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Buffalo Road Block 665 (Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market)

Buffalo Road Block 665 (Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market) is a wet market and hawker centre in Rochor, Singapore with 119 cooked food stalls and 284 market stalls, run by the National Environment Agency. The agency describes it: "More commonly known as Tekka Centre, the hawker centre is a popular haunt for marketing and dining needs, especially with the Indian community. An amazing variety of fresh produce is sold at the market. Built in 1980, it is the second largest hawker centre in Singapore housing more than 400 stalls. An iconic landmark in the Little India area!"

Also known as Buffalo Road Blk 665 (Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market).

Buffalo Road Block 665 (Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market), a market in Singapore
Buffalo Road Block 665 (Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market), photographed as a market and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Kbseah · CC-BY-SA-4.0

Good for

  • 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 119 cooked food stalls and 284 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 "Buffalo Road Blk 665 (Tekka Centre/Zhu Jiao Market)"; 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 24 of List of Government Markets and Hawker Centres.

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