Bukit Timah Market & Hawker Centre
With only 84 stalls on the second floor, Bukit Timah Market & Food Centre should count as one of the island's smaller hawker centers. Its location in Clementi puts it far from Singapore's main tourist action, too - the nearest MRT station is a good fifteen-minute walk away.
The famous stalls in Bukit Timah make it worth a detour, though: you can tell which ones are the best by the long lines and the press clippings stuck on their glass windows. To make the long trip worth it, visit nearby malls Bukit Timah Plaza and Bukit Timah Shopping Centre afterward.
ADDRESS:51 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore 588215
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Tiong Bahru Food Market & Hawker Centre
The public housing around Tiong Bahru Food Market & Hawker Centre has managed to escape the wrecker's ball, helped no doubt by the apartment blocks' sleek, Art Moderne architecture. The Singapore government smartly decided to adapt the design of Tiong Bahru Market to the surrounding estate when it was rebuilt in 2004.
The Market is now a three-story structure with a wet market on the first floor and a parking lot on the third - the second-floor hawker center houses about 83 hawker stalls and seats 1,400 diners at any given time. After dining at the Market, take a walking tour of Tiong Bahru that goes deep into the sleepy, laid-back neighborhood and its hipster-friendly shops.
ADDRESS:30 Seng Poh Rd, Singapore 168898