Char Kway Teow Flat noodles, fried with bean sprouts, egg, fish cake, and cockles.

Chendol A dessert of shaved ice with coconut milk and brown palm sugar.

Dim Sum Dumplings and small bites usually steamed in a rattan basket.

Hainanese Chicken Rice A dish of plain rice and steamed chicken, accompanied by chili sauce, ground ginger paste and dark soy sauce dips.

Ice Kacang Shaved ice atop corn, jellies and local beans, laced with colourful flavourings and condensed milk.

Kaya A local jam made from eggs, sugar and coconut milk.

Laksa Noodles in a coconut-based gravy, with bean sprouts, fish cake, prawns and cockles.

Lap Cheong Traditional Chinese sausage.

Mee A generic name for all sorts of noodles.

Pau A white flour bun filled with savoury meat or bean paste and steamed.

Popiah Spring roll with a filling of turnips, prawns, egg, peanuts, Chinese sausage, greens.

Satay Skewered meat (chicken, mutton or beef) barbecued over a charcoal fire.

Yong Tau Food Bean curd usually stuffed with fish, and eaten with noodles.