EARLY 70s SINGAPORE HAWKER CENTRE - NORTH BRIDGE ROAD HAWKER CENTRE TOUR

[@SUPERGENKI]

It looks great my friend, the old hawker centres are the best somehow imo. Thanks for a great video. ^^ Thomas

[@Piggypuggy]

Hope you have an enjoyable stay in Singapore Thomas.. 😊 if you’re staying around town soon.. go to either one of these.. Hong Lim Hawker Centre Chinatown Hawker Centre Golden Mile HC Amoy Street HC Maxwell HC

[@josephinejosephine8776]

Thanks for featuring this place. Will visit!

[@Piggypuggy]

Thanks for watching Josephine.. It’s also my first time.. just Jalan Jalan and explore

[@PeterWalking]

All these while, only been to Golden Mile Hawker Centre and not here. Definitely will go next time I'm back! Thanks for the recommendations! 👍

[@Piggypuggy]

Hehe.. I also same same.. been to golden mile for years but just somehow skipped this lesser known hawker. First time exploring

[@josephchua5013]

Thanks for coming down and capturing the good food offerings

[@Piggypuggy]

Thanks for appreciating my efforts Joseph.. 🥰

[@crystalong3591]

very nicess prawn mee many can try very special where this places thks

[@Piggypuggy]

🥰🥰🥰

[@crystalong3591]

kway chap very nicess ur watch very nicess nicess special

[@Piggypuggy]

Thanks Crystal 💕

[@terubong]

9:28 For a moment I was thinking you were scooping up all the lard bits to stuff into your mouth! Haha.. That would be nice too I think. But I saw this store, add lard 30c/50c

[@xeenslayer]

Thanks for covering this. In the 90s when I was in primary school this was even more old school - two storey with market below and hawker upstairs, very wet smelly and dirty. I loved the char kueh (similar to chye tau kueh) by the old couple, sibeh song. They moved to this renovated hawker but Im not sure retired which year. Hope they are still well.

[@Piggypuggy]

Thanks for sharing with us 😊 Read that this newer single storey structure was built in 2005.. that’s the reason why I started filming as much of the older hawkers.. after returning to Singapore.. many of my favourite hawker stalls have disappeared.. don’t even know what happened to them 😢

[@melsgh]

drive pass so many times by never been there, always ended up in Beach Road hawker. Will try one day. Recently been seeing few youngsters running hawker stalls. Hope for our local food.

[@Piggypuggy]

I also haven’t been here before.. only a few times to that Tai Wah Bak Chor Mee a few times.. speaking of newer hawkers.. some really dedicated in perfecting a dish.. but.. it’s all about money these days.. once they’re successful.. they start replicating their stalls everywhere and that’s when some quality drop by hiring robot staffs to run the stall. Plus expensive too 😢.. it’s really bye bye to what we knew of the original hawkers

[@melsgh]

@@Piggypuggy Yup , HDL, HaiDiLao at NorthShore uses Robots and I means ROBOTS, huge ones and almost 5 of them! No to cook but to collect ur orders ASAP and send to you. This is the ONLY outlet opens till 4am !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tt9343]

Come in to support local hawker foods and this nice video.

[@TofuZen]

The Kway Chap stall is really nice, i have to say. 😁

[@Piggypuggy]

Looks good huh? I see already hungry again

[@TofuZen]

@@Piggypuggy I bought from the stall like two weeks back. The bespectacled lady use to sell yam cake and other food but switch to kway chap like couple of months back.

[@crystalong3591]

sometime don't where eat many hawker this world cooking must got uncle good look nicess l will try prawn mee h

[@Piggypuggy]

Yeah.. I also want to go back and try the prawn Mee.. soup looks so yummy 🤤

[@stillbaomatsuo]

Son happily listens when his father is trying to tell him something? Wishful mural... Just makes me sad.. Maybe the beef noodle will cheer me up tomorrow morning..

[@hanwah8547]

Me & wife tried hwa mei zhen today, ordered hor fun, claypot tou fu and sweet & sour pork. taste good and its bring me back to my childhood days! (late 60s)🥳💞

[@Piggypuggy]

I always place my bet on the pioneer elderly hawkers.. hoping to find that taste of childhood. Even the remaining elderly hawkers are those who started in the 70s or 80s 😅

[@coolmancoolman511]

Thumb up👍👍👍

[@Piggypuggy]

Thank you Cool Man x2 😊

[@AmbientWalking]

Really old school. Harder and harder to find these days. Soon, everything will look like the new hawker at Queenstown... no feel anymore...

[@Piggypuggy]

Think it’s the new building setup.. the ceilings are too high.. it somehow doesn’t seem to be like the hawker centres we used to know and feel

[@AmbientWalking]

@@Piggypuggy The hawker at Queenstown feels really really impersonal for some reason. I just couldn't feel it. Feels more like food court.

