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I was in Singapore, w/ the Navy on WestPac, back in 1986. As a Navy cook, I ate everywhere, taking in all the country's flavors for inspiration. I took notes everywhere I ate and still follow my notes w/ the recipes to this day. Such a beautiful country would love to return someday.
My first WestPac in 1967 we pulled liberty in Singapore. The British were leaving the colony in two months. The Island was a mix of Malaysians, Malayans, Malays (religion/culture is the difference) and Chinese. The food was culturally varied; delicious and exotic. Singapore, at that time, was very much like the depictions in 1940/50s mystery movies. I went back in 1975 aboard USS Constellation. The city was completely different. So spotless it made you feel almost uncomfortable. The Chinese at that time seemed to be the dominant culture. I would definitely like to go back again.
@@koncaswatch8726, first, thank you, shipmate, for your service! So true about the cultural diversity. By the time I got there Indian and Australian ex-pats were incorporated into the mix. The food - oh so amazing! With all infusions of all the cultures made for magic on your taste buds! First time I had Indian cuisine was there. The daughter of the owner tamed the spices down for me. I loved my food spicy then but she said id be breathing fire for a month if I had their food straight. lol And of course I ate at their Burger King and Pizza Hut (they were the only restaurants w/ western-style toilets then). I really enjoyed the 6 days of liberty I had there. Oh, lastly, the cleanliness. Tossing a cigarette butt was a $750US fine. Spitting was a $500US fine. Littering, $450US. They don't take any BS there. And my time there was right after the kid from the US got the caning punishment that made worldwide news.
My work sent me to Singapore 2 years ago. I spent 3 weeks in a factory removing some equipment to import to the US. The cafeteria at the factory of 1000 people had Singapore, Indian & Western food. OMG, $5 for a big plate of food I had never tasted. I now make Singapore noodles at least once per month. Beautiful country, nicest people, and being an USAF veteran, it was fun to see the Singapore Air Force jets doing circles around the country on patrol.
As a Singaporean, Jumbo chilli crab is meant for tourist as it is very much more sweet (and also tourist pricing). Go to a more local place and if you can take spicy, tell them you want it the local level of spiciness :)
Was in Singapore in the 70's... I loved it. The humidity is killer. It was the cleanest city I've ever seen, not even a cig butt anywhere and almost zero crime. Restrictions are harsh but maybe that's what's needed when people can't manage themselves. If I ever had to leave the US that's where I'd go.
I lived in Singapore (with my family) for 2 years in the mid 90's. Great experience for all of us. One seafood place's tag line there was...If it swims, we have it! It is a beautiful place. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Carrot cake because the main ingredient used is "white raddish" which essentially translates into "white carrot" in mandarin. Love your videos! Hope you can come over more often and try a wider variety of foods in Singapore!
Singapore is one of my favorite places in the world. My wife is from Malaysia so we've gone quite a few times. Some of the best food I've ever had and the best prices.
This style food vlog kinda gave me Anthony Bourdain vibes and I loved it!❤️ I also don’t really think much about the sponsored ads, but I used Viator for a tour in Palenque, Mexico and it was one of the best tours I’ve ever been on!
Had 2 separate 2 week stays in Singapore about 10 years ago. I loved all the different kinds of food I tried. Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Thai, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Korean and dishes that seemed unique to Singapore. It was all great and made to a high standards. The hawker centers were like Disneyland to me. I met a lot of very friendly and intelligent people. I hope to go back someday.
Probably sounds like a weird suggestion to many people, but the McSpicy burger from McDonald's might be something you want to try the next time you're in Singapore. It uses chicken thigh instead of breast meat and will probably put most spicy sandwiches to shame. India and Australia (maybe more, not sure) now have McSpicy too, but they don't exactly taste the same as the OG Singapore McSpicy.
This video is so much fun. I visited Singapore from San Diego in 2019. Had the best time touring and walking around and eating my way all over Singapore.
Glad you enjoyed Singapore! The chili crab isn't normally a very spicy dish as it cooked with tomato ketchup and chili. The char kway teow had fish cake and not rice cake.
You should go to a different restaurant for spicier chilli crab. Jumbo is notorious for having tone down the spiciness to cater to a more global palate. Also, if you have the chance, go for the black pepper crab. Those are the bomb.
YAYYY to seeing another person eating right through Singapore!! Such great choices! Love how you and the boys checked out so many great places all over Singapore! That's one of my favourite dim sum places and we love that hawker centre too!
Damn you guys, you made me so hungry with that oyster omelet!! My mom once went to Singapore for business, and other than the long distance travel, she loved it. She got to eat well and shop with locals and she raved about Singapore.
