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Minor Issues: Getting my kids to eat at hawker centres
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Hawker centres were not a dining option my kids had exposure to in the US.
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SINGAPORE - "Eww, gross," was how one of my boys described his first visit to a hawker centre after my family returned from the United States to Singapore more than a decade ago.
We had mostly dined out at fast-food and casual-dining restaurants in the US for the three years that we lived there.