[@Piggypuggy]

Yah Yah.. did you see the URBAN HAWKERS in NYC 😅 Jiaalaat.. just focus on the food an nothin else

[@AmbientWalking]

@@Piggypuggy I didn't see. As if all hawkers are not urban. Singapore where got rural hawker... maybe one... on Kusu Island haha

[@jasonlucas2328]

If I lived in Singapore, I wouldn't cook at home. It's less than SGD 7 per meal on average. For the fried food, I need to clean the kitchen for 30 minutes after frying the food. Great video! 👍👍👍!!!

[@Piggypuggy]

😂 folks in Singapire doesn't really feel that appreciation.. we are used to SGD$1.50 Meals some 40years back and grumble at $5 meals today. I wonder how people survive in NYC where things are USD$15 and above 😖.. even Australian food prices are also AUD$15

[@jasonlucas2328]

@@Piggypuggy It would be best if you told those folks that Singapore was part of Malaysia long ago. Even now, the hawker centers are 40% cheaper after crossing the border to Malaysia. Tell them to enjoy what they can have today!

[@lenachin6068]

Kudos to all the old hawkers 👍👍😉

[@Piggypuggy]

Gotta thank them for their contribution 🥰

[@kthoaluu]

Thank u

[@Piggypuggy]

Thank you kthoaluu 😊

[@lenachin6068]

Always lik to patronise this chap cai Peng stall. Thumb up👍👍👍🎉

[@Piggypuggy]

The one at the start with the fried batang fish? 😊

[@lenachin6068]

yeah， correct. Cheap n good

[@tlyc49]

I think this hawker centre was renovated about 7 years ago. Before this, it was a two-storey building with more stalls.

[@Piggypuggy]

I read somewhere the 2 storey building housing the market below was the original structure built in 1973. This new single storey was built in 2005

[@crystalong3591]

BoBo cha cha is nicess many look bukti hawkar

[@Piggypuggy]

This desserts stall very traditional and good quality and super good price for its value. Must try for sure ☺️

[@HumdrumSingaporeanREACTS]

😲😲😲 cool cool

[@HumdrumSingaporeanREACTS]

so cool 😲

[@chewmeng8729]

@NYC hawker centre in USA food price per plate is at least USD20 for example chicken rice.

[@wok-onbai538]

Unusual to see hokkien mee uncle speaking English. When I was in SG last month all the hawkers I visited spoke Mandarin to me except one... Indian goreng pisang hawker at Hong Lim. Aren't English schools more commonplace in SG than Chinese schools?

[@Piggypuggy]

I think most kids in Singapore still use mandarin as the preferred language to communicate right up till the 90s.. right before the internet age. Unless one is in some convent or saints schools. So you’d be surprised that while many speak English here.. their car radio is on mandarin channels 😄

[@minniec.9127]

Regarding the newly opened Urban Hawker in NYC, I've not visited yet but from Yelp photos, I can see the marketplace is really nice, housing up to 17 stalls . However, the prices are steep even by NYC standard. Average entrees are USD 15-20. Hainan chicken rice is $19; oyster omelette is $17 and portion is small; murtabak is $15; white beehoon is $17, etc. Too rich for my blood. There are several Malaysian/Singaporean restaurants in NYC that serve very good, authentic food and do not leave a hole in yr pocket. They are located in the Chinatowns in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.

[@Piggypuggy]

I already feel nauseous hearing $19 chicken rice 😵🤢 wonder if there’s still a tip jar 😅 That’s just ludicrous!!! I wonder if it’s to cover their rent.. if not.. it’s just unacceptable 😭 It’s not hawker price

[@minniec.9127]

@@Piggypuggy I totally agree with you; it's highway robbery. Of course, the high prices are to partially cover the high rent in midtown Manhattan, prime real estate. Also, to cover other overhead costs i.e., employee wages/benefits, insurance, biz license, etc. But there are other food places in that area that don't charge an arm & a leg. You can still get a decent meal for $10-12. I think Urban Hawker can get away with overcharging b/c it's the only Singaporean "hawker centre" in the vicinity. Clientele are willing to pay. It's novel and they're Covid prices; everything has gone way up in the US. Their prawn Hokkien mee stall charges $21-26 for what you ate. 🤣😥👎

[@Piggypuggy]

@@minniec.9127 aiii yaai yaai.. 😖☹️☹️ They should just celebrate the efforts of the smaller eateries like those Malaysian kitchens and kopitiams littered around lower Manhattan and east side.. (not sure if they still exists) Hmm.. I don’t know.. there’s just something not right about it.. but I still gotta credit them for bringing light to south Asian cuisine at the Big Apple. Great effort and investment

[@braintransplantdonor]

I found NBR almmost by accident a few years ago when I was staying at Lavender and walking over to Golden Mile (this was in the days before Hill St Tai Hwa BCM had its Michelin Star.) There used to be a fantastic fried carrot cake stall run by an old autie and uncle (Ke Shuan Xing I think.) Sad to see the stall had gone last time I was there in 2019 - I heard that the uncle retired; the family took over the stall but they didn't want to do carrot cake any more so they sell lor mee now.

