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Plus Singapore-style recipe you can make at home Singapore Food & Culture A classic bowl of lontong sayur lodeh — comforting, filling, and unmistakably Singaporean. Lontong is a beloved traditional Malay dish in Singapore — rich, comforting, and versatile enough for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. At its heart, it's a simple combination of compressed rice cakes served in a fragrant, coconut-based vegetable curry known as sayur lodeh or sayur lemak . What Goes Into a Bowl of Lontong? The star of the dish is the lontong itself — rice compressed into a firm cake, traditionally cooked inside a banana-leaf-lined cylindrical mould. This gives the rice its characteristic roundish shape, unlike the square ketupat you might find with satay. These days, pre-cooked lontong is readily available at supermarkets and sundry shops. The gravy is a mild, creamy coconut curry loaded with vegetables: Cabbage (in generous amounts) ...