DÜNYA ŞEHİRLERİNDE SOKAK LEZZETLERİ

Singapore

The scene: The little red dot rewrote the rules of street food when it moved its vendors off the sidewalks and into hawker centers back in the 1970s and 80s. Today, the open-air food courts dominate the cheap-eats landscape, dishing up an array of ethnically diverse dishes including Peranakan laksa (spicy seafood and noodle soup), Malaysian char kway teow (flat rice noodles stir-fried with blood cockles and Chinese sausage), and South Indian roti prata, or fried flatbread, with mutton curry. Hawker fare is so revered in Singapore, the Liao Fan Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle stand in the Chinatown Complex earned a Michelin star in the city’s inaugural guide.

The dish: Hainanese chicken rice, tender slices of boiled bird served over rice cooked in stock.