Singapore yes! I lived there for six months in the mid '90s. I'm happy you tried the carrot cake; the dark carrot cake was my favourite variety. I think you should make it!
Great video guys. Brought back a lot of good memories! I used to live 2 minutes walk to Newton Food Centre. I agree the chilli crab might be a little bit overrated, but it has to be done once. I much prefer the black pepper crab. What I really miss is the bbq sambal stingray and bbq wings down by the beach on the east coast - superb!
BBQ wings at east coast Hawker? thats a really popular one! BBQ stingray you can consider (Chomp Chomp evening hawker market) at serangoon garderns! its abit in the heartlands area but it has a big expat community there!
You (not surprisingly) just scratched the surface. I was fortunate to have a job with a Worldwide role for a couple of decades and visited (or transited) Singapore more times than I can recall. And I had dear colleagues who lived there and loved to take me out and show me the food scene. I agree with some of the comments below... you should have found a good Laksa place, I like Chilli Crab but my preference is Pepper Crab - hotter. The little buns are all about dipping in the sauce - ohh and you can get them fried or steamed. Some of the vegetable dishes (just veggies, steamed or stir fried) are amazing - stuff we just do not see in the West.
Sam, you should make your own take on the chili crab seeing as how most of us aren't getting to Singapore anytime soon. Also, curious to see what you would add considering it looked like you thought it was lacking.
A few things. There are 2 Jumbo outlets in the area. You were close to the other one but it was good that you went to the one 2 miles away because that outlet is better. The next thing, at Newton, you put your tray in a Halal Tray return rack. It is reserved only for Halal food. The noodles that you ate was Halal anyways, good that you returned your plate. Lastly, the literal translation of radish in Chinese is White Carrot. So white carrot cake is just a literal translation of Chinese.
The opening shots of the "food court" look amazing!!!!! Who's complaining about a half boiled egg.....we have runny eggs here they're just not still in the shell!! 🤣🤣🤣 What! No knife giveaway winner!? 😉
I lived in Singapore for 4 years. I miss the food more than anything else. You can’t find the tastes here and trying to make it yourself, just doesn’t hack it.
In my opinion Chance is just as important as Max when it comes to this YT channel I watch almost daily. I’m an ALS patient and have little else I can do. Anyways I understand it was a father/son trip but it sure would have been nice to see Chance along on this “once in a lifetime” trip….. Go Chance Go!!
The funny thing is i followed your channel because of your cooking and lo and behold you visited my country! Welcome to Singapore and glad you love the food!
Yes, I know it's one year since the filming of this trip but, I just discovered this part of your channel and, unlike Vincenzo, I am NOT going to Singapore anytime soon unless of course, I win the lottery however, this along with your Japan, and Korea excursions were utterly, completely, happily enjoyed, by me. Thank you Sam and Max for filming these amazing food pilgrimages, it made me and I'm sure, a whole lot of other people gratifyingly happy.
Hi Sam and Max. Mike Chen on Strictly Dumpling You Tube channel did a good video on Singapore crab 5 years ago. He went to Jumbo and Long Beach which I think was next door to Jumbo. He preferred the chilli crab at Long Beach as it was more spicy and less sweet. He liked the black pepper crab even more.
I've lived in Singapore for close to a decade, chilli crab is much more iconic but I strongly prefer black pepper crab to it too. It's typically spicier than chilli crab (despite the name) and compared to the sweet notes of chilli crab, black pepper crab goes for savoury instead. I feel like chilli crab is more iconic here because Singaporeans seem to like sweet food covered in thick and rich sauces in general. For example, the char kway teow here uses a thick, sweet sauce compared to Malaysia's char kway teow (which is drier, savoury and has heavier wok hei notes), the laksa is very sweet and only mildly spicy compared to other variants (Penang laksa in particular is sour and spicy, similar to Thai tom yum), dry noodles like the one Sam had in the video will almost always feature a weird ketchup+vinegar base if you tell them you don't want chilli, etc.
The butter on the kaya toast should still be frozen so you get the conflict between the hot toast and the cold butter. Nice. "Tim sum" will be a dialect pronunciation of "dim sum". In Mandarin, it's "dian xin". It translates roughly as "touch the heart". "Yum cha" is "drink tea". Kopitiam coffee is as thick as pitch and black as your mother-in-law's heart. And I'm addicted to it. I buy it at home from a supermarket in Chinatown here in Brisbane. Basic rental in Tiong Bahru is around SGD 7,000 a month. And that's cheap for Singapore if you're living there as an expat. The perceived wisdom is that if you voxpop 100 Singaporeans as to where the best place for [inset an iconic dish here] is, you'd get 100 different answers. 24-27 degrees overnight and 30-34 degrees during the day. 83% relative humidity. YEAR-ROUND! The only thing that really changes is the monsoonal rains. Singaporeans really aren't the "eat chilli that burns twice- in and out" type of people. Anywhere on Singapore is not too far from anywhere else. Try heading up to Admiralty, Sembawang, or west to Jurong for your dinner. CKT- char kway teow- comes in a multitude of different varieties. There are even vegetarian versions. Carrot cake: it's not carrot and it's not cake. LOL. But it's all delicious with the wok hei. I'm glad you loved Singapore, guys. Get back there and spend a week or three eating your way across the Little Red Dot. I did a rough calculation on the amount of time it would take to eat three dishes, three meals a day, seven days a week at all of the food outlets in Singapore. It ran, I think, to nearly 30 years. McDonald's and KFC have menu items that exist only in Singapore- and maybe Malaysia.
