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Starred Street Food

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Written by EFW Staff

Michelin Guide awards Street Food

Michelin Guide, for the first time in the history of the food critics, went on the road. In this last edition it awarded the first stars to simple Street Food stalls.

Starred Street Food in Singapore

The background is Singapore, a well-known city for its great quality and quantity of the extraordinary street food cooked in simple stalls and kiosks. They are able to transform few ingredients into Chef dishes. Asiatic cities, in fact, are famous for the widespread tradition to eat meals on the road and for the huge quantity of kiosks equipped with grills, gas cylinders, stoves and big woks. Here they prepare in few minutes more or less difficult recipes to order.

Thailand is famous for Pad Thai (noodles sautéed with soy sauce, egg, tofu or chicken) and for meat skewers. China instead is known for its tofu, noodles soups, ravioli and steamed sandwiches. Thus, in Asia, Street Food isn’t the last trend of the moment but a hundred-years old tradition and a daily custom.

So, awarding Asiatic street food, the Red Guide critics didn’t choose by chance, and they decided to give one Michelin Star to two stalls in Singapore, among 200 of the best restaurants of the city.

Starred Street Food Stalls: noodles and rice with lacquered chicken

Hill Street Tai Hwa Pork Noodle is the name of the first kiosk, opened in 1930 by Tang Joon Teo and now ran by the son Tang Chay Seng. This kiosk is specialized in bak chor mee, large and soft noodles cooked in a sauce of black vinegar and chilli. It is served together with pork pieces and meatballs.

This recipe, characterized by the typical Asiatic taste and perfected by the owner, have won the desired star. A simple stall with few plastic tables and a long kilometric row to taste the famous noodles.

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The second stall is the Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice and Noodle, a real institution of the Singapore’s China Town, famous for the lacquered chickens in plain sight. The menu is small and its name is clear: its speciality is rice or noodles paired with delicious chickens or pigs, perfectly seasoned with soy sauce. The owner Chan Hon Meng cooks and sell more than 150 chickens in a day for 2$. If you decide to try it, be prepared to make long but paid back rows.

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The success of starred Street Food

Starred street food is the symptom of a big change of the culinary world and of the highest food critic. It witnesses a new attention to the real quality of food and ingredients, the balance of flavours and tastes. In this way, the recipes and the dishes will win even if they are tasted with simple cutlery, plastic tables along the street, even if they aren’t luxury restaurants with lavishly tables and crystals.

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