Singapore

A two-Michelin-star contemporary barbecue restaurant by chef Dave Pynt using a custom 4-tonne kiln oven to produce extraordinary wood-fired dishes that combine Australian barbecue technique with Asian ingredients. The burnt ends brisket and marrow sandwich are legendary - book 3 months ahead.

📍20 Teck Lim Road, Singapore 088391

The Chinatown Complex is Singapore's largest hawker centre, home to 260+ stalls on the upper floors and a traditional wet market below. The variety is staggering - Hokkien mee, laksa, dim sum, roast duck, rojak, and cendol all within a single building. Best visited at lunch when all stalls operate.

📍335 Smith Street, Singapore 050335

The world's cheapest Michelin-starred meal - Hawker Chan's soya sauce chicken with rice costs $3.50 and earned a Michelin star in 2016. The queue stretches around the block daily at the Chinatown Complex. A quintessential Singapore hawker center experience with an extraordinary backstory.

📍Chinatown Complex, 335 Smith Street, Singapore 050335

A one-Michelin-star restaurant serving avant-garde Singaporean cuisine by Chef Han Li Guang, who uses molecular techniques to create extraordinarily faithful and emotional interpretations of hawker classics. The chilli crab ice cream and chicken rice in modern form are works of food art.

📍1 Fullerton Road, Singapore 049213

A spectacular Victorian cast-iron market building from 1894 converted into Singapore's most iconic hawker centre in the financial district. The outdoor satay street that closes the adjacent road each evening is the best place in Singapore to eat skewers under the stars surrounded by skyscrapers.

📍18 Raffles Quay, Singapore 048582

Singapore's most celebrated French fine dining institution with three Michelin stars, a wine cellar of over 1,800 labels, and over 30 years of consistent excellence. Les Amis set the standard for fine dining in Singapore and continues to define what classical French cooking means in Asia.

📍1 St Andrews Road, Singapore 178957

A legendary 24-hour department store and supermarket in Little India that sells everything from gold jewelry to saffron to electronics at excellent prices. The supermarket section is a sensory overload of spices, pickles, halal meats, Indian sweets, and South Asian groceries that you can't find anywhere else.

📍145 Syed Alwi Road, Singapore 207704

Singapore's most famous open-air hawker centre, featured in the film Crazy Rich Asians, with over 100 stalls serving grilled seafood, satay, oyster omelette, and carrot cake into the early hours. A must-visit evening destination - arrive hungry and order a Tiger beer with the chilli crab.

📍500 Clemenceau Avenue North, Singapore 229495

A lesser-known but exceptional hawker centre in the West of Singapore with some of the city's best-kept food secrets - a legendary putu piring stall that has operated since 1946, outstanding prawn noodles, and a chwee kueh rice cake stall with a devoted local following.

📍121 Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore 118543

The heart of Singapore's Little India district - a large market with a wet market downstairs and a hawker centre above serving the best South Indian food in the city. The fish head curry, roti prata, and banana leaf biryani at Tekka are institution-level in a neighborhood that always smells of jasmine and spice.

📍665 Buffalo Road, Singapore 210665

A two-floor neighborhood market in the iconic Tiong Bahru art deco precinct with an excellent hawker centre upstairs and a traditional wet market below. The char kway teow, chai tow kway (carrot cake), and loh mai gai sticky rice are consistently ranked among Singapore's best - come before 11am.

📍30 Seng Poh Road, Singapore 168898