We are big fan of your show and we are so happy because you went to where the local eat on a daily meal and showing the audience on what that country has as specialty dish not the tourist restaurant! And yess that meepok is my favourite!
You can’t go wrong eating almost anywhere in Singapore. I’ve been several times one of favorite places. Although Japans food is awesome love me some authentic ramen
If I remember correctly, Sam was going to be a travel show host before 9/11, then changed to cooking. You can see he has a passion for travel and food, and it would be cool to see the guys travel more and cook more when they're abroad.
I’ve been watching your channel for years and LOVED this episode! So fun to see you enjoy all the hawker food we grew up with. Chin Mee Chin is an absolute institution in Katong - what a nice surprise to see that! I hope you guys come back and try some Peranakan food next 😊
I was stationed in Japan for 8 years ending in 2023 and while I was there I had the opportunity to go to Singapore for over 5 months. From Paranaken (Candlenut) to tiny hawker stalls near trains stations.... some of the best food ever! I can still taste the chicken rice (especially the garlic chili sauce!)
Loving your father-son food/travel vlogs, guys. Looking forward to more. Just thought I'd leave this here as well: it's possible that it's called 'carrot' cake because the Malay word for radish, or daikon, is 'lobak putih' (literally, 'white carrot') and the word for carrot is 'lobak merah' (lit. 'red carrot'), so they're both 'lobak'; simply translated to English as 'carrot', in that sense. But it might also be a similar thing in Mandarin, or some of the other Chinese dialects
Must try the Singapore Peppery Bak Kut Teh with rice, blanc vegetables with oyster sauce fried garlic, braise soft chicken feet. Half boiled eggs goes well with good butter spread toast with egg on top. Dash pepper powder and light soy sauce. Also their chinese restaurant rice, stir fried dishes & steam fish (silver promfret, red garoupa, Dragon Tiger Garoupa, wild Cat Fish, Cod fish). Actually for crabs, goes black pepper sauce delicious. Buffet steamboat with chilli dipping sauce another worthy try.
Sam this episode reminded me of one of my favorite food journalists of all time Anthony Bourdain... man would it of been cool to see you 2 link up together...👌
Just saw your Singapore video too bad I missed you while you were here. Your Jumbo search was funny. I recognized where you were right away. That spot used to have a Jumbo seafood, but Jumbo group changed that restaurant to Slake. There are many who would argue if Jumbo has the best chili crab, but I’m with you, while chili crab is good, I don’t think the taste to cost ratio makes it worth it. Love your travel videos, keep doing them especially now that places are opening up.
Very much like these trip vids esp that you don't leave out the travel part or chatting w the locals where others leave it out. We like to know what its like to get to places.
I apologise for the lady that was somewhat rude when taking your order. But this is part of Singapore’s culture. it is very fast paced, everything just got to be done chop chop fashion. However, we can all agree Singapore’s food is the bomb! Amazing video. Thanks for showing the world :)
We were just in Singapore a few weeks ago. We ate so much we had to walk it off every night. It was amazing and such a beautiful place. Clean and green for sure and BBQ stingray is the bomb
Last week I chatted with two Netherlands guys. They asked me the one thing that they have to eat. I totally forgot about chilli crab as I rarely ate it. I recommended the Hainanese Chicken Rice
it's so strange to see while you were searching for the chili crab restaurant, that there very few or no other people on the street with you. I thought that it might be as busy as any other metropolitan city. This was a great video. Thanks for showing us around!
It's really really hot here, no one walks out in the sun for no reason. On top of that, that area/street is mostly for tourists (pricey). Although transport in Singapore is really convenient, the nearest residential area is a distance away. In the day not many locals will go there because of the price as there are plenty of cheaper food options nearby. At night it is a different story as the restaurant, pubs, bars and clubs start to come to life you can see many locals and tourists come out. I haven't been to the area in a long time (too old to party lol) and there's also Covid restrictions so I'm not sure what it's like there now (or back then when Sam visted).
