Best Hawker Center food in Singapore: what to eat in Amoy Street Food Center

As I mention in my main post about Singapore, the unity of the city revolts around food, and this is nowhere clearer than in hawker centers. Hawker centers are food courts where hundreds of street food vendors cook and sell their signature dishes in rows of stalls around public tables. People line up to buy their favourite food (at very low prices) and eat together at the tables. Chinese, Malay, Indian and Indonesian cuisine (among others) – hundreds of different delicious dishes waiting for you IN THE SAME PLACE? In this post I will focus on what to eat in Amoy Street Food Center, located in CBD.

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Amoy Food Center

Amoy Street Food Center is located in CBD, and it has quite a different feel to other hawker centers in this list. While Maxwell, People’s Park and Chinatown Complex are vibrant in a loud, festive way, Amoy Food Center is much quieter, even when its full. That is because it is mostly aimed at business people that work in the surrounding offices, but the food is still delicious! However, this means you should aim to visit Amoy Street Food Center at lunchtime (ideally before to not coincide with every single working person in the area). If there is a food theme in this hawker center I did not pick it up, but let me know in the comments below!

What to eat in Amoy Street Food Center

Curry puffs

Curry puffs are the perfect meal on the run. This beautiful flaky pastries filled with curry or other goodies like black pepper stew or sardines can be eaten without cutlery and in a couple of bites, but will keep you going for a while. The best ones at Amoy Food Center are at J2 Famous Crispy Curry Puff (#01-21).

Fish soup

Fish ball noodle soup is a popular comfort food in Singapore, but more so in Ah Ter Teochew Fish Ball Noodles (#01-14) popularized in the 1950s but that became even more famous when the hawker’s handsome son took over. Regardless of how handsome the cook is, the fish ball soup is still delicious! That being said, the longest cues for fish soup are found at Han Kee Fish Soup (#02-129), which serves a heartwarming portion of clean and flavourful soup with noodles and flaky fish slices. You also can go for fish porridge at Piao Ji Fish Porridge (#02-100).

Beef noodles

The sweet couple behind Hong Kee Beef Noodle (#01-42) have perfected this Hainanese beef noodle dish both in its soup and dry versions with slices of beef and soft kway teow noodles. Another option is the delicious Beef Hor Fun at Good Day (#01-25), Quan Ji (#01-56/57) or Pepper Bowl (#02-102). Seriously Hor Fun has stolen my heart.

Beef Hor Fun @Good Day

Kaya toast & coffee

For workers that have to either have a quick breakfast before work or a coffee break, their best options are kaya toast with coffee at Ah Seng (Hai Nam) Coffee (#02-95) and just coffee at Coffee Break (#02-78) and Mad Roaster (#02-17). Even if you’re visiting as a tourist, you still should get your caffeine dose in one of these places.

Others

Kind of Hong Kong version of ramen at A Noddle Story (#01-39), rice dumplings at Hoo Kee Bak Zhang (#01-18) and char kway teow at Amoy Street Fried Kway Teow (#01-01).

Where to stay in Singapore

Singapore is an expensive city for the standards of Southeast Asia, so you may need a little extra planning when choosing your accommodation if you’re on a budget. However, you can find all kinds of accommodations in the city, so choose depending on your main interests based on the area. Check out this post where I give you recommendations based on the type of trip you’re looking for and the areas in Singapore:

Where to stay in Singapore

Or you can use the map below to find where to stay:

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Closing statement

Trying new food while traveling is probably one of the things that brings me the most joy in my life and Singapore and its hawker centers make it all the easier for me! The fact that you can taste not only many different dishes of a culture but of many cultures that are intertwined in the making of this city state in a single place is the most convenient thing. Now that you know what to eat in Amoy Street Food Center, make sure you include it in your Singapore itinerary!

And remember, this is only what one man could manage to taste in a couple visits to the city, but by no means it is an exhaustive guide in terms of dishes or even hawker centers, so explore and go with your gut (quite literally!).

If you are still hungry, have a look at my recommendations for the best food at other hawker centers, and since you’re in Singapore, you’ll probably need some things to do in between meals, so you can read a bit on that too!

Best Hawker Center food in Singapore: our experience with Singapore’s street food

What to do in Singapore: Top 11 things to do in Singapore

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