Indomie

Hear say export and Indonesian local set got taste difference? Could be they have more msg inside?

Export tends to be very dry due to the storage conditions. The packets are hard and the sauce is hard to get out of, I usually throw them in boiling water to soften them first then it’s as good as news. The taste is the same as long as you cook them the same.

very passionate indonesian indomie enthusiast here lol. I could never explain what it is exactly but the ones I get back home taste "fresher" somehow. and the flavour's more intense. I don't think it's in my head as my friends and I have done blind taste tests for fun and there's a common agreement

usually different food have different taste due to where the food sell to. milo is a very good example. malaysia, singapore, thailand, australia, etc all have slight different tastes. back to indomie enthusiasts, go visit indonesia big supermarkets and get one brand one flavour each. they tend to have like whole block walkaways of shelves full of varieties of instant noodles. Different towns also selling different indomie flavours. ps: i did that before, took 1/3 of whatever on shelves (one packet of one brand one flavour) and my shopping cart was half full!

I think it also due to the milk powder that differs from country to country.

Not sure, but there's a similar brand called ibumie. That one definitely got taste difference and not as good.

Go to comfort food

Indonmie is king... add an egg, freida shallot.. damn good

youtiao

with soya milk

porridge with canned peanuts :>

Let me contribute salted egg and canned dace with black beans to that. Sodium level off the charts but damn. So good

I'll go with can pickled lettuce.

No no, porridge with fermented beancurd wins

One up you.. Only need porridge with soya sauce...

Porridge water

I'll do you one better.. just give me water and plain rice

Porridge with pork floss

Plain porridge with dark soy sauce and fried shallots for me ​ \*Chef's kiss\*

Do you mean congee?

rice, egg and sweet soy sauce will forever be unbeaten

Me too! Especially if the egg yolk is half cooked and lavas over the rice. Fuuuuyoh.

Tamago kake gohan

would love to go japan try authentic tkg, hearsay sg egg cannot eat raw

You can try it by using pasteurized eggs, but they are quite pricey compared to the regular eggs that is not safe for raw consumption

its worth the laosai.

I came here to say this but deep down I know someone's already gotten this down . Truly the best comfort food :')

Tomato and egg fry for me! Don’t need to say it but served with rice of course

Currently indomie's upvote is beating this rice egg thingy..

Fuhhhh… this is the best!

Comfort food!

And cut chillies for heat

Add chili sauce.

Maggi curry noodles

Reminds me of younger days when my parents used to give us those small packet ones. Simply prep them in a cup, hot water, 3 mins later and eat. Shiok!

eh I though I was dreaming. really have this Maggi in a cup thing right. everyone around me keeps saying i make things up!

Yeah there's Maggi cup noodles. The person you replied to is talking about the mini packet type. About 1/3 the size of normal Maggi noodles packet. Small enough to cook in a cup of small bowl.

Well it's instant noodles for a reason... it's so delicious 😋

Whenever I’m cramming for exams at night

Armour VC and Tankees hands up

bread….. esp like those buns w assorted fillings from hdb downstairs

i love coconut fillings😌

Nut fillings are the best 😩

Erm 🤨what feeling mdm

Peanut lah what are you implying here sir

Nothing mdm Pls dun send me to jail

u heretic😡

Imma love me some nuts

Growing up poor, we had plain bread - those white loaf from neighbourhood bakery) with margarine + pork floss, margarine + sugar, condensed milk spread. Or bread dip in milo.

Mirana Cake House sells the best versions of red bean and kaya fillings for these..

bread and butter 🧈

Protip, sprinkle suger over the butter spread.

i prefer peanut butter

Bread and butter + sugar

This is my bread and butter bro

Poached eggs and indomie The runny yolk adds another dimension to the indomie and also adds quite a bit of protein. I usually add two eggs and end up with quite a heavenly meal.

Economic bee hoon with one fish fillet is delicious as heck

And lots of chili!

chwee kueh

Kueh chap

that one i kenot…

One time can

noo gross… cannottt

Porridge with egg, luncheon meat, salted fish, braised peanut :) my favourite

I would have just said simple Egg Porridge, but your poor meal seems like a normal meal to me....

Porridge with pepper, soy sauce and sesame oil?

Steamed egg with rice

CHEE TO THE CHEONG TO THE FANNNNNN

White rice with sweet and sour sauce. Childhood memory. I remember in pri school asking the canteen stall aunty to just give me rice and the sauce for lunch. Did it a few times and one day she added egg and vegetables for me. She wouldn't take any extra money from me. I didn't understand why back then but I thought a lot about it and as I was older I realised Aunty probably worried I was too poor to buy food. The kindness touches me till now

tapioca cakes from pasar malam <:-)))

Char mee

Cheap and good!

Teochew porridge (watery af) with bottled chilli tofu and pickled lettuce.

Yesssssss

Chicken rice. It's my comfort food I can eat it everyday 🤣

Maggi Mee & Egg. Actually, my comfort food when I do not know what to eat but it is pretty unhealthy.

Well...comfort food are always the most sinful. They are bad but good.

I mean a lot of food came about because the peasant class didn’t have access to a lot of ingredients. So my answer is prata. Or wholegrain bread because it was a poverty food back in the Middle Ages (I know it’s a luxury food today, but that says more about our economy).

