Five dishes to try at the new Pasir Ris Central Hawker Centre

Run by 24-year-old Cheryl Tan, Tasty Street is a healthy grain bowl stall that offers low-calorie options served with brown and pearl rice. There’s the sous vide chicken breast bowl ($3.50/$5.50) covered in wolfberry wine sauce and an assortment of colourful vegetables, but if you’re looking to indulge, we recommend the Iberico Lor Bah ($6.50) – braised pork belly cubes that melt in the mouth served with mixed greens and a luxurious onsen egg.

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Boasting one of the longest queues at the centre, Wild Olives offers a Singaporean-style western food most of us grew up eating. But instead of baked beans and frozen crinkle-cut fries – the dishes here, like the grilled chicken ($8.90) with mushroom sauce and sirloin steak ($10.90), are served with roasted potatoes, coleslaw or fresh greens.

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Prawnaholic sets itself apart from the other stall selling prawn noodles on the first floor through its toppings. It’s the only place we’ve seen serving prawn mee ($6.50/$8.50) with torched pork belly, sakura ebi and a springy homemade prawn ball in a robust broth full of umami goodness.

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The hawker centre has a section entirely dedicated to Halal food – and that’s where you’ll find Epikebabs, a doner kebab specialist. Choose between rotisserie chicken, beef or have them both stuffed into your kebab alongside fresh vegetables and a sauce of your choice. Rolls are priced at $6 without any sides but you can choose to add fries ($3), rice ($1) or falafel ($2.50) if you’re feeling extra peckish.

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Not only does Cajun on Wheels hawk Cajun seafood boils – buckets of seafood loaded with Sri Lankan crab, prawns, clams, mussels and more – it does so in an unpretentious hawker environment and is Halal too. If the seafood boils are a little too much for you (prices start from $92 for two to three people), there are also more affordably priced boxed sets such as the popular giant squid box ($9.50) and mixed seafood box ($9.50).

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