If you are looking for the best Lontong in Singapore, you should visit this place.The lontong (rice cake) is served with boiled egg and fried soya beancurd and some choice of delicious gulai (curry-like).It is not a restaurant, just a small hawker but the food definitely pack some real Padang taste
An experience in itself. The market is bustling with cheerful energy. So many unusual vegetables so many types of spices. So many stalls selling fish, mutton, beef, pork ...
It used to be the very best place for south indian . However the various months and year long closures for renovations of Tekka Market caused much disruption resulting in vendors and customers seeking various locations in the housing estates.
With the drop in custom and volume from the locals, most of the custom is from the foreign Indian workers , there is a big shift in the proprietorships of the stalls .
There are still some original stall holders such as the pisang goreng, prata and nasi brani.
However, the Indians stall holders also have their patrons.
Tekka Market has been around for a long time. This is a large place that houses a wet market in the basement, a hawker centre on the ground floor, and shops selling mostly clothes on the first floor.
This is the hawker centre where you can find a great variety of indian food.
There's also a good variety of local fare like economic bee hoon, fishball noodles, porridge, laksa, etc.
There used to be some interesting stalls on the first floor; I remember a couple of shops selling antique pipes, dacing, abacus and such. Today most of the shops sell clothes. Every other shop has an in-house tailor.
It's a great place to visit if you're around the area. This is unlike the usual hawker centres in most housing estate. More like the one in Chinatown. Full of activity, sights and smells. Be advised though, it's crowded.
Love it to the max, good food so many choices and all authentic cooking methods, Tosai Naan Vadai Nasi briyani and the Teh halia Teh Yaris is super duper marvelous taste, we love all of the food ! One thing that the price is different from stall to stall. The naan you must try as it’s the traditional way of baking it ! Go go go !
There's so much variety here from raw meats to hard to find food ingredients and also the cooked foods at the Hawker Centre with Apams (any stall is just as good and the recent I tried was Sky Lab) to artisan coffee from Generations! Drop by here on a weekday morning or afternoon so as to avoid the crowd on weekends. You'll thanked yourself for the special treat without fretting over fighting for seats during the weekends.
This is a heaven for Indian food (obviously), where you can take your picks of South & Indian foods, and many briyani stalls hustling for your patronage as you walk past. There are also decent Chinese hawker food here, as well as a Sri Lankan food stall (the jackfruit curry available only on Saturdays is fantastic) with a snaking queue during lunch time. The wet market has a wide variety of seafood that you don't commonly find in the supermarkets, including baby sharks (see photo). Lemons and tomatoes are cheaper here compared to NTUC. Otherwise the vegetable and fruit prices are mostly similar.
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