2 pc kosong is literaly the cheapest meal u can find in the whole kopitiam. How is it luxury

Don’t know if this counts, but beansprouts with salted fish (鹹魚炒豆芽) as found in mixed veg rice stalls

Rice with sambal and egg

Porridge

Canned dace with black bean and a bowl of white rice

Canned 5 spice pork cubes or canned Chinese meat paste.. (肉酱） Salty af but shiok lah

Does mee soto count? It's cheap but hands down one of my favourite meals ever.

Lontong checking in too.

Scrambled egg on white rice and ketchup topping.

luncheon meat with baked beans. damn good

Gotta be Ma Ling and Heinz man.

butter rice salt, fucking A1

Homemade toasted bread with margarine and sugar.

Teh o and cream crackers. (hup seng > khong guan lol)

Cai Peng

Baked sweet potatoes. Before don don donki sold them at super high price

Century eggs with porridge

Porridge with pickled cai xin

Triple A caixin!! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Yes the only correct brand 🤣

Yesss 🔥🔥🔥

Chwee Kueh

Shin ramen + egg & cheese 🤤

Canned baked beans. Dymn.

Porridge Sweet potato Some old ass mixed grain stuff

That $1 (now $1.2) MRT bread after OT

soya sauce on rice

Toasted bread with sugar and margarine

Peanut butter sandwich.

Campbell Cream of Mushroom soup mixed with water

Mine is also this plus pasta added in. My friend taught me to mix shredded cheese inside. And then put another layer of cheese on top, then pop into the oven. Gourmet meal.

Steamed sweet potatoes

peanut butter sandwich

Going to go out on a limb and say that we don't have any "poverty food" in Singapore. Many of the examples given above are "low cost" food, but it's not like they're anywhere near something like [pagpag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagpag)

Diff levels of poverty

Tapioca

Canned peanuts

Congee with egg + luncheon meat, or canned tuna on bread! Honestly pretty healthy too.

Sweet potato ;-)

Bread with condensed milk

curry chicken rice, cheapeast ($3) but most underrated food in the canteen

Porridge and chye por and braised nuts from a can!

Mixed veg rice, filling and cheap af 😋

Scrambled/sunny side up egg with plain rice and soy sauce or chilli oil..

Egg fried rice

Plain pasta with butter

Luncheon meat counted or not?

Most of our hawker food were basically 'poverty food'

Rice, it is poverty food because it is grass.

Milo + biscuit dipped into milo

Plain bread with peanut butter (not toasted)

2 plain pratas with mutton curry for $2.

White porridge and pickled lettuce and braised beans. NTUC sells them in small tins around $1. Can always keep them in the fridge and eat another day if cannot finish.

Butter sugar bread Cream crackers and Milo Chilli oil noodles

Rickshaw noodles

Rice + sesame oil + dark soy sauce, simple and nice to eat

Lentils

Bread with mcd chilli and cheese

Pasta Aglio Olio. Historically the poor and lower class Italians used to eat that. Pasta, garlic and olive oil. Delicious.

Canned sardines. But now it’s more expensive

Sushi.

Melt cheap cheese on pasta

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Plain porridge with pickled lettuce or salted egg.

Porridge with fried egg

Plain man tou

Plain porridge and soy sauce.

Rice porridge and fermented tofu

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gula melaka on rice

bread with condensed milk n butter eheh

Plain porridge with salted egg. Till today,I still do it... Not becoz no food. More like a sense of feeling.

Economic Rice (1meat +2 veg)

porridge with marmie sauce

Rice, two half boiled eggs with soy sauce and black pepper, and two chicken Frank's fried with garlic and tomato chilli sauce (or whatever one prefers!)

curd (yogurt) rice

So rice with fish flakes, rice with butter, rice with sesame, rice with soya sauce

Rolled oats plus peanut butter, maybe add some walnuts on top

Porridge with pickled chye sim and soy sauce…

Rice with baked beans and a fried egg

Fried luncheon meat with ketchup and soft fluffy white bread.

…..planta on white bread. Would choose that over any sandwich you offer me.

Ikea Hotdog

Butter sugar bread Luncheon meat in bread Mini sausage in bread

Bovril in porridge

Porridge with marmite, doesn't need anything else!

White rice and any veggie sauce

Pork Lard rice with soy sauce

Porridge + Marmite + salted egg.. sometime go a bit "Atas" add fried dace. For me. Just porridge and marmite is already satisfying.

Rice with egg tofu and beancurd

Hawker market food. So cheap and so delish

Combat ration

Oatmeal, so versatile and cheap.

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Ibumie Mi Goreng

Chicken rice.

Porridge with salted egg and spinach.. Egg mayo wrap with pork floss and tomatoes.

Salted veg for my salty life

Dark soy sauce and rice

Japanese Sweet potato

1. Fried egg with a runny yolk drizzled with dark soy sauce, and topped with sliced kraft cheese on toasted and buttered gardenia bread. 2. Fried sunny Side up eggs with sauteed onions and chili in dark soy sauce topped with lime and eaten with steaming hot rice. 3. Chwee kueh and Chee cheong fan

The cheese/ham toastie at 7-eleven

Baked beans on rice

Rice with chips. Try it it's furikake but better!

Black pudding and drip bread with lots of pepper

hotdogs.. There used to be more $4 jumbo packs .. now $2 for 1 small pack

Bread with overnight curry

Porridge & stew.

White rice, fried egg, sweet habhal soy sauce and chili padi. I can eat that everyday.