It's hard to look past chilli crab when you're looking for the most typical and enjoyable dish enjoyed by both Singaporeans, expatriates and visitors to the little red dot.
Basically speaking, chilli crab is a tasty seafood dish which consists of stir-fried crab coated with savoury, sweet, and spicy tomato based sauce. This dish is often accompanied by deep fried or steam buns (also known as mantou buns).
Chilli Crab is listed at number 35 on the World’s 50 most delicious foods, complied by CNN Travel in 2017. This spicy, sloppy, meaty specialty can be prepared dozens of ways such as with black pepper, salted egg yolk, cheese-baked, and so on and so forth but chili crab remains the local bestseller. Spicy chili-tomato gravy tends to splatter, so be conscious of your clothing....in short cover up! But more importantly thi is the reason why you need to mop everything up with mini mantou buns.
NO SIGNBOARD SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
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Back in the early days of the late 1970s, it was uncommon for hawker stalls to sell fresh seafood and much less, crab dishes. However, the founder, Mdm Ong Kim Hoi had the penchant for cooking. She specially created the now popular abd acclaimed White Pepper Crab dish to differentiate her hawker stall from the competition. The first hawker stall did not have a signboard, so this unique offering became known as the No Signboard Seafood hawker stall. No Signboard Seafood serves a wide variety of premium seafood cuisine prepared in Chinese and Singapore styles, including their signature dish, the White Pepper Crab. Contact and Location details here
LONG BEACH SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
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At Long Beach, the set menus are filled with varieties of Live and Exotic Seafood to cater to your preferences They are the creator of the Original and possibly the Best Black Pepper Crab of Singapore. Crabs are ordered by the kilogram. Minimum weight of mud crabs is One kilogram while Alaskan king crabs and Australian king crabs range from three kilograms to 10 kilograms. Black Pepper Crab has become a Long Beach’s signature dish. The gravy is a delicious combination of spiciness, sweetness and saltiness. Contact and Location details here
Red House SeafoodÂ
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Red House Seafood is one of Singapore’s oldest seafood restaurants and is synonymous with Singapore cuisine. Local Singaporean Chinese food evolved from Canton, Fujian and Hainan origins, forming much of the basic flavours of local food. Red House has built firm relationships with global seafood suppliers. Every week, shipments of seafood harvested from the boats of fishermen in the North Sea, Indian Ocean and South China Sea arrive at Red House. Contact and Location details here
JUMBO SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
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After years of continuous effort in providing quality food and service, Jumbo Seafood has grown into a group of 6 restaurants serving live seafood prepared in familiar local and Hong Kong styles. Reservations are recommended since Jumbo Seafood is usually packed out during service. Always ask the size of your crab and the cost per kilo before ordering. Be prepared to get your handsmessy with the sauces that accompany the Crab dishes. But not to worry! Jumbi Seafood provides a water bowl with lime on each table. Contact and Location details here
MELLBEN SEAFOOD AT ANG MO KIO
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Mellben Seafood at Ang Mo Kio is quite a way from downtown Singapore. It may not be in the most convenient location but that doesn’t deter the crowds from descending on this very popular open-air space. You can always get very large crabs in thick, spicy and slightly sweet chilli sauce here. The menu features a wide range of crab dishes offering 15 different ways to cook them such as black pepper crab, chilli crab, claypot crab vermicelli soup, salted egg yolk crab, butter crab, and shimmering sand crab. Contact and Location details here