Food Calories
Drinks are the easiest 300 calories you will never notice. Teh tarik, Thai iced tea, ca phe sua da, Hong Kong milk tea, es teler: all of them are sugar and condensed milk delivery systems that do nothing for your hunger. You drink them, you are still hungry, you just spent a roti canai worth of calories.
Switching to unsweetened drinks was genuinely the single easiest change I made in my whole 42kg loss. Every drink below is ranked so you can see exactly what your daily order costs you per month.
There are 45 dishes ranked on this page. The lightest is Kopi O at 60 kcal per 1 glass, the heaviest is Bubble Tea (Pearl Milk Tea) at 380 kcal per 1 medium (500ml), and the average lands around 179 calories a serving. 40 of them come in under 300 calories.
The spread here is narrower than most categories, about 320 calories between the lightest and the heaviest. That means portion size and what you order alongside it matter more than which dish you pick.
Calorie and macro figures are estimates for a typical street stall, hawker or restaurant serving. Actual numbers vary by stall, recipe and portion size. Use them as a guide, not gospel.
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