8 Best Ramen Shops in Singapore (2026): Tonkotsu, Tantanmen and Every Tsukemen Worth Ordering

Tokyo-born, from the shop that became the world's first Michelin-starred ramen restaurant, and cheaper than almost every write-up says. Tsuta's own menu page links two different menus for the same shops. The full brochure prices The Original Truffle Shoyu Soba (char siu with leek and mushroom pureed in truffle oil) at S$16.80 regular or S$13.80 light, with Truffle Shoyu and Truffle Shio at the same price and Premium Char Siu Truffle Shio at S$18.80. Its plain Tonkotsu Soba starts at S$12.80 regular / S$9.80 light. The single-size card behind the 'Click Menu' buttons drops the light option and disagrees with the brochure on every bowl, not just the headline one: the Original is S$18.80 there, and the plain Tonkotsu Soba is S$15.80 against the brochure's S$12.80 regular and S$9.80 light. Teriyaki Chicken Paitan is S$15.80 on the card, the spicy version and Kurobishio Tonkotsu S$16.80, Mala Tonkotsu S$17.80. So the honest range is S$9.80 to S$18.80 before GST, depending entirely on which of Tsuta's own menus the shop you walk into is using. Add-ons diverge too: an ajitama is S$2.50 on both, but the 40g noodle top-up is S$1 on the brochure and S$2 on the card, and only the card offers a S$6.80 Jumbo Topping Set and a S$2.80 rice set. Two things to know: Tsuta serves no tsukemen on any menu it publishes, despite being routinely listed for it; and the Mazesoba series it is currently promoting (Plain, Kurobishio, Mala) appears on neither PDF, so ask in store. The original Pacific Plaza outlet has closed; Tsuta now trades at Jewel Changi Airport (#03-218), 313@Somerset (#01-17) and the Jurassic Nest Food Hall inside Supertree Hall at Gardens by the Bay (#01-02A to #01-06A, 18 Marina Gardens Drive). The two Orchard/Jewel shops run 11am-10pm (last order 9.30pm); Gardens by the Bay closes earlier at 9pm (last order 8.30pm). Lunch queues run 30-45 mins at Jewel and Somerset; weekday evenings are shorter.

Singapore's most prolific ramen group, founded by Chef Keisuke Takeda, and by its own count now 14 outlets across 14 concepts, not the 15 often quoted, because Ramen Keisuke Singapore and Ginza Tendon Itsuki share a single Changi Airport T2 unit (#03-15) and phone line. The ramen ones worth planning around: Tonkotsu King (1 Tras Link #01-19, Orchid Hotel, Tanjong Pagar, the flagship pork-bone bowl) and a second Tonkotsu King at Holland Village; Tori King (100 Tras Street #03-15, 100AM, chicken paitan); Tonkotsu King Four Seasons (Bugis Village, rotating seasonal broths); Tonkotsu King & Niku King (Paya Lebar Square); and Ramen Dining Keisuke Tokyo (Capitol Singapore). Newest concept is Grilled Fish Keisuke at 101 Tanjong Pagar Road, daily 11.30am-10pm. The reason to plan a Monday: Keisuke's 'Ramen Monday' gives unlimited free kaedama every Monday of 2026 at seven outlets: Capitol, Tonkotsu King Tanjong Pagar, Tori King, Four Seasons, Tonkotsu King & Niku King at Paya Lebar Square, Tonkotsu King Holland Village and Changi T2, with one regular bowl of ramen per customer. It doesn't apply to Jiro Style or Iekei Ramen at Capitol, the Tori King and Tonkotsu King tsukemen, or the Prawn Mee, Bak Kut Teh and Laksa at Changi T2. The same poster gives free kids' ramen at Capitol, Four Seasons, Tori King and both Tonkotsu Kings. Two things nobody mentions: those two tsukemen are among the few in Singapore, and every Keisuke restaurant is walk-ins only, and the group takes no bookings anywhere except its Takeda Garden rooftop bar. Note the old Lobster King at Clarke Quay and Kani King at Cineleisure both closed in January 2022.

The tonkotsu institution. Hakata-born Ippudo opened its first SG outlet at Mandarin Gallery in 2009 and triggered Singapore's modern ramen wave. Akamaru Shinaji (red-oil tonkotsu) and Shiromaru Motoaji (white tonkotsu) are the signatures. Ippudo's own store directory now counts 14 stores in Singapore, the largest full-service ramen footprint here: Mandarin Gallery, Guoco Tower (Tanjong Pagar Centre), Raffles City, i12 Katong, Marina Bay Sands, Shaw Centre, The Star Vista, Mohamed Sultan (UE Square) and Westgate among them, plus express counters at Changi Airport, so there's almost always one near you. Two practical caveats, and both got worse this month: Ippudo publishes no prices online, so the S$18-22 you see quoted for the signature bowls is a market figure rather than one you can check before you go; and its Singapore web presence has gone dark. The ippudo.com.sg domain no longer resolves at all, and the Singapore page of the global store directory now loads but lists no stores on it, so the outlet list is best confirmed through its Facebook or Instagram, or through the mall you are heading to. We could confirm the Westgate outlet independently through that mall's own tenant directory. Reliable rather than transcendent, and the known-quantity choice when you want excellent tonkotsu without queue chaos.

