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Tiong Bahru Market

Tiong Bahru Market is a wet market and hawker centre in Bukit Merah, Singapore with 83 cooked food stalls and 259 market stalls, run by the National Environment Agency. The agency describes it: "Located in one of the oldest and most charming neighbourhoods, Tiong Bahru Market was built in 1950 as a single-storey centre. The centre merged with Blk 84 and 84A Lim Liak Street during the upgrading in 2006, and was converted into a three-storey building: market stalls on the ground floor, cooked food stalls on the second floor and a carpark on the third. It is the fourth largest hawker centre in Singapore with 259 market stalls and 83 cooked food stalls! Well-known for the many popular stalls within the centre."

Tiong Bahru Market, a market in Singapore
Tiong Bahru Market, photographed as a market and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Kbseah · CC-BY-SA-4.0

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  • Weekend with friendsA trading place that is busiest, and most worth seeing, when everyone else is there too. It is in this corpus as a wet market and hawker centre on the government markets and hawker centres list, with 83 cooked food stalls and 259 market produce stalls.

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coordinates.latitude
List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres (Primary); OneMap search gazetteer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Resolved from the postal code published with the record through the Singapore Land Authority gazetteer, which returned "None".
coordinates.longitude
List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres (Primary); OneMap search gazetteer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres (Primary); OneMap search gazetteer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "Tiong Bahru Market"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of markup and case, not a rename.
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List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres (Primary); OneMap search gazetteer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier National Environment Agency gives this record. Read from the response.
category
List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres (Primary); OneMap search gazetteer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "sg_hawker".
neighborhoodId
List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres (Primary); OneMap search gazetteer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned by point-in-polygon against the Urban Redevelopment Authority's published Master Plan boundary.

Operational details last checked 2026-09-07. Facts of this kind are treated as current for 120 days.

Created from record 100 of List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres.

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