How Much Food Can You Buy With $100 in Singapore??

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Hawker Markets are one of the best things to experience during your trip to Singapore… especially if you’re on a budget. During my week in Singapore, I set a budget of 100 Singaporean Dollars for myself with the goal of trying as many iconic dishes available at the iconic Singapore Hawker Centers.

Check out some of Singapore’s best cheap eats and stay tuned to see if I can stay under the budget!

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00:00 - Intro
00:27 - $5 SGD Prawn noodles From Tekka Centre
01:43 - $6 SGD Prata and chicken curry From Tekka Centre
03:15 - $5 SGD - Laksa from Tanjong Pagar
06:01 - $5 SGD Duck and rice from Tanjong Pagar
06:31 - $9 SGD roasted chicken At Maxwell Centre
08:20 - $4 Rojak At Maxwell Centre
09:53 - $7 Pork and rice At Maxwell Centre
11:03 - $5 SGD Carrot cake At Maxwell Centre
12:33 - $16 SGD - Laksa ($8) and Char siu rice ($8) at Hawker Chan
14:59 - $8 SGD Satay At Lau Pa Sat
17:17 - $7.20 SGD sichuan dumplings At Lau Pa Sat
18:22 - $7 SGD Steamed dumplings At Chinatown Complex
19:46 - $8.20 Nasi Lemak At Lau Pa Sat
20:53 - $7.30 Hong kong rice At Lau Pa Sat

[Chef__Tyler]

If you enjoyed this video, make sure you watch my other Singapore video where I turnned 2 iconic Singaporean foods into grilled cheese sandwiches 😊!

[Anon-cvru]

The carrot cake thing is because in mandarin, both radish and carrots use the same term "Luo Bo" 萝卜, but with the color prefix on them. And why it is a cake, because these are steam in a large container and when it is taken out of the steamer, it is like a large cake, I mean some place still sell them in their steamed form in slices with with some sweet bean sauce and chili over it. In this case, it is broken up into small bite size pieces and then added preserved radish and eggs to fry them with some fish sauce, the black one simply has the sweet soy sauce added to it giving it that caramel taste, and the main flour in the steamed cake used is rice flour with grated radish, so you are right in calling them sauteed rice cakes. And the white noodles choice for the laksa definitely is rice based, in fact if you go to the famous katong laksa, it is probably more common to see their laksa eaten with the thick rice noodle.

[Aceofcard]

Finally Singapore is getting recognition

[lifesQnA]

"we were craving something to eat, we happened to walk down the street, saw a lot of people eating grilled meat, it was meant to be" your a poet and you didn't even know it :D

[a_wild_rice_corn]

im Singaporean and i can say that you went to some of the best places for singaporean dishes.
also its funny how this was posted on 10 august which is the day after sg national day

[Sanicfarces]

As a Singaporean, $9 for roasted chicken rice is overpriced

[KeyTch]

EXACTLY! I hate it that people say Singapore is expensive when they ONLY GO TO THE EXPENSIVE PARTS OF SINGAPORE, its a fucking tourist trap there! It will be even more expensive there compared to other SEA countries because the Singapore dollars is way stronger, heck its almost 3.5x stronger than our closest neighbour, Malaysia. But if you know where to look, which is rather easy honestly, there are LOTS of places to get cheap and good food, the places that the locals go to. Honestly, the food around me is so cheap and taste so good that I don't even cook at home.

[timothymah]

The reason why you see those "don't fight in public" posters by the police at tekka center is not because people fight over food but more likely because of the Little India riot in 2013. There's even "liquor control zones" in Little India because of the 2013 riot

[sleepandrelaxation]

Welcome to Singapore and glad to see visitors try out all types of hawker food, not every dish is suitable for everyone due to diversity of tastes and flavours.
Anyway, most of the hawker centres such as Maxwell, Tekka or Lau Pa Sat are more "touristy" since they are always featured in vlogs and social media.
They do have decent food, but generally more expensive and just average.
The easy way to tell a "tourist" place vs a local place is by the visitors in that hawker centre.
There are over 100 hawker centres in Singapore, just take a MRT to the heartlands and visit some places that are not already visited and recommended to death by the previous 100 youtubers.

[changi]

The soup of the prawn noodile is made with boiled shrimp heads over a long time so that the flavour comes out. Probably with pork ribs bones thrown in. Obviously, coconut milk is different from cow's milk. Laksa soup is made of coconut milk. A typical dish/meal in Singapore hawker centre is between S$5 to 7 without a drink. So, it is about S$20 per day for 3 breakfast, lunch and dinner and a S$100 can stretch for 5 days in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

[augustinelim]

The first prawn noodles you tried are not stir-fried btw. You need to specifically look for Hokkien Fried Prawn Noodles for the stir-fried version, and it's made some what differently.
The prata was probably $2.50 for two, and the chicken is $3.50.
Laksa is traditionally eaten with the thick rice noodles, and those aren't scallops, they're cockles.
The dish you called "roasted duck rice" is actually Braised Duck Rice from the looks of it. Roasted duck would have the nicely roasted skin on top.
Really good video overall though, covering probably the best thing about Singapore. And yes, I am local. XD

[ries]

"Carrot cake" is named that way because in Mandarin Chinese, we don't make a distinction between "carrot" and "radish"; they're the same word. Hope that helps!

[cy]

Just to clarify, at 6:11, you had braised duck rice not roasted. You can't rly find braised duck outside of South East Asia :)

[Dhdjksjsnsnsnnsnsna]

Malay (an ethnicity) and Malaysian (a nationality) are different. Please stop saying we have “Malaysian food”. We have those, yes, but the local food is called Malay food!!

[refresco]

I really love a food channel where the host doesn’t just love everything they eat. Even if I disagree with you I like that you give honest opinions.

[hotmixer]

You haven't tried the hawker centres and coffee shops in the HDB residential areas yet, and shopping malls aircon foodcourts most are overpriced and below average quality food that locals eat near daily to save money, uncontrolled rental is the main culprit behind rising food prices

[GoodGood-vbgm]

In Singapore, ordering a bowl of noodles is a lot more complicated than in other Asian countries. You have to specify the type of noodle (five to seven to choose from), whether you want it dry or with soup, and if it's dry, how much chili you want. If you don't want chili, the hawker will ask if you want ketchup. Finally, you have to say whether you want to eat there or take it away.

[Nahiythegreat]

You are my favourite food YouTuber and I’m a singaporean! Thanks for visiting Singapore! 😊❤

[timothymah]

the reason why chicken rice is "room temperature" because of the cooking method. It's steamed and then immediately put in ice to create the skin texture

[voiddaperson]

fyi tyler, carrot cake is called carrot cake here because in chinese, both carrots and radishes are called the same thing, so we just directly translated it into carrots haha 😅