An eating place in the HDB heartlands.
Havelock Road Food Centre is an unusual L-shaped row of stalls located on two sides of a car park in Bukit Ho Swee. Built in 1969, it served the new housing estate of Bukit Ho Swee which replaced the shanty town which burnt to the ground in the infamous 1961 Bukit Ho Swee fire. This is an old-fashioned food centre with a line of 30 stalls facing a public car park, and eating here is almost an al fresco experience.
Food stalls from the defunct Covent Garden housing estate (between Kim Seng Road and Zion Road) later moved here, and there is a great variety of food at lunchtime, including the well-known turtle soup, char kway teow, and popiah skin stalls, which are closed in the evening.
Our visits usually take place in the evening, and the one stall which is open till near midnight is Siam Square Mookata, our favourite haunt for Thai-styled BBQ and soup steamboat dishes. This is self-cooked and the variety is considerable, and with modest pricing, remains our favourite haunt. Here are some photos of our latest indulgence.
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| Five different sauces to spice up our meal. |
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| All this for under $30! |
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