Hawker centre

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Hawker centre
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
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xiǎofàn Zhōngxīn
Malay name
Malay	Pusat penjaja
Tamil name
Tamil	ஹாக்கர் மையங்கள்

A hawker centre or cooked food centre is an open-air complex commonly found in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. 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.