Kampong Glam to hold its largest, longest-running Ramadan bazaar

Event will stretch almost five weeks from March 2 and feature more than 100 stalls

- Anjali Raguraman

The Kampong Glam heritage precinct will hold its largest and longest-running edition of the Ramadan bazaar in 2024, stretching almost five weeks from March 2 and featuring over 100 stalls selling food and retail items.

Now in its fourth edition, the bazaar will start a week before the Muslim fasting month commences, and operate from 2pm to 11pm daily until April 5. The stalls will be spread across Kandahar Street, Muscat Street and Baghdad Street.

Around 80 stalls are dedicated to selling food and drinks, and about 20 are retail vendors.

There will also be live cooking shows, and live performances by Malaysian artistes like Tomok and Alif Satar, and home-grown act Taufik Batisah.

The 2023 edition of the bazaar had more than 650,000 people visiting over 90 stalls.

Bazaar organiser One Kampong Gelam is expecting about 700,000 visitors in 2024.

"Last year, we had visitors who returned (to the bazaar) again and again, so we hope to have that kind of mood once more... We are very confident," said Mr Zaki Ma'arof, chairman of One Kampong Gelam, at a press conference on Feb 16.