Tekka is Hokkien for 'foot of the bamboo'. Before the area was developed, it was a kampung dotted with bamboo clumps along the Rochor River. The original Tekka Market opened in 1915 on the opposite side of Serangoon Road. The current building dates to 1982, when the authorities consolidated wet-market traders, Indian fabric vendors, and hawkers under one roof. Upstairs, the hawker centre is one of the very few in Singapore where Indian food — biryani stalls, dosai counters, fish-head curry — dominates over Chinese.
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Name origins
Tekka means 'foot of the bamboo'
The market gets its name from the bamboo clumps that once stood along the Rochor River.