Thosai, chapati, putu mayam and appam

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If you crave for that yummy Indian dishes there are many tasty yet affordable dishes that you can get for between $3 to $5. The good old roti prata or Indian pancake with vegetable, fish or meat curry gravy, which you can find practically everywhere in Singapore, at hawker centres, food-courts or coffee-shops. Or stand-alone stalls that just sells roti-prata and other Indian foods. Though just like many local snacks, roti-prata can be quite greasy as well.

Chapati
Chappati set with four different dips.
Other common tasty and affordable Indian food is potato filled masala thosai with curry and sourish sauces, dipping or gravies that you can get for $3 or a chapati set that includes two pieces of chapatis and three side dishes plus poppadom, or Indian cracker. If you are looking for a healthier option, chapati will probably be it.

Just like roti-prata, you can find those or chapati at many Indian stalls at hawker centres or food-courts. A plain thosai without fillings cost only between $1.50 to $2.50. You can get plain thosai for less than $2 at Little India and at the busy and famous Maxwell Food Centre.

Little India
Thosai at Little India Tekka Market
Thosai is also spelt as dosai or dosa. So where can you find these delicious inexpensive thosai or dosai? If you are in the CBD area there is an Indian stall at Maxwell Road hawker centre (opposite URA City Gallery, a great free educational attraction which showcases Singapore urban history and concept planning) sells this yummy thosai for only a dollar and fifty cents! Yes only $1.50.

A plain those is simply a fermented rice and lentil paste pan-fried a crepe (yes similar to the French crepe) and garnished with gingerly oil. There is also masala thosai. Even with add-ons such as potatoes and egg, it will cost only three dollars. You can find those or dosai at many Indian stalls. Just head to Little India Tekka market and you will be spoilt for choice.

Putu mayam
Putu mayam
At Changi Airport Terminal 3 food-court situated at basement 3, you can also get thosai set for four dollars. So, before you say good-bye to Singapore, have a quick bite of your favourite Indian dish without breaking a hole in your pocket. And without any doubt you can find lots of roti prata (roti canai), thosai or chapati at many stalls or restaurants in Little India

In the more traditional food places such as at Little India you will find stall helpers bringing tins of dipping or curry gravies and you scoop yourself the gravies or dipping that you desired.

Appam
Appam at T3 food-court
Putu mayam is rice flour white stringy pancake dipped in grated pandan flavoured coconut and orange or reddish sugary gula Melaka or palm sugar as a sweetener. Nice. And it only costs a dollar a piece! A two-piece can make a yummy filling snacks or brekky. Well, actually a piece is enough as most will have putu mayam as a snack, not a meal, just like the crispy appam. Yummy.

Then there is the crispy appam. Appam is a fermented mixture of rice and coconut milk which is pan-fried in a special hopper which gives it a bowl shape. You dip the crispy dough into the grated coconut or the sweet orangey sugary dipping. Where can you get appam? At Terminal 3 basement at kopitiam food court. Yes, Changi Airport is amazing indeed.
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