Monday, April 13, 2009

Most Singaporeans shun Newton Food Centre

Well, the polls are in and it seems that only 8.3% of our readers actually love Newton Food centre.

So it looks like it is a real tourist trap. Quite a shame really as it used to be a great place to go for a variety of hawker food.

Hopefully after this incident, the food centre can clean up its act. The first thing that needs to happen, I think, is for some of the BBQ seafood places to be replaced by other types of hawker food. But somehow I don't see that happening anytime soon.

Thanks to all 1553 readers who polled!

5 comments:

Aurelia said...

I remember that after my mother's weekly mah jong sessions with her friends, they'd head over to newton and have a huge supper. And I used to go there with my friends for a huge feast.

But sadly, all the stalls I loved are gone and replaced by generic touristy seafood stalls. Very sad to see my old fave hawker centre gone. I honestly wished they never touched it at all.

tj han said...

Such is the effect of time, my favourite BKT, in Balestier, has no disciples and I've been eating his food since I was a toddler. Each time I go back, I fear the time when he retires/dies! If you look around, plenty of stalls/hawker centres are gone and replaced by generics, many of which are manned by foreign workers taught to just follow a generic recipe. I blame Kopitiam the corporation for this. It makes a mockery of our claim to be a food paradise.

sumosumo said...

this is singapore.
look at how crappy bugis has become. chinatown.
lost its old world charm.

tweety said...

Seems like most people avoid that place. Not much of a foodie, but we just love eating bbq chicken wings there - cheap, finger licking good and definitely much better than eating KFC (ya, they're not the same lah) and open till late.

the updater said...

I went to Newton last night and times must be really bad. From the time I started looking for an empty table (this was in the central pool and not at all near any stalls) and sat down, there were no less than 5 people coming up in the space of less than half a minute asking if I wanted drinks/seafood/satay/tissue...it was scary. We left immediately for Whampoa where no one harrassed us.

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