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SKAI, the restaurant on the 70th floor of Swissôtel The Stamford, has handed its afternoon tea to Disney and Pixar's Toy Story until 30 November 2026. 'You've Got A Friend In Me' is ten pieces plus a scone, each named after a character: Mr. Potato Head as a Comté gougère with N25 caviar, Slinky Dog as a wagyu smokie in pretzel brioche, Woody as a 66% chocolate, Lotso as a strawberry shortcake and the Aliens as a matcha mandarin choux, plus a themed alcohol-free cocktail, TWG tea or coffee. It is S$78++ per adult and S$39++ per child aged 6 to 12, which is S$93.52 and S$46.76 once the 10% service charge and 9% GST go on, so two adults and two children pay S$280.56. Read the three menus side by side, though, and the children's set is not the adult set at half price: it drops Hamm, Lotso and the Aliens, so a child gets eight pieces against an adult's eleven. The vegetarian version keeps all ten and swaps ingredients instead. Daily 12.15pm to 5.30pm with a two-hour limit and last seatings at 3.30pm, reservations required. There is a Toy Story room package too, but the high tea is not included in it, and its 'priority reservation' does not guarantee you a table.

Jack's Place has a kids' menu at $3++ against a usual price of $8.80, and its own poster carries two conditions that every deal listing has dropped. The first is that the $3++ is an add-on, not a standalone: it applies only when an adult at the table orders an a la carte or promotional main course, and the restaurant's own terms then rule out the Set Lunch, which is the cheapest adult main on the menu. The second is the calendar. This is a weekday deal, Monday to Friday all day, which for most of the year is the one window when school-going children cannot use it. The 5 to 13 September school holidays are the exception, and they hand families five qualifying weekdays from Monday 7 to Friday 11 September. Three dishes sit at $3++ (Spaghetti Beef Bolognese, Chicken Nuggets & Fries, Kids' Fish & Chips), every kids' meal comes with apple juice and a single scoop of ice cream, and a $5++ tier (U.P. $10.80) buys a Minute Striploin Steak with Chicken Chipolata Sausages. After the 10% service charge and 9% GST the $3++ plate lands at about $3.60 against $10.55, so roughly $6.95 a child a visit. The deal is dine-in only, for children under 10, at the 12 outlets on the brand's own locations page, and eves of and public holidays are out, along with special occasions: the poster names Children's Day, which falls on Friday 2 October 2026.

foodpanda has launched the first food-delivery plug-in on both ChatGPT and Claude: enable it, then type @foodpanda on ChatGPT (or just mention foodpanda on Claude) to search restaurants, get meal ideas that fit your family and budget, and tap through to the foodpanda app to check out. It lands just in time for the September school holidays, alongside two stacked promos: Half Price HOT DEALS with 50% off selected items from Popeyes, A-One Signature, Starbucks and Takagi Ramen until 16 September, and Bestsellers at 25% off (40% off for pandapro subscribers) from Anjappar, Burger King and Maki-San until 27 September. Selected brands and items only, so check the app for what qualifies.

Sushidan, the Tokyo sushi-ya attached to MICHELIN-starred Chef Hiroyuki Sato of Ginza's Hakkoku, opens its second Singapore outlet at Parkway Parade on Friday 5 September 2026, and it lands on the first Friday of the September school holidays. The draw is the price floor: sushi from $1.99++ a piece, sashimi from $2.99++, hand rolls from $3.99++, and omakase-style sets from $19.90++, which is $23.86 once the 10% service charge and 9% GST are on. Riding with the opening is a single dated offer, and it is the biggest number on the page: 30g of premium Hokkaido nama uni served with toasted seaweed, added to any omakase course for $18.80++ instead of $38.80++, from 5 to 30 September 2026. That is $20 off the add-on, a little over half price, and it is exclusive to the Parkway Parade outlet, so the Raffles City flagship does not honour it. Two things decide whether the trip is worth it. The uni is while stocks last and the variety can rotate with the season, and the new outlet seats about 35, roughly half of Raffles City, which is a small room to absorb an opening weekend in a school holiday week.

Teachers, flash your ID this Friday. For Teachers' Day on 4 September 2026, three sister brands are running one-day-only treats at all outlets islandwide: Krispy Kreme gives a free half dozen Original Glazed with any dozen purchased (limited to 50 redemptions per store), llaollao upsizes 2 Medium Tubs to 2 Large Tubs free, and 108 Matcha Saro throws in a free soft serve with any 24-piece Warabi Mochi Box. All three need a Teacher's ID at the counter, are capped at one redemption per ID, and cannot stack with other promotions. One day only, while stocks last.

Italian is the one cuisine in Singapore where the price gap is enormous and almost nobody explains it. A full set lunch at Peperoni Pizzeria is $22.90. A six-course dinner at one-MICHELIN-star Buona Terra starts at $248++. In between sits the most interesting thing to happen to Italian food here this year: Assaggi, opened in August 2026 on Neil Road by Buona Terra's own Chef Denis Lucchi, serving a tasting menu at $88++ and an express lunch at $58++. We read all nine menus, opening-hour pages and promotion terms off the restaurants' own websites on 2 September 2026, checked PastaMania's halal status against the MUIS register rather than repeating a brand claim, and listed every dated deal we could verify.

Hokkaido Baked Cheese Tart posted its 10th-anniversary offer on its own Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon, 1 September 2026: buy one Original Cheese Tart and get one free, from 12pm onwards, while stocks last. The catch is in the scheduling rather than the discount. The brand's poster splits the promotion across two days and pairs the outlets, so Wednesday 2 September runs at Jurong Point #B1-K2 and Parkway Parade #01-23B only, and Thursday 3 September moves to Changi Airport Terminal 3 #B2-11 and Bugis Junction #B1-K6 only. Turn up at the right shop on the wrong day and there is no offer. Causeway Point, the fifth of the five Singapore outlets the brand lists on its own page, is not in the promotion at all. The offer covers the Original Cheese Tart only, not the salted egg or durian versions, and the brand publishes no price list of its own, so the value of the free tart is whatever that outlet's counter charges. The Changi Airport shop is landside in the public basement, so you do not need a boarding pass to use it there.

Old Chang Kee put its Mid-Autumn puff back on the counter on Tuesday 1 September, and this year it has mochi in it. The Salted Egg Taro Mochi'O (咸蛋芋泥麻薯角) is a 福-stamped puff filled with taro paste, a whole salted egg yolk and a stretch of mochi, and the brand's own promotions page lists it at all Old Chang Kee outlets from 1 to 30 September 2026, or while stocks last. The counter price is $3.80 for one and $6.80 for two, which works out at $3.40 a piece. That price is worth reading against Old Chang Kee's own back catalogue: last year's Mid-Autumn puff, the Salted Egg Yam'O, carried the same Chinese name and the same 福 stamp at $3.60 a piece, so the single has gone up $0.20 while the 2-for rate actually lands $0.20 under it. The Red Bean Mochi'O that ran from 6 May to 6 June this year was $2.60. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Friday 25 September 2026, which leaves a five-day tail on the promotion, and the brand's line for this item names outlets only, unlike its other current items which say outlets and delivery platforms.

llaollao Singapore is launching Quad Pop, a new weekly froyo deal: every Wednesday from 2 September 2026 onwards, a Medium Tub with any 4 toppings of your choice (1 scoop each) goes for $7.00 flat, at all llaollao Singapore outlets while stocks last. The usual Medium Tub comes with fewer toppings, so Quad Pop is built for the mix-everything crowd: fruit, crunch, sauces, all four in one tub. The fine print worth knowing: it applies to Medium Tub purchases only, additional toppings beyond the four are chargeable, it cannot stack with other promotions or vouchers, and it is in-store only, not on delivery platforms.

The smartest CBD lunch trick in 2026 is not a discount, it is ordering before you leave your desk. These 8 chains let you order and pay online or in-app first, then collect at the counter with no queue: Starbucks (Mobile Order and Pay), McDonald's, KFC, Guzman y Gomez, SaladStop!, The Daily Cut, CHAGEE and Luckin Coffee. All 8 run their own official order-ahead channels (not just delivery apps), all have outlets in or around the CBD, and several sweeten the deal: SaladStop! charges the same prices online as in-store, Luckin sells new app users their first cup for $0.99, and free GOMEX membership makes every 6th Guzman y Gomez barista coffee free. Every ordering channel below was re-verified on each brand's own site, app listing or help centre on 5 September 2026.

Krispy Kreme Singapore's Autumn Series is a limited-time collection of four seasonal doughnuts, available at all outlets from 26 August to 27 September 2026 while stocks last. The line-up: Citrus Kunafa (lemon cream cheese filling with a refreshing lemon drizzle), Strawberry Kunafa (strawberry cream cheese filling with a luscious strawberry drizzle), Apple Krumbles (apple crumbles topped with a rich toffee drizzle) and Hershey's ChocoNana (banana filling topped with a decadent chocolate drizzle). It runs from zesty citrus and juicy strawberry to apple crumble and rich chocolate-banana, so there is something for every doughnut lover.

Jollibee Singapore has three combos on its Shiok Savers poster and every one of them rings up at $9.90 — a chicken sandwich set, a two-piece Chickenjoy with rice and fries, and a two-piece Chickenjoy with spaghetti. What the poster also prints, in three different corners, is three different savings: $6.40, $8.45 and $9.25. Work backwards from Jollibee's own numbers and the a-la-carte totals are $16.30, $18.35 and $19.15, which makes Combo C a 48% discount and Combo A a 39% one at exactly the same price — a $2.85 gap on a $9.90 order. Two more things the write-ups skip: the campaign is dine-in and takeaway only, so ordering it on a delivery app will not get you this price, and Jollibee's own website Deals page does not mention Shiok Savers at all. Runs to 30 September 2026 at all 25 stores.

Ya Kun Kaya Toast shut its Far East Square flagship for renovation on 16 July 2026, and the notice it posted said in plain type: "Reopening in September." It is not September. Ya Kun's own Grand Reopening Promotion poster, published 20 August, is dated 26 August, 3pm onwards — so the shop the company itself calls its flagship comes back roughly six weeks after going dark and a week ahead of the month it told customers to expect. The reopening gift is the unusual part: a free Classic Comfy Chicken Pie, U.P. $6.80, to the first 200 customers from 3pm, with NO purchase and no minimum spend — Ya Kun's poster says "No Purchase Required" and its caption says "no minimum purchase required", which is rare in a market where almost every F&B freebie is really a purchase-with-purchase. The arithmetic is the catch: 200 pies is about $1,360 of giveaway at a single CBD shopfront at tea time on a Wednesday, in the Telok Ayer office belt, and the poster says "200 PIES GIVEAWAY ONLY" and the caption says "while stocks last". Ya Kun has published the 3pm start but has NOT published what time the outlet opens that day, whether the pie is dine-in or takeaway, or a queue system — so treat 3pm as the only fixed number and get there before it.

Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice — the Maxwell stall Mdm Foo opened in 1986 — has its sixth outlet and first full flagship restaurant at Jewel Changi Airport, and it opens properly on Friday 22 August 2026. On 22 and 23 August it gives away 88 packets of its signature chicken rice a day, takeaway only, while stocks last. Two things almost every write-up gets wrong: the 20% discount being repeated as if it were live was the SOFT-OPENING rate and it ended on 17 August, so you pay full price from here; and the limited-edition plush blind box is a purchase-with-purchase — the brand's own artwork prints $10.80 a box after $30 spent in-store, and a single chicken rice is $11, so one person cannot reach $30 on the signature dish alone. The quiet win nobody has written up: read Tian Tian's own outlets page and Jewel is the ONLY one of the six open daily and past 8pm. Maxwell, Simpang Bedok and Clementi all shut on Mondays, Lucky Plaza shuts Sundays, Bishan shuts Sundays AND Mondays. From 22 August, a Monday plate of Tian Tian — or any plate after 8pm — exists in exactly one place.

Violet Oon's all-day Peranakan cafe Bibik Violet is running three seasonal durian desserts, and the brand's own campaign artwork puts a hard boundary on them: 'AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT GREAT WORLD UNTIL 31 AUG'. The three are Durian Chendol, Durian Sago Gula Melaka and Pulut Tai Tai with Durian Kaya — so the Temasek Shophouse outlet next to Plaza Singapura does not have them, and neither does the delivery menu. We went through Bibik Violet's own site, its August 2026 Great World menu PDF and its online-ordering platform, and three things are worth knowing before you go. First, none of the three durian items appears anywhere on order.bibikviolet.com — this is a walk-in, eat-there deal, not something you can pre-order or have delivered. Second, Bibik Violet has not published a price for any of them; what its own menu does publish is the non-durian baseline — Sago Gula Melaka at $4.90 and Chendol at $5.50 — and the line at the bottom of that menu, 'prices are subject to 10% service charge and 9% GST', which turns a $5.50 bowl into about $6.60 before the durian upgrade. Third, the $1 kopi-or-teh window between 3pm and 5pm that has been widely reported alongside this campaign does not appear on Bibik Violet's website, its menu PDF or its ordering platform — treat it as reported rather than confirmed, and ask at the counter.

ibis Singapore on Bencoolen has turned the afternoon coffee break into a proper high tea. At its TASTE Restaurant, the new 'TASTE the Break: High Tea Made with KITKAT' is S$60++ for two guests, served daily from 2pm to 5pm, from 3 August right through to 31 December 2026. Each guest starts with a welcome drink — a KITKAT Mocha with Pistachio or a Shaken Yuzu Americano — then shares six Asian-inspired savoury bites, from Smoked Salmon with Chuka Salsa on baguette to Tempura Ebi with salted egg yolk sauce. Dessert is where the KITKAT collaboration shows up: a shared Made with KITKAT Chocolate Bar Mousse Cake to split, and an individual Made with KITKAT Apple Crumble each. Reserve on 9238 3573 or book online.

Museum of Ice Cream (MOIC) Singapore is marking five years with a thank-you to the guests who have visited since it opened its pink doors in 2021 — and there are two separate things to know. First, eligible past visitors can claim one complimentary General Admission ticket: if you visited between 1 August 2021 and 30 June 2026 and bought your tickets through tickets.museumoficecream.sg, you can submit that booking email through an official Google form, and verified guests get a unique promo code to book a free ticket (one redemption per booking email). The code must be used to book by 27 August 2026, and the complimentary ticket is valid until 30 September 2026. Second, everyone is invited to a one-day birthday celebration on Saturday, 29 August 2026, 10am to 6pm at MOIC's Dempsey home, with complimentary face painting, glitter tattoos, a roaming balloon sculptor and a free children's storytelling session from 4pm to 5pm.

