Best Burgers in Singapore: Where to Look

The best burgers in Singapore are split between the bar and restaurant streets of the city centre, around Tanjong Pagar, Telok Ayer and Robertson Quay, and the neighbourhood dining enclaves of Holland Village, Dempsey Hill, Tiong Bahru and Katong. The island also has a burger of its own: the Ramly burger, cooked to order at pasar malam night-market stalls.

The Ramly burger takes its name from a Malaysian brand of halal frozen patties. Stall cooks fry the beef or chicken patty on a flat griddle, wrap it in a thin sheet of egg and finish it with mayonnaise and chilli sauce in a soft, buttered bun. It has been a fixture of Singapore’s pasar malam for decades, and a few stalls now sell it outside the night markets. Daily eating, though, centres on hawker centres, the public food courts of cooked-food stalls whose culture UNESCO added to its list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2020. Any burger here competes with chicken rice, laksa and char kway teow sold a few stalls away.

Burgers in Singapore: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Tanjong Pagar and Telok Ayer, Robertson Quay, Holland Village, Dempsey Hill, Tiong Bahru and Katong.
• Local style: the Ramly burger, a halal patty wrapped in egg.
• Hawker culture: inscribed by UNESCO in 2020.
• Currency: Singapore dollar (SGD).
• Getting around: the MRT covers most areas; Dempsey Hill is easier by bus or taxi.

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