Crab bee hoon () is a
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...
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rice vermicelli
Rice vermicelli is a thin form of noodle. It is sometimes referred to as 'rice noodles' or 'rice sticks', but should not be confused with cellophane noodles, a different Asian type of vermicelli made from mung bean starch or rice starch rathe ...
dish with whole
mud crab
Mud crab may refer to any crab that lives in or near mud, such as:
*'' Scylla serrata''
*'' Scylla tranquebarica''
*'' Scylla paramamosain''
*'' Scylla olivacea''
*Members of the family Panopeidae, such as '' Panopeus herbstii''
*Members of the ...
served in a claypot and spiced milky broth.
Bee Hoon or rice noodle has the ability to soak up the stock from any dish and that's the reason it is so popular among the locals. There's also a dry version, where thinner rice noodles are tossed in a hot wok before stewing in a broth until every strand is permeated with similar sweetness.
Cultural impact
CNN travel listed ’’Crab bee hoon at
Sin Huat Eating House as one of "top 5 food picks from Singapore's most notorious red-light district". Crab bee hoon shot to fame when
Anthony Bourdain raved about the dish after trying it at Sin Huat Eating House during a segment of ''
A Cook's Tour''. Bourdain named it one of "13 Places to Eat Before You Die," at number 5.
[Men’sHealt]
27 September 2011. Retrieved 2016-01-24 He's also describing its crab bee hoon as “giant Sri Lankan beasts cooked with a spicy mystery sauce and noodles — pure messy indulgence.”
See also
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Singaporean cuisine
Singaporean cuisine is derived from several ethnic groups in Singapore and has developed through centuries of political, economic, and social changes in the cosmopolitan city-state.
Influences include the cuisines of the Malays, the Chinese ...
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List of noodle dishes
This is a list of notable noodle dishes. Noodles are a type of staple food made from some type of unleavened dough which is rolled flat and cut into one of a variety of shapes. While long, thin strips may be the most common, many varieties of no ...
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Rice noodles
Rice noodles, or simply rice noodle, are noodles made with rice flour and water as the principal ingredients. Sometimes ingredients such as tapioca or corn starch are added in order to improve the transparency or increase the gelatinous and c ...
References
Crab dishes
Singaporean noodle dishes
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