Geylang Serai Market

Geylang Serai Market is a wet market and hawker centre at 1 Geylang Serai, in the Malay cultural heartland of Geylang Serai, about 650 metres from Paya Lebar MRT station. A makeshift market stood near the site before 1930, and Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew laid the foundation stone of a proper covered market in August 1963; it opened in 1964 as Pasar Geylang Serai. By the 1970s it had an eating house known for the widest range of Muslim food in Singapore, a wet market and a textile and sundries section. The old building was torn down in 2006, and stallholders returned in 2009 to a building shaped like a Malay kampong house.

The National Environment Agency counts 302 market stalls and 63 cooked food stalls, making it the third biggest hawker centre in Singapore by stall count, and says its design draws on rural Malay architecture. The market has drawn crowds of shoppers before Hari Raya since at least the early 1980s, some from across the Causeway. Repairs and upgrading under the Hawker Centres Transformation Programme ran from 29 July to 31 October 2024, and the centre closes for cleaning from 14 to 16 December 2026.