Best Hawker Center food in Singapore: what to eat in Tekka 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 Tekka Center, located in Little India.

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Tekka Center

Tekka Center is the hawker center in Little India and, as such, its main focus is on Indian food, even though they offer many more options. Although all hawker centers look more or less alike, you can sense the Indian feeling to this one, being a bit more loud and chaotic, and the smell of spices and heat of steams really feel the air. Tekka Center is the perfect place to taste some curries, biryanis and other Indian delights.

Tekka Center.

What to eat in Tekka Center

Biryani

You’re probably familiar with biryani, since it is one of the staple Indian dishes, but in case you’re not, it’s a Muslim Indian rice dish cooked with spices and many supplements can be added (such as meat or egg). It doesn’t sound too exciting and I thought the same thing until I tried the mutton biryani from Yakader Muslim Food (#01-259). Another option is Allauddin’s Biryani (#01-232)’s chicken biryani with egg and papadum. They also make a delicious mutton curry.

Roti prata

Roti prata is an Indian flat bread usually served with sauces such as curry. At Prata Saga Sambal Berlada (#01-258) they serve it with fiery sambal and dalcha (Indian lentil stew) as well as several curries such as mutton and fish.

Naan & chapati

Naan and chapati: keeping with the Indian bread theme, try the naan and chapati made in the original tandoor oven at Pak Kashmiri Delights (#01-250). Try them with mutton keema (a type of curry).

Rojak

Rojak: if you’re on the look for a hearty peanut salad dish, look no more and have a go at Temasek Indian Rojak (#01-254).

Others

Roasted duck (no goose) at Heng Gi Goose and Duck Rice (#01-335), prawn mee at Whampoa Prawn Noddles (#01-326).

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 Tekka 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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