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| Hawker centre | |||||||
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 Bowrington Food Centre, a famous hawker centre in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district | |||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 小販中心 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 小贩中心 | ||||||
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| Malay name | |||||||
| Malay | Pusat penjaja | ||||||
| Tamil name | |||||||
| Tamil | ஹாக்கர் மையங்கள் | ||||||
A hawker centre or cooked food centre is an often open-air complex commonly found in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia. They were built to provide a more sanitary alternative to mobile hawker carts and contain many stalls that sell different varieties of affordable meals. Dedicated tables and chairs are usually provided for diners.
Such centres are usually managed by a governing authority which maintains the facility and rents out stores for hawkers to ply their goods.