10 Best Porridge in Singapore

Warm, restorative and endlessly comforting, a good bowl of porridge in Singapore can mean smooth Cantonese congee, watery Teochew muay with a table of side dishes, or a claypot of frog served with plain rice porridge on the side. This guide gathers ten established hawker stalls and shops, from century-egg-and-pork bowls to Teochew fish porridge and late-night supper spots, each cross-checked against multiple independent sources.

Zhen Zhen Porridge is a long-running stall in Maxwell Food Centre serving Cantonese-style congee cooked down until the rice all but dissolves into a smooth, savoury bowl. Regulars order it with combinations of sliced fish, minced pork, century egg and pork balls, finished with spring onion, ginger and a scatter of fried shallots. It keeps morning-to-early-afternoon hours and often draws a queue, so it is best treated as a breakfast or early-lunch stop.

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Mui Kee traces its roots to a Mong Kok congee stall in Hong Kong and runs its only overseas kitchens in Singapore, at Shaw Centre in Orchard and Shaw Plaza in Balestier. The house style is classic Cantonese sang gun, or raw-boiled congee, ladled piping hot over ingredients such as sliced fish, pork liver, minced beef or century egg so they just cook through. Unlike a hawker stall it is a sit-down restaurant, making it an easy option for a comfortable congee meal in town.

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Ah Chiang's is a Tiong Bahru institution that has cooked Cantonese-style porridge over charcoal for decades, a method it still uses in place of a gas stove. The congee is smooth and thick, and popular bowls pair it with sliced fish, minced pork, pork balls, century egg or a raw egg stirred in at the table, often with youtiao on the side. It sits in the old Tiong Bahru estate and keeps long daily hours from early morning.

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Botak is a family-run operation specialising in Cantonese-style congee, with its main stall at the hawker centre in Our Tampines Hub and further outlets in the Punggol and Bedok areas. The kitchen is known for generous, comforting bowls built around century egg with lean pork and minced-pork versions, and diners can add extras such as a raw egg or crisp youtiao. It is an affordable heartland spot that keeps daytime-to-evening hours.

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Sin Heng Kee is a well-known coffeeshop porridge specialist in Hougang, with a second outlet in Yishun, prized for a thick, smooth congee boiled down over hours. Beyond the century-egg-and-pork and mixed-pork bowls, it is also known for its frog porridge, in which wok-fried frog is served with the plain congee on the side. It is a sit-down heartland spot suited to a hearty, comforting meal.

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Chai Chee Pork Porridge is a supper favourite in the east, with stalls around the Bedok 85 (Fengshan) hawker centre and Tampines, cooking a silky, thick pork congee in the Cantonese mould. The draw is springy handmade pork meatballs and sliced pork, and one of its stalls trades late into the night, making it a classic after-hours porridge stop. Expect to take a queue number at peak times.

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Song Kee serves Teochew-style fish porridge at Newton Food Centre, where whole rice grains sit in a light, clear broth rather than being boiled into the thick Cantonese style. Bowls come loaded with fresh, deboned fish slices whose natural sweetness carries the broth, and the stall also does a fish-head bee hoon. It is recognised in the Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand selection.

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Ann Hoo is a long-standing Teochew porridge stall at Cheng San Market in Ang Mo Kio, serving the plain, watery rice porridge (muay) that is meant to be a canvas for an array of side dishes. Its spread runs to steamed fish, homemade fish cake, braised pork in soy sauce, salted vegetables, omelette and preserved-vegetable dishes, eaten with a dab of the stall's chilli and fermented bean sauce. This is Teochew porridge in its traditional, communal form rather than a single loaded bowl.

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Eminent Frog Porridge is one of Geylang's best-known frog porridge specialists, serving plain smooth congee alongside claypot frog cooked in styles such as gong bao with dried chilli, or with ginger and spring onion. A late-night operation that trades into the small hours, it has long been a supper destination and is recognised in the Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand selection. The frog is ordered separately and eaten with the porridge on the side.

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Redhill Pork Porridge is a long-running stall at Redhill Food Centre serving a smooth, comforting pork congee, and it is recognised in the Michelin Guide's Bib Gourmand selection. Bowls typically come with sliced pork, pork balls and pig's liver in a silky base finished with spring onion and fried shallots; it keeps morning hours and tends to sell out. Note that a separate, similarly named stall now also operates in the same food centre, so look out for the original Michelin-listed one.

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