Hey guys! Hope you guys enjoy watching us try all the street food in Singapore’s Chinatown. I apologize for the sound in the background inside the hawker center. It started to rain hard and it was loud!
It's called carrot cake because in chinese the word for radish and carrot is the same and the chinese in british occupied singapore called it that. the name stuck presumably because the english also have a dish called carrot cake.
I will appreciate if you can stop giving comments about food in Singapore. The fact of the matter is you know nothing about Singapore food but you talk like a subject specialist. And the way you ate was disgusting.
Chendol is the green jelly that is on top of dessert. It’s made from “mung bean” flour. The rice cake that you like is called “Putu Bamboo” which translates to Putu = Rice Flour and bamboo for its cylindrical shape. Traditionally the rice flour would be stuffed in a bamboo then steamed. By the way there is no brown sugar in Chng Teng. It gets its brown colour from the dried longan.
What interesting Singaporean dishes...the carrot cake and the bbq pork are the ones I would love to try. Thanks for the time in the Temple too..it is quite beautiful.
Glad you're enjoying the local favourites! Cringing a little at Jean's explanations of some of the items... The Cheng Teng gets it's brown color from the dried longans, not brown sugar. Traditionally you boil the soup with rock sugar which is "cooling". Regular sugar is considered "heaty". The green "jelly" bits in the Chendol are traditionally made from mung bean flour and pandan extract/juice. Though those you ate look factory made so are likely made with artificial pandan flavouring, hence the more vibrant green color. They're not jellies at all.
We loved watching these food stall tours. My partner is from Singapore's neighbor Malaysia and it is very close culturally to Singapore. He loved this video too.
Statues at 1.24 and 1.29 depict the early settlers who came to Singapore to eke out a living and to send their earnings to families back home. One is of a male coolie (hired labourer) who transported heavy loads on his bare shoulders. The Chinese characters 苦力 (kǔlì), meaning "to exert one's abilities or heavy labour work". The other statue is of a Samsui woman, also known as hong tou jin (红头巾; Mandarin for “red headscarf”) after their trademark red head wear. These were female immigrants mainly from the Sanshui (“Samsui” in Cantonese; meaning “three waters”) district of Guangdong province in southern China and also other regions of China. These Samsui women started arriving in Singapore in large numbers in the mid 1930s and many found work as general labourers on construction sites to carry building materials and clear debris. Some worked in tin mines and rubber estates; others became domestic servants (known as amah) in wealthy households. To save on rent and take care of each other far away from home, lots of them lived together in shared accommodations. There are hardly any samsui women left in Singapore today.
Thank you Shinichi and Jean, I always love your food review videos, so much yummy food and drink. I love how colorful it was in China Town. Take care and I will see you soon.
Maxwell food (hawker) centre is just across the road from the buddha tooth relic temple, where u get to try the famous Tian Tian Chicken with raving reviews by Anthony Bourdain. And the peranakan nonya laksa there is really good too.
the indonesian bamboo cake is actually called "kue putu" or "putu bambu". this cake is made of rice flour and filled with palm sugar, and steamed in bamboo tubes, hence its name, and served with grated coconut. kue putu can also be found in the netherlands due to their colonial ties with indonesia.
I must visit Singapore one day. There are so many exotic foods to try. Because of all the unfamiliar flavors, I think there'll be a disconnect between my brain and taste buds!
so many of these foods are the same or similar as the malaysian ones, so the video is making me sooooooo hungry! 😭 Oh, btw it is called carrot cake because in chinese daikon is called white carrot.
Beautiful place and beautiful foods very good friendly people and lots of nice healthy foods thank you for sharing your beautiful healthy foods love them all thank you
Enjoyed watching this...makes me wanna go back to Singapore, it’s been ages. That carrot cake dish is called such because it’s made from grated radish which is literally called “white carrot” in mandarin 😊 Pls visit Malaysia next.
So many great places you find, they all looked so tasty , it sure looks like a fun trip, Your guest host is very nice. Best of luck and continued success .
