Murtabak appears as a signature dish in 1 Singapore cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Murtabak · Singapore
A thin roti prata dough pancake stuffed with spiced minced mutton or chicken, onion and egg, pan-fried until lacquered and folded into a square. Eaten with curry gravy on the side.
Murtabak entered Singapore through Yemeni Hadhrami and Indian-Muslim traders along the spice routes; the dish settled into the city's Muslim mamak coffee shops in the early 20th century. Zam Zam Restaurant on North Bridge Road, founded 1908 opposite Sultan Mosque, is widely cited as the canonical Singapore murtabak shop; a second wave of Malaysian-Singapore murtabak houses followed in Kampong Gelam.
Where to eat in Singapore:
- Zam Zam Restaurant