Describe your neighbourhood hawkers' centre

The Hawkers’ Centre

Singaporeans have one passion which is common to all the ethnic groups here: eating. Perhaps because of our lifestyle, not everyone cooks at home all the time. Because of this, the food trade is doing a roaring business. Also as Singaporeans are generally an economical lot, it is not to the restaurants that we usually go to fill our stomachs, but to hawkers centres. To suit our convenience, HDB has seen to it that there are hawkers’ centres in every estate.

Just below my flat, barely ten metres away is the Toa Payoh Lorong 8 hawkers centre. Actually it shares the same roof as the market. The hawkers’ centre itself comprises about twenty stalls selling a variety of food. As in everything else in Singapore, the food stalls cater to all the races. In the centre of the hawkers’ centre are all the chairs and tables. To prevent people from moving the chairs and tables about, the furniture are fixed to the floor. They are not very comfortable, but then we usually sit there for only short periods of time.

The variety of food is truly mouth watering and since I have no religious restrictions about food, I take full advantage and patronize all the stalls. The busiest stall in the centre is the roti prata stall. The enterprising hawker sells roti prata in the morning, for breakfast, takes a break in the afternoon and sells murtabak in the evenings. I am not surprised that the stall is so popular, as both his roti pratas and murtabaks taste fantastic.

Another popular stall is the wanton noodles stall. The stallholder has a keen sense of humour and calls his food ‘One Ton Mee’.

All the stalls claim that they have not increased prices following the implementation of GST — and indeed they have not. However some of the more crafty ones do something else; they decrease the amount of the food! Naturally we are wise to them and I am sure they are beginning to notice that their patrons are greatly reduced in number.

Having a hawkers’ centre near my home is a great blessing indeed. Food is always available and in such great varietytoo. How wonderful!

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