McDonald's Singapore is bringing back the Samurai Burger from 20 August 2026, 11am, and this year it arrives with four new side-kicks. The Samurai Beef and Samurai Chicken Burgers return alongside Seaweed McShaker™ Fries, joined by Tamago Samurai versions of both burgers and three genuinely new items: Katsu Chicken Tenders, a Kyoho Grape Soft Serve (and a Kyoho Grape McFlurry® with OREO® bits) and a Strawberry Daifuku Pie. The campaign artwork puts the Samurai Special Meal — burger, Large Seaweed McShaker™ Fries and a Medium Fuze Green Tea — at $10.15 single and $12.95 double, with the Tamago versions at $11.45. The part most people will miss: the free Samurai IKE! pop-up at McDonald's Bugis Junction runs 18–30 August, which means it opens two days BEFORE the burgers do. Admission is free, it's open 12pm–9pm daily, and there are three Japanese game-show-style games with goodies to win.

Only in Singapore: Springleaf Prata Place has swapped the burger bun for crispy prata. Its new Prata Smash Burger, part of the 'Ultimate Series 2026', stacks a smashed beef patty, double cheese, tomato, lettuce and white onion between two layers of freshly-fried prata, finished with the chain's signature Smash Sauce, all for $8.90. Better still, from 9 to 31 August 2026, every Prata Smash Burger comes with a FREE hot Teh Tarik. It's available at all Springleaf Prata Place outlets except Tang Plaza. One catch: the free Teh Tarik can't be combined with other promotions, discounts, vouchers or membership privileges.

Rive Gauche, the French patisserie behind one of Singapore's most-loved chocolate cakes, turns 33 this month — and it's marking the occasion with a fittingly-priced treat. From 19 to 21 August 2026, at all outlets, its signature Guanaja Cake in Size 5 drops to $33.30 (U.P. $52), a nod to the 33 years and a saving of about $18.70, or 36% off. The Guanaja is Rive Gauche's icon: layers of Valrhona Guanaja dark chocolate, chocolate glaze, ganache, chocolate sponge and crunchy feuilletine. It's a three-day-only, while-stocks-last deal, so plan your chocolate run.

Starbucks Singapore has brought back its four-day flat-price run: any Tall-sized drink at $4.90 each when you order a minimum of two Tall drinks in a single transaction, from Tuesday 11 to Friday 14 August 2026. That's $9.80 for two, and there is no per-drink cap on how many you buy beyond the minimum pair. Three things decide whether it works for you, and all three are printed on Starbucks' own campaign artwork: it is valid in stores only, redeemed over the payment counter, so Mobile Order & Pay and delivery are both out; the Kaya Toast Series and Reserve beverages are excluded, which knocks out the $7.90 Kaya Toast Latte from the brand's own 'Shiok' menu; and top-ups are still charged for customisations, so an extra shot, alternative milk or syrup is billed on top of the $4.90. It also won't stack with any other promotion or privilege. You show the promo image at the counter to redeem.

Hej Cake, the handmade cake brand that built a following at its Jalan Sultan shop with fresh-fruit cream cakes (yes, including that whole-watermelon cake) and crepe rolls, is opening its first-ever shopping-mall store at Suntec City. It's slated for September 2026, and the brand is teasing grand-opening-month perks including a membership privilege card, a membership programme, and a giant table cake-cutting ceremony. Exact opening date and the full list of opening benefits are still to be confirmed, so follow @hej.cake.sg for the drop.

For National Day, Artyzen Singapore is reworking local classics with a fine-dining hand. Cafe Quenino's Singapore Chilli Crab uses succulent Indonesian mud crab in a rich, tangy sauce with golden mantou, while the bar NINE at CQ turns ice kachang boozy with a three-drink Alcoholic Ice Kachang Series, including a Singapore Sling-inspired 'Sling on Ice'. For the long weekend, the Singapore Unscripted staycation starts from S$330 per night with an Artyzen Sling, welcome treats, late check-out and dining privileges, and guests staying on 8 or 9 August also get 'The Artyzen Scoop', a complimentary handcrafted ice cream made with the Museum of Ice Cream.

Japan's largest gyukatsu chain opened its third Singapore outlet at Parkway Parade in late July, and the grand-opening lunch promo is the cheapest this brand has ever been here: a Sirloin & Yasai Gyukatsu Zen at $18.90 and a Sirloin & Salmon Gyukatsu Zen at $19.90, running 3 to 31 August 2026. For scale, the closest thing on Katsugyu's regular menu is a half-and-half Zen set at $29, and a plain Sirloin Gyukatsu Zen alone is $25 — so $18.90 for a two-cutlet set is roughly 35% under the normal half-and-half price, and it still comes with the personal hot-stone grill and refillable rice and julienne cabbage that every Zen set includes. Three things the reposts leave out. It is Parkway Parade EXCLUSIVE — the Raffles City and One Holland Village outlets are not in it. It is weekday lunch only, Monday to Thursday 11am to 4pm, and the brand's own artwork excludes eves and public holidays, which knocks out Monday 10 August (the holiday in lieu for National Day) — after this weekend there are exactly 12 qualifying lunch sittings left. And the printed price is before charges: Katsugyu's menu states prices are subject to 10% service charge and 9% GST, so $18.90 is about $22.66 nett. Running alongside it since 22 July is a Kids Dine Free deal at the same outlet and the same weekday-lunch window — one free children's set (the Minced Wagyu set lists at $12) for kids 10 and under with every two Zen sets ordered.

The MICHELIN Guide Singapore 2026 landed on 4 August, and Indian food came out of it well: Thevar holds Two Stars, while Muthu's Curry, Bismillah Biryani and Lagnaa all carry the Bib Gourmand. We've paired those with the banana-leaf institutions that made Singapore's Indian food scene what it is: The Banana Leaf Apolo (fish head curry since 1974), Samy's Curry at Dempsey, and Chettinad specialist Anjappar. Verified addresses, opening hours, rest days and real prices, from a $7 masala dosa to a $298++ tasting menu, plus where to find the best Indian food outside Little India, from Dempsey to Shenton Way and Tampines. One change since our last check: Komala Vilas on Serangoon Road, the 1947 vegetarian institution, has been shut since 19 January 2026 with no reopening date, so it is no longer among the picks.

Singapore's 10th MICHELIN Guide landed on 4 August 2026 with 45 starred restaurants, and almost every roundup of them prints no prices at all. We pulled the menus off all nine of our picks on 7 September 2026. The cheapest fine-dining tasting menu is not at a one-star: it is JAAN's S$198++ lunch, which undercuts every three-star lunch in the country. Odette's vegetarian menus cost less than its meat ones at both services. Les Amis no longer publishes the cheap set lunch that roundups still quote. Meta is not on Keong Saik Road and has not been since 2023. And five of the nine are shut on Sundays.

Pizza Hut Singapore is running two National Day deals this August, plus two limited-edition local-flavour pizzas. The headline: a National Day Bundle from $61 (U.P. $106.55) with four Regular pizzas and three sides. Order takeaway on 8, 9 or 10 August and take $6.10 off all bundles (min spend $40), bringing the bundle to $54.90. There's also 2 Regular pizzas for $22 (or 2 Large for $33), and new Cheesy 7 Durian and Cheesy 7 Otah Laksa pizzas. Here's what's on.

The 61%-off mechanic is everywhere this National Day, but most of them land on a token item. Soup Restaurant's version is on real food: from 16 July to 31 August 2026 you can take any one of six specially curated National Day dishes at 61% off, on weekdays, at its outlets islandwide. The six are Assam Uncle Lapan Fish, Laksa Prawns, Stir-Fried Pig's Blood Tofu with Mustard Green, Kopi O Pork Chop, Double-boiled Crocodile Soup with Wolf Berries, and Homemade Pandan Panna Cotta with Gula Melaka — a list that leans harder into old-school Singaporean cooking than almost any other SG61 menu running right now. Two things to read carefully: the discount is on any ONE of those dishes, not the whole menu, and it is weekdays only, which means National Day itself (Sunday 9 August) and the public holiday in lieu (Monday 10 August) are both out. Running alongside it are two OCBC card offers worth stacking your visit around — 1-for-1 selected vegetable dishes with a $50 minimum spend till 30 September, and a $7.90 double-boiled soup (U.P. up to $16.90) till 31 December — plus the chain's standing Early Bird discounts of 15–35% off if you eat outside peak hours. Prices are subject to 10% service charge and prevailing GST, and every offer is while stocks last.

September opens with the same value floor as August: Burger King. Its King Deals e-coupon set runs to 4 October 2026, and we read all 20 coupons off Burger King's own artwork rather than a secondhand list, which is how we can say the live set is numbered DL1 to DL20 with no PM-prefixed code in it at all. The best of them cut 36% to 62%: DL12 gets two burgers, a BBQ Chicken Burger or a Whopper Jr., for $6.50 (U.P. $13.10), which is $3.25 a burger and the cheapest burger anywhere on this page; DL8 gets 9pc BK Nuggets with an ice lemon tea for $5 (U.P. $13.15, 62% off); DL14 gets a Whopper with Cheese and onion rings for $7.50 (U.P. $14.75); and DL5 gets a coffee, hot chocolate or SJORA for $2. All are redeemed by typing the code at the kiosk. New this month, and needing no code at all: Burger King's own Offers page now carries Value Your Way at $6.20 a set and a 5-in-1 combo at $9.50, while the Taste of Singapore rendang range that ran to 31 August has come down. McDonald's cheapest line is not the one everyone quotes: McSaver meals start at $5, a 1pc Chicken McCrispy, Filet-O-Fish, McChicken or Smoky Beef meal, after breakfast hours. Its live September campaign is the Samurai Meals Challenge in the app, running to 30 September. MOS Burger runs two Deluxe Mushroom Wagyu burgers for $10 every Monday and Tuesday, against a menu price of $8.10 each. Shake Shack's Shack Meal is a burger, side and drink from $15.10 on weekday lunchtimes through the Happy Point app. Carl's Jr is back at full menu price, with a weekday Student Meal and the returning Portobello Mushroom Burger but no published prices for either. And Mom's Touch, open since 14 August on South Bridge Road, has finished its opening offers, though its signature chicken burger is still $6.95.

Mister Donut has reunited with MILO for its National Day drop, and the campaign page went live on misterdonut.com.sg this morning under the name 'Nation's First Love (Made with MILO®)'. Two donuts, both $3.20 a piece, both built on chocolate malt cream made with MILO. The Pon De Royale is the classic chewy Pon De Ring filled with the malt cream and crowned with crispy kunafa flakes — the shredded-pastry texture that made the viral chocolate bars famous. The Cream Treasure Bomb is a soft round donut piped full of the same malt cream, with crunchy MILO Nuggets buried at the centre and a chocolate malt glaze over the top. The run is 1 August to 13 September 2026 at Mister Donut outlets islandwide, and the brand's own artwork is explicit about two things: they're made in limited quantities daily, and if you slot one into a Bundle Deal box there's a $0.50 per-piece top-up. At $3.20 a piece these sit above Mister Donut's everyday Pon de Lion range — worth it for the kunafa, but go early in the day, because 'limited quantities daily' is the brand's own wording, not ours.

September is the last month you can eat at JUMBO Seafood East Coast, the outlet the brand was built on in 1987, and the seafood houses have quietly rolled their promotions over with the calendar. We re-checked the official promotions pages of eight seafood restaurants on 1 September 2026 and kept only what is actually live now: JUMBO East Coast's farewell prices of a $39 Half Australian Lobster and $39 e-vouchers with unlimited redemptions, both to 29 September; Red House Seafood's à la carte dim sum at 50% off on weekdays and 30% at weekends, running to the end of the month; TungLok Signatures putting one iconic dish at 50% off every single day for TungLokFirst members; Greenwood Fish Market's House Oysters at $2.50++ at the Sentosa oyster bar, with Boston lobster at $59.95++ on Mondays and snow crab legs at $49.95++ on Thursdays; and a free $60++ combo bag at Dancing Crab on a $200 spend. We also stripped out what every other list is still running: JUMBO's $24 chilli crab fried rice ended on 31 August, TungLok's 61%-off golden croaker ended on 30 August, and Greenwood's World Oyster Festival closed with the month. Three deals here run all year: House of Seafood waives the birthday celebrant's share of the bill, Long Beach does a six-course executive set lunch from $61.20++ a head for Premier members, and Fish & Co takes up to 30% off takeaway between 3pm and 6pm on weekdays. Every price, cut-off date and catch below came off the restaurant's own website, not a deal aggregator.

T-Swirl Crepe — the US-viral, Tokyo-style gluten-free crepe brand whose first Singapore store opened at Plaza Singapura earlier this year — has launched what it calls Singapore's first-ever Dubai Nutella Crepe, available from 1 August 2026 for a limited time. The hand-rolled cone crepes riff on the viral Dubai-chocolate trend: a Strawberry Dubai Nutella from $10.90, a Pocky Nutella Crepe from $8.90 and a Banana Nutella Crepe from $7.90, at the Plaza Singapura store (B2-33/34). New for August: sign up as a member between 1 and 15 August 2026 and you get a coupon for 50% off one selected crepe (Dubai Nutella from $9.90, Nutella from $6.90 or Pocky Nutella from $8.90) — valid 30 days, one per member. Prices shown are 'from' prices and it is a limited-time run, so check before you head down.

We re-checked all 8 caterers against MUIS's own halal register on 7 September 2026, and every one is still certified, certificate numbers included. The bigger finding is that the prices everyone quotes are mostly unreachable. At Elsie's Kitchen the famous $5 Value Bento needs 100 pax, not the small group it gets recommended to. Neo Garden's $15.99 buffet needs 40 pax and is not sold on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays. Its $6 high tea needs 100. Chilli Api's $13.70 buffet is gone: its cheapest full buffet is now $16.80/pax ($18.31 with GST) on 30 pax, which leaves Elsie's Nostalgic Taste at $13.90 as the cheapest full buffet here, and that one needs 50 pax. The cheapest published meal boxes are Stamford and Neo Garden at $4.50 a set, both on a 50-pax minimum. The minimums are not always walls either: Neo Garden takes 20 guests on its $21.99 and $24.99 menus for a $3/pax surcharge. Every price below is listed with the headcount it actually requires.

The 7th Lunar Month, the Hungry Ghost Festival (中元节), runs from 13 August to 10 September 2026, with Zhong Yuan Jie on 27 August. It is the season when many Singaporean families make offerings and hold gatherings. If you would rather order than cook, here is where to get everything from a complete ready-to-pray offering set to a buffet for the whole family. We re-checked every caterer's own ordering system on 1 September 2026 and compared prices and minimum pax: Neo Garden leads with Lucky Sets, fruit towers, buffets and dry-ration hampers (with a halal menu); Select Catering is the cheapest buffet at $14.50++/pax; RichFood adds roast-meat platters and runs latest, to 11 September; and JCatering is the cheapest way to feed exactly 10, because FattyDaddyFattyMummy's 10-pax menu is the $19.79 Mini Buffet B, not the $18.99 one. Three conditions the round-ups miss: Neo Garden will not deliver offering sets below a $350, four-item order, its bento sets need a minimum of 20, and with lead times of 3 to 7 working days the practical cut-off for praying on the last day is the first week of September. FoodLine lets you compare hundreds of caterers in one place.

