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Hawker Food Tours in Singapore: The 15 Best Crawls

29 tours  ·  from $51

A hawker centre is thirty stalls and one right answer per counter. The 15 below take you to the queues that matter in Chinatown, Maxwell and Lau Pa Sat, priced by tasting count, with a note on which run in the cool of the evening.

Small Group: Michelin and Local Hawker Food Tour with 9 tastings - Starting at 9:30 am on New Bridge Road
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Small Group: Michelin and Local Hawker Food Tour with 9 tastings

1.Small Group: Michelin and Local Hawker Food Tour with 9 tastings

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,890 reviews · from $79Our pick

Join a guide such as Vincent, Lisa, William, or Swee Lin for 3.5 hours of Chinatown history and 9 to 10 generous hawker tastings. You’ll visit Maxwell Food Centre and Chinatown Complex, with help ordering and finding seats, but fixed dishes may include pork, lard, seafood, soy, and peanuts.

“What a great experience tasting the best dishes while learning about culture, history, society and the heart of Singapore. The service was also excellent, there were tables available for our group and the stalls were very welcoming, even thougRead more”

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Small Group: Singapore Street Food & Night Tour with 9 tastings - Clarke Quay and the working Singapore River
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Small Group: Singapore Street Food & Night Tour with 9 tastings

2.Small Group: Singapore Street Food & Night Tour with 9 tastings

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 1,240 reviews · from $79

Start at Clarke Quay at 6 pm for bak kut teh, Indian dishes, hawker tastings, and local drinks. Walk beside the Singapore River through Boat Quay to Marina Bay, with stops at Fullerton Hotel, Merlion Park, Clifford Pier, and Lau Pa Sat. Guides such as Ping, Heng, Jeffery, and Linda add personal stories.

“Ping is an excellent friendly knowledgeable and passionate guide who explains her country’s food and culture in this tour. The food experience is brilliant and you meet some lovely travellers. Highly recommended.”

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Singapore: UNESCO Street Food & Cultural Experience - Chinatown: start with Singapore’s hawker tradition
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Singapore: UNESCO Street Food & Cultural Experience

3.Singapore: UNESCO Street Food & Cultural Experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 524 reviews · from $161

Join Gerry for a five-and-a-half-hour tour through Chinatown, Kampong Glam, and Little India. Eat at UNESCO-listed hawker centers, learn to use Singapore’s MRT and buses, and sample Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Indonesian-inspired dishes, drinks, tea, coffee, and beer.

“This experience was definitely a highlight of our short trip to Singapore. Gerry is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about keeping Singapore culture alive and thriving. He also has an amazing way of bringing together the grouRead more”

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Small-Group Food Tour With Hawker Center: Eat Like A Local - Katong-Joo Chiat and the Peranakan table
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Small-Group Food Tour With Hawker Center: Eat Like A Local

4.Small-Group Food Tour With Hawker Center: Eat Like A Local

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 420 reviews · from $161

Follow a guide and a group of up to eight through Singapore’s food quarters, from kaya toast and Peranakan treats to hawker classics, Malay dishes, and dosa. You’ll walk about 3 kilometers, ride public buses, and finish in Little India. Guides such as Su Ling, Pam, Richard, and Kwang are known for adding strong cultural context.

“I have done food tours all over the world, but his food tour was amazing! I kept telling the tour guide Pam - that I was so impressed with this tour. Because we visited so many neighborhoods in this tour, I felt that I got to see Singapore in ways I would not on my own. This tour is a must do in Singapore and Pam was so knowledgable and very dynamic.”

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Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Market Food Tour with 7 Food Tastings - The first tastes: bak kwa, coffee, and kaya toast
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Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Market Food Tour with 7 Food Tastings

5.Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Market Food Tour with 7 Food Tastings

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 213 reviews · from $146

Spend three hours walking through Chinatown with guides such as Kent, Edwin, Natalie, or Jag, stopping for kaya toast, chicken rice, chwee kueh, chendol, local beer, and more. Expect a small group of up to 12, plenty of cultural background, and a menu that may change.

“Ronny was an excellent tour guide, he was really friendly and knowledgeable about Singapore, Chinatown and the food scene. Come hungry - I struggled to finish all the food!!”