Loved this video! And I've only just properly looked at it for the first time, despite being a long-term subscriber - I absolutely love your Tabi Eats logo! Onigiri, travel/mountains, a bite taken out of it... great concept!
An interesting video. The way you describe the food.😋. I can tast it myself☺. Thank you to guide and show us the food and culture. Also many thanks to Jean. I cann't wait to see the other singaporevideo's.
This makes our food here in the US look so boring and lifeless. I don't have a China town where I live but if I did...I would eat there all the time. Just lovely🌸
As a Singaporean, I would like to thank you so much for introducing Singapore in such an interesting way, I really enjoyed your clip! P.S. The green jelly in chendol is actually pandan flavoured agar =) Happy that you like Singaporean food!
The chendol green strips are traditionally made using a mix of rice flour, corn flour, mung bean flour, salt and pandan extract together. That is the way I was taught to make by my Peranakan aunts and mum. I don't remember any chendol strips being made of agar-agar (seaweed jelly).
懐かしい~~~!!! I have been away from Singapore for much longer than Jean has. I really miss the food. I love the explanation for the Grass Jelly drink. Its not easy explaining what 'heaty' is. lol As usual, love the food on display. The temple stop is a nice touch too.
China town got lots of foods to choose from healthy foods fresh fruits very good foods the best foods in. Singapore got the best foods thank you for sharing your beautiful healthy foods.
So after the first Singapore video, I was talking with a fellow crew member about places to visit; he brought up Singapore and I said Japan. It’s highly recommended and I was warned it could get really expensive and to not break ANY laws, don’t even miss the garbage can 😂😅 Those rice cakes look very interesting! That’s so interesting, that the cane sugar drink is not overwhelmingly sweet. Oooo Satoshi might like the beef slices with some ice cold beer! I’d go just to try all the food you’ve shown me. 😂 I’m Size 29cm in shoes, it is probably hard for me to find shoes in Singapore or even Japan 😅 (I’m a female haha)
love this episode coz we love singapore lil too much hahaa.. popiah is really snack, like light salad only :P we have cendol too in indonesia :) the green stuff (cendol) is made from rice flour :)
"There is no sugar in sugar can juice." sounds like my mom telling my wife that its ok to give my 2 year old sugar cane juice. I laughed so hard. Like always love your videos.
people somehow think that just because it isn't refined that it isn't the same thing. sorry health nuts your body treats the juice the exact same way it would the stuff that comes out of the bag. the only difference is that the cane juice may have other elements to it like some vitamins and or minerals.
Carrot cake is my favourite too. For breakfast, snacking or just for light lunch or dinner. Always a great time. And lucky for me I live close by to SG, so each time I crave some, I just flew over there :D
lots of confusion with the carrot cake. in Chinese there is white carrot and red carrot. and white carrot is daikon. what westerners are familiar with is a dessert for carrot cake made with red carrots. the savory carrot cake here is made using white carrot or daikon. it is called a cake because the daikon is mixed with rice flour. cake is a literally translation and can be both sweet or savory.
one think about the hawker/local food...it's so old-time good and manned by the proprietors themselves...in some cantrees you hav strangers frying hokkien mee,lol
awesome posting i love all of these adventures You guys have. 11 people gave this a thumbs down I dont get this at all. Love what You are doing look forward to the next post.
Is round 50cent to a $1 also there is yam cake ! Must try and many tryp can find in stall which they sell ku and small pack of nasi lemak and curry puff some time
Used to study in SG for 4 yrs and left to US for uni, nostalgic to watch (and the Singlish accent lah) the food (and the 3-4PM rain haha) Also the Chinese BBQ pork jerky is personally much better than the Western style of dried ones. Can't get enough of those.
Both of you look nice & friendly. I agree with John ... that chwee kueh has to be eaten with chilli sauce otherwise it would be too salty if eaten with the pickled radish.