Luckin Coffee Singapore has put MILO in a coffee cup for National Day. From 27 July 2026, two limited-time drinks are on the menu at participating outlets: the Tiramisu Latte made with MILO — espresso and cocoa layered with whipped cheese foam, sea salt and Parmesan, then finished with the malty MILO hit (Nutri-Grade C, 4% sugar) — and the Cocoa-Malt Frappe made with MILO, a blended iced number dusted with MILO powder (Nutri-Grade C, 8% sugar). The offer attached to them is the one worth planning around: the Extra Shiok Set at $15.90 gets you two selected beverages plus an exclusive Mini Backpack Pouch Phone Lanyard, ordered through the luckin coffee app, while stocks last. Luckin's own poster also shows the 'Shiok Together' campaign packaging — a 'Luck in Singapore' carrier bag and sticker set. Two honest caveats before you go: Luckin has not published a la carte prices for either MILO drink or an end date for the campaign, and its own artwork says availability may vary by store, so check the app for your outlet before you make the trip.

Burger King Singapore has switched its homepage over to a 2026 'Taste of Singapore' campaign, and the headline is the return of the Rendang line-up: Double Rendang Beef, Rendang Tendergrill Chicken and Rendang Spicy Chicken King, all live from 28 July 2026 while stocks last. Riding with it is a full sides-and-desserts board that BK has priced on its own artwork — Cempedak Mochi Bites (5pcs) at $4.80, a Chrysanthemum Cream Cheese Pie at $2.90, Yuzu Cheesecake at $4.90, Mozzarella Cheese Sticks (4pcs) at $5, BK Nuggets (6pcs) with a Rendang dip at $5.50, and a 4-in-1 Snack Box with the mochi bites at $14. The Milo choco-malt desserts are the cheap thrill: a Cone at $1.80, Sundae $2.90, Affogato $4.20 and Float $4.90 — though BK's own footnote says those are at selected stores only. The dated bit worth diarising is the National Day tie-in: a $6.10 Rendang Deal pairing a single Rendang Beef Burger with a small iced Milo, reported to run 11–16 August 2026 with promo code SG61YAY at the kiosk or in the BK App. One caveat we'll be straight about: BK has not published an a la carte price list for the three burgers on its own site, so those you confirm at the counter.

Peranakan (Nyonya) cooking is the oldest answer to the question of what Singapore actually tastes like: Chinese ingredients worked through a Malay and Indonesian spice base until the result belonged to neither and to here. For this September 2026 audit we re-read every restaurant's own menu rather than the roundups, and two things everyone repeats turned out to be wrong. Candlenut is no longer the world's only Michelin-starred Peranakan restaurant: chef Malcolm Lee's second kitchen, Pangium at the Botanic Gardens, also holds One MICHELIN Star in the 2026 Guide, and COMO's own site now calls Candlenut the world's first rather than the only. And Baba Chews' famous $15++ Peranakan set lunch is gone, absent from its promotions page and from all nine promotions it currently publishes. So we priced the category properly instead. The benchmark dish, ayam buah keluak, runs from $18.00 at PeraMakan to $48++ at Candlenut, and the ranking is not the one you would guess: Violet Oon's $28++ undercuts both Bib Gourmand holders. We also flag the charges the menu price hides, including The Blue Ginger's compulsory $3.00 per head for rice, pickles and sambal belachan, and True Blue's chargeable table savouries. Permata's 1-for-1 halal buffet rolled into its new East Coast edition on 1 September and runs to 31 October at unchanged prices, though the Peranakan dishes left with the old menu. Pangium has also put a price on the shorter Tok Panjang Kecil lunch our August check could not find: S$138++.

For SG61, The Warehouse Hotel is leaning into its own history — the triple-span riverside building was once a godown, distillery and haunt of secret societies. From 1 to 10 August 2026, Lobby Bar pours four limited-edition cocktails, each named for a figure from Singapore's past: The Samsui Woman, The Coolie, The Hawker and The Gambler ($24++ each). Finish all four across your visits and you get a limited-edition Warehouse Hotel × Bicycle playing-card deck, while stocks last. Over at Po Restaurant, four National Day specials reimagine local flavours with modern technique — Po's Satay ($18++), Kari Ayam Kapitan ($28++), River Prawn Hokkien Mee ($28++) and Apom Berkuah with Mao Shan Wang coconut gravy ($14++). It's at 320 Havelock Road, and this is a limited 10-day run.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is running a flash deal on its signature 8-inch Chicago Cheesecake: $30.40 for the whole cake, down from $78. That is 61% off and $47.60 saved — the steepest discount the chain has put on a whole cake this year, and a neat SG61 number for the season. The part most people miss is that this is a pre-order, not a walk-in buy: you order between 20 July and 2 August 2026, then collect between 6 and 30 August, with limited quantities on each collection date. You can add a 9-piece Mini Pandan Muffins party pack for $10. Here is the full breakdown, the fine print (no changing your collection date or outlet once confirmed, and it will not stack with other offers), and whether it is worth locking in.

foodpanda is running a nostalgic National Day campaign from 27 July to 16 August 2026, and there is a lot in it. Food delivery gets $8 off for existing users and $12 off for new users with the promo code LOBANG (minimum spend applies), on the likes of Burger King, Jollibee, Nando's, Pizza Hut, KOI and Qi Ji. On pandamart from 3 August, more than 61 nostalgic childhood snacks go on sale, with six specific favourites — including Myojo bowl noodles, Super Ring and BoBo chicken sausage — dropping to just $0.61 each. Cold Storage and Giant run a different 20%-off grocery category each week plus a $10 code (FPCSS10). This guide breaks down every part, the exact codes, the six 61-cent snacks and the dates.

KFC Singapore has announced its biggest collab of the year: 'The Ultimate Launch by KFC', a Pokémon takeover running 19 August to 29 September 2026 across all 71 outlets. It comes in three parts. First, a limited-time Japanese Nanban menu — the Japanese Nanban Zinger from $7.50 (a Zinger fillet brushed in a sweet-tangy soy Nanban glaze and topped with Japanese-style tartar), Japanese Nanban Chicken Bites from $6.90, Japanese Nanban Loaded Fries $5.95 and Sweet Potato Balls from $3.95, all available as meals, box meals, buddy meals and family feasts. Second, collectibles released in two waves: from 19 August, a Pokémon Reversible Everyday Blind Pouch at $14.95 with any Japanese Nanban Zinger or Chicken Bites Box — a Poké Ball that turns inside out into one of four surprise designs (Pikachu, Eevee, Mew or Snorlax) — plus a free Pokémon sticker sheet with selected breakfast meals ordered with a Milo before 11am; then from 9 September, a 23cm Poké Ball Bucket at $12.95 with a 5pc Chicken Bucket, Pikachu and Gengar Gaming Chopsticks at $15.95 on delivery orders only, a Pikachu Car Neck Pillow set of two at $32.95 at drive-thru and extended-hour stores, and a limited-edition Pokémon Evolution Jacket at $99 carrying the Charmander–Charmeleon–Charizard line, sold at just five outlets and capped at one per person. Third, the experience layer: five outlets get type-themed makeovers (NEX is Water, JEM is Fire, Kallang is Electric, Compass One is Ghost, Jurong Point is Grass), all 71 restaurants become Pokémon GO PokéStops and Gyms, Pikachu does a meet-and-greet at three stores on 29 August, and over 200 free Trading Card Game beginner sessions run 12–20 September with a playmat, a voucher and two 30-card decks for everyone who finishes. The part the poster doesn't lead with: every collectible is a paid add-on gated behind a specific food purchase, not a free gift — and the pouch is a blind box, so you cannot choose your Pokémon.

Popeyes Singapore has put a National Day flavour on its Louisiana chicken: Mala Honey Hae Bee Hiam — numbing mala heat, honey sweetness and dried-shrimp sambal, glazed over the signature crispy bird. The range is live now on Popeyes' own ordering site: 1pc from $7.10, the Chicken Sandwich from $10.90, Loaded Mala Honey Hae Bee Hiam Fries $8.50, a 6pc bucket from $33.80, the sandwich set $14.50, the 2pc set $15.50 and the Chicken Box (chicken + sandwich + mashed potatoes + the new Watermelon Fizzy Pop) at $19.90. Running alongside it is the bit worth acting on: a 'Singapore Heartbeat' delivery sale on Grab and foodpanda from 8 July to 16 August 2026, daily from 10am — 1-for-1 on Grab and 50% off on foodpanda across six items including the Loaded Mala Honey Hae Bee Hiam Fries, the Signature Chicken Sandwich, the Hainanese Chicken Fragrant Rice Kick Bowl, Chicken Shepherd's Pie, the Chicky Chick Spaghetti Bolognese Bowl and Loaded Seaweed Nacho Cheese Fries, while promotional stocks last. And because the campaign artwork's own fine print says the offer is 'not valid in conjunction with any other promotions, discounts or privileges', it will not stack with Popeyes' weekly in-store deals — which are also worth knowing: 7pc Buttermilk Tenders Bucket $10.90 (U.P. $16.80) every Monday, a 4pc Louisiana Chicken Bucket at $10 every Wednesday, the $15 Popeyes Week Bucket Set (U.P. $30.60) from the 20th to 26th of every month, and the all-day POWER Mix & Match four-course combo from $9.50. One allergen note the marketing does not lead with: hae bee hiam is dried shrimp, and the poster carries a seafood allergen flag.

For Singapore's 61st National Day, Museum of Ice Cream Singapore is giving Singapore residents aged 61 and above complimentary admission with every full-priced ticket purchased, from 7 to 11 August 2026. To be clear on how it works: this is a seniors offer tied to a paid ticket — for each full-priced ticket you buy, one Singapore resident aged 61 or above gets in free, so it is the perfect window to bring your parents or grandparents along. Separately, throughout August, the museum's Scoop of the Month programme teams up with local chef Derek Cheong's Berempah Bros and Denzy Gelato on two limited-edition ice cream creations. Tickets and the senior offer are on tickets.museumoficecream.sg.

Seasonal Tastes — the buffet restaurant at The Westin Singapore, 32 floors above Marina Bay — is running a 1-for-1 dinner buffet with selected bank cards until 31 August 2026, which halves the price to roughly $49++ a head on weekdays. While the main restaurant on Level 32 is being refreshed (18 May–31 Aug 2026), the buffet has moved up to a 'Seasonal Tastes Pop-Up' at Cook & Brew: a weekday semi-buffet dinner at S$98++ per adult and a weekend/public-holiday full buffet at S$108++, both 1-for-1 for a second diner when you pay with DBS, POSB, OCBC, UOB, JCB, Citibank, Maybank or Bank of China cards (advance reservation required, max 10 diners a booking, blackout dates may apply by issuer). Lunch gets 50% off the second diner. There's also an SG61 nod: from 13 June to 10 August 2026, anyone born in 1965 can have the lunch or dinner buffet for just S$6.10++ every Saturday and Sunday. Prices are before 9% GST and 10% service.

Homegrown celebration bakery Sweetest Moments is marking Singapore's 61st birthday with a 5-Day Flash Sale: from Monday 27 to Friday 31 July 2026, one signature treat drops each day at up to 61% off, but only inside a 12-hour overnight window from 6.10pm to 6.10am, while stocks last. Monday is the Nostalgic Tea Party Set (U.P. $38.90) at 61% off, Tuesday the Savoury Laksa Cookies at a flat $6.10 (U.P. $7.90), Wednesday the Coffee or Pandan Gula Melaka Swiss Roll (U.P. $19.90) at 61% off, Thursday a set of 10 National Day brownies (U.P. $19.00) at 61% off, and Friday the National Day Mini Cupcakes (U.P. $43.90) at 61% off. No code needed — the discount applies automatically at checkout, one redemption per customer. Sweetest Moments is halal certified.

itea is the Principal Partner and Official Tea Beverage Brand of NDP 2026, and it is marking SG61 by releasing 7,000 vouchers that bring an SG61 Strawberry Series drink down to S$0.61. The catch is that you have to guess a secret code on the itea app, and the vouchers go first-come-first-served. Three drops have already been and gone (200 on 11 July, 300 on 18 July, 400 on 25 July) — but they were the warm-up. The real one runs 1 to 9 August, daily from 10.00am to 11.01am, with 6,100 vouchers, which is 87% of the entire campaign. Miss the first three drops and you still get a S$0.61 discount voucher with no minimum spend, valid on anything except ice cream. The new Merlion Berry line-up: Merlion Berry Green Tea, Merlion Berry Frost and Merlion Berry Shiok, alongside limited-edition SG61 merch.

Tajimaya Yakiniku has built its National Day set around the number 61: the SG61 Prestige Miyazaki Set is $61++ and stacks two premium cuts you'd normally pay a lot more for individually. You grill 60g of A5 Miyazaki Striploin — the top grade of Japanese wagyu — alongside 60g of Australian Wagyu Short Ribs over the restaurant's Japanese binchotan charcoal, and the price also carries free-flow miso soup, garlic rice, wafu salad and Japanese appetisers, plus one dessert per person to close. It runs from 1 July to 15 August 2026, dine-in only, at Tajimaya's single Great World outlet (#B1-115, 1 Kim Seng Promenade), and cannot be combined with other promotions or vouchers. Prefer volume over prestige cuts? A separate Premium Dinner Buffet Flash Sale drops the usual $69.90++ dinner buffet to $61++, but only on 3–6 August. Reservations are recommended.

Bread is the cheapest good meal in Singapore if you buy it on the right day. We've rounded up the 9 best bakery chains for 2026, each with its CURRENT verified promo, outlet count, price range and MUIS halal status, answered brand by brand: is BreadTalk halal, is Four Leaves halal, is Duke Bakery halal? (No, no and not certified. We checked all nine against the government HalalSG register on 29 August 2026 and four came back certified.) Delifrance runs $6 Pie Tuesdays at every outlet until 29 December 2026 (U.P. $8.50-$8.90). Two deals end within days: BreadTalk's 15% off 4-piece Thye Moh Chan mooncake sets on 14 September, and Delifrance's own Beef Rendang Pie and Milo Frappe on 15 September. PrimaDeli has swapped in a September Cake of the Month, the Peach & Longan Delight at $28.80 instead of $36 until 30 September, and its Mid-Autumn range is 20% off online from $44.80. Polar's mooncake discount has narrowed to 15% for Polaris+ members only, until 27 September. Plus Tiong Bahru Bakery's free croissant with any 3 viennoiseries, Paris Baguette's buy-4-get-the-5th-free (and where it does not run), Swee Heng's 79 certified outlets, and the Four Leaves outlet that shut for renovation on 5 September.

