Chee Cheong Fun 
From Singapore Hotels & Singapore Lifestyle
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Chee Cheong Fun are actually rice sheets. Rice flour are mixed with water to form a slightly viscous mixture. This mixture is poured onto a specially-made flat pan and then steamed to become rice sheets.In Singapore, Singaporeans have it for breakfast usually. It is one of the variants of food made from rice flour in Singapore. The other variant is the Chwee Kueh.
Though usually eaten plain, these rice sheets also come with variety of food items wrapped with it. Traditionally these are savoury ingredients like Shrimp or char siew. More recently, fruits such as bananas, durians and strawberries and ingredients like Unagi have also been added.
Good Chee Cheong Fun is one where the rice sheet is thin. So thin that when it is used to wrapped food item, you can see the color throught the rice sheets, making it a great visual treat. But such Chee Cheong Fun that has food item wrapped with it can only be found in some eating places.
The commonly found Chee Cheong Fun that is, as mentioned before a popular Singapore breakfast choice is one where a generous amount of sweet sauce, sesame oil and sesame seed is added to it. For those who want to try this type of plain Chee Cheong Fun, please add chilli at your own risk. Because different chilli sauce is served depending on the hawkers selling it. A good chilli sauce to go with Chee Cheong Fun is one where small shrimps (hae bee) are added and fried with it. This type of chilli sauce, together with the three toppings mentioned above would make the Chee Cheong Fun perk up your morning.
