12 Cheap & Good Stalls at Chong Boon Market & Food Centre

For delicious and comforting bowls of fish soup with premium red grouper along with your preferred choice of rice and noodles, Cai Ji Fried Fish Soup is where to go. It’s only natural that many would flock here during peak hours, but we assure you it’s well worth the wait. Apart from the premium red grouper, the stall also offers normal fish soup, fried fish soup and seafood soup. You can also customise your choice of veggies with xiao bai cai and lettuce, or even bitter gourd and yam!

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-10, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 10:30 AM–2:30 PM, 4:30–7:30 PM Tues to Sun. Closed on Mon

Yong Xin has been here for over 10 years serving up a variety of bak chor mee options. Once again, expect long queues here, although it does move pretty quickly thanks to the experienced chef and his wife. Patrons come for their signature Famous Noodles, Minced Meat Noodles, Fishball Noodle and Dry Vermicelli. Your choice of noodles is perfectly cooked and crowned with ingredients like fishballs, meatballs, pork slices, fish cake slices, minced meat, pork lard and fried shallots. 

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-39, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 6 AM–3 PM Wed to Sun. Closed Mon & Tues

While Tian Tian Lai might not stand amongst the top char kway teows in Singapore, the underrated stall serves a delightful plate of char kway teow that is sweet, smoky and garlicky. The plate is piled with rice noodles, fish cake, lup cheong, cockles and beansprouts. And what’s special about it is that the dish is finished with a smattering of fried pork lard bits! If you’re not feeling kway teow, the stall also does fried bee hoon and fried maggi in the same style.

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-13, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 12:30–8 PM Sun to Fri. Closed on Sat

96 Kwai Luck has been providing some the best mee siam experience since 1979, and fans praise it for its rich, coconut-y gravy with pronounced notes of tamarind, belacan, and fermented bean paste. Each bowl also comes with bee hoon and a hard-boiled egg all swimming in their signature aromatic gravy. 

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-20, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 6:20 am–12 pm Tues, 4 am–1 pm Wed to Fri, 4 am–2 pm Sat & Sun. Closed on Mon

At Chong Boon Market & Food Centre you’ll likely see many diners with claypots at their table. Look to Yu Fa Claypot Delights, which serves up a wide variety of claypot dishes, including crowd favourites such as Vinegar Pig Trotters, Assam Stringray, Braised Pork Belly With Preserved Vegetable and Red Rice Wine Chicken. Nourishing, hearty and delicious, they’re best with a simple bowl of rice.

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-25, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 11:45 AM–3 PM, 5:30–8:30 PM Tues to Sat. Closed Sun & Mon

Rahim Muslim Food has been around since 1957 and is now run by its third-generation. Their signature dish, the Extra Special Mee Rebus comes with a whole succulent whole chicken thigh and it is also dressed with a ladleful of satay sauce. The nutty complement to the rich mee rebus gravy is mouthwatering and a squeeze of lime helps to cut through any heaviness!

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-01, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 12:30–7 PM Mon to Sat. Closed on Sun

At Bin Fen Economic Bee Hoon you’ll not only find the usual bee hoon, kway teow, and nasi lemak, but you also have glutinous rice as an option! You’ll also have the usual ingredients such as otah, fried egg, fish fillet and veggies to go with your choice of carbs. Unsurprisingly, the glutinuous rice is a popular pick here, so try to get here early so as to not be disappointed!

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-03, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 5 AM–3 PM Sat to Thurs. Closed on Fri

Specialising in Teochew-style BKT, the Bak Kut Teh Claypot at Seng Kee sees fall-off-the-bone spare ribs swimming in a soup stock that is light and peppery, robust with sweetness from the pork bones and balanced by a mild herbal note. The stall also has Braised Pork Trotters and if you’re in luck, the seasonal White Rabbit Fish is also a must-try for its delicate flesh that comes with none of the usual fishiness.

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-31, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 7 AM–9 PM Tues to Sun. Closed on Mon

To quell your satay craving, swing by Hougang Five Mile Cooked Food where you’ll get to pick between chicken, pork, and lamb satay. Not only are they affordably priced at 70c per stick, each piece is also thick and generously portioned. These well-marinated skewers generally sell out around 7-8 pm, so come by early to place your order.

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-08, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 10 AM–8 PM Tues to Sun. Closed on Mon

You won’t typically find lor mee and laksa at the same hawker stall, but that’s exactly what Ang Mo Kio Loh Mee Laksa specialises in. The stall has been a popular haunt for over a decade now, consistently drawing in long queues. The lor mee features a gravy that is perfectly gooey, neither too thick nor too diluted with notes of Chinese spices shining through. Each portion also comes with fried ngoh hiang, pork slices, and beansprouts. On the other hand, the laksa has a rich and spicy gravy with the usual suspects of tau pok, fish cake, egg and cockles.

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-17, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 6 AM–2 PM Thurs to Tues. Closed on Wed

Slurp-worthy hokkien mee can be found at this stall. Neither too wet nor too dry, this hokkien mee comes added with pork lard for an extra dimension of fragrance and texture. However, the star of the show here is the belachan chilli which packs a very spicy punch and makes the already above-average noodles even better!

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-12, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 12–8 PM Tues to Sun. Closed on Mon

Freshly made soya bean drink is hard to come by these days, so snag up a portion at Lucky Soya Bean Milk, which has over 40 years of history. Apart from soya bean milk, the old-school stall also has grass jelly and and mock bird’s nest drink, perfect for cooling off on a hot day!

Address: 453A Ang Mo Kio Ave 10, #01-26, Singapore 561453
Opening Hours: 11 AM–9:30 PM Mon & Tues, 10 AM–9:30 PM Wed & Thurs, Sat & Sun, 7 AM–9:30 PM Sun