Ghim Moh Market

Strawberry soursop juice with less ice ($ 2.50) from Alexandra Village Avocado Juice — 5 stars!
Not too sweet — the lady said they don’t add sugar and the strawberry juice added was fresh. The strawberry soursop combination was fantastic!
Egg cheese appam from Heavens ($ 3) — 3.5 stars
Kind of average — the appam wasn’t very fluffy or very crispy even though I ate it on the spot.
Tom’s City Zoom
Da baoed the mee pok and the handmade fish noodles. I’m not big on pork and loved that this came with fishcakes and fishballs rather than pork. It was really good. I’ll have to try it some time on the spot!

Small local hawker’s center.
Highlights:
— Most stalls open even at 10:30 on a weekday
— Carrot cake: still like this rice soy combo, 4 stars
— Almond tofu: hint of almond in this silly tofu did the trick. 5 stars
Lowlights:
— Duck and cha sui with rice: dry and not much flavor. 2 stars
— Didn’t have to rojak even though was on the booth sign
— Not as much variety as the bigger ones
I’d be happy eating at most any Hawker’s center in Singapore so I was happy to fit another one in.

Ghim Moh market is shut down for renovations so they are relocated to a temporary market. I grew up eating the food at Ghim Moh market, so there is definitely a sense of nostalgia here.
I love love love the ipoh hor fun, char kueh teow, yong tau foo, carrot cake, and economical bee hoon here! Apparently they have a branch of lao ban soy beancurd here as well.
Definitely a food centre worth visiting for breakfast/​lunch!

This place has great food. Period. Amongst the many stalls here, my favorites are the carrot cake, char kway teow, Hakka yong tau foo, kway chap. The prices are cheap compared to many other places.
The only thing I would say is that it’s packed! Getting a table on the weekends requires you to hunt down someone who looks like they are almost done, then stare them down so they feel uncomfortable and don’t linger!
The carrot cake is wonderfully fried with crispy egg and soft fluffy carrot cake. The white one is much more popular than the black at this stall.
Hakka yong tau foo requires extreme patience. You need to pick your goodies then wait for them to cook your order. At times it can be almost 45mins!
Char kway teow also takes some time. The uncle there cooks each plate to order, giving each some tlc. It’s got crispy bits of lard, perfectly seasoned with wonderful wok hei.
Go try some of the stalls for yourself before they shut down for renovations!

Quiet quaint but dynamic food centre that will never lose its charms. While the hype of brunches continues around the island, there is nothing more comforting that a plate of cheew kueh (steamed rice cake) with sautéed radish or a plate of rojak or nasi lemak or noodles.
The lines are often long enough to make you feel unadulteratedly silly but I assure you it is so worth it. The roasted pork rice is very famous and so is the chai dao kueh (fried radish with eggs). Dessert soups at the corner is nice but prepared to have more than just one. Laksa is also delicious but op for the dry mushroom noodles or porridge if you can.
I find the market rather expensive but the food/​ingredients are always fresh. Plus it helps to know they get from the suppliers from the wet market and cook the very day.

If you’re wondering where the old people in the Holland Village Hawker Centre have disappeared to, you’ll most likely find them smiling over Kopi O here.
I’ve known about the existence of this place for years but never brought myself to go here — until my friend suggested heading here for lunch one day (he drove — can’t say no to that!). I was vegetarian when I came here so I missed out on the Chwee Kueh, Chicken Rice, Yong Tau Foo… but the vegetarian noodles I had were absolutely delicious!
Now that I’m back to meat… I’ll be back…