It took me at least 20 minutes before I looked up at the curved ceiling of the new Margaret Market and realized that it was the old structure where Sin Kee was back in the day. And they've done an impressive job with all of the nicely decorated stalls there (38 Margaret Drive).
Urban Folks Margaret Market Toasties and Homme Baker Cheesecake with pictures of food at new cafe at Queenstown Singapore
We take a tour of the new Margaret Market food outlets in this redeveloped market. Built in 1956, it was formerly known as the Commonwealth Avenue Wet Market & Food Centre. It was gazetted for conservation by URA and has now reopened as a venue with cafes, shops and lifestyle services. The Margaret Drive hawker centre (also quite new) is in another building next to it.
Margaret Market shines a spotlight on homegrown brands, artisan bakers, and innovative cooks to showcase unique offerings in Queenstown.
WaWa’s Lala and Cockles are daily imported and kept live in their self-built clam aquarium before going into the kitchen.
I decided to try the old school looking chicken chop from No 1 Western Food. Frankly, I did check with my friend who lives around the area and her verdict was that it used to be superbly good in the old Margaret Drive Hawker Centre but standard had dropped.
Ingredients were generally good, with the exception of the bitter ginkgo nuts! I was most impressed with the addition of red dates, which wasn't that common in many cheng tng stalls, and the stall operator used pretty good quality ones!
The vegetarian bee hoon was nice and moist and lightly savoury, with mock goose or fried beancurd skin that was crispy and fragrant, and mock duck that was qq and again lightly savoury. Good stuff.
Popular Old School Western Food shifted to Magaret Drive.