One of the strangest food in the world is probably the fried carrot cake of Singapore. it's called carrot cake but has 0 carrot, not a cake and made with 80% radish/daikon. It's also called turnip cake although it's not turnip it's radish. There's also a dimsum version where it's not stirred fried
Welcome to Singapore~ Ah u are in Chinatown. Did u visit this place called Kele. It's no 1 pineapple tart in SG. A must try! You can bring it back as souvenir
Hey Sinichi, great video Singapore is so beautiful and the food looks amazing. I really think tthat you should use the word syrupy instead of the word slimey when you are describing food. It’s really off putting. 💜
Haha now you know why many Singaporeans tend to go out in their flip flops and sandals. ;) Just before I left Tokyo a couple years back, Bee Cheng Hiang was promoting their products there, so I think you might find an outlet in Tokyo after all. :)
That green jelly is what makes the dish cendol, without it ain't a cendol haha. It's made with pandan juice, rice flour or green bean flour some with tapioca flour. The brown sugar drizzled on it is gula melaka or coconut sugar. Good ones are those that they made themselves usually from stalls that specializes in making cendol. Those with bright green coloured ones usually just colouring no actual pandan juice unlike those pale green ones which are natural and homemade :D The base of cheng teng soup is made from dried longan and longan is heaty and too much of it will cause phelgm heehee but it is nice though. Different stalls will have their own mix of ingredients some has added sweet potatoes, ginko nuts etc. Oh ya, hope you've tried some Indian food here like curry fish head, briyani, prata..
Hey guys! Hope you guys enjoy watching us try all the street food in Singapore’s Chinatown. I apologize for the sound in the background inside the hawker center. It started to rain hard and it was loud!
I like the background sounds, it is like an immersive experience! If only the smells of the food came through, too, lol.
Âre u stil in sg
you're so right, you are out of your element. so fun watching your videos
It's called carrot cake because in chinese the word for radish and carrot is the same and the chinese in british occupied singapore called it that. the name stuck presumably because the english also have a dish called carrot cake.
I will appreciate if you can stop giving comments about food in Singapore. The fact of the matter is you know nothing about Singapore food but you talk like a subject specialist. And the way you ate was disgusting.
Chendol is the green jelly that is on top of dessert. It’s made from “mung bean” flour. The rice cake that you like is called “Putu Bamboo” which translates to Putu = Rice Flour and bamboo for its cylindrical shape. Traditionally the rice flour would be stuffed in a bamboo then steamed. By the way there is no brown sugar in Chng Teng. It gets its brown colour from the dried longan.
With pandan leaves too. That’s why it’s green.
Jean is a beautiful addition to your videos.
What interesting Singaporean dishes...the carrot cake and the bbq pork are the ones I would love to try. Thanks for the time in the Temple too..it is quite beautiful.
Love that Jean helped you today. Looked like you both enjoyed all those wonderful food! 👍 ❤
Glad you're enjoying the local favourites!
Cringing a little at Jean's explanations of some of the items...
The Cheng Teng gets it's brown color from the dried longans, not brown sugar. Traditionally you boil the soup with rock sugar which is "cooling". Regular sugar is considered "heaty".
The green "jelly" bits in the Chendol are traditionally made from mung bean flour and pandan extract/juice. Though those you ate look factory made so are likely made with artificial pandan flavouring, hence the more vibrant green color. They're not jellies at all.
With love from Singapore 🇸🇬
You make me want to return to Singapore! I love Singaporean food 🙏
Thanks Jean! Great information presentation!
Singapore has so many interesting things to try.
We loved watching these food stall tours. My partner is from Singapore's neighbor Malaysia and it is very close culturally to Singapore. He loved this video too.
Statues at 1.24 and 1.29 depict the early settlers who came to Singapore to eke out a living and to send their earnings to families back home.
One is of a male coolie (hired labourer) who transported heavy loads on his bare shoulders. The Chinese characters 苦力 (kǔlì), meaning "to exert one's abilities or heavy labour work".
