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Please, please, please do not steal this content and cut-and-paste it on your site. You know who you are. It took me 4 months to eat at every stall and sometimes twice or thrice at each stall. I put in a lot of effort, money, time, and calories for this entry, it’s very discouraging to see people stealing my content.

The food at One Punggol Hawker Centre is quite costly compared to other hawker centres. I don’t know why food at Punggol is more expensive than other neighbourhoods nearer to the city! Move to a faraway area, still paying for more expensive food and MRT fares, that’s just ridiculous. Ok, back to the hawker centre. Some of the stalls here are just terrible, but there are also some really good ones. These are the best food at One Punggol Hawker Center in alphabetical order:

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Botak Cantonese Porridge
#02-14
7.30am – 9.30pm, Closed Wed
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The porridge is smooth and comforting, and one of the more affordable stalls here. The ingredients are a little sparse, but the porridge is flavourful. Bonus: they are really hardworking. They were the few stalls that were opened around Chinese New Year, proving that not all great food requires an elaborate CNY Takeaway Menu, and I’ve a soft spot for hardworking hawkers.

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Eng Kee Chicken Wing
#02-34
8am – 3pm, closed Mon
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They serve economical fried bee hoon with their famous chicken wing. I ate at about 2pm and the food was cold but the wings were surprisingly still super delicious. I wish they could have fried the wings freshly or at least re-fry it.

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Guo Qin Noodle 国嵚面
#02-25
8.30am – 3pm, closed Tue
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They are established since 1995. Do you know that 2050 is nearer to us than 1995? I tried the pork rib noodles and added dumplings. The old-school noodles were clean and didn’t have that ammonia taste. Meat was super tender and thoroughly infused with the flavours. It’s a super old-school, traditional, nostalgic bowl of noodles. Also: the hawkers are nice.

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Jin Kimchi Express
#02-16
9.30am – 2.30pm / 4.30pm – 9.30pm, closed Wed
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I really didn’t have high expectations of Korean food at a hawker centre setting but Jin Express proved me wrong. I found the food super authentic and tasty. But there were 3 of them and they took some time to prepare the food. I was there at 5pm and there wasn’t a crowd.

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Lei Po Po
#02-26
10.00am to 4.00pm, Closed M
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I am Hakka and I hate hate lei cha (thunder rice). It’s not war time, we shouldn’t have to eat this! But Lei Po Po changed my mind. The mixture of ingredients has all sorts of fun texture, and the “tea” tended to be more matcha-ish, which really made the dish a savoury food, not a tea dish like chazuku. They also pair the lei cha with deep-fried yong tau foo, which is also fantastic. But when I was there, the ytf was cold. I wish they could have fried them freshly or at least re-fry them. I ate at the stall at least 4 times already.

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Paprika
#02-36
12pm – 9pm, closed M & Th

This western food stall marinates their food really well. It’s super tasty, a cut above other Western stalls. And I love it that the food came steaming hot. The young hawker is a trained chef bringing a level of skill you’d expect from a top-tier omakase! Get their chicken chop.

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Souperb
#02-29
12pm – 8.30pm, Closed W
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The Chinese-style soups appear to be cooked in individual bowls placed in a steamer. The soups are clean and light and refreshing. Just worried about the cellophane covering the bowls in the steamer for hours. Not sure if the food would be contaminated with the plasticky material.

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– Dignity Kitchen, Boon Keng: They Train and Hire Disabled People at This Halal Food Court. Underprivileged People Can Come Here to Claim Meals.
– The Road to Becoming a Hawker: I Used My Skillsfuture to Take NEA’s Hawker Development Programme. It Was Good, Very Good, Then Bad, Very Bad.

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Written by Dr. A. Nathanael Ho.