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As local delights await us after hard work and school,
all of us would go to a special place to charge up our
stomachs and bond with fellow citizens in one of
Singapore’s well-known places, hawker centres!

One of the latest hawker centres is One Punggol Hawker
Centre. Since One Punggol Hawker Centre is relatively
new, there is advanced technology while preserving
Singapore’s culture and nostalgia. You may find friendly
robots helping to collect trays alongside older women
cleaning up the tables. Another thing is that there are
many very clean tables for you to use. In some stalls,
there could be a conveyor belt for you to return your
trays once you have finished your food.

When you wait to collect your food, you could either
spend $2 and receive a newspaper to read, or you could
chat and bond with other people, resulting in a connected centres are an excellent place to bond and share. We
neighbourhood. Research has shown that around 78% should go to hawker centres more often so that we
of Singaporeans head to the hawker centre to eat at can bond with one another, make more friends, have
least once a week, and an even smaller percentage of fun and enjoy ourselves. I recommend that everyone
people have never gone to a hawker centre once in their explore new food and bond with their neighbours there!
lifetime!

The reason why people work as hawkers to sell something “At One Punggol, even robots help clean —
that most Singaporeans are not able to produce is that but it’s still the hawkers’ love and tradition
their family’s recipes were handed down to them from that make every meal special.”
generation to generation. Many of these hawkers also
desire to share with everyone the tasty, delicious food
from their heritage.
Britto Aaron Julien Bordadora
Every hawker’s food is made with love and care while P6.1
still being affordable to everyone. Hawker centres show North Spring Primary School
us that the way to the heart is through food, and One
Punggol is no exception. I truly believe that hawker

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