Behind-The-Scenes of Hawker Centre Operations
Photo: Via Eventbrite
📅 When
Sat 16 May – Sat 21 Nov 2026
📍 Where
Geylang Serai
💸 Price
S$11.58
🧭 Getting there
- 🚇 Cc9 MRT, Exit E — about 7 min walk
- 🍜 Hawker food nearby: Geylang Serai Market (2 min) · Blks 13/14 Haig Road (4 min)
Walking times are estimates from the venue’s location.
A two-hour guided walk through Geylang Serai market on how street hawking became Singapore's 120-plus hawker centres.
Singapore's 120-odd hawker centres weren't always a given. This two-hour guided walk through Geylang Serai market traces how street hawking in the 1950s and 1960s became a national network of centres with proper facilities — a resettlement that moved thousands of hawkers and improved public health along the way. The guide ties that heritage to the less romantic business of running a centre today: hygiene, sustainability and shared responsibility, carrying NEA's messages and organised in support of Clean & Green Singapore. The hawker culture under discussion is UNESCO-inscribed; this is the side of it you don't see while queueing for lunch.
It runs monthly, 7–9am, from Sat 16 May to Sat 21 Nov 2026, and participants meet at the market before setting off. Tickets are S$11.58.
Details compiled by Onz from public listings — always confirm with the organiser before heading down.
