8 Best Cheap Lunch Sets in Singapore Under $15 (2026) — Long John Silver’s $5.30, Subway, IKEA, Saizeriya, Pepper Lunch & More

Outlets: 47 SG outlets across Central, North-East, East, West and North — Central alone has 15 (Liang Court, City Square Mall, Toa Payoh, Orchard Gateway, The Cathay, United Square, Aperia, Chinatown Point, Marina Square, Alexandra Retail Centre, Leisure Park Kallang, i12 Katong, Grantral Mall, The Poiz Centre, Thomson Plaza), with NEX Serangoon, Hougang Mall, Oasis Terrace, 51@AMK and Northshore Plaza in the North-East, KINEX, Paya Lebar Quarter, Tampines 1, Century Square, White Sands and Downtown East in the East. NOTE ON TWO OUTLETS PEOPLE EXPECT: there is NO Saizeriya at Plaza Singapura and none at Bedok Mall — the Bedok branch is at Djitsun Mall on Bedok North Street 1. Cuisine: Japanese-owned Italian casual chain — original from Japan, brings hawker-tier pricing to proper sit-down pasta and pizza. LUNCH SET — WEEKDAYS ONLY (Mon-Fri, 11am-5pm, excludes public holidays): ONE FLAT PRICE OF S$9.00 NETT for every set, up from the S$7.90-8.90 two-tier board it ran until the June 2026 menu change. All nine sets cost the same, so order on appetite, not price: Teriyaki Chicken, Teriyaki Hamburger, Pepper Hamburger, Pepper Chicken Mushroom Doria, Creamy Garlic Crispy Chicken Baked Rice, Cheese Milano Gratin, Aglio Olio Bacon Pepperoni & Spinach, Spicy Demi Vongole, and Creamy Garlic Chicken (which comes at double the usual chicken). Each set is a main plus a side salad plus the drink bar. The drink bar is the quiet win here — it is S$2.90 on its own (kids aged 4-12 S$1.50) and it is free-flow and already inside the set price, so you are effectively paying about S$6.10 for the plate. What is actually in it: Pepsi, Pepsi Black, Lipton Lemon, 7Up, Mountain Dew, Mug Root Beer and Milo, plus hot coffee and tea — Saizeriya is a Pepsi house, not Coca-Cola, which trips up people expecting Coke and Sprite. No sharing is allowed on drinks, and they are free for children aged 3 and under. A la carte anchor if you miss the window: Margherita pizza S$7.90. PRICES ARE GST-INCLUSIVE AND THERE IS NO SERVICE CHARGE — the menu price is the final price, which is unusual for a sit-down chain and worth about 10% against a restaurant that adds service on top. (It is GST-inclusive, not GST-free: Saizeriya is GST-registered and the tax is already baked into the number you see.) WHY IT'S THE VALUE KING: Saizeriya's pricing strategy is to undercut every SG sit-down Italian by 40-60% while keeping reasonable quality — pasta is properly cooked al dente, the bolognese sauce is house-made. The trade-off: rapid turnover, slightly clinical interior, mass-market plating. Worth it for: weekday office worker lunches, student / NSF lunches, family lunches. AVOID: turning up on a weekend or public holiday expecting the set price — outlets are open daily 11am-10pm (last order 9.30pm) but the set lunch is a weekday-window deal only, and you will be ordering a la carte instead.

