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