Changi village is a popular Chinese food market located in the heartland of Singapore. It is a bustling street of just about everything you can imagine: from hawker stalls selling pork ribs and fish ball soup to hotpots and cooked seafood. From black beans and egg tarts to curry puffs and almond jelly – they have it all! It’s also one of the best places to eat on our long list of must-try local foods. What to eat at Changi village, includes the following;
1. Wonton soup
The most popular dish at Changi Village is definitely Wanton Noodle Soup. The spicy soup is filled with meat, vegetables, fish balls and pieces of your tiao. You can choose the different types of noodles you want: Mee Pok, Hokkien (yellow wheat vermicelli), Ho Fun or wanton noodles. This noodle soup has been around since the 1950s, and it’s still as popular as ever today!
2. Black sauce chicken rice
This dish features a half-chicken that’s been marinated in Chinese herbs and spices, then steamed till tender before being slathered with a savoury black sauce glaze. The sauce is made from soy sauce, vinegar and sugar, and it’s normally served alongside the chicken. But you can add a plateful of the sauce to your rice to create an interesting dish!
3. Ma Hua
Ma Hua is a dish that’s famous for its spicy chilli congee (pasta vermicelli). The dish has spicy red chilli oil, Chinese cabbage and bean curd with minced pork filling. It also comes in different variations like ho tau foo (with BBQ pork sausage), ma pai gai (with chicken), or poh piew (with century egg).
4. Hokkien Mee
This is a fresh and light noodle dish that’s made with thin square noodles, vegetables, eggs, fish cake slices, squid and chicken/pork. You can choose to have it with dry or soup noodles. While the dry version is already tasty on its own, the soup one is even more flavoursome and has a thicker consistency to it. The essence of this dish comes from the special Hokkien mee chilli sauce which packs a punch! It’s spicy yet addictive!
5. Chee Cheong Fun
This is a light, savoury and crispy fried noodle dish that comes in a variety of variations. It has the characteristic chee cheong fun (Chinese-style fried noodles) texture with the taste of the oyster sauce, chilli paste (either fresh or dried), and hard-boiled egg. You can have it with thin rice noodles, but I would recommend the chives version which uses thick wheat flour vermicelli instead. The more you eat of this, the more you’ll crave for more!
6. Singapore Noodles (Choon Fun)
The Singapore noodle has become a popular noodle dish found in many hawker stalls across the island. The noodles are made from wheat flour and eggs, can be served thin or thick, and are ordinarily cooked by boiling before being garnished with ground peanuts, fungus puffs, stalks of Chinese celery and green onions. They also have a soup version called nam pla fun which uses pork broth instead of water to make it richer in flavour.
