Geylang Serai Market, this market is at the heart of Singapore Malay community. You can take the MRT to Paya Lebar station, walk down Sims Ave then you walk down Geylang Serai to Block 3. This is famous market of Singapore.The Malays had been living in Singapore longer than the Chinese and the Indians, Geylang became Malays community in the 1840s. The Highlights to look out for in this area are the Malay Village, the Geylang Serai Market, the Malay bungalows complete with wood carvings and European tiles and the Chinese Baroque terrace houses.

Geylang Serai Market has many shops. The shops display a potpourri of items from handicrafts, rugs and fabrics to furniture and antiques. It is drop by the wet market and indulge in the smells of cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon. Skirting the market are shops where you can pick up CDs of both modern and traditional Malay "keroncong" music for memories of your holiday in Singapore.

After 42 years, today is the last day of operations for Geylang Serai Market. It will be demolished and a new market built nearby. Stallholders will move to a temporary site on Sim Avenue till 2008. The Block 51 Old Airport Road food centre is luckier, it is only being renovated and should be reopened next year. That means Old Airport Road stallholders will be in temporary stalls for only a year. The food lovers will enjoy a brand new Geylang Serai Market under the National Environment.

The new Geylang Serai Market will be built at a new and larger site along Changi Road, boasting a more spacious design, improved ventilation and fire safety features. The new Geylang Serai Market stalls will be situated on the ground floor, while cooked food stalls are on the second level. It is envisaged as an iconic building in the area; designed to commensurate with the ethnic and cultural significance of the site. It has many in the community visit this centre to do their marketing and have their meals and have done so for some five decades. An artist’s impression of the completed centre is attached in Annex A.