Bukit Merah Central Food Centre — Restaurant in Singapore

Located in the centre of Bukit Merah Central is the Bukit Merah Central Hawker Centre. This daytime Hawker Centre, meaning that majority of the stalls do not operate past 6pm, is largely dependent on the nearby office workers. There are a few good stalls here to visit and enjoy.

A chance visit to Bukit Merah Central Hawker Centre stumbled on to Soon Huat Lor Mee, specialising in Lor Mee and Laksa. That first visit 4 years ago helped to finally find a worthy successor of a Lor Mee. The yummy broth and the crispies used was almost the same recipe as the former Bukit Purmei Lor Mee. A monthly visit was made since to satisfy that Lor Mee craving. Sadly, the standards here have been fluctuating the past 2 months. It is unknown what is causing the fluctuating standards but this had made the meal here not as great as before.

Fong Sheng Fried Kway Teow is one of two hugely popular Fried Kway Teow stalls here. Helmed by a husband and wife team in their 60s, the dish here has excellent Wok Hei and is of the wet variety. With a healthy amount of lap cheong and fish cakes, it creates a satisfying lunch to give one the energy to power through the rest of the work day. Shun Xing is a Dough Fritters speciality stall serving up 9 different types of Dough Fritters. Their location next to the access way leading to the lift that heads up to Polyclinic gives them a prime spot. Their highly affordable prices, and the fact that the offerings are vegetarian, makes them attractive and they sell out often shortly after lunch.

Day Night Fried Kway Teow is the other hugely popular stall that specialises in the dry variety of the Fried Kway Teow. The dish here has tons of pork lard added to increase the crunch and flavour level. A slice of lime is added to create some zest in the dish and this enhances the Wok Hei of the dish to make it heavenly

The only sugar cane drink stall at the Hawker Centre, Sea Lai Hong. The sugarcane juice here is of optimum sweetness and not too sweet. The refreshing juice from this stall, together with other offerings like Hawthorne Drink, Honey Lemon Drink and canned drinks helps to give visitors a place to get themselves hydrated or refreshed after a meal.

A good place to visit for a quick lunch or afternoon tea if one is in the Bukit Merah...

It was a medium size hawker central, busiest during work days lunch time, quiet during weekend.. don't try your luck to dine during late evening and Sunday, you won't find much choices there.. typical choices you could find like, fish soup, mixed economical rice, noodle, duck rice, char gui tiao, chicken rice and deserts.. one particular desert stall was very nice, facing McDonald's side, their red bean soup was restaurant standard. You might tempt to go for cold or hot deserts, genko milk barley soup, Bobo cha cha, ching teng or other sweety after heavy lunch. They operate from lunch till 6pm.. If you can't resist the heat and chaos in hawker central, you can opt for near by aircon dine in, like KFC, mcd, subway.. you could even find some cafes near by, enjoy your chatting with friends, go for gelato, cakes, coffee. Wasn't that a good choice to have high tea to end the busy work week. I believe there is one Thai bar+restaurant. It seems to be interesting for Friday night dining with colleagues... For family folks, you might be thinking of groceries shopping to start your weekend, ntuc stall is considered big, 2 stories, full of food, staples and fruits. The crowd is lesser than vivo, Tiong bharu plaza, you can shop peaceful... Lastly, pizza delivery stall is just across the streets. Self pick up is doable if you opt out for delivery.. this location is convenient to grab food, isn't it.. the question is when would you get...

The place is generally humid cause the ventilation is not the most ideal. Gets really crowded during lunch time so advise to come early. They open really early so food is generally ready at around 10am. They are not open during dinner time, so don't bother.

The vegetarian at the end is really good - food is fresh with a wide variety, prices are reasonable as well. In the same wing, a few rows ahead, there's a YouTiao store that sells really good fried fritters too, even when it's cold, it's crispy and not oily. Char Kuay Tiao wise - there's a Day & Night (?) store that's very popular amongst my colleagues.

Please avoid the Laksa at Soon Huat 18 Lor Mee & Laksa. The Laksa is wrong in so many ways - 1.The cockles is small and measly. 2. The tau pok is sour. 3. The gravy is not rich thick broth but hollow spicy soup. Price is economic but so is the quality, don't waste your...