Foreigners perspective - Sandeep

Hawker centres are great places where people gather to eat food. Hawker centres offer an amazing variety of food. Coming from a place like Mauritius i have never seen a lot of hawker centres or food courts since the concept is not very popular there. I believe that the concept of having stalls which offer their own specialities is very innovative. Food courts and hawker centres offer great fast food at amazing prices. Many of the foreigners come to singapore to try the local cuisine. Invariably all of them end up going to either a hawker centre or a food court. Not only do the stalls offer local delicacies, many of them also provide western food and food from other parts of the world.

Some foreigners find it difficult to eat at hawker centres as they cant find good vegetarian food and some of them feel that they are not very hygienic. Food courts on the other hand are quite popular with all types of tourists because they cater to everyones taste and are very clean because of the strict hygiene standards that they have to maintain. Food courts are usually always crowded because of their strategic locations for example in malls and commercial buildings. The average food court tends to be slightly more expensive then the hawker centre. But i guess thats the price you pay for the cleanliness and the ambience.

All the different stalls in the food courts and the hawker centres work well together as units. People who come for lunch can eat lunch from one stall, get a drink from another stall and dessert from yet another one. To conclude i would say that food courts and hawker centres offer something very different to the foreigners something that they most probably would not have seen or experienced back home.