Chinatown Restaurants

Where and What to Eat in Chinatown

With its rich heritage, Chinatown is a veritable paradise for food lovers. Besides the sights, sounds and colours of this vibrant enclave, the culinary wealth offered here is immense, particularly so during the Chinese festivals. In the month preceding Chinese New Year, stalls sell delicacies such as waxed ducks, Chinese sausages, nian gou (sweet New Year cakes), mandarin oranges, candies and more. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, shops are adorned with lanterns and displays of mooncakes. Fortunately, the shophouses and old buildings have been preserved for posterity, providing a quaint ambience and setting for a novel dining experience.

Chinatown Food Street or Smith Street

Closed to traffic at dusk, Smith Street takes on a gregarious personality to the delight of visitors. Navigate your way through more than a dozen stalls under iridescent neon lights and take your pick of popular street favourites before settling down to a table. Watch noodles being fried or seafood being grilled before your very eyes.

Maxwell Road Food Centre

One of the oldest hawker centres in Singapore, Maxwell Road Food Centre stands at the corner of South Bridge Road and Maxwell Road and is teeming with over 100 stalls. The locals flock to it for some of the best hawker food in town such as chicken rice, tapioca pastries, meat fritters and pork porridge to name a few. Lunchtime can be intimidating with long queues for food.
Location: Maxwell Road food Centre is on the corner of Maxwell Road and South Bridge Road.

Yum Cha Restaurant

For all-day dining in the heart of Chinatown, Yum Cha is the place to go to. On the second level of an old shophouse, Yum Cha, which means ‘drink tea’, is the quintessential experience for a Chinatown dining experience. Besides the shark’s fin soup, fried beef noodles, champagne pork ribs, spicy lamb rack and other specials, it is known for its dim sum dishes which are also offered in a daily high tea buffet.
Location: 20 Trengganu Street #02-01
Tel: +65 6372 1717

Taste Paradise

A contemporary Chinese restaurant in a shophouse, Taste Paradise proffers a combination of traditional Chinese delicacies and modern interpretations, its signature items include double-boiled shark’s fin in Beijing broth, Australian lobster baked with cheese and pan-seared foie gras with abalone. This is an excellent experience for the adventurous who want to try unconventional but tasty Chinese cuisine.
Location: 48-49 Mosque Street
Tel: +65 6226 2958

Senso Ristorante & Bar

Nestled between Chinatown and the CBD and lodged in an old convent around a courtyard, Senso has built up a reputation for authentic Italian fare and stellar wines. Its signature dishes include mozarella senso, linguine senso and the carote dessert. The wine list is equally impressive with quality Italian vintage dating back to 1924 as well as non-vintage. Over 500 selections are available by the glass.
Location: 21 Club Street
Tel: +65 6224 3534

Seven on Club

Ensconced on the ground floor of a restored shophouse, Seven on Club is a modern restaurant serving creative European fare and a decent wine list in a cosy setting. Among its specialties are lobster bisque, grilled beef strip loin and Valrhona chocolate fondue. The chef is friendly and accommodating to cater to specific requests.
Location: 7 Club Street
Tel: +65 6327 9663

Majestic Restaurant

On the ground floor of the New Majestic Hotel, the retro-chic Majestic Restaurant is renowned for its take on modern Cantonese cuisine served in individual portions. Its dishes are well executed from the crispy prawn with wasabi dressing and Peking duck served with pan-seared foie gras to the double-boiled lobster broth with lobster meat, asparagus and mushrooms and fried carrot cake. It’s well worth a visit for an avant garde dining experience.
Location: 33 Bukit Pasoh Road
Tel: +65 6511 4700

Breeze

The highlight here is the alfresco setting on the rooftop of The Scarlet, a hotel converted from a 1924 art deco building. Its Mediterranean menu abounds with barbecued meats, kebabs, tapas and seafood. Large platters are available for sharing. It’s a great place to unwind and absorb the views of Chinatown under moonlit skies.
Location: 33 Erskine Road, The Scarlett
Tel: +65 6511 3323

Qun Zhong Eating House

An unpretentious eatery, Qun Zhong is the place to go to for noodles and dumplings at down-to-earth prices. A short menu but oozing with delicious dishes of which the highlights are xiao long bao (steam dumplings with soup), gyoza, and red bean paste pancake. Dumplings are made from scratch and service can be surly but efficient.
Location: 21 Neil Road
Tel: +65 6221 3060

Lee Tong Kee Ipoh Hor Fun Restaurant

A quaint rice noodle shop with its roots in Ipoh, Malaysia, the outlet is ideal for a quick meal in a comfortable setting. Its staple is the homemade hor fun or rice noodles served in tasty gravy with chicken and prawn. Other specialty dishes are the crunchy bean sprouts with cuttlefish, wonton soup and chicken claws with mushroom. Its freshly squeezed lime juice and avocado blended with gula Melaka (palm sugar) has won fans.
Location: 278 South Bridge Road
Tel: +65 6226 0417

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