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This Instagram Account Takes Hawker Centre Food & Make Them Look Like Michelin-Star Food

2017-08-31 , 7:09 pm

If I ask you to pay $20 for a chicken rice dish that you could get for $4 elsewhere, what would you do?

A normal person would have screamed at me, “You siao ah?”

But wait till you see this.

Chicken rice very nice Dabao from Alexandra Village Hawker Centre Styled by Vannese Shot by @casualmedia.co • • • #sgfood #dabaogram #food #foodphotography #foodstyling #foodsg #sghawker #foodofinstagram #dabao #asianfood #soulfood #foodporn #singaporefood #hawkercentrefood #foodrestyling #restylingfood #foodrestyle #singaporefood #foodinsta #sghawker #hawkers #hawkerfood #sedap #yummy #alexandrafoodvillage #alexandravillage #chickenrice

A post shared by Dabaogram (@dabaogram) on Aug 13, 2017 at 8:07pm PDT

And that’s not even the only one. @dabaogram created not one, but many more of these masterpieces, all using basic hawker fare as the base.

From Char Kuay Teow…

To roasted pork belly skin…

To old fare Roti Prata…

Curry Dab Dabao from Telok Blangah Crescent Market & Food Centre Styled by @nicholastsj Shot by @casualmedia.co • • • #sgfood #dabaogram #food #foodphotography #foodstyling #foodsg #sghawker #foodofinstagram #dabao #asianfood #soulfood #foodporn #singaporefood #hawkercentrefood #foodrestyling #restylingfood #foodrestyle #singaporefood #foodinsta #sghawker #hawkers #hawkerfood #sedap #yummy #telokblangah #telokblangahcrescent #prata #curry #currygoodness

A post shared by Dabaogram (@dabaogram) on Aug 29, 2017 at 10:00pm PDT

To Ngoh Hiang. Like wow.

And economical sushi. Which part of this looks economical?!

Who’s behind it?

Dabaogram was created by a quartet – Daren, Josh, Brian and a mystery chef known only as Vanesse.

They specialise in ‘dabaoing’ normal hawker centre fare like Chicken Rice and Roti Prata. Then, they turn them into something even Gordon Ramsay will approve. Visual wise anyway.

Visual wise anyway.

Pretty sure the taste is still at hawker centre level.

The team crafts every dish carefully, rearranges it in a way that gets your palate wet and then photographs it.

That’s how we get all the images and videos that get the Foodie in you to have a practical orgasm.

Thoughts

Honestly? If you served me a dish with that level of intricacy and visual, I would have been fooled. Like totally.

Guess that’s why you really cannot judge a book by its cover, huh?

Actually, what if fancy restaurants are using the same ploy?

Just kidding. Or am I? *smirks*

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