what's the ingredients

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1) what's the ingredients for this dish?
2) what are the ingredients for this dish?

We normally would choose the second sentence as the right one. But I do hear many time native English say the first sentence?
Is the first one just colloquially acceptable?
 
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Why didn't you capitalise 1 and 2?

#1 is only acceptable colloquially.

But I [STRIKE]do hear many time native English[/STRIKE] often hear native English-speakers say the first sentence. ​[It's not a question]
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