New bubble tea stop in Tampines: itea (Taste of Tropical Asia) has opened an outlet inside Giant Tampines and is running a grand-opening Buy-2-Get-1-FREE on all drinks for one week only, 22–28 July 2026. Buy any three drinks and the cheapest is free — itea's own opening poster states 'free drink applies to the lowest priced item' — so a round of three lands at roughly a third off, with featured pours like the Brown Sugar Pearl Milk Tea, Peach Green Tea White Pearl and Coco Shiok with Chestnut Popping Pearl. Running alongside it is a $1 Jumbo Cone deal — New Zealand milk soft-serve in a crispy waffle cone, on a Buy-1-Free-1 basis, valid during the opening week only. It's at Giant Tampines, 21 Tampines North Drive 2, Level 3 Stall No. 5 (S528765) — the itea kiosk inside the hypermarket, a handy grab after a grocery run. T&Cs apply and it's while the opening week lasts, so it's an early-week grab: the drinks offer and the cone deal both end on Tuesday 28 July.

Din Tai Fung has brought back its most local dumpling for National Day: the Steamed Chilli Crab & Pork Xiao Long Bao, headlining a 'Singapore's Favourite Catch' campaign that runs 1 July to 31 August 2026 at all its outlets islandwide. Each xiao long bao is filled with succulent crab meat, juicy pork and a flavourful chilli crab broth that bursts with every bite — and at 40% larger than DTF's signature Steamed Pork Xiao Long Bao, it's a proper mouthful of Singapore's favourite crab dish done the Din Tai Fung way. Four pieces are $11.80 (before 9% GST and 10% service charge, so roughly $14 nett). There are two extras worth knowing: spend a minimum of $80 (before GST and service) in a single bill that includes the Chilli Crab XLB and you get a complimentary Singapore-exclusive Bao Zai plush keyring, while redemptions last; and OCBC credit/debit cardmembers get an extra 10% off the Chilli Crab XLB, dine-in only, while servings last. It's a limited-time National Day drop, not a permanent menu item — here till 31 August, then gone.

Auntie Anne's Singapore is marking SG61 with the cheapest pretzel you will see all year: the signature Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel at $0.61 instead of $3.90 on National Day itself, Sunday 9 August 2026, from 12pm. It is capped at the first 100 customers per outlet with one redemption per person, so roughly 1,200 pretzels islandwide across the 12 stores — turn up before noon or don't bother. Running alongside it, and far easier to actually get, are two brand-new local flavours on sale from 27 July to 31 August: the Milo Dinosaur Pretzel ($4.50), coated in white chocolate and buried under Milo powder, and the Horlicks Pretzel ($4.20), a maltier, creamier take on the same buttery dough. Both are available at all outlets, on delivery platforms, and online for corporate and bulk orders. Every Auntie Anne's outlet in Singapore is MUIS halal certified.

The Korean pizza chain with the 25cm long-slice boxes has just gone MUIS halal certified across all 8 of its Singapore outlets, and it's marking it with two short, sharp promotions. FRIDAY 25 JULY: the first 100 pizzas at PLQ Mall, 313@somerset and AMK Hub go for $2.99 each — choose Korean Spicy Chicken (U.P. $7.90) or Korean Chicken Hawaiian (U.P. $6.50), max 2 per customer, queue tickets from 2.50pm and the counter opens at 3pm. THEN 28–31 JULY: the first 50 customers a day at every outlet except Temasek Polytechnic get 50% off their second pizza, with the discount applied to the cheaper of the two, one redemption per customer. Neither is stackable with other discounts, vouchers, membership privileges or delivery orders — these are walk-in, in-store deals only. The halal certification itself is the bigger news: Eat Pizza's menu already ran on turkey bacon and beef pepperoni rather than pork, and the whole 13-flavour range is now open to Muslim diners at AMK Hub, 313@somerset, Plaza Singapura, VivoCity, PLQ Mall, Grantral Mall @ Macpherson, IMM and Temasek Polytechnic.

Two of Singapore's best-known Teochew restaurants have a promotion with an unusually sweet condition: Chui Huay Lim Teochew Cuisine and Zui Yu Xuan Teochew Cuisine are giving 15% off the food bill when you dine with your grandparents — or present a ticket to the Teochew-dialect film 《给阿嬷的情书 Dear You》. The campaign is called 《给阿公阿嬷的邀请函》 ("Dear Ah Gong Ah Ma") and it runs Mondays to Fridays, dine-in only, from 6 July to 28 August 2026 at both outlets. No app, no code, no voucher — just turn up with the elders. The catch: the 15% applies to food only and excludes beverages, service charge and GST; it's not valid on public holidays or their eves; and it can't be stacked with set menus, vouchers or membership privileges. On a $200 food bill that's about $36 off the final total. Both restaurants are under JUMBO Group's Zui Teochew Cuisine arm — old-school cold crab, pig trotter terrine and oyster omelette territory — so book ahead.

Singapore's Thai food scene runs from $11.90++ weekday set lunches to white-tablecloth Bangkok cooking, and several of the big names have promotions you can verify on their own websites. We re-checked all five on 31 August 2026, the day the National Day sets closed and the September deals opened. Bangkok Jam and Siam Kitchen both run OCBC 1-for-1 on selected rice and noodle mains till 30 September. Three of the five do a Thai buffet: Bangkok Jam's 19-dish spread at $19.90++, Suki-Suki's halal steamboat (where picking Mala takes 20% off the second diner), and Sarai's weekend a la carte lunch, which is $39++ a head at walk-up rates but $30++ on the standing 2-for-$60++ deal. New for the September school holidays: free waffles for kids at Bangkok Jam, $1.88++ wagyu at Suki-Suki and a spicy Kaprao challenge at Siam Kitchen. Bangkok Jam and Sarai both run BYOB with the first bottle corkage-free per two diners till 31 October. Two corrections this round: Siam Kitchen now lists only two outlets on its own site (HomeTeamNS Khatib and SAFRA Toa Payoh), and Bangkok Jam is down to one, at Great World. Three of the five are halal-certified, and most of these deals are weekday, dine-in only, so check the fine print before you go.

Singapore turned 61 on 9 August 2026, and the SG61 food campaign has now largely wound down. We re-checked all 7 of our SG61 National Day food specials on 2 September against each brand's own site or live ordering menu. Only one is still claimable: Swensen's SG61 menu, with the Singapore Laksa Pizza and Jumbo Blue Prawn Hokkien Mee at $18.61 each and a $61 Family Set for three, running to 9 September 2026. Five ended on 31 August: Springleaf Prata Place's $8.90 Prata Smash Burger with a free hot teh tarik, Pizza Maru's Chilli Crab and Salted Egg New Menu Special, the $61-spend freebies at Tonkatsu ENbiton and Tamago-EN, and Dian Xiao Er's three new dishes with the MerDuck keychain. Guzman y Gomez's Butter Chicken filling has no announced end date, so it is available-until-withdrawn. Below: what each brand runs now instead, plus the full record of the SG61 offers that have closed, including the $0.61 throwback prata and the Changi T2 cheese-pull challenge.

That viral photo doing the rounds is real news but not quite the full story: Lausanjee (老乡鸡 / Lao Xiang Ji), China's biggest home-grown Chinese fast-food chain with 1,600-plus outlets, IS coming to Singapore — through a joint venture confirmed on 1 July 2026 between Laoxiangji Holdings (51%) and homegrown Jumbo Group's Jumbo F&B Services (49%). But the storefront photos going around show its Malaysia outlet at IOI City Mall (its first overseas store), not a Singapore one — because as of now, no Singapore outlet has opened, and no location, date, menu or prices have been announced. Here's what's actually confirmed, what Lausanjee is famous for, and what to realistically expect when it lands.

Matcha is having its biggest moment yet in Singapore, and if you want the real, stone-ground, umami-rich stuff (not the sweet powdery kind), these are the best matcha cafés to know in 2026. We rounded up the 9 best matcha cafés in Singapore, each re-verified against its own official channels on 26 August 2026, from whisked-to-order ceremonial-grade specialists to affordable Hokkaido soft serve: Hvala (handcrafted matcha and tea-inspired desserts across five outlets, with the Odeon 333 flagship); Matchaya (the local pioneer since 2015, at Tiong Bahru and Suntec City #02-737); Tsujiri (the Kyoto Uji house dating to 1860, now eight outlets including three Premium tea houses, one of them the only matcha specialist in Holland Village); Matsu Matcha (the CBD kiosk at Guoco Tower stone-milling its own matcha on a Kyoto mill, lattes from $7.90); Kurasu Singapore (a minimalist Kyoto specialty-coffee café at 261 Waterloo Street with an off-menu 'Dirty Matcha'); Nana's Green Tea (the Japanese café chain at Plaza Singapura, DUO Galleria and Guoco Tower doing matcha lattes, parfaits and savoury sets); 108 Matcha Saro (the cheapest soft serve here, and the one that moved: it has left Suntec City and now runs kiosks at ION Orchard, Bugis Junction and Tampines One); Kyō Teahouse (the Cross Street grab-and-go bar pouring JAS organic Okumidori matcha, 9am to 9pm daily); and ECHO @ KADA (ceremonial matcha and a proper seat in a restored 1920s building beside Maxwell Food Centre). Below: what each is best known for, exact outlets, where to find matcha near you by area (Holland Village, Suntec, the CBD, Orchard, Bugis, Chinatown and the heartlands), and how to order a proper matcha latte.

Labubu fans, clear your calendar: POP BAKERY — Pop Mart's bakery concept that turns its blind-box characters into edible, collectible treats — opens its first Southeast Asia outlet on 30 July 2026 at WEAVE, Resorts World Sentosa, sitting inside a brand-new two-storey POP MART flagship store. If it follows the China outlets, expect THE MONSTERS (Labubu) butter cookie tins, DIMOO cookies, Molly chocolates, CRYBABY sablé cookies and the Twinkle Twinkle Twin Popsicle, all in keep-forever collectible packaging. Singapore's menu, prices and opening hours haven't been announced yet — here's everything confirmed so far, where exactly WEAVE is, how to get there, and how to prep for what will almost certainly be a serious queue.

Donut season rolls into September with three chains changing their offers at once. Krispy Kreme's Autumn Series runs 26 Aug to 27 Sep: Citrus Kunafa, Strawberry Kunafa, Apple Krumbles and Hershey's ChocoNana, with buy 10 doughnuts, get 2 Original Glazed free at every outlet. Its student deal is a standing offer, not a one-off: 2 Original Glazed for $3.90 (U.P. $5.80) every Monday and Tuesday, 2.30 to 5.30pm, with a student pass. It is not valid at six outlets, including Paragon, Suntec City, VivoCity and both airport locations, which is exactly where most students turn up and get charged full price. Mister Donut's MILO 'Nation's First Love' Pon De Royale and Cream Treasure Bomb hold at $3.20 each until 13 September, and it has just added a savoury one: the Flossy Pon De Lion, in Fluffy and Spicy chicken floss, at $2.80 a piece. Dunkin' gives a free donut with any coffee all month to anyone born in September, runs 1-for-1 Sunny Eggs on Sundays, and takes 10% off Oddle pre-orders with code TEACHERSDAY10 until 14 September. We rounded up the best donut chains and deals in Singapore for September 2026, from American classics and mochi-textured Pon de Ring to Indonesian J.CO, halal Greek loukoumades at Lukumades, and MUIS halal-certified sourdough bomboloni from Sourbombe. Here's every current promo, each brand's signature bite, price and where to find them.

Starbucks marks 30 years in Singapore with its most local line-up yet: the new 'Shiok' menu reimagines kopitiam favourites through Starbucks coffee, and it lands islandwide from 15 July 2026. The headliners: a brand-new Starbucks Kopi Siew Dai at $4.90 (Tall) — 100% Arabica pulled into a local, less-sweet kopi-style cup, hot or iced — and a Singapore-exclusive Kaya Toast Latte at $7.90 (Tall, hot & iced) that layers Signature Espresso, milk and kaya notes, finished with buttery croutons that mimic crisp toast. There's a blended Kaya Toast Coffee Frappuccino at $8.50 too (on Starbucks Delivers & GrabFood from 15 Jul, foodpanda from 22 Jul). The value pick is The Reset Set at $6.90 — a Kopi Siew Dai plus a mini kaya-butter or peanut-butter croissant and a butter slab. Rounding it out: an XL Chicken Char Siew Puff ($6.50), Cempedak Tart ($6.50), Kaya Pistachio Cake ($8.50) and the returning Nonya Curry Chicken Prata Pie ($7.90) and Kueh Salat Cheesecake ($8.50). Starbucks calls it limited-time with no end date announced, so treat it as while-it-lasts.

Looking for the best halal buffet in Singapore? We rounded up the 8 best MUIS halal-certified and halal buffets for 2026, from award-winning hotel spreads to wallet-friendly 1-for-1 feasts, and re-checked every price and promo on 1 September. The headline: Carousel at Royal Plaza on Scotts has quietly extended its SG61 lobster lunch to 31 October, not 31 August as most guides still say, so a premium Orchard halal buffet stays at $61++ (though SAFRA's 20% beats it on weekdays at $57.60++, and the two do not stack). Also here: the iconic hawker-style buffet at $72++ lunch or a $45++ breakfast, now with 15% off on Citi or DBS/POSB, not just Citi (Straits Kitchen at Grand Hyatt); a modern sustainable pick on its Smoke & Char grill menu till 31 Oct (Peppermint at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay); a seafood-heavy $61-nett lunch that has just added kids-eat-free for the whole September school break, 5 to 13 Sep (Ginger at PARKROYAL on Beach Road); two proper 1-for-1 buffets, one of which ends 9 September (The Landmark at Village Hotel Bugis, and Atrium Restaurant at Holiday Inn Singapore Atrium with a prayer room next door); Singapore's first Nusantara halal buffet, where the 1-for-1 turned out to be its standing format rather than a National Day one-off and the menu changed on cue on 1 September (Permata at Gedung Kuning); and the cheapest halal buffet seat in Singapore right now at about $9.45++ a head on a straight 1-for-1 running 1 to 6 September only (Captain Kim). For each we list what they serve, the real per-pax buffet price, the hotel or location, halal-certification status and any current, verified promo, plus a full halal buffet price comparison, a cheapest-seats ranking, a halal high tea section and money-saving tips. Prices exclude 10% service charge and 9% GST unless marked 'nett'.