Outlets: IKEA Tampines, IKEA Alexandra, IKEA Jurong (3 SG outlets). Restaurant hours: Alexandra and Tampines 10am-9.30pm Mon-Fri (last order 9pm), 9am-10pm Sat-Sun (last order 9.30pm); Jurong 10am-9.30pm daily. Cuisine: Swedish casual + Asian fusion add-ons. READ THIS BEFORE YOU GO — there is no permanent IKEA Family discount on the classic Swedish meatballs. Standard meatball pricing is S$7.50 (8pc), S$9.50 (12pc), S$11.50 (16pc), and that is what you pay card or no card. What IKEA Family actually gets you is a rotating monthly offer. The one that matters for a cheap lunch is the PLANT BALLS COMBO at S$6.90 (usual S$8.40) — 8 plant balls with mashed potato, mixed vegetables with green soya beans, cream sauce, lingonberry jam and a green salad. It runs 1 July-31 August 2026, DINE-IN ONLY, while stocks last, so it is still live as of late August but ends with the month. YOU DO NOT NEED THE CARD TO EAT HERE UNDER S$15: the BREADED PORK CUTLET with fries, a fried mantou and chilli crab sauce is S$13.90 on the ordinary a la carte menu, 1-31 August, no membership involved. That matters because the S$14.90 SG61 COMBO everyone is writing about is the Family price for exactly that cutlet plus a S$3.90 bowl of mushroom soup — S$17.80 at full price, so the card saves S$2.90 rather than unlocking a dish. Also new for August at Family price: the CHILLI CRAB MANTOU TRIO at S$4.90 (usual S$5.90), 3 pieces of fried mantou with chilli crab sauce. Halal-line diners at Tampines have their own running offer: baked chicken chop with aglio olio, mixed vegetables with green soya beans and a chocolate hazelnut cake, S$12.90 Family (usual S$15.40), 1 July-30 September, dine-in only — the longest-running of the lot. Watch for Swedish Meatball Day too: halal beef meatballs with mashed potato, mixed vegetables, cream sauce and lingonberry jam at S$5.90, IKEA Family only, at the Tampines halal line on 23 AUGUST ONLY. THE S$5.50 DEAL IS A STUDENT DEAL, NOT A FAMILY DEAL: the Student Saver Meal runs 1 July-31 August 2026, weekdays 2-5pm only, excludes public holidays, dine-in only, and requires a valid matriculation card from NUS, NTU, SMU, SUSS, SUTD, SIT or SIM. The two combos are 8pc Swedish meatballs OR plant ball penne pasta, each with an almond crunchy chocolate cake and a refillable drink, S$5.50 each against a usual price of S$11.90 — a 54% cut, the deepest discount anywhere on this list. IKEA Tampines' halal line runs a halal beef meatball version with mushroom soup and a refillable cold drink. An outstanding deal if you qualify and can eat at 2pm, and completely unavailable if you cannot. AFTERNOON FILLER: the fika offer pairs a crunchy almond chocolate cake with a coffee or tea for S$2.90 (usual S$5.40), 3-5pm daily through 31 August — worth knowing if the 2pm student window is the only slot you can make and you are not a student. BREAKFAST: the S$5.50 platter is now the PANCAKES BREAKFAST PLATTER (2 pancakes with pork bratwurst, scrambled egg, hash brown and cherry tomatoes, with maple syrup and butter), served 10-11am weekdays and 9-11am weekends; the butter croissant is no longer a platter but a S$1.00 item on its own, down from S$1.20. KIDS: children's meals are S$4.50 including a Kivik juice — there is no kids-eat-free promotion running. WHY IT WORKS AS LUNCH: 200+ seats and it never feels overcrowded at lunch (store traffic peaks 4-6pm), free refills on the S$1.90 Nordic fruit waters and the S$0.50 coffee or tea, and Wifi. JOINING: register IKEA Family at any outlet kiosk in 2 minutes (name + email + phone), no spending required. WORTH IT IF: you live within 20 min of an outlet OR you are already going for a furniture run. NOT WORTH a special trip if you are 40+ min away — at S$6.90 the gap to Saizeriya is thin once you price in the commute.

