Newton Food Centre

Newton Food Centre is an outdoor hawker centre on Clemenceau Avenue North, made internationally recognisable by its appearance in the film Crazy Rich Asians and long favoured for open-air BBQ seafood dining. Stalls grill stingray, prawns and other seafood to order over charcoal, priced by weight, alongside classics such as Hokkien mee cooked in dark, savoury gravy. The centre is entirely open-air, with rows of plastic tables under a canopy roof, and the atmosphere leans lively and touristic in the evenings, when barbecue smoke and hawker touts calling out menus create a distinctly Singaporean street-dining scene. There is no wine list; the drinks of choice are cold beer and fresh sugarcane juice from nearby stalls. As with all hawker centres, there is no formal reservation system, and prices for BBQ seafood, unlike most hawker fare, run higher at SGD 20-40 per dish given the seafood and grilling involved — it is worth confirming the price before ordering, as this centre has drawn some criticism over the years for touts overcharging tourists. It operates from noon into the early hours, making it a reliable late-night option.