The Cuisine of Singapore Trivia Quiz

Answer: True

It's as simple as that, the rice is further enriched with chicken fat to give it a glossy finish and as the appropriate booster to the chicken. It is usually accompanied with fresh cucumbers slices to clean the palate.

Answer: Like a tortoise/turtle shell

Ang Koo Kueh, or as I prefer to call it, the red turtle cake, is made in this shape as the Chinese believe that eating a turtle extends your life. It's a more humane way to express it than just eating turtle soup perhaps, but this kueh is really tasty.

Answer: Banana

Goreng in Malay means 'Fried', and pisang of course is 'Banana'. It's a cheap street hawker snack to get that's great any time of day. In some eateries, they would serve it with ice cream or sprinkle powdered sugar over it. Talk about excess!

Answer: Yes

Yes indeed. It's one of the fattiest dishes you can get, stir fried rice noodle strips with the trimmings mentioned, and sometimes topped with bean sprouts and crispy pork fat for added crunch. This dish was created with the working middle class in mind, such as factory workers and laborers in the past. With modern thinking, many youths prefer to shun it, but for me, I embrace it with all my heart... in moderation.

Answer: Coconut

Kaya is a coconut milk and egg jam. The kaya toast breakfast is usually accompanied with some soft boiled eggs and a cup of hot tea/coffee. The best way to have it is to dip the toasted sandwich into the egg. Now that is an egg soldier.

Answer: True

Right I'm true, I love pig organs soup or the braised variant. A normal plate of braised pig offal normally includes intestines, kidneys, stomach, skin, hard boiled egg, salted vegetables and bean curd. It's a nice and warming dish for the day time, unless you're squeamish, which I'm not.

Answer: Meat bone tea

'Meat bone tea' may not sound too nice, but in name it is what it is. The soup is enriched with many spices like star anise, cinnamon, ginseng and plenty of garlic and comes out with a clear soup that is good and good for you. It's great with rice, but even better with the next question...

Answer: Soy Bean Milk

Soy bean milk and You-tiao are a marriage made in the Little Red Dot. In any stall that sells You-tiao, there is bound to be Soy milk to go along for a dip. The drink itself has a massive following, due to the fact that like many Asian countries, dairy is usually secondary due to high amounts of lactose intolerance.

Answer: True

The name is a little uninspiring, but it's one of the most successful names in seafood. No Signboard Seafood started out as a hawker, but now has grown to swanky restaurants in shopping centers. But even with high prices and growth, they still make some killer crab.

Answer: Head

Fish head curry is a Singaporean original. A cross of Indian, Chinese and Malay rolled into one, most hawkers utilize the head of a red snapper and plenty of vegetables to augment the dish. I can simply eat this with plenty of rice, maybe two bowls of rice because that combination of tamarind and spices with rich coconut milk help liven up the gravy, and always be the first to tackle the fish cheeks.