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Singapore: Local Hawker Food Tour with Tastings - Meeting at Chinatown MRT Exit E
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Singapore: Local Hawker Food Tour with Tastings

6.Singapore: Local Hawker Food Tour with Tastings

★★★★★★★★★★4.7 · 181 reviews · 3 hours · from $72

Start at Chinatown MRT and follow a small English-speaking group through Hong Lim, Maxwell, and Chinatown Complex. Your guide, often William, Richard, Swee Lin, or another local host, explains Singaporean food culture while an assistant queues for 9 to 10 tastings.

“Swee Lin was very knowledgeable and told us all about the history of the food we were eating which made it far more interesting. Food was delicious and really gave us a sense of the multi cultural society in Singapore. I would really recommend.”

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Singapore Street Food Tour with a Local: A Feast for Foodies 100% Personalized - Entering Singapore’s main hawker centers
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Singapore Street Food Tour with a Local: A Feast for Foodies 100% Personalized

7.Singapore Street Food Tour with a Local: A Feast for Foodies 100% Personalized

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 169 reviews · from $216

Spend three hours with a private Singapore food guide, tasting 6 to 8 hawker dishes in Chinatown and nearby food centers. Your pre-tour questionnaire shapes the route, with guides such as Roy, Stan, Adam, and Jack adapting stops for dietary needs, favorite dishes, and schedule.

“A great time! Dr Stan is a wonderful guide, and he knows all the places to get the tasty food, with historical info along the way. We tried many items that were new to us, and enjoyed them all. We definitely recommend this.”

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A Taste of Singapore: Hawker Center Private Customized Food Tour - Telok Ayer Street: noodles, history, and a useful first lesson
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A Taste of Singapore: Hawker Center Private Customized Food Tour

8.A Taste of Singapore: Hawker Center Private Customized Food Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 106 reviews · from $137

Spend about 2.5 hours with a private local host sampling Singaporean favorites such as chicken rice, wonton noodles, dim sum, spring rolls, and kaya toast. Guides including Ang, Jon, Monica, and Teng have earned praise for food knowledge, history, and dietary care, though meeting details need confirmation.

“The guide was very knowledgeable and gave us much information about Singapore but we were expecting to stop at different food outlets to sample various different offerings. As it was we only sampled food, which was excellent, at the end. Having experienced a most enjoyable street food evening in Delhi we were expecting something similar.”

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Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Food Tasting Tour - Chinatown streets, temples, and old stories
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Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Food Tasting Tour

9.Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Food Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 96 reviews · from $88

Meet your STB-licensed guide at Chinatown Visitor Centre at 9 a.m. for a three-hour walk through Smith Street and Chinatown. Taste eight local dishes, including chicken rice, toast, coffee, cakes, jerky, spring rolls, and carrot cake, while guides such as Yong, Corliss, Cheyenne, and Yap explain the food and the district’s past.

“Cheyenne was a fantastic guide and had so much insight and fun food experiences in store for us. It was a wide variety of sweet and savory, as well as common and uncommon cuisine. It was a great combination of the Singapore history and current climate all through the most delicious of foods. Would highly recommend!!”

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Kampong Glam, Little India & Chinatown with Local Street Food Tastings - Little India brings color, scent, and a hawker-center meal
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Kampong Glam, Little India & Chinatown with Local Street Food Tastings

10.Kampong Glam, Little India & Chinatown with Local Street Food Tastings

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 70 reviews · from $177

Follow a private guide through Kampong Glam, Little India, and Chinatown, sampling nine local foods and drinks along the way. Guides such as Grayson, Grace, Joseph, and Nigel explain the history behind each neighborhood and dish. Expect a good amount of walking, an MRT ride, and generous tasting portions.

