Bak Kut Teh

"Bak Kut" means pork ribs and "teh" means Chinese Tea. Chinese believes that drinking tea helps to neutralize cooking oil in the pork ribs soup and digest this nutritious food. This dish is often served as breakfast or late-night snack. Pork ribs is cooked for hours until it becomes soft, and the brownish soup has a unique flavour. Vegetables, Chinese mushrooms and "You Zha Kuay" (fried dough) are dipped in this soup which is served with white rice.

Bak Kut Teh can be also served with fresh chopped garlic which goes well with thick dark soya sauce and red slice chilli. The price varies depending on the ingredients you choose. Some hawkers offer noodles in this soup, which you might find too expensive for a hawker's dish.