Secret Shophouse Chef's Table, Singapore

Duration

3 hours

Group size

Up to 10 guests

Languages

English

The take

We'd save this for a birthday or an anniversary. It's dinner in a conserved shophouse, one of the narrow old terraces Blair Plain is known for, with sambal and kaya, the coconut jam, turning up reworked from the welcome bites to dessert.

Meet Chef Ren

Chef Ren cooks a modern Singaporean tasting menu for one long table in a conserved Blair Plain shophouse. The menu changes, and some of the city's best-known dishes turn up as flavours. Chilli crab, for one, arrives as a taste rather than a whole mud crab, so you can leave the bib at home.

Highlights

Nine courses around one long table
Welcome bites and a drink up on the shophouse roof
Wine or alcohol-free pairings, at extra cost

What you'll do

1
7:00 PM
Welcome bites
Start up on the shophouse roof with sambal tartlets and a drink made with laksa leaf, the herb scattered over a bowl of laksa.
2
7:30 PM
The table
Then it's nine courses at one long table. Everyone eats the same set menu, so tell us about any allergies when you book.
3
10:00 PM
Sweet end
Dessert plays on kaya and teh tarik, the frothy pulled milk tea. You're out before the bars on Keong Saik Road get busy, if you'd like one more drink.

Good to know

Nine-course tasting menu

Welcome drink

Time with the chef at the table

Recipe zine to take home

Finding it: A conserved Blair Plain shophouse near Duxton, Neil and Craig Roads. It's a residential street, so the address comes after booking. Walk from Outram Park MRT.

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