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A hawker centre (Chinese: 小贩中心), or cooked food centre (Chinese: 熟食中心), is an often open-air complex commonly found in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They are intended to provide a more sanitary alternative to mobile hawker carts and contain many stalls that sell different varieties of affordable meals.
Amoy Street Food Centre was announced together with four other hawker centres to be constructed in the Central Business District, aimed at serving office workers and relocating street hawkers. On behalf of the Ministry of Environment , construction of 144 stalls by the Housing and Development Board began in 1982 at a cost of S$ 5.83 million.
Typical shopping center food court vendor layout at Centre Eaton in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Pirate Champ's Cafe food court at Port Charlotte High School. A food court (in Asia-Pacific also called food hall or hawker centre) [1] is generally an indoor plaza or common area within a facility that is contiguous with the counters of multiple food vendors and provides a common area for self-serve ...
Maxwell Food Centre is a hawker centre located in Tanjong Pagar, at the junction of Maxwell Road and South Bridge Road. [1] The hawker centre is part of the Downtown Core planning area. Maxwell is one of the most popular hawker centres in Singapore, featuring 103 hawkers selling a wide variety of local and international cuisines. [ 2 ]
Newton Food Centre is a hawker centre in Newton, at the intersection of Newton Circus and Clemenceau Avenue North. The food centre was promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) as a tourist attraction for sampling Singaporean cuisine. It was first opened in 1971 and it closed down in 2005 as the government wanted to revamp the food centre. [1]
Wendy's introduced its spicy chicken sandwich in 1995, becoming one of the earliest fast-food brands to bring heat to the mainstream chicken sandwich market.
The hawker centre was placed on the Bukit Timah Heritage Trail by the National Heritage Board in July 2007. [11] It underwent a six-week facelift beginning in February 2008. [12] In July 2013, Joe Biden visited the centre with his son-in-law Howard Krein while on his first official visit to Singapore as the Vice President of the United States. [13]
Formerly known as Whampoa Market and Food Centre, the hawker centre was opened 1973, replacing Rayman Market, a municipal market that serviced the former housing estate, Rayman Estate. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The food centre went under renovation in 2016, [ 3 ] an was upgraded in 2007, being renamed as the Whampoa Makan Place . [ 1 ]