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Bib Gourmand, by hawker centre

Michelin's cheap-and-excellent list, rearranged so you can actually use it: which food centre holds the most, what dish each stall is known for, and what it costs in your money.

Friends sharing plates of hawker food at a table under the Victorian ironwork of Lau Pa Sat food centre, Singapore
Lau Pa Sat. The good food is where the plastic stools are.
89on the list
59are hawker stalls
28food centres
28dishes
16dish unconfirmed
0prices confirmed

Two of those numbers are deliberately unflattering. 16 stalls have trading names that say nothing about the food, and Michelin publishes no dish field, so we will not pretend to know what they sell. And no price on this page is confirmed yet — Michelin publishes no prices at all, for any restaurant anywhere, so every figure has to be checked in person before it appears here.

Eating at the other end of the scale on this trip? We keep a companion guide to the 45 MICHELIN-starred restaurants for 2026 — the three-, two- and one-star rooms, by tier, with the neighbourhood and nearest MRT.

New to eating here? Start with how to order at a hawker centre — choping a seat, ordering your kopi the local way, and returning your tray — then chase something sweet with our guide to bubble tea, desserts & cafes.

what it costs you

In your own money

A hawker plate is usually S$4–8. Type any amount to see it in your currency.

Rate — · Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:02:31 +0000 · baked into this page at build

A conversion is a convenience, not the price. Everything on this site is priced in Singapore dollars first, because that is what you will hand over. Rates by exchangerate-api.com, cross-checked against ECB reference rates.

the honest leaderboard

Which food centre holds the most

Newton Food Centre leads with 5. Only confident matches are counted — see the bottom of the page for the ones we would not call.

  1. 01

    Newton Food Centre

    500 Clemenceau Ave North · Singapore 229495 · 83 stalls in total

    5 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  2. 02

    Telok Ayer Food Centre

    7 MAXWELL ROAD · Singapore 069111 · 134 stalls in total

    4 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  3. 03

    Hong Lim Food Centre and Market

    531A Upper Cross Street · Singapore 051531 · 103 stalls in total

    4 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  4. 04

    Adam Road Food Centre

    2 Adam Road · Singapore 289876 · 32 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  5. 05

    Blk 115 Bukit Merah View Market and Food Centre

    115 Bukit Merah View · Singapore 151115 · 84 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  6. 06

    Blk 69 Geylang Bahru Market and Food Centre

    69 Geylang Bahru · Singapore 330069 · 78 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  7. 07

    Holland Drive Market and Food Centre

    44 Holland Drive · Singapore 270044 · 45 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  8. 08

    Yuhua Village Market and Food Centre

    254 Jurong East Street 24 · Singapore 600254 · 60 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  9. 09

    Jurong West Street 52 Blk 505

    505 Jurong West Street 52 · Singapore 640505 · 60 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  10. 10

    51 Old Airport Road Food Centre and Shopping Mall

    51 Old Airport Road · Singapore 390051 · 168 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  11. 11

    Tiong Bahru Market

    30 Seng Poh Road · Singapore 168898 · 83 stalls in total

    3 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  12. 12

    ABC Brickworks Market/Food Centre

    6 Jalan Bukit Merah · Singapore 150006 · 96 stalls in total

    2 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  13. 13

    Redhill Food Centre

    85 Redhill Lane · Singapore 150085 · 96 stalls in total

    2 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  14. 14

    Kim Keat Palm Market and Food Centre

    22 Lorong 7 Toa Payoh · Singapore 310022 · 61 stalls in total

    2 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  15. 15

    Whampoa Drive Makan Place/Whampoa Food Centre

    90 Whampoa Drive · Singapore 320090 · 80 stalls in total

    2 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  16. 16

    Zion Riverside Food Centre

    70 Zion Road · Singapore 247792 · 32 stalls in total

    2 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  17. 17

    Berseh Food Centre

    166 Jalan Besar · Singapore 208877 · 66 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  18. 18

    Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market

    665 Buffalo Road · Singapore 210665 · 119 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  19. 19

    Alexandra Village Food Centre

    120 Bukit Merah Lane 1 · Singapore 150120 · 88 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  20. 20

    Clementi Ave 3 Blk 448

    448 Clementi Ave 3 · Singapore 120448 · 51 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  21. 21

    Ghim Moh Road Blk 20

    20 Ghim Moh Road · Singapore 270020 · 72 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  22. 22

    Yuhua Market and Hawker Centre

    347 Jurong East Ave 1 · Singapore 600347 · 56 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  23. 23

    Kim Hua Market

    1 Kadayanallur Street · Singapore 069184 · 103 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  24. 24

    North Bridge Road Market

    861 North Bridge Road · Singapore 198783 · 37 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  25. 25

    Chinatown Complex Market

    335 Smith Street · Singapore 050335 · 226 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  26. 26

    Taman Jurong Market and Food Centre

    3 Yung Sheng Road · Singapore 618499 · 122 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  27. 27

    Toa Payoh West Market and Food Court

    127 Lorong 1 Toa Payoh · Singapore 310127 · 40 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

  28. 28

    Chong Pang Market and Food Centre

    104 Yishun Ring Road · Singapore 760104 · 56 stalls in total

    1 Bib

    Cleaning closures —

i want that one thing

By dish

Read from each stall's own trading name. Open one to see where to eat it.

