Lavender Food Square

If you're staying at one of the Bugis hostels you may find yourself coming to Lavender Food Square again and again for cheap meals and beer.

Despite the central location, very few tourists find their way here and just $3-5 gets you an endless variety of dishes like wonton soup, roasted duck rice, fried carrot cake, chicken curry, Hong Kong-style dim sum, and fried noodles with plump prawns. Lavender Food Square is also very hot and crowded, but the solution seems to be Tiger beer on ice. Some stalls are open past midnight.