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1. 1 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Wok noodles

   The Fishball Story

   Young hawkerpreneur Douglas Ng rebuilt his grandmother's recipe into a hawker-fame story — soft, bouncy fishballs made from pure yellowtail with no added flour that won a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2016; after stints at Golden Mile and Timbre+, the stall settled at Blk 77 Circuit Road in MacPherson.

   77 Circuit Road, #01-450, MacPherson, Singapore 370077

   By Eatbook.sg, Daniel Food Diary, Dr Leslie Tay (ieatishootipost) +1, Wikipedia

2. 2 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Cafés & modern

   Style Palate

   ITE culinary grads Darryl and Shi Long bring affordable European dining to a hawker stall — their best-selling duck confit (S$12) is a fork-tender leg on fluffy mash in a moat of rich house sauce, plus truffle pasta — a headline act of the new Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre.

   Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre, #01-30, 202C Woodleigh Link, Singapore 360202

   By Eatbook.sg, Seth Lui, HungryGoWhere +1, Daniel Food Diary

3. 3 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

   Potong Pasir Sloping-Roof HDB (Blk 101-142)

   Completed 1984, these steep red-pitched roofs are Singapore's most visually distinctive HDB silhouette — a mid-1980s experiment in postmodern public housing that borrowed the Malay kampong-house form to break from the usual slab blocks. Top-floor units get soaring 5-5.5 m ceilings, and Block 142's 'welcome' sign has become the emblem of the whole estate.

   Look for Public estate; view from ground level

   Potong Pasir Avenue 1 / Avenue 2 (Blk 101-142), Singapore

   By Home & Decor Singapore, SilverKris (Singapore Airlines), The Honeycombers Singapore

4. 4 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

   Bidadari Park & Alkaff Lake

   A 13-hectare urban park opened 3 September 2024 on the former Bidadari burial grounds, centred on Alkaff Lake — a stormwater-retention pond inspired by the colonial-era Alkaff Lake Gardens — with a 700 m Heritage Walk. Developed jointly by HDB, NParks, PUB and the National Heritage Board as the green heart of the new Bidadari estate.

   Look for Open daily, free

   11 Bidadari Park Drive (opposite Woodleigh MRT), Singapore

   By NParks (National Parks Board), Wikipedia, Urban Redevelopment Authority

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   5 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

   Alkaff Upper Serangoon Mosque

   Built in 1932 by Syed Abdul Rahman Alkaff of the prominent Hadhrami-Arab merchant family, this small mosque on the Potong Pasir/Bidadari edge is distinguished by a pencil-thin Ottoman-style minaret unlike any other in Singapore. Restored in 2014 and gazetted the same year as Singapore's 68th National Monument.

   Look for Free; observe mosque etiquette

   66 Pheng Geck Avenue, Singapore 348261

   By Roots.gov.sg (NHB), Wikipedia, National Library Board

6. 6 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Hawker & zi char

   Old Fisherman (老渔翁)

   Opened by former local actor Huang Yiliang, this humble evening-only stall cooks each bowl of crab bee hoon to order, drawing out a deeply sweet seafood broth — with a steamed fish and homemade omelette that regulars rate just as highly. A cult name of the renovated Circuit Road hawker centre.

   Circuit Road Market & Food Centre, #01-29, 79A Circuit Road, Singapore 371079

   By Seth Lui, Her World Singapore

7. 7 Must see within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Wok noodles

   River South (Hoe Nam) Prawn Noodle

   A Potong Pasir prawn-noodle institution first established in 1971 and now second-generation, named for the ancestral province of founder Png Kim Soon. The broth is built from fried prawn shells and pork ribs simmered eight hours, served across a sprawling 20-dish menu of prawn, pork rib, intestine, baby abalone and clam combinations.

   1 Tai Thong Crescent, Singapore 347834

   By Miss Tam Chiak, Seth Lui

8. 8 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

   Sri Siva Durga Temple

   A Hindu temple to Shiva and the goddess Durga, first erected in 1906 near the Lavender Street / Rumah Miskin junction and shifted three times — via Beatty Road — before settling in Potong Pasir in 1982. Demolished in 2014 for water-leakage and space problems and rebuilt in Dravidian style at a cost of S$2.7 million, it was reconsecrated on 4 December 2016, with chambers for Ganesha, Murugan, Shiva, Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati.