“We booked last minute (Saturday night for Sunday afternoon). We were her on business and realistically only had a few hours free. This seemed ideal. We opted to be picked up at our hotel which, as luck would have it, was pretty close to the tour start point (Haji Lane). We walked around and tried some Arabic snacks, then walked approximately 1km to Little India, to a hawker centre where we tried tosai, and then on, via the MRT, to Chinatown, to our final destination (the broken tooth temple) and Chinese dumplings. Throughout the tour our guide, Loy was a constant source of interesting historical facts and anecdotes - he…”

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Michelin Premium Food Tour with Hawker Centre & Chinatown Tour - The hawker centre and wet market
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Michelin Premium Food Tour with Hawker Centre & Chinatown Tour

11.Michelin Premium Food Tour with Hawker Centre & Chinatown Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 50 reviews · from $117

Join a licensed guide such as Sam, Tang, Desmond, or Jasmine for a three-hour Chinatown walk with four food stops. Taste two Michelin-rated dishes, an egg tart, and a local dessert while visiting a hawker centre, wet market, Sri Mariamman Temple, and historic streets.

“Tang was an amazing tour guide. He was friendly and knowledgeable. We enjoyed the delicious food and learned about the history of Singapore.”

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UNESCO Hawker Culture: Chinatown Food Tasting Tour - Starting near Sri Mariamman Temple
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UNESCO Hawker Culture: Chinatown Food Tasting Tour

12.UNESCO Hawker Culture: Chinatown Food Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 47 reviews · from $88

Spend three hours with a licensed local guide such as Jeanette, Ronnie, or Kelvin, sampling 9 to 10 hawker dishes and drinks around Chinatown. Visit Sri Mariamman Temple, Maxwell Food Centre, Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, Smith Street, and a traditional coffeehouse in a group of up to 10.

“Kelvin did a fantastic job with the Chinatown Food Tasting Tour for us! We learned about the history, culture and food! We tasted so many unique dishes it is hard to capture the feeling in a few words! We went with our kids, both of them arRead more”

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UNESCO Hawker Culture: Chinatown Food Tasting Tour - Starting near Sri Mariamman Temple
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UNESCO Hawker Culture: Chinatown Food Tasting Tour

13.UNESCO Hawker Culture: Chinatown Food Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 43 reviews · 3 hours · from $69

Spend three hours walking Chinatown with guides such as Ronnie, Jeanette, Kent, or Kelvin. Taste 9 to 10 local foods and drinks, see Yip Yew Chong murals, visit Maxwell Food Centre and Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, and learn how Singapore’s immigrant communities shaped its food culture.

“this was a fantastic tour with an absolutely lovely guide. she had great knowledge and conveyed that generously. i was enchanted with the little coffee shop and the beautiful history behind it. The hawker centre was bustling with liveliness and energy, I enjoyed it immensely. Also I am vegan and Our lovely guide did her very best to accommodate me. I loved every Minute.”

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Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Guided 8-Dish Tasting Tour - The first tastes: coffee, spring rolls, and local habits
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Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Guided 8-Dish Tasting Tour

14.Singapore: Chinatown Hawker Guided 8-Dish Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 41 reviews · 3 hours · from $86

Spend three hours walking Chinatown with an English-speaking guide such as Alfie, Corliss, Yap, or Weng, tasting eight local dishes at hawker centers and small food stops. Expect chicken rice, coffee, spring rolls, carrot cake, Chinatown stories, and plenty of eating. Come hungry.

“Our tour with Yap was just incredible! He took us to some great little places thay were off the typical tourist track where we had some of the best food! The Hainanese Chicken Rice was really special; and we tried so many other dishes. He taught us how to prder our coffee correctly, and we ised this information for the rest of our trip repeatedly! Not only did we have the best food, but Yap gave us such a fantastic history of Singapore and an insight into the social structure and culture of Singaporeans. We walked around Chinatown and Yap showed us cool buildings, sites, paintings and more. He was…”

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Singapore: Local Street Food Tasting Tour - Starting in Kampong Glam
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Singapore: Local Street Food Tasting Tour

15.Singapore: Local Street Food Tasting Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 36 reviews · 3 hours · from $150

Spend three hours walking through Kampong Glam, Little India, and Chinatown with a private English-speaking guide. Taste nine local foods and drinks at hawker centers and neighborhood eateries, ride the MRT, and finish at Chinatown Complex. Hotel pickup is available as an upgrade.

“Such a great way to start our time in Singapore. Grayson was really lovely and sweet. He had so much history and knowledge of the areas we visited. I would 100% recommend and would also suggest doing so at the start of your trip as will better set you up for the rest of your time there. Thanks Grayson for your time and knowledge of Singapore! Wish you the best!”

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