Singapore turned 61 on 9 August 2026 and the restaurants went all-in on premium meat. That window has now closed. We re-checked all six brands on 1 September, and every SG61 offer on this list is over, including the three that ran to 31 August: Barossa's $6.10++ add-on, Tonkatsu ENbiton's free truffle fries and Dian Xiao Er's National Day Special menu. Two of the pages are still live and misleading at a glance: Barossa's SG61 page still sits on its promotions list but prints the run as Monday to Wednesday, 1 to 31 August 2026, and Tajimaya's SG61 set is still listed showing a 15 August close. So this guide now does the more useful job. It tells you what each of the six restaurants still serves, at prices read off their own menus and offers pages on 1 September: Barossa's Endless Steaks & Fries lunch buffet at $39++ on Mondays to Wednesdays and $58++ at weekends; Tajimaya's Premium Wagyu Buffet at $59.90 for lunch and $69.90 for dinner, plus $3 on Fridays to Sundays and public holidays; Dian Xiao Er's year-round Early Bird, 20% off on weekday mornings and late afternoons and 30% off at five outlets; Verandah's rooftop semi-buffets from $32++ at lunch and $68++ at dinner; Suki-Ya's $12.90++ Shabu Shabu hotpot lunch set; and Tonkatsu ENbiton's Thick Cut Katsu series. Below: the exact prices, the day-and-time windows, and the catch on each.

Too busy to cook but tired of oily zi char and delivery bloat? Singapore's healthy meal-delivery and meal-prep scene has never been bigger: chef-cooked, calorie-counted meals that heat up in three minutes and land at your door. We rounded up the 7 best healthy meal delivery and meal-prep subscription services in Singapore for 2026, each checked against the brand's own site: Grain (same-day, MUIS halal), YoloFoods (Asian menu, fresh or frozen from $7.90), Nutrition Kitchen (fresh daily plans from $15.85/meal), Freshkitchen (chilled daily from $14.95/meal, by the SaladStop! Group), Fresher (high-protein performance meals from $8.90), Prepped (5-minute meal kits) and Mighty Meal Prep (halal high-protein bento, 1-week trial $85). Below: what each one does best, real per-meal prices re-checked on the brands' own sites on 3 September 2026, delivery and minimum-order details, which are genuinely halal-certified, plus how meal kits and meal subscriptions differ, and every promo code we could verify in September (SORTED26, GETSTARTED, SMOATS, PAYDAY30, SG61).

Chicken chop, sizzling steaks, ribs and fish & chips without the fine-dining bill: here are the 8 best casual Western food chains in Singapore for 2026, with what each does best, price ranges, outlets and the promos live right now. Collin's $6.10 Common Grill chicken chop ended on 31 August with nothing to replace it, leaving 1-for-1 Tea Time mains at selected restaurants (Mon–Fri 3–5pm) and an $8.80 Common Grill student meal on weekdays, now booked to 31 March 2027; Jack's Place has 1-for-1 selected mains plus gourmet coffee every weekday afternoon, but only at Bras Basah Complex, SAFRA Punggol and SAFRA Jurong, alongside an $8 nett Student Set Meal chain-wide; Astons runs a $2-off student deal (Mon–Fri 3–5pm) and a free-flow Supreme Salad Buffet lunch from $16.90 at its Steak & Salad outlets; Fish & Co has a dine-in Value Lunch from $10.95 (Mon–Fri till 5pm) and a $12.95 nett student set; Morganfield's, now down to its Suntec restaurant alone, runs the All-You-Can-Eat Sticky Bones Ribs Buffet ($49/adult) every weekend plus a $9.90++ weekday chicken lunch; and Swensen's SG61 local menu (Laksa Pizza, Hokkien Mee from $18.61) ends 9 Sep. Botak Jones and Eighteen Chefs round out the value picks, and we've added the coffeeshop option, iCON STEAK, now at four stalls in Ang Mo Kio, Tampines and Yishun. Prices verified against each brand's official site on 6 September 2026.

**Need a birthday cake delivered fast? Here are the 6 best cake shops in Singapore for 2026, with same-day or next-day islandwide delivery, real photos and prices re-read off each brand's own store on 27 August 2026 (whole cakes from $33). We also answered the question readers ask us most: on the official MUIS halal register, PrimaDeli is certified at 24 premises and Cat & the Fiddle at all seven of its shops, while Awfully Chocolate, Emicakes and Cedele all state plainly that they are not certified. Inside: PrimaDeli's $33 walk-in cakes, Emicakes' durian range (which starts lower than most guides say, at $42.90), Cat & the Fiddle's same-day cheesecakes, Cedele's less-sweet bakes and Sweetest Moments' full-month packages from $15.90.**

Afternoon tea in Singapore doesn't have to mean $80 a head. These are the 8 best high tea deals live right now (September 2026), from Concorde Hotel's flat $16++ set and Mercure Bugis' true 1-for-1 Royale Afternoon Tea (just $25++/pax with almost any bank card), to Holiday Inn Orchard's daily 1-for-1 Straits Indulgence spread at Hari's, which ends 4 September, voco Orchard's weekend local buffet, which needs no card at all and has added a full Sunday buffet, and W Sentosa Cove's $58++ Swarovski afternoon tea at up to 50% off. We flag which ones are unlimited high tea buffets and which are fixed sets, plus the real price after the deal, the exact days and times, and precisely how to unlock it (which card, membership or code). Note that August's two headline offers are over: Goodwood Park is back to $65 and $68 a head, and Marriott's durian tower has given way to a Quintessential English Afternoon Tea.

Japan's No.1 conveyor-belt sushi chain is bringing the north to Singapore: Sushiro has rolled out its limited-time 'Hokkaido Harvest & Tohoku Treasures' fair — a regional line-up sourced from Hokkaido and the Tohoku region (Miyagi, Aomori, Sanriku) — running islandwide from 8 July to 4 August 2026, while stocks last. The headline plates are the Double Hokkaido Salmon ($4.90++) and the towering Boss Level Scallop Stack ($5.90++), both only until 21 July, alongside the King Crab & Matsumaezuke Wrap with Salmon Roe ($3.90++), Hokkaido Aburi Scallop with Butter & Soy Sauce ($2.90++, till 21 Jul), Aburi Shiodare Cod Fish ($2.90++, till 21 Jul) and cheaper finds like Hokkaido Cod Roe & Mayo Gunkan from just $2.30++. It's a special à la carte menu (not a discount or 1-for-1), all prices are ++ so GST and service charge are on top, and the four premium plates run only through 21 July — so the scallop stack and double salmon are the ones to catch first. Verified on Sushiro Singapore's official promotions page.

Singapore turned 61 on Sunday, 9 August 2026, and the SG61 food promotions were written to run through August. Most of them stopped on 31 August. We re-checked every listing in this guide against the brand's own channels on 2 September, and one National Day special is still claimable: Swensen's SG-inspired local menu, with the Singapore Laksa Pizza and Jumbo Blue Prawn Hokkien Mee at $18.61 and a $61 Family Set for three, running till 9 September. Permata's 1-for-1 'Flavours of the Lion City' halal buffet has finished its run and the restaurant is now on a new Flavours of East Coast menu to 31 October. Dian Xiao Er's National Day dishes are off its promotions page, though its standing Early Bird now goes up to 30% off at five outlets. Springleaf's Prata Smash Burger is still on the menu at $8.90, but the free hot teh tarik that came with it ended on 31 August. Below: what is genuinely left, what each brand is running instead, and the exact dates every expired SG61 deal stopped, so you do not turn up for one.

No passport needed: Genki Sushi Singapore has rolled out its limited-time 'Your Kyushu Adventure' fair — a regional Japanese menu themed around Kyushu (Fukuoka, Oita, Kumamoto, Miyazaki) that runs islandwide till 26 July 2026 or while stocks last. The headline plate is A4 Kyushu Wagyu Sushi in two styles — Black Pepper and Yuzu Kosho — at just $4.90 each, alongside a $8.50 Black Garlic Ramen, the $9.90 Ryukyu salmon-and-tuna donburi, $7.90 Cheesy Mentai Oysters, Chicken Nanban ($5.40), Fugu Tempura Sushi ($4.20), Oden ($6.20), Kitsune Udon ($5.90) and a Matcha Mont Blanc ($4.30) to finish. Prices are à la carte (before GST where applicable) and the fair items are subject to availability — some outlets and slots sell out. It's a limited three-week run, so the A4 Wagyu especially is worth catching before 26 July.

Not everyone wants a $108 hotel box. Singapore's old bakeries sell the mooncakes most families actually grew up eating at roughly half the hotel price: Tai Chong Kok hand-moulding lotus paste since 1935, Thye Moh Chan's Teochew flaky yam since 1943, plus Bengawan Solo, Bread Garden, Old Seng Choong, PrimaDéli, Polar and online-only Mdm Ling. We re-checked all eight brands' own order pages on 2 September 2026 for real prices, live codes and cut-off dates. Thye Moh Chan's EARLYBIRD code takes 15% off every set until 14 September, but its gift sets must be COLLECTED by 18 September, a week before the festival. PrimaDéli is 20% off across the range with no code. Bread Garden's 20% early bird has ended and is now 10% off above $150. Cheapest single mooncake: Bengawan Solo at $9.45. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on Friday 25 September.

Mid-Autumn Festival 2026 falls on Friday, 25 September, and the discounts move faster than the festival does. We re-checked all ten hotel collections on 1 September, the day after the biggest deadline of the season: Wan Hao's stackable 35% collapsed to 15%, The Capitol Kempinski stepped down on both tiers, and Raffles' booth rate dropped to 10%. Two things got better. Andaz has just opened an Assorted Mooncake Bundle at $99 nett against a $157 list, 37% off, but only from 1 to 9 September. And Xin Cuisine's 1-for-1 works out at roughly half price, which makes it the best value on this list by a clear margin. One warning: The Fullerton's $54.40 letterbox, the cheap entry price quoted all over this season's round-ups, has sold out.

KFC Singapore has dropped its most local burger yet for National Day: the Curry x Sambal Zinger swaps the usual bun for crispy roti prata, stacks in a Zinger fillet, lettuce and sambal, and serves it with a tub of Chinese-style curry (with potato chunks) on the side to dip, dunk or pour. It's a proper multicultural mashup — Malay sambal, Indian prata, Chinese curry and the Western Zinger in one — priced at $8.10 à la carte or $9.90 as a meal (with fries + a drink). The full Curry x Sambal series runs 8 July to 18 August 2026 at all KFC outlets except Singapore Zoo, for dine-in, takeaway and delivery (GrabFood, foodpanda, KFC Delivery), while stocks last. Also in the line-up: the Curry x Sambal Chicken (2pc fried chicken + prata, $9.85 à la carte / $10.90 meal) and a weekend-only Curry x Sambal Macaroni Bowl ($7.50 à la carte / $8.50 meal, Fri–Sun only). It's a limited run tied to NDP, so it's here for about six weeks then gone.

Craving soup dumplings? We rounded up the 6 best xiao long bao (XLB) in Singapore for 2026, with the actual 2026 prices off each restaurant's own menu: Paradise Dynasty's Original XLB at $9.30 (6pc) and its world-first 8-flavour steamer at $16.90, Jing Hua Xiao Chi's Neil Road XLB at $10.50 (7pc), and Imperial Treasure's at $16.80 (6pc), plus the benchmark Din Tai Fung, wallet-friendly Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao and late-night institution Swee Choon. For each we cover what to order, what it costs, which outlets actually exist and any current verified deal, plus a comparison table and tips on how to eat XLB the right way. Three changes since our last update, all checked on 30 August 2026: Din Tai Fung opened its 31st Singapore restaurant at ION Orchard on 29 August, so that mall now holds two of the six restaurants on this list; both August card deals close on 31 August (Din Tai Fung's OCBC 10% off the Steamed Chilli Crab & Pork XLB, which takes the dish with it, and Paradise Dynasty's $6.10 SG61 e-vouchers); and Paradise Dynasty's Mid-Autumn offer discounts mooncakes rather than your meal, stepping down from 15% to 10% on 24 August and running to 25 September. Prices exclude 10% service charge and 9% GST unless marked 'nett'; none of these restaurants is halal-certified.

Herbal-soup lovers, mark the date: Souper Tang (汤师父) — Malaysia's award-winning herbal soup chain, with over 7 million bowls sold and 20+ outlets across ASEAN — opens its first Singapore flagship at Raffles City on 29 July 2026. Founded in 2009 by two Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, the brand slow-simmers premium Chinese herbs with fresh ingredients daily, with no unnecessary additives. The Raffles City outlet (#B1-37) is set to carry 15 types of signature soups — billed as the largest herbal-soup range in Singapore — alongside a full spread of wok dishes, rice, noodles and desserts. Signatures to watch include the Collagen Fish Maw Chicken Soup (胶原蛋白花胶鸡汤), Signature Stone Pot Rice (招牌石锅饭), Camellia Pork (茶花肉), Herbal Spring Chicken (药材童子鸡), Signature Braised Fish (招牌焖鱼), Ginger Garlic Fish Slices (姜蒜鱼片) and the Peach Gum Longan Soup (桃胶桂圆汤) for dessert. This is Souper Tang's return to Singapore after a stint at The Centrepoint about a decade ago. Singapore prices haven't been announced yet — confirm the menu, hours and opening details on Souper Tang's official channels.

Craving fresh sushi without the fine-dining bill? We compared the 6 best value sushi chains in Singapore for 2026 plate for plate, starting with the three people always weigh against each other: Sushiro vs Genki vs Sushi Express. On price per plate Sushi Express is the floor at $1.50++ for white plates islandwide, Genki sits just above it at $1.80, and Sushiro costs the most (its four plate tiers run $2.30++, $2.90++, $3.90++ and $4.90++) but serves the best fish of the three. Live now: Sushiro's 7th Anniversary Part 2 menu islandwide until 8 September, with Big Cut Fatty Swordfish at $2.90++, Beef Galbi dropped to $2.30++ and a Premium Triple Tuna Plate at $7.70++, plus a $30 single receipt earning an ANA lucky-draw scratch card; Genki's Dai Man Zoku range from $1.80 until 20 September and weekday lunch sets from $7.90; Sushi Tei's Rewards-member 50% off weekday lunch, 3 August to 29 October, and a +$2.50 lunch side add-on open to everyone; Sakae Sushi, now down to just two Singapore outlets, with 1-for-1 matcha and hojicha lattes; and charcoal sushiya Sushi Zushi, whose famous $1 Sushi Madness is no longer published anywhere on its rebuilt site, leaving a printed menu that starts at $3 a piece. For each we list plate and set prices, what to order, outlets and the exact promo with its end date. Prices exclude 10% service charge and 9% GST unless marked 'nett'; none of these chains is halal-certified.

