Tekka Centre – Wet Market

Tekka Centre – Wet Market

Mixed-use market building established in 1915 and located in this building since 1982. Tekka Centre is a multi-use building complex comprising a wet market, food centre and shops, located in the northern corner of Bukit Timah Road and Serangoon Road, in Little India, Singapore next to Little India MRT station.

Originally an abattoir in the early 1900s at its initial site closer to Sungei Road, Tekka Centre in its present incarnation at the corner of Buffalo, Race Course and Serangoon Roads presents a far more appetising prospect. Now home to one of the best wet markets in town with a greater offering of halal-slaughtered meats than most, the pasar’s adjoining food centre has become a hawker institution offering great grub from a range of cuisines. Seating a total of 1,226, its 2008 Hawker Centres Upgrading Programme revamp not only gave Tekka a modern facelift, but also managed the off-putting pong of raw lamb and bad plumbing once characteristic of the market.