Adam Road Food Centre

Adam Road Food Centre is a well-known hawker centre located at 2 Adam Road in the Bukit Timah planning area of Singapore, near the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Established in 1974 to resettle street hawkers, it houses around 30 stalls offering affordable local dishes. It is particularly famous for Nasi Lemak and other Malay and Indian Muslim specialties, attracting both locals and tourists seeking authentic Singaporean hawker fare in an open-air setting.

Visitors can expect an open-air, single-storey hawker centre with rows of food stalls surrounding communal tables and stools. The environment is casual and bustling, especially at lunch and dinner. Visitors can see vendors preparing dishes such as Nasi Lemak, Mee Soto, and Indian Rojak, order directly from stalls, and dine at shared seating. The centre is clean, well-ventilated, and located beside Adam Road with greenery and proximity to the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Opened in 1974 to resettle street hawkers from the Adam Road area as part of Singapore's hawker resettlement programme. It has operated continuously as a hawker centre under the National Environment Agency, preserving traditional recipes and hawker trades.

Represents Singapore's hawker culture, inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and serves as a community dining space showcasing Malay, Indian Muslim and Chinese culinary traditions, notably Nasi Lemak.