[@Piggypuggy]

Many are slowly retiring.. which is why I started filming hawkers.. especially those older folks manning the stalls. It's just not the same anymore after they're retired

[@braintransplantdonor]

@@Piggypuggy Yes, I realise that, which is one of the things that keeps drawing me back there - to experience real old-school cuisine before it disappears for ever.

[@raymondtan1977]

The Hokkien mee serving so big? Wasn’t this big when I went there a month ago to try. I don’t quite like their chilli as I prefer sambal belachan. I requested for extra pork lard the auntie ask me pay $1 for more. I rejected. In the end I went to the infamous prawn mee stall and get more fresh fried pork lard since I’m also getting the prawn noodles. The prawn noodle is a must go every time I’m there. Huge serving and so many prawns just for $4/$5. Another famous stall is the yong tau foo at the right row 1st stall from the left. The ah pek do the coffee also make very nice coffee.

[@Piggypuggy]

Yeah.. the prawn noodles and the Lao Huang yong tau fu had long queues.. I didn’t get to eat both 😢 I gotta go back and relak and enjoy some on my non filming days. I tried to split my videos into chapters.. you can find the chapters if you press the down arrow icon. Thanks for your recommendation 😊😋

[@boonkeng4079]

Wow! If $3 l can order 2 bowls, 2 dry version, 1 soup version, 👍😋

[@Piggypuggy]

That’s 3 bowls 🤣 I see that Ah Pek like damn enjoy.. Ordered a big bowl of prawn and rib noodles.. Happily went on to get himself a signature red bean soup.. all alone by himself 😂🥰

[@wendywong4732]

The most famous stall in this FC - Koka Wanton Mee opens at 930/1030 PM …. it’s legendary to the point that pple come 1 to 2 hrs b4 opening to quene 😱 …. Ate it once long ago but never went back (so can’t remember the taste anymore) as it’s too much work to spend the whole night just to queue for 1 noodle …. Maybe you need to come back again at night

[@Piggypuggy]

😄 piggypuggy needs to go for supper sometime.. yeah.. I came across that KOKA wanton Mee when researching the hawker.. that special yong tau fu even starts at 2am. Looks like this hawker operates 24hrs

[@wendywong4732]

@@Piggypuggy prob like what they said - to cater to the taxi drivers. Lots of daytime gems here too la. Aiming for the yong tau foo next 😅

[@SuccessforLifester]

Wah I didn't know North bridge road got hawker centre there... Really birds don't want to lay eggs

[@Piggypuggy]

Yeah.. I drove past so many times.. but never ever stopped to explore this hawker

[@SuccessforLifester]

@@Piggypuggy For me I used legs. Also didn't see it

[@SuccessforLifester]

@@Piggypuggy I checked map and realised I probably walked past on my way to golden mile hawker centre. But stalls all closed in evening

[@Piggypuggy]

Ahaha.. your Kah got power 💪🏼 I only got to visit so many hawkers I haven’t been too since I started this 😅

[@Piggypuggy]

@@SuccessforLifester I was surprised to learn this hawker got night time operations leh.. a famous koka wanton Mee that only opens at night. Next time I’ll go there for supper and check it out

[@sonderanderson1312]

So many old hawkers, I worry that years down the road, hawker culture will be no more 😢 Btw, if you’re interested in pasar malam, there’s a big one at Yishun mrt. I like the purple sweet potato balls there, handmade on the spot plus is chewy one.

[@Piggypuggy]

Yes Sonder.. it’s already quite sad when I visit the newer Hawker centres these days.. it doesn’t have the right vibe.. 😢 must visit these older hawkers as often as possible before it’s all gone.. Yishun? Wow.. is it a daily pasar malam? I just had sweet potato balls in Phuket.. oh man.. it’s soooo good.. think it was 15 or 20 balls for 20 bhat. 80cents

[@wangyu60]

