I often go Haig Road market eat the famous mee rebus and satay. Then will buy putu piring and drink Teh halia..
The mee rebus standard had fallen drastically, so were the satays...there are lesser satay sellers today. The putu piring is nice, have queue up for it once & took a picture. As compared to the Malay woman who sells that at Suptnik coffeeshop or something of that name coffeeshop in Serangoon Gardens . The Haig Rd one is pale by comparisons, unfortunately the coffee shop had changed hands & don't know, where that Malay woman went. There is another putu piring stall near to Joo Vhiat Complex, which is just a s good as the one at Haig Road Mkt.
Many of the original food vendors after the major renovations have disappeared, either they took the whatever compensation NEA gave them & retired or move elsewhere. There is Chinese food stall that sells a damn good pigs trotter in dark sauce & it is quickly sold out.