   Look for Free; observe temple etiquette

   8 Potong Pasir Avenue 2, Singapore 358362

   By Wikipedia, National Library Board, Time Out Singapore

9. 9 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

   Sri Manmatha Karuneshvarar Temple

   A Hindu temple to Shiva (as Manmatha Karuneshvarar) established in 1888 on the Potong Pasir/Kallang edge, begun by Hindu workers of the nearby colonial gasworks who installed the deity for protection — hence its nickname the 'Kallang Gasworks Sivan Temple'. Rebuilt in 1934 on a 1909 government land grant.

   Look for Free; observe temple etiquette

   91 Kallang Road, Singapore 208804

   By Wikipedia, National Archives of Singapore

10. 10 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

    Sennett Estate

    Once dubbed Singapore's largest planned housing development, Sennett Estate was built out through the 1950s (completed 1955) by the Sennett Realty and Tan Chong Land companies on land that had been Alkaff's leisure garden in the 1920s. Today a quiet, leafy middle-class landed enclave of terraces and bungalows ringed by the Potong Pasir and MacPherson HDB towns.

    Look for Private residential estate

    Jalan Wangi / Sennett Road (bounded by Upper Serangoon Rd & MacPherson Rd), Singapore

    By BiblioAsia (NLB), EdgeProp Singapore, Wikipedia

11. 11 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

    Istana Bidadari (former royal palace site)

    The estate and the whole Bidadari district take their name from this vanished palace. British engineer Henry Minchin Simons acquired the 45-acre grounds in 1855; Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor bought it in the 1860s and gifted it to his second wife, the Danish-born Sultana Zubaidah (Cecilia Catharina Lange) — its beauty likened to a 'bidadari' (Malay/Sanskrit for celestial nymph or angel). After Zubaidah moved to Johor the palace was rented out, then demolished in 1915; its name outlived it, passing to the cemetery and today's estate.

    Look for Heritage site; no structure remains

    Former palace site, Bidadari estate (off Upper Serangoon Road / Mount Vernon Road), Singapore

    By Wikipedia, Remember Singapore, Home & Decor Singapore

12. 12 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Wok noodles

    Tian Seng Fried Prawn Mee

    An old-school Hokkien mee (from S$4) simmered and fried in prawn-head and pork stock with egg, prawn, pork and yellow noodles, then left to stew so the strands soak up the umami — a repeatedly-listed Circuit Road favourite the food blogs queue for.

    Circuit Road Market & Food Centre, #01-10, 79A Circuit Road, Singapore 371079

    By Seth Lui, Johor Kaki (Tony Boey), Her World Singapore

13. 13 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Hawker & zi char

    Victor Veggie (Victor's Vegetarian Food)

    Victor's vegetarian satay — grilled mock-meat skewers at around S$1 a stick — draws long lines from residents and non-vegetarians alike, alongside otah and a spread of meat-free hawker classics that regularly headline Circuit Road stall guides.

    Circuit Road Market & Food Centre, #01-92, 79A Circuit Road, Singapore 371079

    By Seth Lui, Her World Singapore, The Singapore Women's Weekly

14. 14 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Wok noodles

    Dancing Char Kway Teow

    The uncle who dances to instrumental music as he fries — his char kway teow is cooked with less oil than most and can be topped with a soft-boiled egg or omelette (about S$5), a Circuit Road performance-and-plate that the SPH food titles keep naming.

    Circuit Road Market & Food Centre, #01-19, 79 Circuit Road, Singapore 370079

    By Seth Lui, The Singapore Women's Weekly, Her World Singapore

15. 15 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Indian & roti prata

    Julaiha Muslim Restaurant

    A family-run 24-hour Indian-Muslim diner on MacPherson Road since 1998 and a go-to supper spot — famed for prata that comes out crispy on the outside yet slightly doughy within, plus a well-loved mutton nasi biryani (~S$7) and proper mutton soup for the night-shift crowd.

    538 MacPherson Road, Singapore 368222

    By Seth Lui, Miss Tam Chiak, Eatbook.sg

16. 16 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Hawker & zi char

    Taste of Home (家乡味)

    An ex-Hyatt manager's stall cooking authentic Seremban, Malaysia dishes — springy cuttlefish bee hoon (lai fen) with sweet sauce and a rich pork curry. After its beloved hole-in-the-wall Potong Pasir Ave 3 coffeeshop closed in March 2024, it reopened bigger and air-conditioned at The Commerze @ Irving in Sept 2024, on the MacPherson/Tai Seng edge.