For those viewers who find these videos tantalizing and decide to follow, especially non-locals: be careful. Just to share my bad experience here. Saw this video and cycled there with family Friday evening. Got there around 7:30pm. Tried this Chicago Nasi Lemak mentioned 7:03. Yup, Nasi Lemak $3 sign was there. So I went up and asked for Nasi Lemak. The guy (as seen in the video) scooped rice in the plate and said "Lai, order." I was a bit puzzled, but maybe becos too tired from cycling, got brain short circuit, so I just did as told - I ordered... exactly the ingrediants of Nasi Lemak: a fried egg and a chicken wing. There's no cucumber to be seen, so I added fried cabbage as veggie. Saw some shrimp, so added that. Then when the owner started scissoring the wing, I recalled there should be ikan billie and fried peanuts in Nasi Lemak, so I asked for those too, the owner said those will add 1.2 dolloars. I continued brain short circuit and said ok. Once done, the owner put the plate down and said "7 dolloars 10 cents". I was shocked. Based on the look on that guy's face, I didn't dare to ask what happened to the $3 Nasi Lemak? 4.1 dollars for some small portion of cold shrimps and a cabbage? (To be fare, later turned out the wing was nice) Anyway, this is the second time I followed this channel and got shocked like this. (Last time was the $7 Holland Village food centre kway chap). I started to feel there's some kind of unspoken rules in ordering food in this kind of food centres. I don't look like a Singaporean, so I get "shocked" mostly. Next time when the owner says, "Lai, order", I'll meekly point at the $3 sign and say, I just want this for $3, as the sign says, and see what happens. Hopefully not getting puched in the face. 🤐

[@wangyu60]

Correction, the Cheng Heng Kuay Chap at Holland Drive Food Centre charged me 17 dollars, not 7

[@fabianlowakaisora2049]

Team wet! yummy!

[@chandra38]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@franciswoon2130]

Lee kuan yew and lee sian loong.i am malaysian by the way.

[@Piggypuggy]

😄 hello my Malaysian friend.. I was once Malaysian too 😊

[@chooiseah1377]

Any reviews on Malay or Indian stalls?🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭❤❤❤❤

[@siewgeklee9725]

Where exactly is this place ? Any landmark around

[@Piggypuggy]

Yah.. a bit hard to find.. it’s actually just a stone throw away from the famous golden mile hawker centre. I’ll put the address below North Bridge Road Market & Food Centre maps.app.goo.gl/saBvSyn6STVz4wi46?g_st=ic

[@raymondtan1977]

It’s directly behind ICA building in lavender

[@黃氏玉-i4m]

tesbn tuyet v ngon thank hi tuyet

[@nazefa3812]

Helo, dulu tahun2 70an, 80an, 90an bagitu suka dn seronok makan,minum direstoran atau warung2 diSingapore. Sambil munum2 sambil hisap rokok sambil memandang suasana persekitarannya. Tapi sekarang HAMPEH, nak hisap rokok pun susah, apa problemnya???

[@marychung2521]

The rent must be very expensive & the place must fully air-conditioned. Therefore, the price of foodie should more pricey! Furthermore, the raw materials are more expensive than in Singapore due to their exchange rate. So the foodie are more pricey. Besides, they earned more than the Singaporeans. Meanwhile, enjoy the foodie & don't complain!

[@boontan1236]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@seylo515]

是尋香港脚常好心助，？。

[@risquecat]

When I retire, i plan on living in Singapore for about 2 years and then move to Philippines permanently.

[@teonghaipoh9361]

Only Singapore got 👍.

[@FoodOscar]

The uncle that made hokkien Mee, have you ever filmed him before? he looks so familiar Oh it's true. Older hawker owners are sometimes not the "friendliest" to film 😂😂😂

[@Piggypuggy]

Looks familiar? I haven’t been to this hawker before 😂 and yeah.. it’s hard to film the older hawkers.. it’s just not their thing to have someone film them.

[@FoodOscar]

​@@Piggypuggy Ah maybe the way they set up their wok and everything is so similar to other hawkers so I thought they were the same haha

[@Piggypuggy]

Yeah.. it’s traditional to cover fried Hokkien Mee with this giant wooden lid.. I wonder why it needs to be wooden too 😄

[@yeucailuongcamhang]

Go od mo ring you like ma

[@samchan3240]

In the 60s I ate char kway teow at hock lam Street a plate only 30cts. kawy chap 20cts a bowl and laska 10cts a bowl.

[@jinfeng83]

the hkm cannot make it la lol i only taste sweet and sweet thats all. my best wet ver of hkm are from tian tian lai at toa payoh and serangoon north xiao di hkm.

[@Piggypuggy]

👍 those are good... 😋 Sereqngoon north that left corner one right?

[@jinfeng83]

@@Piggypuggy alot of birds and petshop .ya opp a big open space

[@黃氏玉-i4m]

nnobsethank hi

[@chmjnationalsuperarmygener8564]

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[@nazefa3812]

Rokok dikatakn Danger, boleh datangkan penyakit, tapi ramai juga rakyat Singapore yg tak merokok terkena bermacam2 penyakit. Babi yg betul2 bahaya bagitu berleluasan pulak dijual dn dimakan.