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Menu highlights
Specials
White Debal
Chicken and housemade achar cooked in rempah, vinegar, and mustard seed
Vindaloo
Mildly spicy bone-in pork chop curry
Dry Mutton Curry
Dry mutton curry prepared Indian style
Eurasian Christmas Pie
Chicken, pork balls, pork sausages, carrots, potatoes cooked with mixed spices, topped with puff pastry
Feng
Assortment of pig's offal cooked in a blend of 18 spices
Meat
Babi Assam
Belly pork braised slowly with cinnamon and star anise in a tamarind gravy til tender then fried before serving
Beef Cheek Rendang
Beef cheeks braised til tender in a rich and aromatic gravy made with 15 different herbs and spices
Hati Baby Bungkus (4 pieces)
Minced pork and liver marinated and wrapped in caul fat then grilled and served with pickled mustard leaves
Chicken
Ayam Goreng
Deep fried chicken marinated with galanghal, shallots and other dried spices
Ayam Lemak Chilli Padi
A hot and rich dish flavoured with fragrant ginger, bird's eye chillies and 7 other spices cooked in coconut milk
Curry Capitang
Eurasian chicken dish cooked in a fiery paste of dried chillies, shallots and lemongrass
Seafood
Seafood Otah
Squid, mackarel and prawns marinated in a rich, aromatic spixe mix with coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaf and steamed
Singgang
Earasian dish of deboned wolf herring cooked in a non spicy paste
Sambal Stingray
Granddad's sambal with stingraygrilled in banana leaf
Prawn Sambal with Petai
A family recipe of fragrant and piquant sambal with prawns and royal beans
Desserts
Double-boiled White Fungus with Papaya
Kueh Bengkah with Ice Cream
Pulot Hitam with Dried Longan
More about the restaurant: Folklore
Singapore’s Folklore offers an unbridled experience to food lovers of all stripes. Showcasing Singapore heritage cuisine, this stylish restaurant offers guests a dining experience that does not disappoint. Folklore pays homage to the flavours that have intertwined through the bygone years. Heirloom dishes reflective of the major racial cuisines of Singapore are made from scratch, without shortcut or compromise, using authentic – largely manual – kitchen methods.
Frequently asked questions
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Folklore is about storytelling and it tells the story of Singapore, a multi-ethnic nation. The food is representative of the city’s diversity, its openness and its relationship to the past. Folklore is a restaurant for Singaporeans, for travellers and for anyone willing to try something new. Folklore offers seasonal menus with a bounty of heritage flavours. Decide from delectable options like sambal buah keluak fried rice, hati babi bungkus (traditional Peranakan meatballs), pork leg with salted vegetables, or singgang, a special Eurasian seafood dish. There’s a whole lot more to try at Singapore’s Folklore restaurant so reserve ahead to avoid disappointment.