    The Commerze @ Irving, 1 Irving Place, Singapore 369546

    By Eatbook.sg, Seth Lui, Dr Leslie Tay (ieatishootipost)

17. 17 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

    Guan Kee Kway Chap

    A legendary kway chap name dating to the 1980s, now with a Woodleigh Village outlet — a set from S$5 gets broad rice sheets in braised gravy with expertly done pork belly, big and small intestine, tau pok and more.

    Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre, 202C Woodleigh Link, Singapore 360202

    By Eatbook.sg, Daniel Food Diary, Miss Tam Chiak

18. 18 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Hawker & zi char

    Eng Kee Chicken Wings

    An outlet of the famed fried-chicken-wing name some rate the best in Singapore — light, crackly skin over juicy meat — one of the established brands that anchored the new Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre when it opened in Sept 2024.

    Woodleigh Village Hawker Centre, #01-18, 202C Woodleigh Link, Singapore 360202

    By Eatbook.sg, Daniel Food Diary, AsiaOne

19. 19 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Wok noodles

    No.10 Noodle House

    One of the last hawker stalls in Singapore still selling noodles from S$2.50 — old-school bak chor mee and fishball noodles tossed in chilli-and-mushroom sauce with handmade wontons. The senior couple, at Circuit Road since 2006 (the name comes from stall no.10 at NUS Engineering's canteen), keep the price down for the neighbourhood's elderly; Mothership profiled their refusal to raise it.

    80 Circuit Road, #02-10, Block 80 Market & Food Centre, Singapore 370080

    By Seth Lui, Mothership, Ordinary Patrons

20. 20 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

    Yong Lai Fa Ji Shu Shi

    A Circuit Road fish-soup stall rated by veteran bloggers as on par with the famous Amoy Street bowl — fresh, bouncy fish in a robust broth simmered from fish bones and chicken for at least eight hours, with the fried sole-fish (ti poh) and ikan bilis made in-house. Fish soup around S$4.

    Circuit Road Market & Food Centre, #01-66, 79/79A Circuit Road, Singapore 370079

    By Dr Leslie Tay (ieatishootipost), Miss Tam Chiak, Daniel Food Diary

21. 21 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Thai

    Omar's Halal Thai Beef Noodles

    A hidden-gem halal Thai beef-noodle stall at Circuit Road — the signature bowl (S$6) piles three forms of beef over kangkong and bean sprouts in a light, clear yet beefy broth (free refills) simmered at least three hours, fragrant with cloves and fried garlic. Reviewed by all three of the major SG food titles.

    Circuit Road Market & Food Centre, #01-54, 79 Circuit Road, Singapore 370079

    By Seth Lui, Eatbook.sg, Miss Tam Chiak

22. 22 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson · Cafés & modern

    Folk Yard

    Young owner Shan Chew's under-the-radar Potong Pasir sandwich cafe, drawing foodies island-wide for a tight menu of hefty sandwiches (the Breakfast Sandwich with candied bacon; a juicy Wagyu patty melt), sourdough and sustainable specialty coffee — with pizzas after 6pm. A Time Out and Eatbook favourite of the estate.

    The Poiz Centre, 51 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore 347697

    By Eatbook.sg, Daniel Food Diary, Time Out Singapore

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    23 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

    St Andrew's Village

    A 13.5-hectare Anglican mission-school complex opened in 2006, straddling the Kallang River on the Potong Pasir/Woodsville banks and linking St Andrew's Junior, Secondary and Junior College — descendants of the St Andrew's Church Mission School founded in 1862 — across the Jacob Ballas Bridge.

    Look for School campus; grounds viewable

    15 Francis Thomas Drive, Singapore 359342

    By Wikipedia, National Library Board

24. 24 Worth the detour within Potong Pasir & MacPherson

    Lorong Koo Chye Sheng Hong Temple

    A prominent Taoist temple near MacPherson MRT dedicated to the City God (Cheng Huang Ye), the Sheng Hong deity whose spirit was brought from Anxi, China. Rooted in the old Kampong Koo Chye, it relocated to Arumugam Road in the 1980s when the area was redeveloped for industry and is now a large temple-and-charity association drawing crowds for prosperity and good-fortune prayers.

    Look for Free; open daily

    15 Arumugam Road, Singapore 409960

    By National Library Board

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