The other statue is of a Samsui woman, also known as hong tou jin (红头巾; Mandarin for “red headscarf”) after their trademark red head wear. These were female immigrants mainly from the Sanshui (“Samsui” in Cantonese; meaning “three waters”) district of Guangdong province in southern China and also other regions of China.
These Samsui women started arriving in Singapore in large numbers in the mid 1930s and many found work as general labourers on construction sites to carry building materials and clear debris. Some worked in tin mines and rubber estates; others became domestic servants (known as amah) in wealthy households.
To save on rent and take care of each other far away from home, lots of them lived together in shared accommodations. There are hardly any samsui women left in Singapore today.
nature nurture interesting history. Thanks.
Thank you Shinichi and Jean, I always love your food review videos, so much yummy food and drink. I love how colorful it was in China Town. Take care and I will see you soon.
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Maxwell food (hawker) centre is just across the road from the buddha tooth relic temple, where u get to try the famous Tian Tian Chicken with raving reviews by Anthony Bourdain. And the peranakan nonya laksa there is really good too.
the indonesian bamboo cake is actually called "kue putu" or "putu bambu". this cake is made of rice flour and filled with palm sugar, and steamed in bamboo tubes, hence its name, and served with grated coconut. kue putu can also be found in the netherlands due to their colonial ties with indonesia.
All the street food looks delicious! 😋😋
Looking forward to more Singapore videos! 👍😁
Omg everything looks soooo delicious 😋 thnx for sharing. I’m preparing for my first trip to Singapore and it looks like I’ll be just eating 24/7 :D
The food looks so good , I will be in Singapore and stay in china town area in couple weeks . I can’t wait to try those food
Another brilliant video, thank you so much, good start into the weekend!
I must visit Singapore one day. There are so many exotic foods to try. Because of all the unfamiliar flavors, I think there'll be a disconnect between my brain and taste buds!
The food looks good and that temple is beautiful! 😍
That was such a great video (cinematography, editing & content) but it's made me miss SG food so much...I was tasting every spoonful with you!
so many of these foods are the same or similar as the malaysian ones, so the video is making me sooooooo hungry! 😭 Oh, btw it is called carrot cake because in chinese daikon is called white carrot.
Thank you, I've been wondering why!
Beautiful place and beautiful foods very good friendly people and lots of nice healthy foods thank you for sharing your beautiful healthy foods love them all thank you
Enjoyed watching this...makes me wanna go back to Singapore, it’s been ages. That carrot cake dish is called such because it’s made from grated radish which is literally called “white carrot” in mandarin 😊 Pls visit Malaysia next.
I dunno guys, but watching Jean's face warmth my heart.
So many great places you find, they all looked so tasty , it sure looks like a fun trip, Your guest host is very nice. Best of luck and continued success .
The temple looks amazing and food of course
one of my fav areas in singapore,,lots of food variety,, good vib at night
You should try the old airport road hawker center, there are so many good dishes there
Loved this video! And I've only just properly looked at it for the first time, despite being a long-term subscriber - I absolutely love your Tabi Eats logo! Onigiri, travel/mountains, a bite taken out of it... great concept!
Great video as always. I know it may be a hassle to film in the rain but I thought it was beautiful and especially at the temple 💕🙏🏻Thank you
An interesting video. The way you describe the food.😋. I can tast it myself☺. Thank you to guide and show us the food and culture. Also many thanks to Jean. I cann't wait to see the other singaporevideo's.
I been to Singapore twice but soo sooo long ago 25 years ago!!! ? Showing my age now!!!
Sugar cane yum!!! Jeans cool too!!!
This makes our food here in the US look so boring and lifeless. I don't have a China town where I live but if I did...I would eat there all the time. Just lovely🌸
As a Singaporean, I would like to thank you so much for introducing Singapore in such an interesting way, I really enjoyed your clip! P.S. The green jelly in chendol is actually pandan flavoured agar =) Happy that you like Singaporean food!
The chendol green strips are traditionally made using a mix of rice flour, corn flour, mung bean flour, salt and pandan extract together. That is the way I was taught to make by my Peranakan aunts and mum.
