Fish Head Curry appears as a signature dish in 1 Singapore cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Fish head curry · Singapore
Singaporean South Indian curry of a whole snapper or grouper head simmered in a spice-and-tamarind broth with okra, aubergine and tomato. A Sunday lunch institution invented in 1949 Singapore.
Fish head curry was invented in 1949 in Singapore by M.J. Gomez, an Indian immigrant chef from Kerala, who adapted his native Keralan fish-head preparation for Chinese customers in the Race Course Road area. The dish became uniquely Singaporean: South Indian spice, Chinese love of the head, Malay tamarind. Samy's Curry and Banana Leaf Apolo are the canonical operators. Today it is a Sunday-lunch institution across the city.
Where to eat in Singapore:
- Samy's Curry
- Casuarina Curry
- Tekka Centre