What's your favourite restaurant/place to eat Singapore traditional/famous dish?

There are many traditional dishes in SG. It's usually a mixture of different ethnic groups. I'll list down a few places that you can try below . Of course, all these foods can be found in most hawker centres in SG.

1. chicken rice - It's all in the rice; fragrant and chewy.

Shao Kee Chicken Rice (02-25 Hong Lim Market & Food Centre, Blk 531A Upper Cross St)

2. Pork Rib Soup - Like Chicken Rice, it's all in the soup. Got to have herbal undertones. Pork should fall off the ribs.

Ng Ah Sio Pork Ribs Eating House (No. 7 Keppel Road #01-05/07 PSA Tanjong Pagar Complex)

3. Roti Prata - A fried dough pancake. Goes well with curry. Also try the Murtabak (a fried dough pancake with meat, eggs and oinions stuffed inside it. A beefed-up version of the Taiwanese Oinion pancake). We affectionately call these places "Prata shops"

Al-Jilani Restaurant (127 Bencoolen St)

4. Carrot Cake - I like the black version. It's a little sweeter.

Food Street Carrot Cake (Stall 4, Chinatown food st, smith st)

5. Fish Head curry - It's a big fish head floating in pot of a curry. Usually served in Indian restaurants. Try the Masala chicken, Dhaal. Go with friends.

The Banana Leaf Apolo (Serangoon Road) (48 Serangoon Road #01-32 Little India Arcade)

6. Laksa - White noodles smoothered with spicy coconut gravy. Has cockles and other ingredients with it. The measure its taste is in the gravy: rich and almost cloying.

Sungai Road Laksa (#01-00 Blk 27 Jalan Berseh). Katong Laksa in Katong.

7. Drinks - Teh Tarik can be found most Indian restaurants / prata shops. Also try Milo Dinosaur (Milo with milo powder on top of it. Garuanteed sugar rush), Kopi/Teh-Cino (the milk and teh/kopi floats on top of each other. Like watching a lava lamp)

8. Nasi Padang - Like economic rice (i.e. Chai Fan) but with an Indonesian bent. Try the beef rendang.

Warung M. Nasir (Killiney Road) (Not cheap though. about $5 - $6 / meal) There are other places to try Nasi Padang.

9. Nonya food - Ehhh... Sorry. I'm sorely lacking in this area. But Katong Village (east of Singapore) is said to have some superb Nonya food.

Ivin's (Binjal Park, Bukit Timah)

Try the hawker centres that were mentioned by the other posters. If you're in Tanjong Pagar area for lunch, Maxwell Market / Amoy Street food center is always a good bet.

Tips:

1. Bring friends. Easier to sample many things at once.

2. Buy a copy of Makansutra (guide to local hawker food) from a bookshop (SGD 10 / guide). There are probably other food guides as well but Makansutra is one of the more famous.

Enjoy.

Two things if I can get 'em. The first is the turkey liver. Ever since I can remember I've gotten the turkey out of the freshly roasted bird. I love liver, though usually fried or as liverwurst. But the only liver I go for roasted is turkey liver. And from a Thanksgiving or Christmas bird it's a special treat. Sprinkle just a little salt on it and it's an awesome way to start the day (also a very light breakfast considering there's not terribly much of it). The second is my mother's giblet gravy. It's delicious and goes on nearly everything. Until last year for over twenty years used to spend Thanksgiving with the extended family and there were quite a few folks who asked about it. Whether she'd be bringing it or not. Folks wanted it there for the mashed potato, stuffing, squash, turkey, just about anything. If something was a little dry or without flavor on went the giblet gravy.

Hihi... Welcome to Singapore...

Food that you have to try while in Singapore are:

1) Rojak-It's a appetiser (salad) made up of pineapple, turnip, beansprout, you tiao with prawn sauce...

2)Hainanese chicken rice- My favourite stall is the one at Downtown East (Pasir Ris) food court.

3) Fish head curry- There is one restaurant at Race Course Road (Little India)... Muthu's Curry that serve really good and spicy curry fish head...

4) Curry/ chilli crab- the one at Jumbo seafood restaurant (Boat Quay) or No-Signature restaurant (Esplanade)is really good.

5) Roti prata- the "so-called" indian pancake to be eaten with curry. Most food courts/ hawker centres sell this.

6) Satay- barbeque meat (chicken,beef,mutton, duck, pork) to be dipped with a spicy peanut sauce@Lau Pat Sat(Raffles Place MRT). There is one area that have many stalls selling nothing but just satays. You can also find teh terik there...

Enjoy ur stay in Singapore... and Happy Eating!!!

I believe that the bread you are refering to is Roti John:).

For authentic indian food, u can try visiting race course road at little india. There are several famous restaurants such as Banana Leaf Apollo, Muthu's curry and they serve one of the best fish head curry in town. Although it's much pricier than the hawker centre (foodcentre), the food is definitely worth the price.

Otherwise, try visiting the hawker centres such as maxwell foodcentre, adam's road foodcentre. They have most of the local delicacies such as carrot cake, roti prata. Maxwell foodcentre is famous for its chicken rice, deep-fried red bean cake (which you can fry it yourself), porridge.

If you don't mind paying for more for local hawker food, u can try visiting gluttons by the bay (at esplanade). They have practically most of the local dishes.

some famous Singapore dishes/etc you will need to try:

CHicken Rice - almost all fastfoods have it

SIngapore Sling (its an alcoholic drink)

LAksa - a dessert/fruits with shaved ice and milk

Pepper Crab - go to boat quay , any resto there and ask for pepper crab

cheap shopping place:

Lucky Plaza

just be careful in changing money, go change in hotels - i got duped (though less than 10usd) in one of the money changers there

Geylang

old Airport road food center

old Airport road food center

old Airport road food center

old Airport road food center