Craving unlimited grilled meats? We compared the 6 best Korean BBQ buffets in Singapore for 2026, across every budget and neighbourhood, with every price re-checked against each restaurant's own menu, booking and promotions pages on 26 August 2026. Two things moved since our last check. Seoul Garden's own outlet list is now down to six malls (Bugis Junction, Marina Square, Tampines Mall, Northpoint City, The Clementi Mall and IMM), so AMK Hub and Century Square are no longer on it. And halal Captain Kim's promos are now outlet-specific: Tampines Junction and Junction 10 run an early-bird weekday lunch at $12.90++ plus a 1-for-1 student deal at $19.90++ per two students till 27 Aug, while the student group rates from $13.90++ are Clementi only. Also inside: I'm Kim at SOTA/Dhoby Ghaut (early-bird lunch $12.90++), a charcoal joint open till 5am (Don Dae Bak, $34.90 adult, $21.90 child), a 50-item Tanjong Pagar favourite with LA Galbi (Gogi Buffet, $23++ weekday lunch), and a Bukit Timah all-rounder (Maru). Plus full price tables for Seoul Garden, I'm Kim and Captain Kim, a live promo table with end dates, a cheapest-lunch ranking and how-to-save tips. Prices exclude 10% service charge and 9% GST unless marked 'nett', and most buffets cap you at 80 to 120 minutes.

All-you-can-eat done the Japanese way: the 5 best Japanese buffets in Singapore for 2026, re-priced against every restaurant's own 2026 menu on 3 September. Kiseki's mega sashimi-sushi-teppanyaki spread on the 8th floor of Orchard Central (lunch $30.90++), and a senior deal nobody writes about, 2 for $75 nett at weekday dinner, which is 37% off and the single best-value seat in this guide. Suki-Ya's shabu-shabu is the cheapest way in at $23.90++ weekday lunch, or $22.90++ all day to 18 September if four of you carry student cards, but its wagyu, Iberico and seafood sit in the $36.90++ Premium tier, not the entry one. Tenkaichi's yakiniku buffet from $29.80++ plus a standing 1-for-1 A5 wagyu; Tajimaya's smokeless premium wagyu grill at $59.90++ lunch; and Shin Minori's 200+ item a la carte omizu buffet from $69.90++, with a weekday-only $39.90++ high tea that costs $46.90++ at weekends. Full child rates, session limits, weekend surcharges and food-waste charges for all five, including the $30 per 100g one, plus the honest answer on 1-for-1 Japanese buffets and halal options.

We scooped through Singapore's homegrown ice cream and gelato scene to rank the 7 best artisan parlours for 2026, with the scoop prices, outlets and halal status each brand actually publishes. Birds of Paradise leads on invention (botanical gelato at ~S$6.50 across 7 boutiques), Momolato is the only halal-certified shop here, and Creamier is the cheapest sit-down scoop at about S$4.20. Re-verified on each brand's own site on 29 August 2026: the Tai Sun x Creamier collab has ended and is gone from Creamier's catalogue, Island Creamery has been tubs-only since its King's Arcade flagship closed (S$11, or three for S$30, with Chendol, Pulut Hitam and Mao Shan Wang all sold out on the day we checked), and Kind Kones is down to three outlets after Paragon and Great World shut. Momolato's own site now names only its 723 North Bridge Road cafe, so confirm before travelling to its other addresses.

We re-read every brand's own rewards page on 6 September 2026, and two of the deals this guide used to lead with do not exist any more. CHICHA San Chen's famous sign-up 1-for-1 is not on its rewards portal, not in its membership terms and not on its own website: all three describe a points programme only, and the 1-for-1 claim that every roundup still repeats traces back to a blog post from July 2021. CHAGEE went the other way. Its help centre now says Members' Day is 15% off EVERY Wednesday for CHA Explorer members and above, not the 20% on three named Wednesdays (29 July, 5 and 12 August) that guides still print as the only qualifying dates. That leaves Beutea with the best first visit in Singapore: its own rewards card gives new members two vouchers, a 50% off AND a Buy-1-Free-1. R&B Tea publishes the maths nobody else does, 1 stamp per S$4.50 spent and a free drink at 6 stamps. HEYTEA's PLQ Mall opening run is down to its last phase, two drinks for an ice-cream voucher, and it closes on 13 September. Mixue is still the cheapest cup on the island at S$1.50 for the King Cone, and it was never S$1 after November 2024.

Craving pizza without the guilt of the bill? We checked every brand's own ordering site on 28 August 2026, and the cheapest pizza in Singapore is not from the chain you would guess: Pizza Hut's Takeaway Pocket Pleasers start at S$3 for a personal, S$6 regular and S$10 large. Domino's has cut its All-Day Pick-Up Deal from S$7.99 to S$5.99, Canadian's 2-for-1 starts at S$22 for two regulars (S$20 on self-collection), and Pizza Hut's 2 regular pizzas for S$22 window closed on 26 August. Here is what each brand is actually charging right now, with the fine print and the catches.

Double-fried, shatteringly crispy and drenched in soy-garlic or sweet-spicy yangnyeom, Korean fried chicken (KFC, the good kind) is Singapore's forever craving. Three of our 8 picks are MUIS-halal (4Fingers, NeNe, Jinjja) and five are not, BHC included. Inside: 4Fingers' cult wings, Chir Chir's K-drama platters, Chicken Up's late-night feasts, Korea's No.1 BHC and its Bburinkle, halal NeNe and Jinjja, the less-greasy Oven & Fried Chicken, and Yishun's top-rated ICG, with every outlet list re-checked against the MUIS register in August 2026.

Prices moved in BOTH directions since our 20 August check, which has not happened all season. Durian Delivery Singapore cut its entire board about 20%: the 800g Mao Shan Wang box is $51.20, down from $64, and its per-kg badge fell from $20 to $16. It also widened from 5 fresh lines to 7, adding an XO D24 box at $48 (the cheapest fresh box on this page) and a Gua Musang Black Thorn at $57.60. Durian 36 went the other way and raised every Mao Shan Wang line by $2/kg: MSW is back to $24/kg from $22, Old Tree $28, Raja Kunyit $30. Its cheap tier held at $17/kg. Fresh Durian raised its discount instead of its prices, swapping the 35% code for FD40%DIS26, which takes a 400g MSW box from $52 to $31.20 and makes it the cheapest Mao Shan Wang delivered anywhere here. Its free-delivery threshold also settled at $100, not the $105 we carried. Royal Durian is still sold out. And the season is closing: 99 Old Trees now dates its Pahang supply to early September, with Mao Shan Wang the only one of its 16 varieties still badged In Season.

Oyster season is officially on: Greenwood Fish Market is running its 14th World Oyster Festival for the whole of July (1–31 Jul 2026), flying in 25 oyster varieties from 9 countries — France, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and more, including three new French oysters from the Marennes–Oléron region. The headline steal is $2.50++ freshly-shucked House Oysters, all day every day — but only if you're seated at the 8-seater Oyster Bar at the Quayside Isle (Sentosa) outlet, walk-in only, no reservations, no minimum spend. Prefer to explore? À-la-carte oysters run $4.95++ to $12.95++ (min 2 per variety), or go all-in on the chef-curated Tasting Platter — 16 oysters across 8 varieties for $119.95++. Available at both Quayside Isle and Bukit Timah outlets; oysters are imported in limited quantities and some varieties sell out daily, so go early.

Tiramisu lovers, Friday nights just got dangerous: Beast & Butterflies at M Social Robertson Quay has brought back its famous 'tiramisu buffet' — order any main dish and $9.90++ unlocks all-you-can-scoop tiramisu, served scoop by scoop until you surrender. It runs every Friday from 6pm at 90 Robertson Quay (Level 1), a short walk from Havelock MRT — riverside dinner, then unlimited mascarpone. The deal went viral at $6++ in its earlier runs and the price has crept up since, so treat it as this season's terms and confirm before you go. Here's how it works.

Every chilli crab roundup writes "market price" and stops there. We read the menus instead. JUMBO and Long Beach both publish per-100g rates, Keng Eng Kee sells a whole crab at one flat price on its own ordering site, and Roland is running two crabs for $88++. The cheapest place to eat JUMBO's award-winning chilli crab turns out not to be a JUMBO Seafood restaurant at all. Our 6 picks: JUMBO (the East Coast flagship closes 30 September 2026), Roland, Long Beach, No Signboard, Keng Eng Kee, and the budget play at JUMBOREE. Plus what a crab really costs once service charge and GST land, and where black pepper crab is cheapest.

Peppery Teochew broth or herbal Hokkien-style: bak kut teh is one of Singapore's great comfort dishes, and everyone has a fierce favourite. We've rounded up 6 of the best bowls in town, from Song Fa's New Bridge Road flagship (a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, and one of just 17 places to hold it in all 10 editions) and Ng Ah Sio's punchy Rangoon Road institution with free soup refills, to Ya Hua's silky Havelock-legacy broth (since 1973), Founder's Balestier stalwart and Sin Heng's Bib Gourmand claypot herbal bowl in Joo Chiat. Plus a Ng Ah Sio vs Song Fa head-to-head, what a bowl really costs once service charge and GST land, where to eat it late, and the closing days that catch people out.

Numbing, fiery and dangerously addictive, mala xiang guo is Singapore's favourite pick-your-own-ingredients stir-fry, and the best stalls are worth crossing the island for. Our 5 picks: Ri Ri Hong's People's Park legend with its famous $1/$2/$3 by-the-portion pricing, Ming Sheng's balanced not-too-oily wok at Whampoa (closed Thursdays), Wang Xing's Far East Plaza OG with a 30-chilli house sauce, and Tang²'s modern build-your-bowl malatang at a flat $2.98 per 100g, whose Parklane outlet runs to 4:30am Monday to Saturday but closes at 10pm on Sundays, which catches people out. Plus the thing most guides skip: what mala actually costs per 100g in 2026, from $1.98 at the cheapest hawker stalls to $3.18 at the chains, and how to order like a pro (xiao la is not a dare).

Springy mee pok, vinegar-chilli sauce, minced pork, liver and that crucial crispy sole fish: bak chor mee might be Singapore's most quietly perfect hawker dish. Our 6 picks, every one of them priced: the Michelin-starred Hill Street Tai Hwa at Crawford Lane ($8 to $15), its Bib Gourmand relative Tai Wah at Hong Lim ($6 to $10), Macpherson Minced Meat Noodles' queue-magnet mee pok (and how to find the original, not a copycat), Bedok 85's soup-style Xing Ji at $4.50 on its own order page, Kaki Bukit's Tian Nan Xing, new to the Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2026, and Seng Kee's mushroom-laden classic. Plus the rest days: every stall here shuts at least one day a week, and Tai Hwa closes the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month.

Spotted: Starbucks' Premium Soluble Coffee Mini Cup tub — 30 single-serve instant coffees shaped like tiny Starbucks cups, each with a reusable silicone lid. The tub splits into two Arabica blends, 15 each: 'Bright' (bright and caramelly) and 'Smooth' (smooth and nutty). Just peel the foil, add 170ml of hot water and stir. At around S$29.90 for 30, that's roughly S$1 a cup — a fraction of an in-store handcrafted drink — and the cups are genuinely cute. Here's what you get.

Ramen fans, mark 14 July: Mensho — the celebrated, Michelin-approved Tokyo ramen brand — is launching a brand-new express concept, MENSHO X, and it's chosen Singapore for its first-ever outlet anywhere in the world. Opening at Six Battery Road near Raffles Place, it serves ramen, tsukemen and mazemen with a signature lighter chicken (toripaitan) broth — with everything under about $22. To celebrate, the first 100 diners a day get a free ajitama egg from 14–18 July.

Singapore's food scene never sits still. A fresh wave of openings has landed: a Korean BBQ chain with 300+ outlets back home, a halal Japanese yakiniku-bento spot, Hangzhou comfort food in Katong, and a brand new Toy Story high tea 70 floors up. Here are 7 new restaurants and cafés worth a trip in September 2026, with full addresses, opening hours and what to order.

One of Tokyo's most hyped hamburg restaurants has landed in Singapore: Hikiniku to Come is now open at VivoCity, and it does just one thing exceptionally well. There's a single item on the menu — the $27.90++ set: three 90g charcoal-grilled hamburg patties (100% beef, ground in-house every morning) served one at a time, fresh off the binchotan grill, with miso soup, a raw egg for dipping and unlimited freshly-cooked rice. Here's what to know — including how the queue works.

Another Singapore institution is saying goodbye: JUMBO Seafood's original East Coast Seafood Centre flagship — open for 39 years — will close when its lease ends on 30 September 2026, as NParks rejuvenates East Coast Park. To mark the farewell, JUMBO is serving 500g mud crabs in your choice of style (chilli crab included) from just $39++ till 31 July, plus $39 member vouchers and a sweet perk if you were born in 1987. Here's the full scoop.

Is it still durian season? On 2 September, yes, but it is down to one variety and the price has turned. 99 Old Trees badges only Mao Shan Wang [D197] as "In Season", at $88 per 750g box; all 15 of its other lines, from Black Thorn to Sultan King (D24), read "Season Ended". The seller now dates its own Pahang supply as running till early September. Durian 36 has reversed August's two price cuts and put fresh Mao Shan Wang back up to $24/kg from $22, Old Tree to $28 and Raja Kunyit to $30, and its entire $17 to $18/kg budget tier (D13 Red Prawn, Ganghai, Hock Beng D13) has sold out. Fresh Durian and Royal Durian are still out of everything except Mao Shan Wang. Here is our guide to the 6 types of durian in Singapore: what each tastes like, which you can still buy this week, when durian season ends, and the per-kg trap that turns $24/kg into about $70 a box.

Updated 2 September: three of the deals on this list closed with August, so we have rebuilt it around what is actually running now. Surrey Hills Grocer still gives you two mains free when you order two, Sunday to Thursday at all five outlets. Beast & Butterflies has added free-flow ice cream at weekday lunch on top of its $9.90++ Friday tiramisu. KFC weekday sets start at $5, YAYOI has a $6 chicken katsu rice bowl, and Seasonal Tastes has reopened at The Westin with every second diner at half price. Here is where to eat well for less this month, and which deal runs on which day.

After 13 years, Tim Ho Wan is closing its very first Singapore outlet at Plaza Singapura on 12 July 2026 as the mall heads for redevelopment. To say goodbye, it's running a '13 Days of Gratitude' farewell — 30% off a different featured signature dish every day from 30 Jun to 12 Jul (think shrimp dumplings, siew mai, radish cake and the famous golden lava salted-egg buns) — capped by a $68 free-flow appreciation dinner on closing night. Here's everything you need to know.

