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Best things I’ve had for under S$10

SINGAPORE - Having spent her whole life in Singapore, passionate local food blogger and cookbook author Denise Fletcher declares the East as the home of delicious hawker fare. She raves on how these favourites “always hit the spot, have a place in my heart and leave my wallet nice and fat”.

SINGAPORE - Having spent her whole life in Singapore, passionate local food blogger and cookbook author Denise Fletcher declares the East as the home of delicious hawker fare. She raves on how these favourites “always hit the spot, have a place in my heart and leave my wallet nice and fat”.

Fletcher’s cookbook Mum’s Not Cooking (S$22.36), published by Epigram Books, is available in bookstores. Visit her blog at singaporeshiok.blogspot.sg.

Yew Char Kway and Butterfly Fritters (S$0.70 each) From Blk 201 C Tampines St 21

Mr Koh has been selling fried dough treats here for the last 19 years. He only sells yew char kway, butterfly fritters and hum cheem peng. My favourite is the butterfly fritters (that) are light, crisp and thin shells of dough with huge air tunnels inside.

Cheng Tng (S$1.50) From Blk 69, Bedok South Ave 3

This stall serves a very nice cheng tng ... really clear and generously filled with old school cheng tng ingredients like dried persimmon strips and malva nut pulp (biji kembang semangkuk), which you no longer see in the average bowl of hawker stall cheng tng. The cold version is very refreshing, but I like it hot, even in the merciless mid-year heat, as the flavour and aroma are more intense.

Mee Rebus (S$1.20) from Selera Kita Mee Rebus (Blk 58, New Upper Changi Rd, #01-182)

(It’s) probably Singapore’s cheapest mee rebus, and in my book, also Singapore’s best. The gravy is thinner than the usual mee rebus gravy, which I find too gooey, but is incredibly tasty and loaded with dried krill (geragok). It’s so tasty, I never add soy sauce but a squeeze of lime makes the yummy gravy even better.

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