Is there a hawker stall selling local food in walking distance from Changi airport?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 19 Jul, 2023
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The canteen I stumbled upon was much smaller than the others at Changi Airport that jpatokal revealed. It’s also less comparable to an actual hawker stall
This one is called “Yan’s Cafe” and was kind of in an outside edge of the Terminal 2 building according to a reference to it I found online though at the time I thought it was the Terminal 3 building.
I enjoyed what I consider a pretty typical Singaporean canteen meal.
Most of the customers seemed to be local taxi drivers, shuttlebus drivers, etc, rather than uniformed airport staff as in jpatokal’s amazing answer.
Yes: more specifically, the staff canteens at the airport are open to the public, serving authentic and tasty Singaporean fare at rock-bottom prices! Despite the name “canteen”, these are mini-hawker centres with a dozen or so independently run stalls each specializing in specific dishes/cuisines. There are at least three of these:
Terminal 2
The one you’ll never find by accident is next to Terminal 2: head out from Customs, turn left, cross the road, enter the carpark (2A) and take the elevator up to level 3M, which is marked “Staff Canteen”. Here’s the illustrated journey, photos mine:
Terminal 1
There is a similar but newer one in Terminal 1, detailed instructions here. TL;DR: find Row 13 in Departures hall, take lift at end down to B1.
Terminal 3
The least secret of the three is the Kopitiam food court in the air-conditioned shopping mall below Terminal 3 (level B2), between the MRT station and arrivals: just follow the signs for “24 hr food court” right after Customs to take the escalators or lifts two floors down. This is slightly more expensive (meals from around S$5), but it’s also air-conditioned, attractively presented and has a good selection of halal options:
…and still half price compared to the airside food courts.
Google maps claims there is, with Hai Chang Fishhead Steamboat being identified as a Hawker Stall.
It appears to be a part of the Tampines Round Market, so is likely not the only one there.
I can’t get it to give walking directions, but it’s about 4-5km if I eye-ball the distance, so for me that’s walking distance, but YMMV.
A blog review or two are available online if you’d like some photos.
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