Outlets — AND THIS IS THE PART MOST WRITE-UPS GET WRONG: Pepper Lunch runs two formats in Singapore and the lunch deal only exists in one of them. The 10 full PEPPER LUNCH RESTAURANTS are Ang Mo Kio Hub, Bedok Mall, Compass One, Hougang Mall, JEM, Jurong Point, NEX (#B1-45), Parkway Parade, Pasir Ris Mall and Tampines 1 — mostly 10am-10pm, with NEX, Parkway Parade, Pasir Ris Mall and Tampines 1 opening at 11am, all walk-in only with no reservations. Separately there are 15 PEPPER LUNCH EXPRESS counters inside food courts — VivoCity (Kopitiam), Plaza Singapura (Kopitiam), 313 Somerset, Junction 8, Marina Bay Sands, Westgate, West Mall, Hillion Mall, Lot One, North Point, Punggol Waterway Point, Sun Plaza, United Square, NEX (Food Junction) and Asia Square — and the promotion terms say plainly that it is valid at Pepper Lunch restaurants only, so the Express stalls do not run it. There is no Pepper Lunch at Bugis Junction, Suntec or Causeway Point. Cuisine: Japanese-fusion 'sizzling iron plate' chain. LUNCH SET — WEEKDAYS ONLY: the Weekday Lunch board runs Mon-Fri from opening until 3pm, DINE-IN ONLY, and excludes public holidays and the eve of Chinese New Year. It starts at S$11.90, not the S$10.90 that circulates online, and every set comes with a drink plus a choice of miso or seasonal soup. The full ladder: Chicken Pepper Rice S$11.90, Beef Pepper Rice S$12.90, Salmon Pepper Rice S$13.90, Beef Pepper Yakiudon S$13.90, Chicken Pepper Yakiudon S$13.90, Teriyaki Chicken with Egg S$14.90 — six of them under S$15 — then Seafood Aglio Olio S$15.90, Diced Cut Steak & Beef Hamburg S$16.90, Beef & Beef Hamburg Cheese J'Curry Rice S$16.90, Meat Trio Deluxe S$17.90 and Striploin Steak S$19.90. The three pepper rices take a JUMBO upgrade for S$3. Milo and Sjora carry a surcharge over the standard drink, and the set cannot be combined with other promotions or coupons. STUDENTS EAT THE SAME FOOD FOR LESS, AND FOR LONGER: the Student Meal board runs Mon-Fri from opening until 5pm — two hours past the public window — and starts at S$8.00 with a drink. Chicken Pepper Rice S$8.00, Beef Pepper Rice S$8.50, Salmon Pepper Rice S$9.50, Salmon & Chicken Pepper Rice S$9.50, Teriyaki Chicken with Egg S$10.50, then Chicken Cheese Creamy Brown Risotto, Cheese J'Curry Rice with Beef Hamburg, Cheese Chicken Sausage Bolognese and the two new yakiudon all at S$10.90, up to Diced Cut Steak with Egg at S$13.90. L-size on any pepper rice is S$2.50 more. Show a valid student pass at the cashier, one dish per card, dine-in only. If you miss even that window, students get 15% off a la carte mains from 5pm to 10pm instead. The signature trick: food arrives on a 260°C cast-iron plate; you finish cooking it at the table by stirring with the included sauces (sweet honey-brown vs spicy garlic). SIGNATURE: Beef Pepper Rice — sliced beef + sweetcorn + spring onion + butter centre + soy/honey-brown sauce + Japanese rice base. WHY IT WORKS AT THIS PRICE: the iron-plate format means kitchen prep is minimal (ingredients pre-portioned, customers do the final cook) — labour efficiency lets them keep prices low. The 'theatre of cooking' also distracts from the modest portion size; the meal feels more substantial than what you actually got. Best for: solo or duo lunches where you want a hot Japanese-coded meal under S$13. AVOID: walking in at 3.05pm. The gap between the weekday set and the a la carte board is real, and a Beef Pepper Rice ordered five minutes late costs meaningfully more than the S$12.90 set.

