No passport required: Authentic food enclaves around Singapore

Had enough mookata? Is pad thai too passe? Those in search of more exotic street eats from the region know to visit Peninsula Plaza, Chinatown or Golden Mile Complex. But what should one try in these ethnic food enclaves? The Sunday Times shares some finds at these foodie haunts in our own backyard

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Step into Golden Mile Complex and be assailed by oily smoky smells of sizzling meat on mookata pots.

But there is more than just mookata in this worn-out building which has seen better days in the 1970s.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on June 02, 2019, with the headline No passport required: Authentic food enclaves around Singapore. Subscribe