etc.
In Singapore, you can find this in many hawker centres, or just drop by Jollibean where you can buy 1 for $0.80, and 3 for $2.20 (I think??). It also pairs very well with a cup of soy milk. 😋
3) Fried banana (pisang goreng)
Pisang goreng is a snack food made of banana or plantain, covered in batter and deep fried in hot cooking oil, mostly found throughout Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines. This is typically sold by street vendors as well, but you can find them in some hawker centres and pasar malams (night markets) in Singapore.
I think you can buy the batter (in powder form) from our local supermarkets and just mix it with water, dip the bananas in and fry them at home. We sometimes make it at home ourselves and even fry yam and tapioca too! 😋
4) Pandan chiffon cake
Also known as pandan chiffon, pandan cake is a light, fluffy, green-colored sponge cake of Indonesian origin, flavoured with the juice of Pandan leaves. The use of pandan leaf gives the cake its green hue. It also sometimes contains green food colouring to further enhance its colour. The cakes are not always made with the leaf juice but rather flavored with Pandan extract. This cake has become popular across SEA and has been named the national cake of Singapore!
Pandan cake is actually my favourite cake, and I remember my parents laughed when I told them I wanted one for my birthday. Maybe because they thought I have cheap tastes? There are some expensive pandan cakes in Singapore (like from Bengawan Solo or Pure Pandan), but if you buy them from the neighbourhood bakery they're usually like $3 or so, depending on the size.
My dad bought me this "layered birthday cake" for my last birthday!
Obviously there's a lot more snacks so I'll cover more of them in the next few food posts! Hope I didn't make you too hungry! 😅
Thanks for reading!
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