Singapore's Street Food Market

There's nothing quite like enjoying the taste and smell of a hawker centre or food market in Singapore, be it Adam Road for its famous prawn mee, Serangoon Gardens for the hokkien noodles or Geylang for the beef horfun! If there is one thing here in Singapore that I enjoy most of all, it's the cheap and good food. Add the balmy weather for a late night supper and one can only sigh with contentment.

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Let's face it. This is one for the tourists. There is the $8 version for the fried egg noodle and then there is the $3 version to be had somewhere else less 'novel'. While the street food market is a really, really fantastic idea, it's still something cooked up by the Singapore Tourism Board to entice the tourists. It's like the proverbial cram notes for tourists who want to taste the diverse food offered in Singapore, without doing the hard homework and legwork. I would seriously suggest that foodies from overseas go out on a limb and venture into the heartlands/suburbs of Singapore. Ask your hotel for 'hawker centres', as opposed to the cleaned up version that is the street food market. You'll appreciate the culture and the food far more.