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Indian Food

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  1. Chinese Food


  2. Peranakan Food


  3. Malay Food


  4. Indian Food


  5. Others inclusive of Italian, Japanese and Thailand Food


  6. Queer Food


  7. Places where you can find good food


  8. Survey


  9. Introduction of the six chefs


  10. Acknowledgements




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Indian Rice in Coconut Shell The majority of Indians in Singapore are Tamils from Madras and Kerala in southwest India. Their contribution to Singaporean cuisine include dishes such as mee goreng, a distinctive version of Indonesian style fried noodles, and Indian style rojak, a spicy salad originally from Java. A wonderful array of Indian breads has become part and parcel of Singapore's lifestyle. It's hard to pass up an Indian breakfast of roti-prata, griddle-fried flaky white-flour bread served with mild chicken curry. Other typical breakfast breads are a thin, slightly sour-tasting pancake called thosay and idli, a steamed bun made with a black-skinned lentil and rice flour batter.

Man making Masala Dosai
Equally tempting for a snack or lunch is murtabak, a griddle-fried roti (Indian bread) stuffed with spiced minced mutton, eggs, and onions.

Indian food is much more than a pot of curry. Curries do not constitute the entire Indian cuisine. There are masses of delicious dry spiced vegetable and meat dishes; many different breads, rice and lentil dishes for you to try.

A word of caution: not all curries are HOT. Let me elaborate on this point by giving you a very brief introduction on the cuisine of India. The cuisine of India can be broadly classified into two main groups, namely the northern dishes and the southern dishes. The northern dishes (from the north part of India) are milder, with flavours added to meats and vegetables that are considered more subtle and somewhat much less stomach-clutching than the southern dishes. Cream, yogurt, ghee and nuts feature in dishes in the north while the south favours chillies, coconut and coconut oil. A favourite among the hot dishes is mutton curry.

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