Outlets: 10 ASTONS Specialities restaurants — Wilkie Edge (8 Wilkie Road, newest), Punggol Coast Mall, Bugis+, Suntec City Mall, The Kallang at Kallang Wave Mall, SingPost Centre, The Central, Thomson Plaza, VivoCity and Westgate. All 10 are open DAILY 11.30am-10pm. If you are looking for the East Coast Road original, Bugis Junction, Tampines 1, Funan, Compass One, Toa Payoh HDB Hub or Hougang Mall, none of those carry ASTONS Specialities any more — the group also runs ASTONS Steak & Salad and ANDES by ASTONS as separate formats with their own addresses. Cuisine: Western diner — grilled meats, pasta, kids menu. THE WEEKDAY LUNCH SET IS GONE, AND THAT IS GOOD NEWS. Astons used to run a Mon-Fri 11.30am-5pm lunch board from about S$10.90 that reverted to dearer a la carte pricing after 5pm and on weekends. It no longer exists — and what replaced it is simply one price all day, every day, so the Saturday penalty this list used to warn you about has disappeared. WHAT IT COSTS NOW: the cheapest way in is the Spaghetti Fiesta section, where every plate includes a cream of mushroom soup — Chicken Napolitana S$10.90, Carbonara S$11.90, Beef Bolognese S$11.90, Salmon Spaghetti S$12.90, Seafood Marinara S$12.90. Step up to Grillworks Chicken and every variant is S$13.90 with a choice of 2 side dishes: Chargrilled, Black Pepper, Crispy Fried, Hickory BBQ, Teriyaki, Lemon Lime or Fiery Chicken. Fisherman's Pride fish — grilled with herb, black pepper or crispy fried — is S$14.50 with 2 sides, the last thing on the menu that clears S$15. Above that you are into steaks from S$20.90 and the ASTONS Classic Cheeseburger at S$15.90. Sides are S$3.00 each on their own: baked potato, mashed potato, potato wedges, french fries, tasty rice, mac & cheese, onion rings, BBQ beans, corn niblets, garden veggie, coleslaw, house salad, pasta salad or potato salad. THE DRINK IS NOT INCLUDED — plan for it. A main plus 2 sides comes without a beverage; the fix is the standing 'complete your meal for S$5' add-on, which bundles a soft drink and a bowl of cream of mushroom onto any order at every outlet. That takes a S$13.90 chargrilled chicken to S$18.90 all in, which is why the S$10.90 pasta (soup already included, drink extra) is the real sub-S$15 play here. STUDENTS GET THE BEST OF IT: S$2 off ALL main courses plus a free soft drink, Mon-Fri 3-5pm only, dine-in, one main per student pass, open to local Primary, Secondary and Tertiary students. That turns the S$13.90 chargrilled chicken into S$11.90 with a drink — better value than the old lunch set ever was. The catch is unusually strict: not valid on public holidays, the eve of public holidays, OR school holidays, so the September break is out. Young NTUC Starter members get the same deal on presentation of the membership e-card alongside the student pass, and it also works at ANDES by ASTONS outlets. WHY ASTONS DESPITE EVERY MALL HAVING WESTERN: the kitchen runs at consistent quality across all 10 outlets — the chargrill is well-honed, portions are generous, and the side list is unusually wide at 14 options. WORTH IT IF: you want a Western plate at a predictable price on any day of the week. LESS COMPELLING IF: you were counting on the old weekday discount — there is no longer a cheap window to aim for, only the student hour.

