At Urban Hawker, a plate a chicken rice is listed for $17 — eight times its cost in Singapore. ... Price of chicken rice: $19.26 (including tax and credit card surcharge).

Tian Tian's chicken rice isn't cheap by Singapore hawker standards. The average plate of chicken rice in the city-state costs just 3.35 Singapore dollars, or $2.30.

Chef Leong Tsz Cham had previously worked as a Raffles Hotel chef for 18 years prior to opening his first hawker stall in 2021.Using the dim sum-making skills he acquired, he began selling Hong ...