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We are so glad you are enjoying your time in Singapore! 🥰 Please come back again!

"Singapore hospitality is all about recommending their favorite places to eat" - hahahaha so true! we love our food and one of our greatest expression of love and friendship is to share that love with you :)

the sweetness from the fried carrot cake is from diced preserved radish! its commonly called cai pu / chai poh / chye poh, 菜脯 ☺️

Cake is the colloquial translation for Chinese, Malay, Indian "confections" (including Steamed puddings, that can be based on Rice flour, Wheat flour, Eggs, Ube, Yam, etc) - vs. Cake being a specific type of baked good. So the cake in carrot cake is a steamed rice flour based "cake" that has Daikon (White carrot literally in Mandrin)', akin to how pumpkin is in pumpkin pie filling. It imparts some taste, texture and acts like a structural mesh for the gel.

I'm from Argentina. I know NOTHING about Singapore (other than my personal interest in Lee Kuan Yew) but thanks to this video I have now added "eat everything and everywhere in Singapore" to my bucket list. It's extremely far away, but I'm sure I'll make it someday.

Yes the Merlion was on a short hiatus. Glad y’all enjoyed our food! Pretty spot on in terms of the food itinerary. Enjoy!

The crazy irony is that I found Sorted Food whilst searching for chicken rice recipes and thought to myself what on earth gave these Englishmen the guts to put out such a video. Fast forward 6 years and I haven't missed a single video since. Kudos boys ❤🎉

Hainanese chicken is poached and then shocked in an ice bath to achieve that texture. The confusion about boiling/steaming mostly stems from people not being native speakers back in the day and having to speak 3-4 languages. Similarly, Chinese "roast" poultry is typically deep fried instead. Carrot cake comes from the Chinese name for daikon radishes which literally translates to "white carrot", like how the common term for tomatoes translates literally to "foreign aubergine" or how one term used for potatoes translates to "ground bean".

I always love all your travel videos! Doesn't matter where you go, just so you go and report to us. I had never heard of any of these dishes before. What fun!

My brain hurts from reading auto captions all weekend in the live weekend trying to keep up with what’s happening, so human captions are very appreciated. Once again, thank you to the person who writes them for all videos, very appreciated ❤

AAAAAAHHHH NEVER CLICKED ON THIS SO QUICKLY!! Thanks for coming to SG and trying out food!. Hope you've enjoyed and feel free to come again~~

I was eating carrot cake (the black version) while watching the video HAHAHA and as a Singaporean it was definitely cool to see my country featured!! Hope y'all enjoyed your stay here 😊😊

The “carrot cake” doesn’t use carrots but daikon instead! The confusion comes from the Chinese name for carrot, which literally means “foreign daikon” since carrot is not native to China but daikon is. Therefore, sometimes carrot and daikon (and other turnips in general) are all referred to by the same name

they brought the closh! thats just perfect!

My spouse is originally from Singapore, and I visited her there over 20 years ago, before she moved to the US so we could get married. I was vegetarian at the time and I ate so much delicious food from hawker centers grocery stores. I remember getting supermarket sushi that was unbelievably good for such, and had vegetarian varieties that I've never seen on this side of the Pacific (I'm American).

Singaporean hawker food stalls is some of the best food you will ever have in your life. When I was there back in the 90's, it was what introduced me to so many amazing foods from different cultures around Asia. Foods I still seek out and enjoy today.

My partner and I decided to pop by Uncle Louis's at Maxwell right after watching this video. Let me tell you, when Ben said that he could eat a whole plate of that rice, he wasn't kidding. It was just that good! 😂 Thanks for the recommendation SortedFood! Even as locals, we do miss some of these hidden foodie gems, so I'm glad that you guys brought them into the spotlight :)

In the Cantonese language, carrots are called "red radish". Again in Cantonese, "radish" refers to the large root vegetable also known as Daikon in Japanese. I think for this reasoning that carrots and daikon are named similarly in Cantonese is why what is actually daikon/radish cake is known as "carrot cake".

So very chuffed that the lads from Sorted are in my homeland trying our food! Enjoy the many flavours, cuisines and cultures that you will encounter, gentlemen! Buon appetito! 👍🏼😄

I only recently, in the last few weeks, discovered your channel. It is lovely to see how you encourage a whole community to try new things, enjoy cooking, and have fun doing it. My skills in the kitchen, which were not great, have improved by so much since I started watching. Thank you to the whole team for all that you do.