Tingkat is sold in packages, not meals, so a headline like "from $180" tells you nothing until you divide it by days and by mouths. We did that division on 12 September 2026, reading every figure off the caterer's own rate card or its own checkout rather than a directory listing. The cheapest published rate in Singapore right now is Select Catering at $5.50 a head per meal before GST, about $6.00 with it, but that is dinner only, a minimum of two pax, and it bills to the end of the month. FattyDaddyFattyMummy is the cheapest you can price yourself online without asking anyone: its Regular Tingkat runs $350 to $600 for 20 days at two to five pax, which is $8.75 falling to $6.00 a head per meal. Kim Paradise is the cheapest halal-certified plan with a published grid, $654 with GST for 20 days at five pax, or $6.54 a meal, and it is the only one here that tells you flatly there is no trial. Then the catches nobody prints: Neo Garden has charged a $1 daily support fee on every new and renewed tingkat order since 1 April 2025, which is a full dollar a meal if you order for one; Soul Delicacies quietly runs two price grids and charges condo, apartment, hotel and office addresses more than HDB and landed on every single line; Kim Paradise leaves rice out of the price entirely and only delivers to selected areas; and Shiok Kitchen, the one service here with no subscription at all, adds $10 delivery on top of dishes sold by the portion. Eight services, every price re-read at source, and the order is not the one the listicles assume.
Tingkat is priced by the package, never by the meal, which is why no two roundups ever agree on who is cheapest.
> Quick view: cheapest published rate is Select Catering at $5.50 a head (dinner only, min 2 pax); most family plans land at $6 to $9 per person per meal; watch the condo, CBD and daily-fee surcharges.
How we priced this
Every caterer quotes tingkat differently. Some publish a package total, some a per-pax figure that turns out to be per day rather than per meal, and some publish nothing at all until you fill in an enquiry form. So we did the arithmetic ourselves: package price divided by days, divided by pax. Where a caterer prints a GST-inclusive column we used it. Where it prints only the pre-GST number, we have said so in the card and in the table, because 9 per cent on a $600 package is $54 and that is not a rounding error.
Everything here was read on 12 September 2026 off the caterer's own website or its own checkout. Two well-reviewed names that other roundups rank, Hong Choo and Homely Delights, are not on this list: both sell only through a marketplace and neither runs a website of its own, so there was no first-party page to verify against. That is not a judgement on their food, only on what we could check.
Why the trial is always the worst deal
Look across every card above and the same pattern shows up: a 5-day trial for one or two people costs roughly twice per meal what a 20-day plan for five people costs. Tingkat Delivery's two-pax trial is $13.08 a meal against $6.76 on its 20-day five-pax plan. Kim Paradise's solo 20-day row is $12.54 against $6.54 at five pax.
That is not caterers punishing you for trying. Cooking, packing and driving to your block costs about the same whether the driver hands over one portion or five, so the delivery leg is what you are really paying for, and it divides by mouths rather than by days. If you are cooking for one, tingkat is an expensive way to eat. If you are feeding four or five, it is genuinely competitive with cooking.
What to check before you pay
Is rice included? Kim Paradise leaves it out of every published price. Select Catering, Tingkat Delivery and Shiok all treat it as a choice at checkout. It is a small number that quietly changes which service is cheapest.
Does it deliver to you? Kim Paradise serves selected areas only. Soul Delicacies skips the external islands and charges condos, hotels and offices more than HDB. Ask before you plan a month around a service.
Lunch or dinner? Select Catering and FattyDaddyFattyMummy's Regular line are dinner only. Kim Paradise and Tingkat Delivery will do either.
What happens when you are out? Kim Paradise allows two skips on a 16 or 20-day package with a working day's notice before 4pm, and no replacement at all on 10 and 12-day packages. Select Catering builds a skip day into its 4-day week. Check this if your evenings are unpredictable.
Weekends and public holidays. Almost nobody delivers on them. A "20-day" package is four working weeks, and a month with two public holidays stretches further into the calendar than you expect.
Containers. Select Catering and Kim Paradise lend tiffin carriers you leave outside the door for collection. FattyDaddyFattyMummy uses disposables. If nobody is home to put the carrier out, pay the dollar for the disposable box.
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