(in SE Asia) a market at which individual vendors sell ready-to-eat food from small booths.
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My girlfriend refuses to eat hawker centre or food court food.
The chef tucks into the day's first recipe, Hainanese Chicken Rice, a standby of Singapore's hawker centers.
One night will by no means be enough to try all the dishes, and a trip to the hawker center sure beats the boredom of room service.
Her food had just arrived when Eve noticed Casey and his brother enter the large hawker centre.
The winner gets a delicious lunch with me at the hawker centre of his/her choice.
We got dinner from the hawker centre and found a bench near the shore.
If I had used a little more logic (very ironic for the topic at hand), I should have spent that $48 to buy 144 packets of tissue from the next lucky blind old man who approaches me while I dine at a hawker centre.
At the Geylang hawker centre half the stores are halal, the other half non-halal.
In April, the tourism board will offer abbreviated ‘Food Safaris’ charging tourists up to S $65 a head for a hawker centre sampling of 10 ‘must try’ dishes.
Soon she started organising culinary tours to the local wet markets, hawker centres and ethnic quarters like Little India and Chinatown.
Canteens, cafeterias and/or hawker centers in office and school locations offer budget-level hot meals suited to local tastes.
Ethnic Chinatown has a grand hawker centre on Smith Street, with 18 kiosks spilling onto the road.
A few weeks ago I was buying a drink at a hawker centre near Redhill.
I'm off to swim in the pool before seafood dinner in a hawker centre.