This hawker-style Singaporean dish earned its name because of the similarity between the peanut sauce used in it and satay peanut sauce. Satay bee hoon consists of blanched bee hoon noodles (rice vermicelli) served with a sweet, salty, and spicy peanut sauce.
A paste based on roasted and ground peanuts is combined with a mixture of ingredients such as dried chilis, spices, garlic, shallots, lemongrass, candlenuts, galangal, tamarind juice, and shrimp paste, and the combination is then simmered to make the sauce.