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Syafiqah Rahman

No. 96 · Thursday 12 November 2026 · Singapore

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Syafiqah at a hawker-centre table with a tray of food

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This week’s issue

Where to eat this weekend: nine tables, one budget and a very long queue

Every Thursday I walk the same four hawker centres at ten in the morning, before the queues start, and this week I found a stall I wish I had known about in March.

No. 96 · Nov 12, 2026 · 9 min read

Overhead hawker table crowded with local dishes

The best plate was a bowl of noodles with a broth that took two days. The best queue was for a kopi stall where the owner knows every customer’s order and half of their cousins.

This week I go through nine places across the island, talk to the aunty who has run one stall for thirty-one years, and explain why the cheapest table on the list is also the one I would book for a birthday.

Plus: your messages about the new food court, a short note on how to queue like a local, and one dish I still cannot find a good version of.

Read: Where to eat this weekend: nine tables, one budget and a very long queue

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Portrait of Syafiqah in a sage-green tudung

Syafiqah Rahman

Four hundred stalls, and I still queue at the one with no sign

I’m Syafiqah. I started posting my hawker-centre lunches in 2019 on a phone with a cracked screen and a very good appetite. Since then I have eaten at more than four hundred stalls, filmed in kitchens that were hotter than the street and collected opinions from aunties on every corner.

The Kopi Dispatch began in 2024 as a Thursday message to the friends who kept asking me where to eat. It is still free, still written on Wednesday night, and still a long list with one place I would book for a birthday.

Desk with a laptop, camera and notebook

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