Singapore's chicken-paitan (white) ramen specialist. Marutama uses a pure chicken-bone-and-vegetable broth that is lighter and more nuanced than tonkotsu, which appeals to anyone who finds pork broth too rich. The big change since our last check is that Marutama now publishes its full menu with prices, outlet by outlet, so the S$15-22 estimate everyone quoted for it can be retired. The Marutama Tan-men is S$14.00 and the Marutama Ramen, its most popular bowl, is S$14.90; Tori Marutama is S$14.90, Aka Ramen S$16.00, the signature Aka Marutama Ramen S$18.00, Char Siu Marutama and Tori Char Siu Marutama S$18.90 each, and the fully loaded Zenbu Nose Ramen S$20.90. Three items are single-outlet: Kakuni Ramen S$19.90 at Bugis+ only, and Aka Marutama Tan-men S$18.90 and Zenbu Nose Aka Ramen S$22.00 at Millenia Walk only. Cheapest of all is the Volcano Ramen at S$13.80, a braised-meat dry noodle sold only at Downtown Gallery and 18 Tai Seng. A new Spicy and Salted Chicken Mazesoba (thick dry noodles with a yuzu sauce and an onsen egg) is S$15.90 at Bugis+ and The Central only. Gyoza are S$6.20. The menu carries no nett or GST line, so assume tax is added. Buried at the bottom of that menu is something no roundup mentions: Marutama sells two tsukemen, the Sizzling Stone Bowl Chicken Paitan Tsukemen and the Sizzling Stone Bowl Dandan Tsukemen, and both are ION Orchard exclusives. They are also the only two items on the entire menu with no price printed against them, so ask at the counter. Seven outlets, all confirmed on its own locator: ION Orchard (#B4-54), The Central (6 Eu Tong Sen Street #03-90/91), Downtown Gallery (6A Shenton Way #03-25), Millenia Walk (#02-16A), Bugis+ (#04-02), 18 Tai Seng (#01-34/35) and Leisure Park Kallang (#01-33/34/35). Read the hours before you go, because they differ wildly: the Downtown Gallery shop is a pure CBD lunch-and-after-work room, closed Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, and Downtown Gallery, Millenia Walk and (Mon-Thu) Leisure Park Kallang all shut between 3pm and 5pm. The Central, Bugis+, 18 Tai Seng and ION Orchard run straight through, and ION Orchard is the only one open every day of the year bar Chinese New Year. All outlets take walk-ins, none takes phone bookings, and none accepts reservations at weekends or peak hours.

Specialty house from chef Tomoharu Shono, focused on small-batch artisan ramen and tsukemen, and one of the best places in town for toripaitan (creamy chicken broth). The group now runs three Singapore rooms, one more than most guides list. MENSHO TOKYO is at 252 North Bridge Road, #03-43 Raffles City, open daily 11am-9pm with no closing day, and not Cuppage Plaza, where it has never traded. Its most-ordered bowl is a Chilli Crab ramen built as a Singapore exclusive, and the menu also carries a Firebird Tsukemen, Duck Matcha, an A5 Wagyu Shoyu Aburasoba and three vegan bowls. The cheaper fast-casual MENSHO X sits at 6 Battery Road, #01-02c in Raffles Place, serving toripaitan ramen, toripaitan tsukemen and mochi-mochi mazemen, but check the day first, because it trades Monday to Friday 11am-8.30pm and is closed all weekend. Newest is a second MENSHO X inside WEAVE, Level 2 at Resorts World Sentosa (8 Sentosa Gateway, #02-206), open daily 11am-10pm, whose exclusive is a Wagyu Tantan Mochimen: thick chewy noodles in a rich sesame sauce, no soup. Mensho publishes no prices on its site; the roughly S$17-19 bowls and free first kaedama reported at the MENSHO X launch are worth confirming in store. Limited seats at Raffles Place, so go before 12.30pm or after 2pm.

