Another Singaporean local food that I would like to recommend is from the National University of Singapore Arts and Social Sciences canteen Yong Tao Fu stall. The concept of this type of stalls is quite different from the other food stalls serving other varieties of food. Here, you are free to select the ingredients you prefer and order them in the form of dried, soup or Laksa together with options such as rice, noodles, bee hoon, kway teow, or nil. This is how it looks like.

One queue is for ordering and another is for collecting your order.

The ingredients are varied and range from fresh tomatoes, green vegetables, mushrooms, seaweed, bean curd, baby corn, okra, fish cake, wanton etc. Each piece costs only S$0.25 which is very cheap in my opinion compared to normal hawker centres which are selling at an astronomical price of S$0.50. A normal meal of 8 pieces with rice costs only S$2.40 whereas food courts are selling at S$4~S$6. Who says school canteen food is unappetizing?

This stall has won the best stall for a few years in a row and is still the best among the students and locals. Try the Laksa, which is some sort of coconut based curry, if you can take spicy food. There are also chilli and sweet sauces to go along with the Yong Tao Fu, and blends in very well in my opinion. It makes for a healthy and satisfying meal and so is definitely  suitable for healthy conscious individuals for its low fat content. Perhaps the MSG could be lesser at times though.

For my personal eating style, I normally order all vegetables like okra, bean curd, tomatoes, and baby corn etc with soup and white rice. As for the chilli sauce, I pour some and mix it into the soup such that it looks a bit like the Laksa soup. Then, dip the ingredients into both the sweet and chilli sauces and tuck in!

Try out this stall if you have not or you will be missing out on a lot!

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