Outlets: 26 SG outlets across the CBD, malls and residential hubs — Millenia Walk, 100AM, Marina Bay Link Mall, Merlion Park (One Fullerton), ION Orchard, The Centrepoint, Tiong Bahru Plaza, Holland Village MRT, Toa Payoh HDB Hub, AMK Hub, NEX, Heartland Mall Kovan, Hougang Mall, Compass One, Waterway Point, Causeway Point, Northpoint City, Kampung Admiralty, 18 Tai Seng, Bedok Mall, Eastpoint Mall, Our Tampines Hub, Jurong Point, Jem, Fusionopolis One and Hillion Mall. Worth checking before you walk: MOS is not at Suntec, Bugis Junction, Wisma Atria, Plaza Singapura, Westgate or Tampines 1, all of which get named in older round-ups. Several CBD branches open at 7.30-8am for breakfast; Toa Payoh HDB Hub runs latest at 11pm. Cuisine: Japanese fast-food burger chain (Tokyo-headquartered). LUNCH SET: the standard set is burger + fries + drink at roughly S$9-11 depending on the burger, ordered at the counter. Be aware that MOS is the one chain on this list that does NOT publish its set prices online — the website lists a la carte only, and the set upgrade is priced at the outlet. You can sanity-check it from the components: a MOS Burger is S$4.30, small fries S$2.80 and a soft drink S$3.50, so building the same meal item by item costs about S$10.60 and the set should come in under that. Other a la carte anchors: Spicy MOS Burger S$4.55, Teriyaki Chicken Burger S$4.95, Chicken Burger S$4.85, Fish Burger S$4.30, plain Hamburger S$2.70, and the rice burgers — Yakitori, Yakiniku and Kakiage — at S$4.95 each, with the Okonomiyaki Rice Burger at S$6.75. Hokkaido Corn Soup or Clam Chowder is S$3.90 if you want to build your own set. Signature picks: the MOS Rice Burger (the famous 'bun made of rice' — a filling between 2 grilled rice cakes), Teriyaki Chicken Burger, and the Spicy MOS Burger (signature beef + chilli sauce + tomato). Two outlets run exclusives worth a detour: the Fiery Wagyu Cheeseburst and Roasted Garlic Chicken Burger (S$9.45 each) are Merlion Park only, and the Tokyo Hamburg (S$7.95) is ION Orchard only. WHY MOS BEATS McD/BK FOR LUNCH: meaningfully higher ingredient quality — beef is fresh-grind not frozen, tomato is a real slice, chilli and teriyaki sauces are house-made. The price premium over McDonald's is only about S$2-3 for a noticeably better lunch, and the Rice Burger format is a Tokyo classic that does not really exist outside MOS in SG. BREAKFAST IS THE UNDER-RATED SLOT: the Morning Toast Plate is S$4.45 and the Deluxe version S$5.45, with a Chicken Ham & Omelet Burger at S$3.50 — cheaper than anything on the lunch board, at the outlets that open early. NOT WORTH IT IF: you treat burgers as utilitarian fuel — a McDonald's value meal at about S$7 wins on pure dollar efficiency. WORTH IT IF: you want a quality fast-food lunch where the burger is the experience, not just calories.

Outlets: 50+ SG outlets — CBD towers, malls, MRT stations, polytechnics, hospitals. Cuisine: American sub sandwich chain. THE DEAL, ACCURATELY: it is called the EVERYDAY VALUE MEAL and it is S$6.80 — a 6-inch sub + a cookie + a 16oz drink. Note what it is not: Singapore does NOT run the American-style 'Sub of the Day' with a different sub each weekday. That is a US programme and it does not apply here, so ignore any Mon-Tuna / Wed-BMT rotation chart you see repeated online. THE CATCH THAT MATTERS: the S$6.80 price is limited to FIVE subs — Cheesy B.L.T, Chicken Delite, Egg Mayo, Chicken Chorizo and Veggie Delite. Want an Italian B.M.T. or a Chicken Teriyaki? Those are not in the deal and you pay standard menu price. Add-ons (extra cheese, avocado, bacon, upgrading to footlong) all cost extra. It runs at participating restaurants for a limited period, so confirm it is still on the board at your outlet. WHERE IT ACTUALLY RANKS: at S$6.80 for a sub + drink + cookie it undercuts McDonald's value meals (~S$7.50), the KFC snack box (~S$7.90) and effectively every food-court restaurant set, and unlike most of this list it has no weekday-only window. It is no longer the outright cheapest chain lunch in Singapore, though — Long John Silver's Golden Deals open at S$5.30 for a hot main, a side and a regular drink (see #8). Subway remains the cheapest cold, build-your-own, walk-in-anywhere option, and it has 50+ outlets against Long John Silver's 13, so it usually wins on the only metric that matters at 12.45pm: whether there is one downstairs. WHY IT WORKS AS A DAILY LUNCH: you control the salad and sauces at no extra cost (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, capsicum, olives, jalapenos, onion), so the sodium and calorie load is genuinely adjustable in a way a fixed set meal is not. NOT IDEAL FOR: hot-soup-craving lunch days, social lunches (the format is grab-and-go), or big eaters — a 6-inch is light, and the footlong upgrade pushes you well past the deal price.

