Singapore’s hawker centers let you have food and clothing without worries

Singapore is the second country in Asia to enter the ranks of developed countries. Its per capita GDP not only ranks first in Asia, but has even left some old European capitalist countries behind. However, even when a country enters the so-called highly developed category, poverty cannot be avoided, and there is inevitably a group of disadvantaged groups - such as those with low education, the elderly unemployed, and the disabled. Or wait. In Singapore, I accidentally discovered a new word - hawker center. This kind of hawker center is very similar to a domestic free market, where you can buy almost all kinds of food and clothing. What is even more commendable is that the Singaporean government attaches great importance to the construction of hawker centers - not only retaining a large number of hawker centers in traditional neighborhoods, but also building hawker centers of varying sizes in newly developed urban communities, even in CBD areas where high-rise buildings gather. If you can find a hawker center, it is no exaggeration to say that every day at noon, almost all Singaporeans gather in hawker centers across the country to enjoy an affordable and delicious working lunch.

The hawker centers located in every corner are doing very well, with people coming and going from morning to night. The most common business in hawker centers is a variety of snacks - even authentic snacks that are rarely found in the market can only be found in hawker centers, and the prices are extremely reasonable.

In this hawker center near Chinatown, I chatted with the lady who runs a snack bar because I was sheltered from the rain. Her small shop is the one with the best location in the entire hawker center. The area of ??the small shop is less than six square meters, and the monthly rent is 800 Singapore dollars - this rent is actually not enough for an ordinary labor cost. Because there is no pressure on rent, the couple is not willing to spend too much time in this small shop. They finish work and go home at four or five o'clock every afternoon. However, according to my sister-in-law, there are also some shop owners who work until one or two o'clock in the middle of the night in order to earn more money.