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Bedok Food Centre is a hawker centre affectionately known as Bedok Corner . Simply because it is located at the corner of Bedok Road and Upper East Coast Road. A compact place with 31 stalls where you can find and taste traditional local delicacies such as satay , ayam penyet , laksa , rojak , bubur kampong (kampong style porridge), sup kambing (mutton soup), mee soto , chicken rice, char kway teow, gado-gado, Hokkien mee, roti john and snacks such as banana or chempedak fritters, epok-epok or curry puffs. There is a popular local dessert cheng teng stall, a few seafood stalls that sell the perennial seafood dishes such as the spicy sambal stingray, cumi sotong (squid) and sambal lala. Bubur is congee or porridge and kampong means village. Chempedak is artocarpus integer , in the same family as jackfruit. Bedok Food Centre a.k.a. Bedok Corner The words food centre and hawker centres are used interchangeably, and they basically mean the same. In many countries the term hawker c...

Singapore Food & Culture When the heat and humidity hit, Singaporeans reach for two timeless coolers: ice kacang and chendol. One is a technicolour mountain of shaved ice and syrup; the other, a creamy bowl of coconut milk, gula Melaka and squiggly green noodles. Both are cheap, deeply satisfying, and found at almost every hawker centre and food court on the island. Here is everything you need to know about these two classics, from what goes into the bowl to where to find door of the best ones. 📋 Quick Facts Ice Kacang Chendol Also known as Ais kacang / ABC ( air batu campur ) Cendol Base Shaved ice + coloured syrups Coconut milk + gula Melaka Signature ingredients Red beans, sweet corn, attap chee, jelly Green pandan rice-flour jelly noodles Texture Icy, crunchy, chunky Creamy, smooth, slurpy Origin Malay roadside stalls Java, via Malaysia (Melaka ...