Prawn noodles 5

Noodles in a stock boiled down from prawn heads and pork.

also called Prawn mee / hae mee

Hainanese chicken rice 4

Poached or roasted chicken with rice cooked in the stock, chilli and ginger.

Noodles 4

A noodle stall whose name does not say which noodle.

Bak kut teh 3

Peppery pork rib soup, eaten with rice and dough fritters.

also called Pork rib soup

Char kway teow 3

Flat rice noodles fried hard in a wok with dark soy, egg, cockles and lard.

also called Fried kway teow

Congee 3

Rice simmered soft — Teochew style keeps the grain, Cantonese cooks it smooth.

also called Porridge

Fish soup 3

Clear or milky fish broth with sliced fish, often over rice noodles.

also called Sliced fish bee hoon

Herbal soup 3

Soups double-boiled for hours with herbs — watercress, lotus root, chicken.

also called Double-boiled soup

Claypot rice 2

Rice cooked over flame in a clay pot with chicken, sausage and salted fish.

Fried Hokkien mee 2

Yellow and rice noodles braised in prawn stock, with lime and sambal.

Kueh 2

Steamed rice or flour cakes, sweet or savoury, sold by the piece.

also called Chwee kueh / Teochew kueh

Kway chap 2

Sheets of flat rice noodle in a dark braise, served with pig offal.

Mutton soup 2

Dark spiced mutton broth, eaten with bread.

also called Sup kambing

Seafood 2

Wok-fried crab, prawn and fish, ordered by the plate to share.

Bak chang 1

Glutinous rice with pork and chestnut, steamed in a bamboo leaf.

also called Rice dumpling

Bak chor mee 1

Springy noodles tossed in vinegar and chilli with minced pork and liver.

also called Minced pork noodles

Ban mian 1

Hand-torn wheat noodles in anchovy broth, with minced pork and a fried egg.

Beef noodles 1

Noodles under a thick starchy gravy with sliced beef and tendon.

Biryani 1

Spiced rice baked with mutton or chicken.

Braised duck 1

Duck braised in dark soy and spices, boned, over rice or with kway chap.

also called Duck rice

Chai tow kway 1

Steamed radish cake cut up and fried with egg and preserved radish.

also called Fried carrot cake

Curry fish head 1

A whole fish head simmered in curry with okra and aubergine.

Curry puff 1

Fried pastry filled with curried potato, chicken or sardine.

Fishball noodles 1

Hand-made fishballs with noodles, dry with chilli or in soup.

Hor fun 1

Wide rice noodles under gravy, seared hard enough to carry wok smoke.

Nasi lemak 1

Coconut rice with sambal, fried anchovies, egg and a fried wing or fish.

Pig's organ soup 1

Clear peppery soup of pork offal with salted vegetable.

Wonton noodles 1

Thin egg noodles with pork dumplings and char siu.

By cuisine — the sit-down places

These are restaurants rather than single-dish stalls, so they are filed under Michelin's own cuisine label instead of a dish.

Thai 4
Indian 3
Peranakan 3
Singaporean 3
Indonesian 1
Italian 1
  • Fico its own restaurant
Malaysian 1
Noodles 1
Sri Lankan 1
Vegetarian 1
all of it, at once

The map

Violet pins sit inside a hawker centre. Orange pins are their own shop. All 89 of them.

the part nobody publishes

What we don't know yet

Listed because leaving it out would make the rest look more certain than it is.

16 stalls · dish unknown

Their trading names give nothing away and Michelin has no dish field. We will not guess what a stall sells and send you across the island for the wrong thing.

7 places · food centre unresolved

Close to a food centre, but not close enough to be sure they are inside it rather than a shophouse next door. Excluded from every count above.

0 prices · nothing confirmed

Michelin publishes no numeric price for any restaurant, anywhere — only the $ and $$ bands you see on their site. So every price here has to come from someone standing at the stall. Until one is checked, this page shows no figure rather than an estimate dressed up as a fact.

Michelin's cheapest band. On this list it is almost always a hawker stall.
Michelin's second band — typically a shophouse restaurant rather than a stall.

Credit. Bib Gourmand awards are the MICHELIN Guide's. Always check guide.michelin.com for the current selection and the inspectors' own write-ups.

Read from Michelin's public listing on 2026-07-31. Awards, coordinates and cuisine labels are theirs. The food-centre match, the dish grouping and every word of description here are ours. No inspector write-ups and no photographs are reproduced.

Hawker centres and cleaning-closure dates: National Environment Agency, via data.gov.sg and OneMap, under the Singapore Open Data Licence.

Michelin's listing publishes no edition year, so this page does not claim one. It reflects the selection as it stood on 2026-07-31.

See the official list on guide.michelin.com ↗