Like roti prata and Singapore Sling, hawker centres are among this island’s great inventions. It provides a wide range of food at cheap prices. The government subsidises the rents of hawker centres.
Singaporean food lovers in New York should thank KF Seetoh. Seetoh is an old boy of SJI or St Joseph’s Institution. He was a photographer with The Straits Times. He later became a food critic and moved to New York to put Singapore’s hawker centre on the world stage.
In the autumn of 2022, Seetoh opened New York’s first hawker centre. Urban Hawker is a few blocks away from Broadway. It is just like Lau Pa Sat, except it is not open-air.
