# The best Singapore hawker dishes

The dishes to order at Singapore's hawker centres, whose hawker culture is on UNESCO's intangible heritage list since 2020, according to Migrationology, Traveloka and Singapore food guides.

- 225 votes · 13 items
- Mar 30, 2026 · Caitlin Kelly
- https://even.best/en/l/876/the-best-singapore-hawker-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Hainanese chicken rice** (30 · ▲30 ▼0) — Poached chicken over rice cooked in chicken fat, with chilli and ginger; the national dish.
2. **Chilli crab** (21 · ▲24 ▼3) — Mud crab in a sweet, spicy tomato-chilli sauce, mopped up with fried mantou.
3. **Bak chor mee** (15 · ▲17 ▼2) — Minced pork noodles with vinegar and chilli; one stall won a Michelin star.
4. **Nasi lemak** (15 · ▲17 ▼2) — Coconut rice with sambal, fried chicken, anchovies and egg.
5. **Char kway teow** (13 · ▲17 ▼4) — Wok-fried flat rice noodles with cockles, Chinese sausage and dark soy.
6. **Satay** (13 · ▲13 ▼0) — Grilled meat skewers with peanut sauce, at Lau Pa Sat's Satay Street.
7. **Hokkien mee** (11 · ▲15 ▼4) — Prawn and squid noodles braised in rich seafood stock with lime and sambal.
8. **Laksa** (10 · ▲13 ▼3) — Katong-style coconut curry noodle soup with cockles and prawns, eaten with a spoon.
9. **Fish head curry** (7 · ▲12 ▼5) — South Indian-style curry with a whole fish head, created in Singapore.
10. **Roti prata** (4 · ▲10 ▼6) — Flaky flatbread with curry, the late-night supper.
11. **Carrot cake (chai tow kway)** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Fried radish cake, 'white' or 'black' with sweet soy.
12. **Bak kut teh** (3 · ▲7 ▼4) — Peppery Teochew pork rib soup.
13. **Kaya toast** (1 · ▲5 ▼4) — Toast with coconut jam and butter, with soft-boiled eggs and kopi.

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