The Green Maze: Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre Tour

Behind the polished supermarket shelves and restaurant menus lies a sprawling 24-hour city that few Singaporeans ever see: a 15-hectare wholesale hub built on reclaimed land, handling roughly 40% of the nation’s imported fruits and vegetables every day.

Learn how a tiny island nation secures its food supply from more than 180 countries and regions. Hear the remarkable story of a S$500,000 heist pulled off just before Chinese New Year, discover what the mysterious codes printed on fruit cartons reveal, and explore a marketplace where fortunes can rise or fall overnight with a typhoon, drought, or export ban thousands of kilometres away.

Along the way, you’ll meet traders whose livelihoods depend on decades of relationships built across borders, uncover the quiet politics that shape life within the market, and discover a unique community with its own merchant associations, shrines, traditions, and unwritten rules, all running invisibly beneath the city’s food supply.

• Venture behind the scenes of Singapore’s largest wholesale fruit and vegetable market.
• Discover how over 90% of Singapore’s food is imported and how the nation safeguards its food security.
• Learn how global events, from typhoons to export bans, can affect food prices overnight.
• Explore cold rooms, trading floors and logistics networks that operate while the city sleeps.
• Uncover crime stories, including one of Singapore’s most notorious child M**der cases and a daring S$500,000 wholesale heist.
• Learn about future food innovations, vertical farming, insect protein and Singapore’s ambitious “30 by 30” food resilience strategy.
• Visit hidden shrines, unusual corners and unexpected communities within the wholesale centre.

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