#YourSingapore: Chinatown Complex Food Centre

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Located in the heart of Chinatown, Chinatown Complex Food Centre is a great place to have local traditional dishes and Singaporean street food while you are visiting Chinatown. Plenty of food choices, cheap prices, and convenient location are what make this food centre one of the best hawker centres in Singapore.

(Image: Kimon Berlin)

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Highlights

– You can find all the must-try local foods here: Being the largest hawker centre in Singapore with over 260 food stalls, Chinatown Complex Food Centre offers foodies a full range of local dishes from chilli crab, black pepper crab, BBQ stingray, BBQ chicken wings, satay, carrot cake to char kway teow, Hokkien mee, chicken rice, bak kut teh, frog porridge, dim sum, lor mee, prawn noodles, kway chap and pork intestine as well as popular desserts like ice kachang, chendol, tau suan, and soya beancurd.

– Food is offered at cheapest prices: Food prices at Chinatown Complex Hawker Centre are very competitive and affordable as there are myriad of food stalls and many of them selling similar dishes. Customers can have a decent plate of chicken rice or fried kway teow or a good bowl of laksa at prices from S$2.50 to S$3.00.

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Recommended food stalls

1. Xiu Ji Ikan Bilis Yong Tau Fu
#02-88
– Recommended dishes: Fried fish cake, Ikan Bilis bee hoon, brinjal, yong tau fu
– Price/pax: S$3 – S$5
– Opening hours: Tue to Thur 05:45 to 15:00

2. China La Mian Xiao Long Bao
#02-135
– Recommended dish: Steamed dumplings
– Price: S$5 for 10 pieces
– Opening hours: Tue to Fri 11:00 – 21:00 | Sat, Sun 09:00 – 21:00

3. Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice & Noodles
#02-127
– Recommended dishes: Soya sauce chicken rice, soya sauce chicken noodles
– Price/pax: S$2.5 – S$4
– Opening hours: Daily 10:00 – 20:00 | Closed on Wednesdays

4. Jia Ji Mei Shi
#02-166
– Recommended dishes: Fried bee hoon, yam cake
– Price/pax: S$3 – S$4
– Opening hours: Daily 07:30 – 22:00 | Closed on Wednesdays

5. Hong Kong Mongkok Tim Sum
#02-97
– Recommended dishes: Hong Kong style dim sum dishes
– Price: S$2 – S$4
– Opening hours: Wed to Sun 11:00 till sold out

6. Cheng Ji
#02-190
– Recommended dish: Steamed fish head
– Price/pax: S$4 – S$10
– Opening hours: Mon to Sat 12:00 – 21:00

7. Hai Sing Ah Balling
#02-59
– Recommended dish: Teochew style dumplings
– Price/pax: S$2.5 – S$3
– Opening hours: Tue to Sun 12:00 – 21:00

8. Zhao Ji Clay Pot Rice
#02-53
– Recommended dishes: Claypot rice dishes
– Price/pax: S$3 – S$6
– Opening hours: Daily 12:00 – 19:00 | Closed on Wednesdays

9. Yue Ping
#02-65
– Recommended dish: Fried pumpkin cake
– Price/pax: S$2 – S$4

10. Terry Katong Laksa
#02-04
– Recommended dish: Laksa
– Price/pax: S$2.5 – S$3

11. Shi Xiang Satay
#02-79
– Recommended dish: Satay
– Price/pax: S$1 – S$3

12. Tian Tian Porridge
#02-185
– Recommended dish: Pork porridge
– Price/pax: S$3 – S$4

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How to get there
Bus: 2, 12, 33, 54, 63, 124, 143, 147, 190, 851, 961, 961#, 970 and CT1 (Walking 1 mins from bus stop B05039)
Nearest MRT station: Chinatown MRT (NE4) (Walking 1 mins from Exit B)

Contact
Chinatown Complex Food Centre
335 Smith Street, Singapore 050335