Markets · Geylang

Old Airport Road Block 51 (51 Old Airport Road Food Centre and Shopping Mall)

Old Airport Road Block 51 (51 Old Airport Road Food Centre and Shopping Mall) is a wet market and hawker centre in Geylang, Singapore with 168 cooked food stalls and 54 market stalls, run by the National Environment Agency. The agency describes it: "The renowned Blk 51 Old Airport Road is famed for its excellent yet affordable food. Built in 1973, it consists of 168 cooked food stalls on the ground level and 54 lock-up stalls on the second level. The large number of cooked food stalls serve up an amazing array of cuisines, from local hawker fare to international food. Get thrilled by the gastronomic experience offered by the numerous stalls!"

Also known as Old Airport Road Blk 51 (51 Old Airport Road Food Centre and Shopping Mall).

Good for

Weekend with friends — A 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 168 cooked food stalls and 54 market produce stalls.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

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 "Old Airport Road Blk 51 (51 Old Airport Road Food Centre and Shopping Mall)"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of markup and case, not a rename.
externalIds.sourceRecordId: 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 79 of List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres.

Official information

Address: Blk 51, Old Airport Road, Singapore 390051
Access: public
Setting: mixed
Admission: Not verified — see official website
Status: active

No official website has been verified for this place.

Point: 1.30828, 103.88584 · venue location · known to about 25 m
Verified: Verified against an official geospatial source, 2026-09-07
Source: National Environment Agency; Singapore Land Authority

Resolved from the postal code published with the record through the national gazetteer.

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Visit information

Checked 2026-09-07

Hours: Published per date rather than as a weekly pattern
Access: public · arrival point is the venue location
Worth knowing: Individual stalls keep their own hours and rest days, so the centre has no single timetable. The agency publishes scheduled closures instead, and those are recorded here.

This venue: Closed for scheduled cleaning from 2026-09-28 to 2026-10-01. (as published, until 2026-10-01)
This venue: Closed for scheduled cleaning from 2026-12-07 to 2026-12-10. (as published, until 2026-12-10)

Checked against National Environment Agency on 2026-09-07. Operational details can change — confirm with the operator before travelling.

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