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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 ]
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.
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 ...
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]
In 1972, the market was converted into a hawker centre. [7] However, the historical and architectural value of Telok Ayer Marker was recognised, and it was gazetted as a national monument on 28 June 1973. [16] In 1986, the market was closed to allow construction of a new Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line which runs
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]
1968: 140 hawkers at the Beauty World Market and Bukit Timah Village market registered to Hawkers Department of Ministry of the Environment to move to a new wet market and hawker centre called Bukit Timah Food Centre with more hygienic environment. It was located beside the old Bukit Timah Market and it still exists on the present day. [14]