https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/ Directory and daily journal for Fortune Centre, 190 Middle Road, Singapore 188979 — every shop, kitchen, salon and office, level by level. en-sgFri, 21 Aug 2026 10:13:38 +0000 https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/what-is-fortune-centre/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/what-is-fortune-centre/Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800A 1980 strata block beside a temple turned into Singapore's densest vegetarian food cluster. Here is how the building actually works.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/vegetarian-restaurants-fortune-centre/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/vegetarian-restaurants-fortune-centre/Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800The building's reputation rests on these kitchens. A floor-by-floor run through the vegetarian and vegan options, and what each one is for.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-1-guide/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-1-guide/Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Thirty-five units wrapped around the Middle Road frontage. The fastest food in the building, and most of the Buddhist retail.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-2-guide/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-2-guide/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800The floor that rewards a slow lap. Dessert counters and cafés face the escalator; salons, a dental surgery and the first TCM halls sit behind.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-3-guide/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-3-guide/Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800The most mixed floor in the building. Japanese dining at one end, beauty rooms in the middle, and an astrologer next to a nail bar.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-4-guide/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/level-4-guide/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Four escalators up, and most people never make it. Curry puffs, nasi lemak and soup curry, sharing corridors with TCM halls and beauty rooms.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/cheap-eats-under-ten-dollars/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/cheap-eats-under-ten-dollars/Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800A central-district building where a full meal still costs single digits. The stalls that hold the line, and what to order at each.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/japanese-food-fortune-centre/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/japanese-food-fortune-centre/Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800An izakaya, a bakery, an umeshu bar, a rice-ball counter and two small kitchens — hidden in a building known for something else entirely.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/buddhist-shops-and-feng-shui/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/buddhist-shops-and-feng-shui/Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Statuary, Thai amulets, crystals, incense and consultations — clustered around a temple, and spread across all four podium levels.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/tcm-and-wellness-directory/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/tcm-and-wellness-directory/Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Two dozen practitioners across four levels, from decades-old physician halls to new clinics with published price lists.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/hair-nails-beauty-salons/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/hair-nails-beauty-salons/Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Around twenty small salons, most of them one-chair operations run by their owner. Cheaper than Orchard, and you deal with the person cutting.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/accounting-firms-fortune-centre/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/accounting-firms-fortune-centre/Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Levels 9 to 17 hold one of the densest clusters of small accounting and corporate services practices in central Singapore. Here is the roster.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/history-of-fortune-centre/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/history-of-fortune-centre/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800How a conventional 1980 strata block beside a temple became the vegetarian food centre of Singapore without anyone deciding it should.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/getting-here-and-parking/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/getting-here-and-parking/Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Three MRT stations are walkable, the bus stop is two minutes away, and the car park is inside the building on three levels.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/strata-offices-bugis-submarket/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/strata-offices-bugis-submarket/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Twelve floors of small owner-occupied offices, held for decades. The tenant mix is a readable signal about who buys strata space and why.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/buying-a-strata-office-what-to-check/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/buying-a-strata-office-what-to-check/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Tenure, share value, the management fund, permitted use and the collective sale question. A checklist, not a recommendation.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/opening-hours-what-is-open-when/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/opening-hours-what-is-open-when/Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800The building's hours are less uniform than they look. A guide to the 7am openings, the late kitchens and the units that close midweek.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/office-tenant-guide/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/office-tenant-guide/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800Lifts, loading, management office, and the fact that lunch downstairs is the single best thing about working in this building.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/how-we-maintain-this-directory/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/how-we-maintain-this-directory/Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800246 listings, four categories, twenty levels — plus an honest account of what we cannot verify and how often it goes stale.https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/what-this-site-is-becoming/https://fortunecentre.com.sg/blog/what-this-site-is-becoming/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0800The units are sold. Rather than switch the site off, we are turning it into something that answers the question people actually arrive with.