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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 ]
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.
The area is mainly a housing estate consisting many blocks of the Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats, along with facilities such as a wet market and a hawker centre, named the Whampoa Makan Place. The Whampoa hawker centre has two food markets, one a night market and the other a day market. There is also a community club, a mosque, a ...
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 ...
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The stall itself is fairly typical for those in Singaporean hawker centres, featuring a neon sign and rows of hanging cooked chickens. [2] Chan later opened a restaurant at 78 Smith Street named Hawker Chan Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodle .
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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 ...