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If you'd like to try the local favorites but don't want to deal with hawker food, then Chatterbox is the place for you. Their Hainanese chicken rice is highly acclaimed, though the famous chef behind the recipe left this past year. Other dishes -- like nasi lemak, laksa, and carrot cake -- are as close to the street as you can get. For a quick and tasty snack, order tahu goreng, deep-fried tofu in peanut chili sauce. This is also a good place to experiment with some of those really weird local drinks. Chin chow is the dark brown grass jelly drink; chendol is green jelly, red beans, palm sugar, and coconut milk; and bandung is pink rose syrup milk with jelly. For dessert, order the ever-favorite sago pudding, made from the hearts of the sago palm. This informal and lively coffee shop dishes out room service for the Mandarin Hotel and is open 24 hours a day.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Singapore & Malaysia, 6th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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