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Singapore-style hawker centre comes to America

View of Urban Hawker as it opens in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday. (Reuters photo)

NEW YORK: A Singapore-style hawker centre has opened in New York for the first time, bringing flavours from the Southeast Asian island’s mix of Malay, Chinese, Indian and other cultures to an American food court.

Urban Hawker, in midtown Manhattan, features 17 vendors handpicked by the food hall’s curator, KF Seetoh, with 11 coming directly from hawker centres in Singapore.

Each stall specialises in a well-known dish such as chilli crab, oyster…

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