Outlets: only FOUR La Mian Xiao Long Bao outlets remain in Singapore — Toa Payoh (470 Lorong 6, #01-70, opposite HDB Hub), Bugis Junction (#B1-04A), i12 Katong (#02-21) and Changi Airport Terminal 1 (Mezzanine Level 3). The brand has contracted sharply, so do not assume your nearest mall still has one: Holland Village, Plaza Singapura, VivoCity, Causeway Point, NEX, Tampines 1 and JEM no longer carry this format. Hours: Toa Payoh and Bugis Junction daily 11am-10pm (last order 9.30pm); i12 Katong splits lunch 11am-3pm (last order 2.30pm) and dinner 6-10pm on weekdays but runs straight through 11am-10pm on Sat, Sun and public holidays; Changi T1 daily 7am-11pm. Cuisine: Chinese — Shanghainese la mian + xiao long bao specialty. THERE IS NO LUNCH SET. This is the correction that matters. The widely-repeated 'weekday lunch set around S$12.80 with la mian + xiao long bao + soup' does not appear anywhere on the menu Crystal Jade publishes for this brand, which is entirely a la carte: dim sum, appetisers, soups, poultry and meat, seafood, vegetables and tofu, signature la mian, rice and noodles, dessert. If an outlet is running a set on a board at the door, treat it as an outlet-level promotion and confirm the price there — do not plan a trip around it. AND THE PRICES ARE NOT NETT. Crystal Jade adds 10% service charge PLUS prevailing GST, which is roughly 19.9% on top of every menu number — the single most important thing this list previously failed to tell you. That quoted S$12.80 would actually settle at about S$15.35 on the bill, i.e. over this list's cap. WHAT ACTUALLY CLEARS S$15 ALL IN: la mian with scallion oil at S$9.80 and dry dan dan la mian at S$9.80 (about S$11.75 each once service and tax land), and the signature Szechuan dan dan la mian — the dish the brand leads with — at S$11.80, or about S$14.15. La mian with minced pork and vegetable wonton at S$12.80 lands right on the line at roughly S$15.35. Past that you are over: la mian with poached chicken in Szechuan style S$13.80 (~S$16.55), la mian with deep-fried pork rib S$15.80, Shanghai stir-fried thick noodle S$15.80, la mian with Chongqing-style poached beef S$16.80. Steamed white rice is S$1.60 a bowl and snacks are S$3.80 a plate if you are topping up. THE XIAO LONG BAO MATH: Classic Shanghai Xiao Long Bao is S$9.80 for 6pc or S$13.80 for 10pc — so ordering the la mian AND the dumplings, which is what people picture when they hear 'la mian + XLB set', is S$19.60 before surcharges and about S$23.50 after. That combination has not been a sub-S$15 meal for some time. WHY IT'S STILL WORTH CHECKING: most brand-name Chinese restaurants in SG charge S$20+ for a lunch set (Imperial Treasure dim sum, Tung Lok, even Din Tai Fung lunch sets land S$18-25), so a S$9.80 hand-pulled la mian from a recognised brand is still the cheapest sit-down Chinese noodle you will get with this much name behind it. SIGNATURE PICKS: la mian is hand-pulled in-outlet, and the xiao long bao is widely rated second only to Din Tai Fung (some prefer Crystal Jade's slightly thinner skin). FOR FAMILIES: Jadeite members' kids aged 6 and below dine free from the S$12.90 kids' menu with any food order — but note it is Mon-Fri only, from 6pm onwards, excluding eve of and public holidays, one redemption per child and a maximum of two sets per table. That is a dinner perk, not a lunch one. AVOID: assuming any Crystal Jade branch will do — the group runs several separate concepts (Kitchen, Golden Palace, Pavilion, Jiang Nan, CJ GO) and only the La Mian Xiao Long Bao format carries this menu.

