Tekka Market One of Singapore’s largest wet markets, located at the junction of Bukit Timah Road and Serangoon Road. ‘Tekka’ is a transliteration of the Hokkien term ‘tek kia kah’, (literally ‘foot of bamboo shoots’). The Chinese community referred to the area and the market simply as Tek Kah, and the Malays called it Kandang Kerbau (Malay for ‘buffalo enclosures’). When the old Tek Kah market was torn down in 1981 and rebuilt across the street, it was located in the podium block of a new multi- purpose complex which the government named Zhujiao Centre. ‘Zhujiao’ is the Hanyu Pinyin version of ‘Tek Kah’. After much criticism, the complex was renamed Tekka Market in 2000.

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