Still the value pick, and still the chain that prints its whole menu in public, but the numbers have moved a long way. Every bowl on Takagi's own menu pages has been repriced since our last check: the house Takagi Ramen tonkotsu is now S$10.90, up from S$7.90, a 38% rise. Nia Shoyu, Shoyu Ajitama, Black Shoyu, Karaka Shoyu and Miso Shoyu are S$10.90; the karaka is S$11.50; miso, black tonkotsu, awabi shoyu and the tantanmen are S$11.90; chashumen and the Goma Shoyu Soup Ramen are S$12.90; and the two crab bowls, Chili Crab and Salted Egg Crab, now top the range at S$20.90, up from S$16.50. The cheapest things on the board are the three dry ramen at S$9.90 (Mazemen, Goma Dorai and JiaJia Men), which makes S$9.90 the floor of this whole guide and S$10.90 the cheapest bowl with soup in it. Two claims we can no longer stand behind: the site has dropped the word nett from its menu, and it no longer prints the free 100g kaedama line or an ajitama or chashu add-on price, so treat the old free-refill promise as unconfirmed until you see it in store. Its sides and breakfast pages do still carry prices: okayu sets are S$4.90 (served 5am to 11am daily), onigiri S$3 each, five deep-fried gyoza S$7.90 and chicken karaage S$8.90. The butashoga bowl has gone from the menu entirely. The footprint is bigger than its menu pages suggest: they name twelve outlets, but Takagi's own outlets page lists thirteen, adding Bedok Central (Blk 206 Bedok North Street 1, #01-355) to Ang Mo Kio, Yishun, Woodlands, Hougang Rivercourt, Jurong West, Simei, Redhill, One-North, Downtown East, Dhoby Ghaut, Yew Tee and Anchorvale Village. That page marks nine of them as open 24 hours. One-North (10am-9pm), Downtown East, Dhoby Ghaut and Anchorvale (11am-10pm) are the exceptions, and the page was last edited in October 2024, so check before a late-night trip. Either way you order and pay at the counter before the kitchen starts, so it is fast rather than seated-service. Takagi also states on its own material that elderly, special-needs and financially struggling diners get special food privileges at every outlet, on approaching the restaurant manager on duty. Its promotions page currently lists no offers. Great for students, families and a no-fuss weeknight bowl.

Niigata-style shoyu ramen specialist that flies under the SG radar, from the Sanpou Group founded in Niigata in 1967, and unusually for this list, it prices every bowl on its own website. The signature Niigata Shoyu broth is simmered with chicken, pork and two kinds of Japanese dried sardine: light, fragrant and savoury, distinctly different from tonkotsu-dominant chains. It starts at S$14, going to S$15 with a flavoured soft-boiled egg, S$17 with four slices of aburi chashu and S$17.80 fully topped. The rest of the board: maze soba with aburi chashu S$14, kotteri se-abura S$15, W-soup tonkotsu S$16, rich tori-miso S$16 and the spicy rich miso S$17, rising to S$20.80 for that one fully topped. So the real range here is S$14-20.80 before GST, and the S$14 maze soba and shoyu are the two cheapest things on any full-service menu in this guide. This is also the best mainstream chain for tsukemen: the Rich Dried Sardine Tsukemen is S$16, listed for all three outlets. Three shops: the Holland Village flagship (253 Holland Avenue #01-01), Shaw House (350 Orchard Road, #B1-04/05) and Paragon (290 Orchard Road, #B1-47), which opened on 9 May 2025 for the brand's tenth year in Singapore. All three run 11.30am-9.30pm Sun-Thu (last order 9pm) and to 10pm Fri-Sat (last order 9.30pm). Smaller-chain feel, and a locals' weekday lunch favourite rather than a tourist stop.

Volcano-bowl tonkotsu: the broth arrives boiling and foaming under a dome, with umami-loaded chashu draped over the noodles theatrically. More gimmick than substance some weeks, but the tonkotsu base is genuinely solid. The only outlet we can confirm against a landlord's own tenant record is Funan, at #B1-23, which is a unit number the brand itself has never published. The same CapitaLand record no longer lists Bukit Panjang Plaza, which we had counted as an outlet, although CapitaLand's marketing blurb still tells readers to visit that shop: read the structured tenant listing, not the prose around it. Three more are commonly listed, at Square 2 (Novena), Northpoint City South Wing (Yishun) and Century Square (Tampines), but each of those malls publishes its directory as a script-rendered page we could not read, so treat them as unconfirmed and call ahead. The old Liang Court and Jem branches have closed, and it no longer trades at 313@Somerset or Bugis Junction. Worth knowing before you travel: the brand's global site still carries a Singapore page with nothing published on it at all, and there is no separate Singapore website, so neither the full outlet list nor the prices can be confirmed against a first-party source. The S$17-22 range quoted around the web is a market estimate. Best for: ramen tourists, kids who'll film the volcano effect, and anyone bored of vanilla tonkotsu presentation.