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| Course | Main course or snack |
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| Place of origin | Singapore[1][2] |
| Serving temperature | warm |
| Main ingredients | bread, egg, onions, meat or fish |
Roti john is an omelette sandwich which originated in Singapore in the 1960s or 1970s. It has since become a popular street food dish in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.[2][3][4][5][6]
Roti comes from an Indian term for a round flatbread, used more generically to describe a bread sandwich of any shape.[2][3][4] The origin of "John" within the name of the dish has not been definitively proven, but may derive from British use of the first name John to address any male person, especially when that person's first name is unknown, difficult to remember or difficult to pronounce, thus a name that may have been used by British armed forces members to address native vendors inBritish Malaya or vice versa.[2][3] Oral sources have claimed that the dish and name originated with aMalay cook who lived in Singapore during the early 1970s.[7] In 1976 a stall in theTaman Serasi hawker centre began serving the dish, after obtaining the recipe from another hawker. The stall's popularity led its version to became widely associated with the dish. It moved toSerangoon Garden Market in 2001.[2]
The sandwich is a baguette-style bread loaf with filling of egg, onion and a protein, commonly minced chicken, mutton or sardines. It may be eaten with a condiment such as chilli sauce.
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