China Street Hum Jin Pang, the fried dough fritter stall that has traded at Maxwell Food Centre since 1986, has closed. The stall sold its ham chim peng at $1 for five pieces, a price it barely moved in decades, and shut sometime in the week before 24 August 2026 after the second-generation owner decided to stop.
Last updated: 26 August 2026.
How did the closure get confirmed?
The news came from inside the food centre rather than from the stall itself. Deitrich Mohan, third-generation owner of Maxwell Fuzhou Oyster Cake a few units down, posted an Instagram video on 24 August confirming that his neighbours had “called it quits” some time the week before. Mothership and AsiaOne both picked up the video the same day, and neither has since carried a comment from the Hum Jin Pang owners themselves, so the closure is confirmed by a neighbour’s account rather than an official notice.
How long was Hum Jin Pang actually at Maxwell?
Close to four decades. The stall’s owners started as street vendors before becoming one of the first hawkers to move into Maxwell Market in 1986, the year before the market was revamped and reopened as Maxwell Food Centre. Tian Tian’s chicken rice, the centre’s best-known stall, has since spread to a satellite outlet at Jewel Changi, which is the direction heritage hawker names now travel in rather than staying put. Before the closure, it was run by second-generation owner Li Shuhui. That lineage is what makes this a heritage closure rather than an ordinary stall turnover, closer in kind to the handful of Singapore restaurants that have held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for a decade straight than to a typical lease change, and it is also why a customer review left on the food centre’s own listing page, three years old at the time of writing, already noted “the lady has been selling here for 40 years.”
What did Hum Jin Pang actually cost?
Here the sources disagree, which is worth naming rather than smoothing over. AsiaOne and Mothership both report $1 for five pieces at closure. Maxwell Food Centre’s own stall page, last edited in January 2026 and not yet updated to reflect the closure, lists the same fritters at $1 for six. Either figure sits far below what a fried snack of this kind would cost almost anywhere else in Singapore today, and the gap between five and six pieces for a dollar is exactly the kind of detail a heritage stall’s own long-time customers would have watched more closely than the wire reports did.
What’s taking over the unit?
The unit was already under renovation at the time of reporting, with a congee stall set to open in its place. No opening date, operator name or pricing has been published yet, so there is nothing to compare it against until the hoarding comes down.
What’s not yet known
Whether the Hum Jin Pang owners plan to reopen at another hawker centre, the way China Street Fritters’ ngoh hiang stall did after leaving Maxwell for Telok Blangah in 2023, is not stated anywhere in the reporting so far. Neither is the exact date the stall stopped trading, since Deitrich Mohan’s video only says “last week” relative to 24 August.
Hawker turnover in the area has not slowed down either; a few streets away, a new Hong Lim stall opened in June while Hum Jin Pang was winding down. A near-$1 fritter stall with a 40-year run closing on a neighbour’s Instagram video, rather than its own announcement, says something about how thin the margin is for legacy hawker food at heritage pricing. If you have not had China Street Hum Jin Pang, you no longer can at Maxwell; whether it resurfaces elsewhere is the thing to watch.
Details
China Street Hum Jin Pang (closed),
1 Kadayanallur Street, #01-28, Maxwell Food Centre, Singapore 069184.
Tanjong Pagar MRT, a short walk.
A congee stall is expected to open in the unit; no date confirmed yet. We’ll update this once a replacement operator or a reopening is confirmed.