I don't remember any chendol strips being made of agar-agar (seaweed jelly).
By the way, chwee kueh is sold in some Singapore 7-11s. A pack of 4.. with the ‘chye por’ & chilli sauce
Omg this was incredable :) the atmosphere must have been awesome..so colourful and all the smells ... mmm....
My favorite place would be the garden ; it looked like it would smell wonderful ❤
Looks like you really enjoy the hawker food in Singapore. You should try the hawker food at old airport road.
OMG,those street foods in Singapore are so mouth watering... 😍❤️
Singaporean food is soo delicious! 😋
She’s cute too ☺️
Omg Singapore Street food 😍
Bee Cheng Hiang is ❤️
You guys are awesome, the food makes me soo hungry! I want to go to Japan again
I wanna go to Singapore! 😂
Traveling for the food “Tabi eats”, Suteki😆
Love their video as always!🥳
懐かしい~~~!!! I have been away from Singapore for much longer than Jean has. I really miss the food. I love the explanation for the Grass Jelly drink. Its not easy explaining what 'heaty' is. lol
As usual, love the food on display. The temple stop is a nice touch too.
gekisou local food and relatives are the only think that I missed there!
China town got lots of foods to choose from healthy foods fresh fruits very good foods the best foods in. Singapore got the best foods thank you for sharing your beautiful healthy foods.
So after the first Singapore video, I was talking with a fellow crew member about places to visit; he brought up Singapore and I said Japan. It’s highly recommended and I was warned it could get really expensive and to not break ANY laws, don’t even miss the garbage can 😂😅
Those rice cakes look very interesting!
That’s so interesting, that the cane sugar drink is not overwhelmingly sweet.
Oooo Satoshi might like the beef slices with some ice cold beer!
I’d go just to try all the food you’ve shown me. 😂
I’m Size 29cm in shoes, it is probably hard for me to find shoes in Singapore or even Japan 😅 (I’m a female haha)
welcome to singapore guys.. hope you enjoy ur trip here
@1:05 - Seven years is "quite a while". Wow!!
love this episode coz we love singapore lil too much hahaa.. popiah is really snack, like light salad only :P we have cendol too in indonesia :) the green stuff (cendol) is made from rice flour :)
"There is no sugar in sugar can juice." sounds like my mom telling my wife that its ok to give my 2 year old sugar cane juice. I laughed so hard. Like always love your videos.
people somehow think that just because it isn't refined that it isn't the same thing. sorry health nuts your body treats the juice the exact same way it would the stuff that comes out of the bag. the only difference is that the cane juice may have other elements to it like some vitamins and or minerals.
I don't get why people don't understand sugar is sugar no matter what form it comes in
Bugger the sugar in it, regardless of it being natural. I’d be more concerned about the bacteria in raw sugar cane.
I laughed so hard when he said, "This is no suger, right? This is just a natural SUGAR from SUGAR cane." lmao
You should go to maxwell , hong lim, people park all are food centre around there !
That bbq pork looked so good! Wish we had that here in the states.
Carrot cake is my favourite too. For breakfast, snacking or just for light lunch or dinner. Always a great time. And lucky for me I live close by to SG, so each time I crave some, I just flew over there :D
jean j such a sweetheart!
lots of confusion with the carrot cake. in Chinese there is white carrot and red carrot. and white carrot is daikon. what westerners are familiar with is a dessert for carrot cake made with red carrots. the savory carrot cake here is made using white carrot or daikon. it is called a cake because the daikon is mixed with rice flour. cake is a literally translation and can be both sweet or savory.
Any chance you've made a video on Hawkers Singaporean street food, particularly outside of Chinatown .
one think about the hawker/local food...it's so old-time good and manned by the proprietors themselves...in some cantrees you hav strangers frying hokkien mee,lol
awesome posting i love all of these adventures You guys have. 11 people gave this a thumbs down I dont get this at all. Love what You are doing look forward to the next post.
