A hawker centre, or cooked food centre, is an often open-air complex commonly found in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They are intended to provide a more sanitary alternative to mobile
Interior of Lau Pa Sat, Singapore
Bowrington Food Centre, a famous hawker centre in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district
A hawker center in Johor, Malaysia.
A hawker centre in Singapore.
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. The countr
Hawker centre
…Chinese: 小贩中心; traditional Chinese: 小販中心), or cooked food centre (Chinese: 熟食中心), is an often open-air complex commonly found in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They are intended to provide a more sanitary alternative to mobile hawker carts and contain many stalls that sell different varieties…
Letter from William Farquhar to Sultan Muhammad Kanzul Alam, the 21st Sultan of Brunei, dated 28 November 1819. In the first line, Farquhar mentions that Sultan Hussein Shah and Temenggong Abdul Rahman allowed the British East India Company to establish a factory in Singapore on 6 February 1819.
A lithograph by Vincent Brooks of Singapore City in 1865 from the former Mount Wallich
Battlecruiser HMS Repulse, one of the few capital ships sent by Churchill to Singapore to defend it
British prisoners of war evacuating in 1945 following the Japanese surrender at Kallang Airport. The airport's control tower, located near the city, has been conserved.