List of Singaporean inventions and discoveries

This is a list of Singaporean inventions and discoveries.

Food, food techniques and cuisine

See also: List of Singaporean dishes and Singaporean cuisine

Chilli crab

Kaya toast

Milo dinosaur

Food

• Bak chor mee, which translates to minced meat noodles, is a Singaporean noodle dish common in hawker centres. The noodles are tossed in vinegar, minced meat, pork slices, pork liver, stewed sliced mushrooms, meat balls and bits of deep-fried lard. The dish can be categorised into two variants: a dry version and a soup version. Most dry versions come with slices of stewed mushroom, minced pork, slices of lean pork and sometimes fried anchovies, atop noodles tossed in a chilli-vinegar sauce, while soup versions include a pork flavoured broth.^[1]
• Chilli crab is considered one of Singapore's national dishes, it was invented in 1956 by a Singaporean couple and was originally sold from a push cart.^[2] In 1963, another famous chef adapted the dish into a sourer version which became the common version seen in Singapore.^[3]
• Hainanese chicken rice, also considered one of Singapore's national dishes. It was first invented by Hainanese immigrants in Singapore during the 1920s.^[4][5][6]
• Kaya toast is a well known Singaporean snack commonly eaten during breakfast or afternoon tea.^[7]
• Katong laksa is a Singaporean variant of the spicy noodle soup laksa inspired by people who live in the precinct of Katong located in eastern Singapore.^[8]

Drink

• Kopi is a type of traditional coffee originating from Singapore. Invented in the early 20th century at the now Downtown Core such as Chinatown, it is a highly caffeinated black coffee served with condensed milk. It usually goes along with kaya toast, another Singaporean dish.There are more than one type of kopi, there is also kopi o, which means that there is no milk added and also kopi c, which adds evaporated milk. These are the words that local singaporeans use to oder kopi in kopitiams around singapore.^[9][10][11]
• The Singapore Sling is a gin-based sling cocktail invented in 1915 by Singaporean bartender Ngiam Tong Boon at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore.^[12][13][14]
• Milo dinosaur is a Singaporean chocolate malt–based beverage most commonly found in hawker centres.^[15]

Science and technology

Audio technology

• Sound Blaster, invented by Sim Wong Hoo and his company Creative Technology (known as Creative Labs in the United States).^[16]

Medicinal technology

• The ARCT-021 vaccine for COVID-19, developed by Singaporean scientists at the Duke–NUS Medical School.^[17][18]

Visual technology

• Virtual museums were first invented by Lin Hsin Hsin at the Lin Hsin Hsin Art Museum in 1994. At the time, its technology was considered the first of its kind during the initial expansion of the World Wide Web.^[19][20]

Agricultural

Singapore is a land-scarce country, and so, it is dependent on imports. Vertical farming platforms hopes to improve Singapore's situation. ^[21]

See also

• Culture of Singapore
• History of typography in East Asia
• List of Chinese discoveries
• List of Chinese inventions
• List of Japanese inventions and discoveries
• List of Korean inventions and discoveries
• List of Taiwanese inventions and discoveries
• List of Vietnamese inventions and discoveries

References

1. Lam Min Lee (7 June 2017). "Singapore's bak chor mee tops world street food list". Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
2. "40 good years dishing up chilli crabs". The Straits Times. 23 June 1996. p. 5. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
3. "Chilli Crab". www.visitsingapore.com. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
4. "Dipping sauce and a little controversy: who knew chicken rice had such 'wow' factor". SBS. 21 January 2019. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
5. Benton, G. A. "10 Best Restaurants of 2019: #4 Service Bar". Columbus Monthly. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
6. "A Brief History of Hainanese Chicken Rice, Singapore's National Dish". The Culture Trip. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
7. "A toast to Singapore's traditional breakfast". National Geographic. 5 April 2019. Archived from the original on 17 July 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
8. "A taste of Katong beyond laksa".
9. Lai, Ah Eng (2015). "The Kopitiam in Singapore: An Evolving Story about Cultural Diversity and Cultural Politics". Food, Foodways and Foodscapes: 103–132. doi:10.1142/9789814641234_0006. ISBN 978-981-4641-21-0.
10. "Order kopi like a local". www.visitsingapore.com. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
11. The Straits, Times (2007). "Kopi connection". The Straits Times.
12. The Daily Telegraph, Peterborough: Sling shot AVA GARDNER'S knickers are still missing, 13 April 1991
13. OED sling, n.5
14. Campbell, Colin (12 December 1982). "Singapore Journal; Back to Somerset Maugham and Life's Seamy Side". The New York Times. Singapore. Archived from the original on 9 November 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
15. Luo, Serene (21 August 2006). "RACK YOUR BRAINS". The Straits Times. [...] milo-dinosaur, milo-godzilla, ta-chiu, and I have drunk and loved them all.
16. "75 Power Players: Back at the Lab...". Next Generation (11). Imagine Media: 73. November 1995.
17. "Singapore's co-developed vaccine candidate is in 'good shape' for delivery in 2021". CNBC. 27 November 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
18. Tanscience, Audrey (11 November 2020). "Vaccine by Singapore scientists may be available early next year". The Straits Times. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
19. "Lin Hsin Hsin". Singapore Infopedia, National Library Board, Singapore. 2015. Archived from the original on 8 June 2020.
20. Lin, Hsin Hsin. "Speaker Biographies, Museums and the Web: An International Conference". Los Angeles, California, March 16–19, 1997. Archived from the original on 27 May 2011.
21. "Vertical Farming: Singapore's Solution to Feed the Local Urban Population". The Permaculture Research Institute. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2022.