Tekka Centre
Wet market and hawker hall in Little India, trading fresh produce and street food since 1915.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Tekka Centre in Little India follows the many names this market has carried: Tek Kia Kha, the Hokkien phrase for foot of the small bamboos, the buffalo pens that gave the street its English name, and a nineteen eighty-one government attempt to rename the whole complex in Mandarin. It traces the languages, Tamil, Hokkien and Malay, still spoken across its stalls. Walk through the wet market and listen for how many histories move through one transaction.
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