HDB Heartland Shopping: 5 Great Finds at Limbang Shopping Centre

This year for the Mid-Autumn Festival weekend, my family headed down to Limbang Shopping Centre for a HDB heartland shopping experience instead of the regular mega malls.

HDB Shopping Centres addresses the needs of heartland residents while being an important part of the community. They tend to be overlooked because of the glitzier and more expansive mega malls sprouting up all over Singapore, but these HDB Shopping Centres have their unique charms too.

Here are five unexpected finds for us at Limbang:

1.

Lots of convenient and hardware shops

This really make sense. There are a lot of shops hawking convenient household items like water hoses, buckets, kitchen utensils, nail clippers and other knick-knacks which are seen in every households, but are so difficult to find when you need them the most!

Thankfully, the HDB Shopping Centres have lots of such stores to cater to our household needs without having to travel great distance to get them.

2.

Variety of food options

Within Limbang Shopping Centre, there is a MacDonald’s fast food restaurant, a Canadian Pizza delivery chain and an air-conditioned food court with an array of stalls serving local food fares.

We had our dinner at the food court and the tze char stall is a worth a try. Prices are reasonable too.

3.

Galore of grooming services

There is the traditional indian barber, the more posh looking hair salons, beauty centres and clinics.

Whatever grooming needs you may have, there should be a shop to serve you.

4.

Fun roadshows

There was a Mid-Autumn Festival roadshow going on when we visited. Asher got to interact with the other kids in the neighbourhood who were participating in events at the roadshow.

It’s quite fun actually. Where else can you get the chance to interact with your local community while shopping?

Asher even had a very nice portrait done for him at the event to take home:

5.

Decent toy shop

We were pleasantly surprised to find a very decent toy shop in Limbang which stocks a large selection of LEGO, priced slightly below some of the bigger toy shops. What’s even more awesome is that the same shop also sells stationary, assessment books, kids’ party gifts and all the stuff parents would need. This is very useful indeed for a heartland shop.

Is there a HDB Shopping Centre in your neighbour which you are fond of visiting? Or is there any shops in one of these HDB Shopping Centres which you find worthy of recommending to others?

If so, do participate in some of the activities below to support them, while winning prizes for yourself!

1. Vote for your Top 50 shops!