Satay bee hoon

This hawker-style Singaporean dish earned its name because of the similarity between the peanut sauce used in it and satay peanut sauce. Satay bee hoon consists of blanched bee hoon noodles (rice vermicelli) served with a sweet, salty, and spicy peanut sauce. A paste based on roasted and ground peanuts is combined with a mixture of ingredients such as dried chilis, spices, garlic, shallots, lemongrass, candlenuts, galangal, tamarind juice, and shrimp paste, and the combination is then simmered to make the sauce. Typical accompaniments to this dish include water spinach (kang kong), fried beancurd puffs (tau pok), prawns, shelled cockles, strips of cuttlefish, and slices of pork. Although the exact origins of the dish are unknown, satay bee hoon might’ve been introduced to Singapore by Teochew immigrants.