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Hougang Street 21 Block 209 (Kovan Hougang Market and Food Centre)

Hougang Street 21 Block 209 (Kovan Hougang Market and Food Centre) is a wet market and hawker centre in Hougang, Singapore with 66 cooked food stalls and 120 market stalls, run by the National Environment Agency. The agency describes it: "Conveniently situated in the heartlands of Kovan, the hawker centre at Blk 209 Hougang Street 21 is minutes away from Kovan MRT. Built in 1983, the centre houses 65 cooked food stalls and 118 market stalls. Be prepared to queue for your favourite dish at the popular cooked food stalls within the hawker centre!"

Also known as Hougang Street 21 Blk 209 (Kovan Hougang Market and Food Centre).

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 66 cooked food stalls and 120 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 "Hougang Street 21 Blk 209 (Kovan Hougang Market and Food Centre)"; 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 55 of List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres.

Official information

Address: Blk 209, Hougang Street 21, Singapore 530209
Access: public
Setting: mixed
Admission: Not verified — see official website
Status: active

No official website has been verified for this place.

Point: 1.35908, 103.88593 · 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 2026-09-21 to 2026-09-22. (as published, until 2026-09-22)
This venue: Closed for scheduled cleaning from 2026-11-16 to 2026-11-20. (as published, until 2026-11-20)

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

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