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JB Ah Meng

Johor-style zi char on Geylang Road, late: a white pepper crab you eat with your hands and a crisp-edged san lou bee hoon to finish. Bring friends, wet wipes and no plans after.

• Where: Geylang
• Price: S$30–60

Closes 3am daily

Swee Choon Tim Sum Restaurant

Dim sum until 4am at weekends across six knocked-through Jalan Besar shophouses. Come for the hour and the fried oddities, not the textbook har gow, and go to the original.

• Where: Jalan Besar
• Price: Under S$30

Closes 4am Fri–Sat, 2am Sun–Thu

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Fengshan Market & Food Centre (Bedok 85)

Rival bak chor mee stalls in neighbouring units, hotplate stingray and charred wings late into the night. Bedok 85 is where the east goes for supper. Bring a group and split the queues.

• Where: Bedok
• Price: Under S$30

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Chomp Chomp Food Centre

Serangoon Gardens' night-shift hawker centre: shutters up after 4pm, barbecue smoke by dinner and a Hokkien mee worth crossing the island for. Bring a group and a table-holder.

• Where: Serangoon Gardens
• Price: Under S$30

Adam Road Food Centre

The place to eat after the Botanic Gardens: nasi lemak sets named after poker hands, plus Bib Gourmand mutton soup and prawn noodles, in one low building by the flyover.

• Where: Bukit Timah
• Price: Under S$30

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Newton Food Centre

Newton has a reputation and five stalls on the 2025 Bib Gourmand list. Both are earned, so order from the list and agree the seafood price before anything hits the wok.

• Where: Newton
• Price: Under S$30

Lau Pa Sat

Open 24 hours under Glasgow ironwork, with more than 80 stalls and satay smoke on Boon Tat Street from 7pm (3pm at weekends). Better than its tourist-trap reputation, if not the cheapest.

• Where: CBD
• Price: Under S$30

Closes 3am daily

Maxwell Food Centre

103 stalls beside Maxwell MRT, and the famous chicken rice queue is one of them. Go mid-morning, before the CBD lunch crush, and note the whole centre shuts for cleaning on 14 December 2026.

• Where: Chinatown
• Price: Under S$30

The best nasi lemak in Singapore, from Adam Road to 3am suppers

Start at Adam Road, where two stalls share a wall and one lunch settles the basmati question. Yishun Park for the chicken leg, Chong Pang in Sembawang for a late craving.

• Where: Across Singapore

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The best roti prata in Singapore, crispy camp and fluffy camp

Crispy camp: Mohgan's in Joo Chiat, before its early-afternoon close. Soft camp: coin prata at Sin Ming. Seven counters, one test, and it's the plain prata.

• Where: Across Singapore

The best satay in Singapore now Satay by the Bay has gone

Satay by the Bay closed on 30 September. For pork satay with pineapple in the sauce, go to Pang's in Chinatown Complex; for skewers by the sea, Haron at East Coast Lagoon.

• Where: Across Singapore