Is round 50cent to a $1 also there is yam cake ! Must try and many tryp can find in stall which they sell ku and small pack of nasi lemak and curry puff some time
Such interesting and fascinating foods and drinks to me,I would surely try everything!
Thank you for this video! Been missing SG food lately. 💖💖💖
The green "jelly" is actually rice noodles dyed green. In my culture, we eat it in a cold sugar syrup soup. Sooo good in the summer.
Used to study in SG for 4 yrs and left to US for uni, nostalgic to watch (and the Singlish accent lah) the food (and the 3-4PM rain haha)
Also the Chinese BBQ pork jerky is personally much better than the Western style of dried ones. Can't get enough of those.
Welcome to Singapore next time please bring along Satoshi
OMG Jean is adorable :)
Well brought up, she's lovely.
she the hottest 1 on tabi so far
Bedok Chwee kueh is the best!
They have a few branches in Singapore.
After having it,I don't patron other chwee kueh stalls.
The sweet sauce in the popiah is Sweet Flour Sauce.
Another yummy video
Hope you guys are feeling well Loved the Video!!
Both of you look nice & friendly.
I agree with John ... that chwee kueh has to be eaten with chilli sauce otherwise it would be too salty if eaten with the pickled radish.
Does your young lady companion have a channel? She's very good in front of the camera and presents well. Good vid from you both!
One of the strangest food in the world is probably the fried carrot cake of Singapore. it's called carrot cake but has 0 carrot, not a cake and made with 80% radish/daikon. It's also called turnip cake although it's not turnip it's radish.
There's also a dimsum version where it's not stirred fried
Nice food tour.
Sugar cane juice is very popular here in Brazil too. Popular, cheap and delicious!
Yeah, third world countries don't have access to proper food
Thank you for sharing!🌸
Love it 😊
Carrot cake is my favourite hawker dish. You can generally get a combo plate and not pick a favourite child. Both white and black.
Welcome to Singapore~ Ah u are in Chinatown. Did u visit this place called Kele. It's no 1 pineapple tart in SG. A must try! You can bring it back as souvenir
Hey Sinichi, great video Singapore is so beautiful and the food looks amazing. I really think tthat you should use the word syrupy instead of the word slimey when you are describing food. It’s really off putting. 💜
0:05 I was there when they (re?)painted that wall in 2015 :D
Amazing content to watch
Singapore street food is Epic:)
FUN VIDEO!!! so many new foods!!! the last meat one looked like a thin version of fried spam to me...YUMMY!!! :D .
Jean is really familiar with local food. Is she a foodie guide who tourist can engage her?
The green jelly is actually flavoured from pandan leaves
Singapore enjoy your meal stay safe 👍💘😋😋😀
Haha now you know why many Singaporeans tend to go out in their flip flops and sandals. ;) Just before I left Tokyo a couple years back, Bee Cheng Hiang was promoting their products there, so I think you might find an outlet in Tokyo after all. :)
They snack you had before going back to the H center looked to be made with bean maybe
When eating chwee kueh.... need to add their Chili sauce on it
I blow torch my bbq pork to make it more charred
Oh my god 700 stores. So many!
Welcome to Singapore ❤️
cold soup looks interesting
There is other carrot tryp cake! Is in piece by piece .
That green jelly is what makes the dish cendol, without it ain't a cendol haha. It's made with pandan juice, rice flour or green bean flour some with tapioca flour. The brown sugar drizzled on it is gula melaka or coconut sugar. Good ones are those that they made themselves usually from stalls that specializes in making cendol. Those with bright green coloured ones usually just colouring no actual pandan juice unlike those pale green ones which are natural and homemade :D The base of cheng teng soup is made from dried longan and longan is heaty and too much of it will cause phelgm heehee but it is nice though. Different stalls will have their own mix of ingredients some has added sweet potatoes, ginko nuts etc. Oh ya, hope you've tried some Indian food here like curry fish head, briyani, prata..
Hi Shinichi! 👋👋👋. You're in food heaven
Nice episode !
Did not try the 1-tyre rated hawker chan chicken rice while u were in chinatown?