Outlets: 13 SG outlets — NORTH: Junction 8 Bishan, Kampung Admiralty, Northpoint City, Wisteria Mall, Woods Square. CENTRAL: Tiong Bahru Plaza. EAST: 18 Taiseng, Eastpoint Mall, Paya Lebar Square, White Sands. WEST: Hillion Mall, Jurong Point, Yew Tee Point. That is one fewer than last time we counted: the Suntec City outlet has gone, and the Tampines Mall branch closed on 2 March 2026. NINE OF THE 13 ARE OPEN 24 HOURS — Junction 8, Kampung Admiralty, Northpoint City, Wisteria Mall, Woods Square, Eastpoint Mall, Paya Lebar Square, Jurong Point and Yew Tee Point. The other four (Tiong Bahru Plaza, 18 Taiseng, White Sands, Hillion Mall) run daily 7.30am-10.30pm. Breakfast is served 4-11am at the 24-hour outlets and 7.30-11am at the rest. Cuisine: American seafood diner — battered fish, fried chicken, shrimp, chips. THIS IS THE CHEAPEST CHAIN LUNCH IN SINGAPORE, AND IT IS NOT SUBWAY. The Golden Deals menu opens at S$5.30 for 1pc Alaska Pollock with a side and a regular drink — that is a hot main, a side and a beverage for less than the S$6.80 Subway Everyday Value Meal that gets called the cheapest in almost every round-up, this one included until now. Prices are inclusive of GST, there is no membership, no card and no weekday window. THE FULL LADDER, each served with one side and a regular Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Sprite or Fanta Grape: 1pc Alaska Pollock S$5.30; 1pc chicken + 1pc spicy chicken S$5.90; 1pc Alaska Pollock + 1pc chicken S$6.90; 3pc chicken S$7.40; 2pc Alaska Pollock S$7.40; 1pc Alaska Pollock + 2pc shrimp S$7.40; 2pc chicken + 2pc spicy shrimp S$7.50; 2pc Dory S$7.50; 1pc Rockfish S$8.90; 1pc Rockfish + 1pc chicken S$10.50; 1pc spicy Rockfish + 2pc shrimp S$11.30. Every single one is under S$15. IF YOU WANT THE BIG ONE: the Captain's Combo bundles three proteins — 1pc Alaska Pollock or 1pc Dory with 2pc chicken and 2pc shrimp, side and drink included — for S$9.50, which is the best protein-per-dollar plate anywhere on this list. The Rockfish version of the same combo is S$13.90. THE SIDE IS WHERE THE VALUE HIDES: you choose one of LJS side salad, coleslaw or fries at no extra cost, and 5pc hand-made onion rings or a 5oz clam chowder cost S$1.20 more. Taking the chowder on a S$5.30 deal still leaves you at S$6.50 for fish, soup and a drink. WHY IT WORKS AS LUNCH: it is the only chain here with no time restriction whatsoever — the value menu is the standing menu, so a 3pm lunch, a Sunday lunch and a 2am supper all cost the same. Combined with 9 outlets running around the clock, it is the answer for shift workers, late lunches and weekend eating, which is exactly where the weekday-window deals on this list fall down. THE TRADE-OFF: it is fried food, and the batter-and-fries default is heavy. The LJS side salad and coleslaw options exist for a reason. AVOID: assuming the mall outlet near you is one of the 24-hour ones — four are not, and Tiong Bahru Plaza is the only Central branch left.