Black Tree, the Shanghai-run Thai-tea brand behind the '400 Times' cheese-foam cups, opened its first outlet outside China at 313@somerset #01-26 in early August 2026, with the official launch on Friday 8 August. Drinks run $4.90 to $7.90 and gelato starts at $6.90. One thing almost every write-up gets wrong: the mall's own store listing has it trading 10.30am to 9.30pm Monday to Thursday and Sunday, and 10.30am to 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday, not the 10am to 10pm every article repeats. All the opening promotions (12% off, 1-for-1, the Lily Lamb plush set) finished in the first week of August, and the Singapore-exclusive Lily Lamb matcha is still capped at 200 cups a day, one per customer.

Starbucks fans, this one's easy: from 22 to 28 June 2026, get any Tall-sized drink at just $4.90 each when you buy two Tall drinks in a single order — coffee, tea, matcha and blended drinks all included, and you can mix and match. It's in-store only (order at the counter), not on the app or delivery, and can't be stacked with other promos. Here's how to make the most of it.

GastroBeats is back for its 5th year — Singapore's biggest food-and-music festival, with FREE entry, daily 4pm–11pm at the Bayfront Event Space until 28 June 2026. Expect 40+ F&B brands (including an Elevated Dining Zone with Neon Pigeon, The Plump Frenchman and rice. by The Meatmen Channel), live music from local acts like 53A, Jive Talkin' and Supersonic, plus a pickleball zone, a Zouk pop-up, photo booths and carnival vibes by the bay. Here's what to know before you go.

Five Singapore restaurants worth booking for a Father's Day dinner, dad's birthday or any big occasion — every price below read off the venue's own menu or booking system on 25 August 2026. The cheapest way in is not the burger joint: Meadesmoore's weekday Executive Set Lunch is $36 for two courses and $45 for three, and Lawry's weekday Signature Lunch is $59++ per guest, with the Signature Prime Rib entree for $30 more. And there is a catch nobody puts on a promo page: all three of Lawry's standing offers — 2 kids dine free on Sunday, 20% off every prime rib and beef steak on Wednesday, and the Privilege Circle birthday deal — are blacked out on public holidays and on Father's Day (20-21 June) itself, so the one Sunday you would actually use them is the one Sunday they do not work. Also corrected here: Lime's Lobsterfest at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Pickering runs to 6 September at $138++ Monday to Thursday and $148++ for the 6pm Friday and Saturday seating — but the 8.30pm seating on those same nights is $138++ for the same spread, $10 cheaper for eating later. Esquina's 15th-anniversary tapas start at $12, not $15. Black Tap's burgers are $21-$29 and its cheapest CrazyShake is $18.

It's the easiest Father's Day treat going: on 20 & 21 June 2026, from 3pm, dads and their kids who turn up at McDonald's BOTH wearing football jerseys get a FREE 4pc Chicken McNuggets each — no purchase, no app, no code. It's first 75 redemptions per outlet per day, one per person, while stocks last, at McDonald's islandwide (a handful of outlets like the Changi Airport stores, JEWEL and Gardens by the Bay are excluded). Here's exactly how to claim it and which outlets are out.

Starbucks Singapore has dropped a limited-edition, World Cup-themed Football Bearista Cold Cup — and it's exclusive to GrabFood. From 17 Jun 2026 (10am), order the combo to get the collectible bear cold cup plus one Tall beverage of your choice (the drink is served separately, not pre-filled). Online only, while stocks last — these Bearista cups have sold out fast in other markets, so move quickly. Combo price is set in the Starbucks store on GrabFood.

FairPrice Xtra's all-you-can-eat durian buffet is back — 60 minutes of unlimited premium durians (Mao Shan Wang, Black Thorn, King of King, Red Prawn, D24, D13) plus up to 300g mangosteen and one fresh coconut per ticket, in air-con comfort. $85/pax (the $150-for-2 early bird ended 12 Jun). Parkway Parade 19–21 Jun, VivoCity 26–28 Jun. Book via Eventbrite; CDC vouchers accepted in-store only. Here's the full session schedule.

From Louisiana-style Popeyes and KFC's value coupons to Korean chimaek at Chir Chir and Chicken Up: here are Singapore's 8 best fried chicken spots for 2026, across Western, Korean and halal styles, with every live deal and what each one actually costs per piece. The cheapest bone-in chicken right now is Popeyes' 4pc Louisiana bucket at $10 every Wednesday, or $2.50 a piece.

Thick, cold and topped with fruit and granola, açaí bowls are Singapore's go-to feel-good breakfast. Here's where to find the best açaí in Singapore for 2026: 5 spots from the OG An Açaí Affair to value heartland chains, with signature bowls, outlets and prices. Cheapest bowl on the list is S$6.50.

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf is running a flash deal on its 6-inch Matcha Strawberry Mousse Cake — 50% off at $30 (usual price $60) for the whole cake. Order between 15 and 28 June 2026 (collection 9 Jul–2 Aug); add 9 mini chocolate muffins for $10. Here's how to order.

Pizza Hut Singapore's crowd-favourite $10 Takeaway Tuesdays and Wednesdays are back for six days only: 25 and 26 August, then 1, 2, 8 and 9 September 2026. Selected large pan pizzas are $10 each (U.P. $35.05, about 71% off) for walk-in takeaway and self-collection, all day while stocks last. Pick from BBQ Chunky Chic, Very Beefy or Chic Ham 'N' Shroom, or top up $1 for the new Otah Laksa. Pan crust only, and limited to 2 redemptions per transaction. Order via the app or website under Self-Collection, then the Hot Deals tab.

Popeyes Singapore's Midnight Crunch supper deal is back: a 1-for-1 Combo Meal at S$11.10 (U.P. S$22.20), 15-19 June 2026, from 10pm to 2am only, at 13 participating outlets. Just flash the promo at the counter — a great late-night fix during the World Cup.

Craving supper at 2am? Most of Singapore shuts by midnight, so knowing which spots actually run late is the whole game. We verified the hours on 8 late-night options: Swee Choon dim sum (now open 7 days, to 4am on Fri/Sat), the one truly 24-hour Springleaf Prata outlet, Al-Azhar's round-the-clock mamak, Spize at Simpang Bedok, JB Ah Meng zi char, the Geylang supper district and late-night delivery, with exactly what's open in the 1-5am window, and the closed outlets other guides still list.

For the Dragon Boat Festival, Dian Xiao Er is running a Buy 4 Get 1 Free deal on its rice-dumpling bundles (from $7.90 each), plus 20% off its signature chilli sauce ($5.85, U.P. $7.30). It's a good time to stock up on bak chang for the festival or to gift. Here's the breakdown.

JUMBO Seafood is dishing out a wallet-friendly seafood deal — 500g mud crabs from $39 (cook it your way, chilli or black pepper), plus a free coconut drink, a complimentary dessert for anyone born in 1987, and $39 vouchers for JUMBO Rewards members. It runs through 30 September 2026. Here's what's on and how to make the most of it.

Mister Donut has dropped a cute new lineup — Pon De Lion and Pon De Kopi-licious donuts — and is bundling in collectibles: get a $5 shaker keychain with a 6- or 10-donut purchase, plus a free scratch card with prizes. It runs 10 June to 15 July 2026. Here's the deal and how to make it worth it.

Krispy Kreme Singapore is running a World Cup 'Buy 5 Free 1' promo from 13 June to 19 July 2026 — buy any 5 donuts and get 1 Original Glazed free, at all outlets islandwide, while stocks last. It's an easy win for a group, an office treat, or a match-night supper. Here's how to make the most of it.

Whether it's a birthday party, office event, wedding, or family gathering, the caterer makes or breaks it. Singapore's 2026 catering scene runs from mass-market buffet specialists to premium live-station caterers, halal-certified options, and modern bento/mini-buffet players. We mapped 8 across those tiers, with verified 2026 prices, how catering pricing works (per-pax, minimum orders, delivery and setup fees), buffet vs bento vs live-station, halal and dietary considerations, and how far ahead to book.

Canton Paradise (Paradise Group) is running a flat 50% off dim sum, congee and noodles on weekday afternoons — Monday to Friday, 3pm to 5pm, dine-in, at almost every outlet (all except Alexandra Retail Centre). It's a genuinely good off-peak deal for a Cantonese congee-noodle craving or a cheap dim sum tea break. A few premium noodle dishes are excluded — here's exactly how it works.

The Blue Tiffin at Village Hotel Changi runs a 1-for-1 Weekend International Buffet (Fri–Sun) at $58++/adult — but pay with a DBS/POSB card and the second adult is free, bringing it to effectively ~$29++/pax. Think seafood on ice, a DIY Singapore Laksa live station, and an outdoor Ayam Bakar BBQ at this mod-Sin spot. The 1-for-1 runs till 30 June 2026 — here's the breakdown.

Racines at Sofitel Singapore City Centre runs its Ultimate Buffet Brunch every Saturday (12:30–3pm) at $128++/adult — but DBS, OCBC, Citi, JCB & Maybank cardmembers get 1-for-1 on the adult price (up to 8 pax) through 20 June 2026, bringing it down to effectively $64++/pax. Think freshly-shucked oysters, sashimi, live-carved roasted suckling pig, plus local heroes like Singapore Chilli Prawns and Nyonya Assam Curry Fish. Here's the full breakdown.

FairPrice Xtra's all-you-can-eat durian buffet is back — 60 minutes of unlimited premium durian (Mao Shan Wang, Black Thorn, King of King, Red Prawn, D24, D13) in air-con comfort, plus complimentary mangosteen + a fresh coconut each. It runs at Parkway Parade (19–21 Jun) and VivoCity (26–28 Jun), at S$85/pax — but the early-bird 2-for-S$150 ($75/pax) ends 12 June. Here's the full breakdown + how to book.

Pang Pang is an individual-pot hotpot spot at Guoco Midtown II with two deals worth knowing: dine with a companion and the second pot is 50% off (pots from $48), and on weekdays the lunch sets start at just $14/pax — a small pot, two rice bowls, and free flow of the service counter (sides, fresh fruits, soup, drinks). Here's how both work.

Sushiro's new Chinatown Point outlet is marking its opening with a rotating 1-for-1 sushi promo from 5–18 June 2026 — a different premium plate every couple of days, from Bluefin Fatty Tuna (1-for-1 at ~S$4.90++ vs S$9.80++) to Big Red Shrimp, Big Cut Salmon, Salmon Roe Wrap and Aburi Engawa. Here's the full day-by-day schedule so you know exactly what's 1-for-1 when.

From 4–26 June 2026, buy a McDonald's Breakfast Family Meal (from S$15, U.P. S$20.50) on a weekday morning and get a Breakfast Happy Meal FREE — your child's choice of 2pc Hotcakes or a Scrambled Egg Burger Junior, plus a bonus book while stocks last. Walk-in, weekday breakfast hours, at almost every outlet — perfect timing for the June school holidays.

We read all eight steakhouses' own menus in August 2026 and priced them properly. The cheapest steak in the guide is ASTONS' Prime Sirloin at $20.90 with two sides, not the ~$18 every roundup still quotes. Collin's, the other value chain, is dearer than ASTONS once its 10% service charge and GST land. Morton's publishes $102 for a 6oz filet and $136 for a 16oz ribeye before service and GST, so its real floor is well above $120 a head. And Singapore does have a steak buffet: Barossa at VivoCity pours unlimited Josper-grilled Black Angus striploin at $39++ on weekdays.

Singapore hotpot in 2026 runs from a S$20++ two-person lunch set at Imperial Treasure Steamboat to S$90/pax collagen-broth dinners at Beauty in The Pot. We re-verified every price against the restaurant's own menu in September 2026 and mapped 6 spots across three tiers: premium a la carte, service-led a la carte, and AYCE value buffets. One change this month: Shabu Sai is out, dropped from parent company Creative Eateries' own brand list with its website dead, and halal-certified Suki-Suki Hot Pot takes the budget-AYCE slot. Includes Seoul Garden's full buffet ladder (S$24.90++ weekday lunch, S$15.90++ for students, seniors and NSmen), Suki-Ya's S$23.90++ 80-minute lunch, Haidilao's S$29.90++ student set, and Beauty in The Pot's 30%-off supper deal.

Kei Kaisendon celebrates its 9th anniversary with a 1-for-1 promotion across 12 outlets islandwide through Sun 23 Aug 2026 (~11 weeks). The deal applies to 9 don bowls including the Signature Kaisendon (effective S$7.45++/bowl when split 2-pax) and the premium Bara Hotate & Salmon (effective S$14.45++/bowl from U.P. S$28.90++). TAKEAWAY ONLY. The promo rotates across outlets on different dates — check Kei Kaisendon's IG / website before heading down to avoid a wasted trip.

ENDS TODAY (Sat 7 Jun 2026): Dunkin' Donuts Singapore's Global Donut Day promo runs 5-7 June. BUY 5 donuts → GET 2 FREE = 7 donuts for the price of 5 (~28% off effective). Plus selected drinks at $3 each: Cold Brew (U.P. $3.90) and Hot/Iced Teh Tarik (U.P. $4.40). All SG outlets, all day, while stocks last. No promo code needed.

ENDS TODAY (Sat 7 Jun 2026): Sushi Express opens its newest outlet at Changi City Point with an opening special — ALL conveyor-belt sushi plates at $1.50++ each (vs typical $2.20-$3.20++) for 2 days only. 80+ sushi varieties including salmon, tuna, tamago, gunkan + rolls. 40-min dining time limit per seating. Dine-in only. While stocks last. Address: 5 Changi Business Park Central 1, #B1-31, Singapore 486038.

Kimly Seafood runs a Father's Day promotion on GrabFood + Foodpanda only — 4 single-pax set meals at up to 25% off, each S$12.15 (UP S$16.20), with a complimentary Coca-Cola Zero canned drink. Yang Zhou Fried Rice Set, HK Fried Noodle Set, Seafood Bee Hoon Set, Chicken Cube Fried Rice Set — all delivery-friendly zi char classics from Kimly's network of outlets. Runs 3-30 June 2026. Order via GrabFood or Foodpanda apps.

PUTIEN's Father's Day promo runs 1-21 June 2026 at all SG outlets: order any Seasonal Mix & Match Set Meal, add on the signature Salt & Pepper Duotou Clam — a Fujian heritage dish typically $27.80 — for just $8.80. That's a $19 saving (68% off the add-on) on PUTIEN's seasonal short-burst dish. Dine-in only. While stocks last. Available at all 12 SG PUTIEN outlets.

Singapore's Korean BBQ scene keeps thinning (Daessiksin, Kim Dae Mun and now Magal BBQ have all closed), so we re-checked every pick against official sites in August 2026. Six that are genuinely still grilling: charcoal at Wang Dae Bak (three outlets, plus free meat when you order two), Seorae (five malls, galmaegisal from S$24.90/150g), CheongDamChae in the Telok Ayer unit Magal left behind, set-menu 8 Korean BBQ at Clarke Quay + Shaw Centre, and two buffets, Don Dae Bak's charcoal AYCE at a flat S$34.90 adult and ManNa at SingPost Centre from S$29.80++.

