Tekka Centre

Tekka Centre is a multi-use building complex comprising a wet market, food centre and shops, located in the northern corner of Bukit Timah Road and Serangoon Road, in Little India, Singapore, next to Little India MRT station.

[1] The case of Tekka Centre is often used to illustrate the complexities of Chinese language romanisation in Singapore.

site, the new multi-use complex, was named Zhujiao Centre (Chinese: 竹脚中心), the pinyin version of Tek Kha.

However, to locals, especially non-Chinese, the new word Zhujiao was both hard to read and pronounce and bore no resemblance to Tekka.

At the wet market which was on the same level, stalls sell fresh seafood, especially crabs from Sri Lanka, and vegetables.

The entrance to Tekka Centre's hawker centre and wet market
Interior of Tekka Market showing both the ground and second levels, selling food and goods respectively