18/50: Maxwell Food Centre

Built in the 1930s, this famous hawker centre was initially known as Maxwell Market and was a wet market that catered to the Chinatown area. In the 1980s, as part of the government’s initiative to eliminate unhygienic (and unsightly) street hawkers, it was turned into a temporary site to house hawkers that were displaced (and was renamed Maxwell Road Hawker Centre). It remained a hawker centre ever since, offering a staggering 100 plus stalls at low prices to hundreds of office workers in the day and patrons of the nearby gay bars at night.

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