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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.
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]
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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 ]
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 ]