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The Chinese, being the main racial group in Singapore, make up the major eating trend on the island. Chinese dishes are famous for their flavour, colour and aroma. In the case here, they are further enhanced with a tinge of tropical speciality.
As we all know, the main diet for Chinese is rice. Though it may not be the case in the heavily westernised Singapore, the Hainanese chicken rice thrives as one of the most popular Chinese foods.
Just have a glance around Singapore and your major discovery in numerous hawker centres will be that of chicken-flavoured rice topped with white slices of boned chicken meat.
The aroma will persistently nag at your mind until you try the mouth-watering dish. Together with the gravy of a well-seasoned chicken broth, the scrumptious meal is indeed irresistible in front of a empty stomach. Don't panic if you cannot get the chance to enjoy the prestige. We have here, being especially kind, attached a menu for home-made chicken rice. Bon appetit!
More importantly, the Hainanese chicken rice, which had obviously originated from the Hainan province in China, is not simply a Chinese specialty. Its presence in all the hawker centres that dotted the island proved its ability to mingle all the races in Singapore with triumph. Day in day out it is eaten by thousands of Singaporeans. Food has always been a shared subject willingly talked of with pride, and amongst them, arise the gem -- Chicken Rice.
Malays had intercepted their own style of cooking with that of chicken rice. Indian chefs, too had made good use of them to appraise the food, as we can sense its presence in some of the Indian delicacies. It is not for nothing that it had been named as the most delicious and popular food in the Singapore Food Festival in 1995, and it is not an exaggeration to state that it has ravished racial harmony on the community by creating a common gastronomical link amongst the different ethnic groups in Singapore.
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