The story
Tekka — Hokkien for 'foot of the bamboo' — was a kampung once dotted with bamboo clumps near the Rochor River. The original Tekka Market opened in 1915 on the opposite side of the road. The current building dates to 1982, when authorities consolidated wet-market traders, Indian fabric vendors, and hawkers under one roof. Upstairs, the hawker centre is one of the few in Singapore where Indian food (biryani, dosai, fish-head curry stalls) dominates.