Strictly speaking, many of them aren’t extremely new; they are newish. It is harder to discover new hawkers because they seldom publicize themselves, so there is a lag in transmission of information.

This month, people are doing very interesting things with hawker food. Some are offering similar food found in restaurants; and some sincere food. There is definitely a change in the foodscape at hawker centres, which gives us consumers more options. Many of the stalls are worth visiting.

HAWKERS

What a humorous shop name. As the shop name suggests, they sell fried chicken that comes with either rice or fries. A 2-piece chicken with coconut rice and hae bee hiam cost $5.50. They also have chicken burger ($5) and fried chicken caesar salad ($6.90).

Forget Starbucks. Situated inside Hong Lim Food Centre, the drink stall provides specialty coffee and floral tea.

The hawker stall is helmed by Ipoh chef Ron whose signatures include nasi lemak, Penang laksa, Penang lam mee, curry chicken ($4.50).

Good Olden Days 1872 is an air-conditioned kopitiam which houses traditional prawn soup ($4), porridge, toast, and cze char. The cze char has a 四大天王 (4 signatures): fish head with bittergourd and fermented black beans ($18/$24); secret recipe pork ribs ($10/$12/$15); deep-fried prawn roll ($8/$10/$12); and sambal potato leaves ($6/$8/$10).

Gyu Nami has probably taken a leaf out of the books of Japanese restaurants such as Sandaime Bunji. Gyu means beef. It’s a mountain of roast beef slices with special yogurt and egg on rice. For only $10. Worth the buck.

“Jiak Kang Tang” means “eat potato,” a euphemism for Singaporeans who are so Westernized that they can’t speak their mother tongue. Actually, the correct spelling should be “jiak kan tang” so we know that the stall-owners are jiak kan tang themselves. haha. In any case, the Western food stall focuses different ways of presenting potato but they also have salads and grilled items.

Kitchen Machiya is opened by Yolk Concepts which also run FoodSmith. Machiya serves omu rice (Japanese omelette over rice).

Real Thai is a Thai fast food dining concept with set menu, ala carte, grab-and-go and retail options.

They serve an eclectic mix of dishes here: nasi lemak sets ranging from $3 to $4.50; lu rou fan (braised meat rice), and cheesy waffles.

You may be interested in…
–New Cafes and Hawkers in Aug 2017
–New Cafes & Hawkers in July 2017
–New Cafes and Hawkers in June 2017
–New Restaurants and Hawkers in May 2017

PHOTO CREDIT: Photos without RERG logo are taken from the respective establishements’ facebook pages or websites.

Written by A. Nathanael Ho.