Singapore's dim sum scene runs the full range, from Hong Kong-imported casual chains (Tim Ho Wan) to premium Cantonese kitchens (Imperial Treasure, Crystal Jade Golden Palace, Yan Ting at St Regis). We mapped 8 SG dim sum destinations across budget tiers: Tim Ho Wan (S$28/pax), Swee Choon (S$22/pax, open till 2am, or 4am Fri/Sat), Yum Cha (S$32/pax), Red Star (S$28/pax, old-school cart service), Crystal Jade Golden Palace (S$58/pax), Imperial Treasure Fine Teochew/Cantonese (S$68/pax), Hai Tien Lo at Pan Pacific (S$72/pax), Yan Ting at St Regis (weekend dim sum brunch from S$168++/pax). Best for: weekend family dim sum, business lunch, special occasion brunch.

Singapore has ~500+ independent cafes — we mapped 9 that consistently deliver beyond just the coffee. If you only want the single best cafe in Singapore, it is Apartment Coffee on Selegie Road: the only SG entry on The World's 100 Best Coffee Shops 2026, ranked No.6 globally and No.1 in Asia for the second year running — though it opens Friday to Tuesday only, 10am-4.30pm, and is closed Wednesdays and Thursdays. The rest spread across specialty roasters (Common Man, Nylon, Sarnies), brunch-cafe hybrids (PS.Cafe, Wild Honey, Atlas Coffeehouse), and heritage gems (Chye Seng Huat Hardware, The Coffee Academics). Cost range: S$5-8 for a flat white; S$18-38 for cafe brunch mains, and at Common Man, Chye Seng Huat and Sarnies those are pre-GST, pre-service-charge menu prices. Best for: digital nomad work-from-cafe, weekend morning catch-up, post-lunch coffee dates, specialty coffee discovery.

7 Singapore restaurants where the room, the food and the service ritual make a proper date night rather than just dinner. Every price here was re-read on each venue's own site on 31 August 2026, and four of the seven had moved. The range runs from a S$26 Margherita at Cicheti to Cloudstreet's S$398++ eight-course tasting, and the cheapest sit-down on the list is Bottega di Carna's S$30++ two-course weekday lunch. Includes Cicheti (Kandahar St), Esquina (Jiak Chuan), Atlas Bar (Parkview Sq), Saint Pierre (One Fullerton), Bottega di Carna (Duxton Hill), Burnt Ends (Dempsey) and Cloudstreet (Amoy St). Best for anniversaries, proposals and special-occasion dating.

Singapore's brunch culture spans Aussie-style all-day cafes, Tiong Bahru patisseries, and Dempsey-tier weekend destinations. We rounded up 8 brunch spots that consistently deliver: Wild Honey (Mandarin Gallery), Common Man Coffee Roasters (Martin Rd), PS.Cafe (Harding Road Dempsey + Palais Renaissance), Tiong Bahru Bakery (Eng Hoon St), Carrotsticks & Cravings (Robertson Quay), Sarnies (Telok Ayer), Symmetry (Jln Kubor), and Atlas Coffeehouse (Bukit Timah). Price spread S$12-$36/pax, though only two of the eight quote prices you actually pay — most are before 10% service charge and GST. Best for: weekend family brunch, work-from-cafe productive mornings, dating without dinner-rate commitment.

The everyday lunch list: 8 SG chain restaurants where the set lunch genuinely comes in under S$15 per pax — usable as a weekly rotation, not a once-in-a-while treat. Long John Silver's Golden Deals from S$5.30 (fish or chicken + a side + a regular drink, GST included, all day — the cheapest chain lunch in Singapore, and it is not Subway), Subway Everyday Value Meal S$6.80 (6-inch sub + cookie + drink, 5 select subs), IKEA plant balls combo S$6.90 with the free IKEA Family card, Saizeriya S$9.00 nett weekday set (Italian-Japanese, one flat price for all 9 sets, includes free-flow drink bar), MOS Burger S$9-11 (Japanese burger), Astons Specialities from S$10.90 (Western diner — the weekday-only lunch set is gone, prices are now all-day), Crystal Jade La Mian from S$9.80 before 10% service and GST, Pepper Lunch weekday set from S$11.90 (Japanese pepper rice, restaurants only). Prices re-verified 21 August 2026 — three widely-repeated claims corrected: Singapore has no Subway 'Sub of the Day', IKEA's S$5.50 meal is a student deal rather than an IKEA Family one, and Subway is no longer the cheapest chain lunch in SG. Counterpart to our premium-tier lunch listicle ($22-$98 spread).

Six SG restaurants where the set lunch price is genuinely the cheat-code of the menu, same kitchen, same chefs, same plating, materially lower per-head spend versus the dinner equivalent. Spread from Atlas Coffeehouse's $14.17 brunch plate in Bukit Timah to Burnt Ends' ~$98 lunch tasting at Dempsey. Includes Saveur (French casual, 3-course from $28+ at Purvis Street, and now confirmed open seven days), Le Bistrot du Sommelier (its TGV Lunch Set is $48, not the $38 every roundup including ours had guessed), Origin Grill at Shangri-La (Executive Set Lunch $42++ for 2 courses, $48++ for 3, price held on the September menu) and Wolfgang's Steakhouse at Robertson Quay ($45++ Wolfgang Experience lunch course, served daily). Also converts every ++ price to what you actually pay, says which of these serve weekend and Sunday lunch sets, and which areas of Singapore each sits in. Best for: affordable set lunch hunting, 1-on-1 work lunches you want to elevate without the dinner-rate spend, low-key dating that punches above weight, or first-time sampling of a high-end kitchen before committing to a dinner reservation.

We visited Sushi Zushi at Westgate Level 3 — they're running THREE concurrent promos through their April-onwards 'Sushi Madness' campaign: 12 sushi items at $1 each (Salmon, Tako, Ebi, Tamagoyaki, Inari, and more); $4 Specials of the Month on premium nigiri (Shima Aji, Hirame, Tsubugai, Engawa, Tai, Unagi); plus 1-for-1 handrolls including the Foie Gras Uni handroll. Made-to-order, fresh, and the rice is a notch above standard sushi-ya. Verdict: best $1 sushi deal in SG right now.

FairPrice's annual Kampung Durian roving pop-up returns: $1.95 per 600-800g Kampung Durian, first 300 pax daily, max 2 durians per person. Three venues over three weekends — 22-24 May at Bedok North Blk 212, 29-31 May at Kang Kar Mall, 5-7 Jun at Elias Mall Atrium. 9am onwards. Queue arrives at 7am most days. The cheapest fresh durian in SG by a wide margin — at this price you're paying ~25% of normal pasar rates.

Cheese Wonder — the Japanese frozen cheesecake brand that draws 3-hour queues in Tokyo and sells out in minutes — is doing its first-ever Singapore pop-up at ION Orchard Basement 4. From 8 May to 3 July 2026. Signature box of 4 at S$35.90, strawberry edition at S$42.90, almond-cookie 'Wonder Sand' at S$35.90 for 8. Expect queues.

A 10-day Taiwan night market — 台灣夜市 — has set up at Waterway Point's B1 Plaza in Punggol, running through Sunday 17 May 2026. Red lanterns, neon signage, Taiwanese street food classics. Worth the trip if you've ever queued at Shilin or Raohe in Taipei and want a hit of that energy without the flight.

Wok-fired yellow noodles and bee hoon, soaked in prawn stock, finished with crispy lard, sambal and a wedge of calamansi. We re-checked all ten stalls in August 2026 against their own live listings: three hold a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand, three sell a plate at S$5, and the stall everyone calls the late-night pick now shuts at 10pm. The one that genuinely fries past 10pm is Singapore Fried Hokkien Mee at Whampoa, until 11.30pm, and it was missing from every version of this guide until now.

Springy egg noodles, bouncy wantons and char siew with caramelised edges: wanton mee is Singapore's most-debated hawker dish. We ranked the 10 best stalls for 2026 and grouped them by area, with every address, opening time, rest day and price re-checked on 4 September. Two corrections most guides still get wrong: Eng's has left Tanjong Katong for 360 Joo Chiat Road, and Fei Fei is no longer 24 hours (it now runs 6am to 2:30am), so no famous-name wanton mee in Singapore trades round the clock.

Crispy or fluffy, plain with curry or stuffed with cheese: we ranked Singapore's 11 best roti prata shops for 2026, from Mr & Mrs Mohgan's paper-thin Joo Chiat legend to the Upper Thomson late-night institution, with hours re-checked in September 2026 (The Roti Prata House has dropped its Friday-Saturday 24 hours, and Al-Ameen has left Cheong Chin Nam Road for 14 Clementi Road), plus every pick run through the official MUIS halal register.

Where to take Dad out in Singapore, whether it's a birthday, a long-overdue catch-up or Father's Day itself. Ten picks across every price tier, from Curry Times' S$15.90++ weekend tea-break buffet and Dian Xiao Er's 20% early-bird window to Meadesmoore's CBD wagyu and a whisky bar holding 1,500 bottles. Prices, hours and addresses re-checked against each restaurant's own site on 1 September 2026.

Every venue here serves afternoon tea year-round, so this works whether you are booking for a Tuesday or for Mother's Day (next: Sunday 9 May 2027). We compared 10 of Singapore's best hotel afternoon teas on what actually decides the booking: real everyday prices re-checked on 31 August 2026, seating times, dress codes, how far ahead each fills up, and which ones let you skip the peak-Sunday scrum entirely.

Singapore's 8 best vegetarian and vegan restaurants for 2026, from Bib-Gourmand-recognised Whole Earth to Elemen, NomVNom and VeganBurg, plus a mall-by-mall guide to where vegetarian food actually is. Every outlet, address and opening time was re-checked against each restaurant's own website and ordering system on 5 September 2026.

Tsuta's truffle shoyu is S$16.80 on Tsuta's own menu, not the S$22-25 everyone quotes. Takagi has repriced its entire menu: the house tonkotsu is now S$10.90, not S$7.90. Marutama has started publishing prices, and its ION Orchard shop quietly sells two tsukemen nobody lists. Ramen Keisuke still gives unlimited free kaedama every Monday at seven outlets. We ranked the 8 best ramen shops in Singapore for 2026, with signature bowls, prices read off each brand's own menu, current outlets, and exactly where to get tsukemen and tantanmen.

Charcoal-toasted bread, pandan-fragrant kaya, a slab of cold butter, half-boiled eggs, and a thick local kopi — we ranked Singapore's 10 best kaya toast and kopi spots for 2026, from heritage chains like Ya Kun and Killiney Kopitiam to under-the-radar uncles still working their charcoal grills. With 2026 prices and opening hours checked against each shop's own listings — including Ya Kun's Far East Square flagship, which reopens on 26 August 2026 after a renovation closure.

Halal Korean BBQ, dim sum, tze-char, Lanzhou beef noodles, North Indian and even halal French: Singapore's 10 best halal non-Malay restaurants for 2026, with every pick checked against the official MUIS eHalal register on 7 September 2026, not just the brand's own website. Eight of the ten are certified; Zam Zam and The White Label are Muslim-owned but are not on the register, and one Tongue Tip outlet every roundup lists isn't either. Plus Captain Kim's two outlet-specific price tables (the same weekend lunch buffet is S$20.90++ at Clementi and S$28.90++ at Junction 10 and Tampines), the September 2-for-1 that replaced its expired early bird, is Tim Ho Wan halal, and which halal restaurants opened in 2026.

Ten hotpot and steamboat restaurants in Singapore, every price and outlet re-checked against each brand's own menu, store list and promo terms on 5 September 2026. Haidilao is a 15-outlet chain (not the 20 usually quoted) with five branches serving until 6am. Beauty in The Pot publishes its full soup-base table (from $22.80 a pot, plus a compulsory $3.80/pax condiment charge), is down to four outlets, and now takes 30% off ingredients after 10pm. Captain Kim's $12.90++ early bird is dead: the halal floor is $15.90++. Imperial Treasure, the priciest name here, quietly serves a $20++ lunch set. Plus Paradise Hotpot from $19.90/pax at the two malls people search for and cannot find.

From Colony at the Ritz-Carlton (weekday lunch S$78++, Sunday Champagne Brunch to S$998) to Marriott's Crossroads, Pan Pacific's Edge and Singapore's best halal hotel buffet, we ranked the 8 best all-you-can-eat buffets for 2026 and published every sitting's price, checked against each restaurant's own site on 3 September. Includes where to find crab and lobster, which headline prices are dated promos, and the free-membership deals that cut a weekday lunch to about S$36++ a head.

From Koi's 90 island-wide outlets and famously chewy pearls to CHAGEE's fresh milk tea, Mixue's S$5 mega cups and HEYTEA's cheese foam, we ranked Singapore's 10 best bubble tea brands for 2026: what each does best, and which to queue for.

Lardy, smoky, sweet-savoury, slick with dark soy and studded with cockles: we ranked Singapore's 10 best char kway teow stalls, from old-school masters to younger upstarts, with 2026 prices and opening hours re-checked stall by stall.

Crispy ikan kuning, fluffy coconut rice, and sambal that punches above its weight. We ranked Singapore's 10 best nasi lemak from queue-worthy hawker stalls to high-end interpretations of the Malay classic, then re-read every price and closing day against each place's own menu on 4 September 2026. The Coconut Club's current menu still does not list the S$9 Traditional plate at all, so the cheapest nasi lemak at the atas pick is the S$17 otah and the signature ayam goreng berempah is S$22, both before GST and 10% service. Two things moved since our August check: Crave's operator now claims 35 outlets rather than 43, and No. 1 Adam's at Adam Road trades 8.30am to 1pm, not to 2pm.

Over 100 homegrown food vendors, nightly live music, pet-friendly zones, and zero entry fees — GastroBeats 2026 takes over Bayfront Event Space from 5 to 28 June. Here's the full guide to what to eat, what to watch, and the best nights to go.

From Katong laksa pioneers to hawker stall legends, plus King of Laksa, the only laksa stall on the 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand list. Bowls run S$3.50–8, and every price, address and opening time was re-checked in September 2026.

From Tian Tian at Maxwell to Ming Kee's chilled chicken in Bishan, we ranked the best plates of chicken rice in Singapore — Hainanese poached, Cantonese ice-bathed and Hong Kong soya sauce — with addresses, opening hours and the days each one closes.

Step away from the tourist trail. These under-the-radar hawker stalls serve some of the best food in Singapore, and the queues are still manageable. Ten hidden hawker gems across Shunfu, Tiong Bahru, Kembangan, Bedok, Jalan Besar, Queensway, Golden Mile and Alexandra Village, with addresses, opening hours, rest days and what to order, all re-checked against each stall's listings in September 2026.