6 Popular Private Home Dining Spots Dishing Out Delightful Asian Nosh, Including Peranakan & Cantonese Flavours, For Your Next Makan Party

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26 Mar 2024
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Ever tasted a Peranakan friend’s culinary labour of love and gone (sincerely or otherwise): “Wow, you should try selling that”? Congratulations, you might’ve just inspired them to hop on one of Singapore’s most popular foodie trends to start their own private home dining experience.

The supper club concept, after all, offers something to both budding chef-restaurateurs and discerning customers alike.

For the culinarily inclined, private home dining gives them a chance to hone their cooking chops and develop flavours with the safety of minimal overheads. There’s no need to pay rent for a full-fledged eatery or commercial kitchen, nor salaries for staff since you’re wearing multiple hats as host, waiter, cook and dishwasher.

Creating small batches of food for just the one table willing to commit to a curated tasting menu means that dishes which often aren’t featured on restaurant menus, either due to difficulty of preparation or ease of spoilage, get an airing at private home diners.

Customers, on the other hand, have the benefit of a private dining space all to themselves, with dedicated attention from their chef-server-sommelier. Forget stuffy restaurant mainstays like a dress code or rushing through one’s dinner to make way for a second or third seating – the place is yours for as long as you like, just as long as you don’t spill red wine on the carpet.

With all these perks – and extremely limited seatings, usually confined to one a day or a few times a week – it’s no wonder that many popular private home dining spots also have year-long waiting lists despite fine-dining prices and the need to round up kakis to book an entire table.

For the sake of this list, we’ve narrowed it down to some of the more popular private home dining options in Singapore peddling Asian-centric nosh, whether that be Peranakan favourites or classic Cantonese plates.

Lucky House Cantonese Private Kitchen

Lucky House Cantonese Private Kitchen maintains its place as one of Singapore’s most popular private home dining spots, thanks largely to the unfussy Cantonese grub prepped by self-taught chef Sam Wong, a ballroom dancing shoe wholesaler by trade.

He runs a charmingly honest setup in the kitchen of his Upper East Coast Road terrace house, bolstering signatures like roast duck and crayfish omelette with hearty Cantonese soups simmered over a roaring charcoal stove (peek out the back window to get a look) and stir-fried veggies fresh from his home garden. There’s only one problem – you’ll have to wait 15 months or more for a slot!

Lucky House Cantonese Private Dining
Location: 267 Upper East Coast Road, Singapore 466413
Booking Details: $130 per pax (Small room, 8 to 10; Big room, 11 to 16)
Tel: +65 9823 7268
Website: https://www.facebook.com/LuckyHouseCantonesePrivateKitchen/

Lynnette’s Kitchen

With no shortage of Peranakan culinary maestros hidden in the ranks of Singaporean ahmas, it’s no surprise that Nyonya food reigns supreme as the cuisine of choice for many private home diners. One popular spot is headed up by celebrated violinist Lynnette Seah, retired co-concertmaster and founding member of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.

The Cultural Medallion recipient now dedicates her days to private home dining – whipping up Peranakan feasts out of her Tiong Bahru flat. Mainstays include beef rendang, ngoh hiang and grilled jumbo squid with glutinous rice, shiitake mushroom and hae bee hiam (which you can also get for takeaway). She’s also known to serve Western dishes with a localised twist like laksa paella.

Lynnette’s Kitchen
Location: 118C Jalan Membina, Singapore, 163118
Booking Details: $130 to $190 per pax, depending on menu (Book two weeks in advance for weekdays, and a month ahead for Fridays and Saturdays; 6 to 15 pax)
Tel: +65 9010 2901
Website: https://lynnetteskitchen.com/private-dining/

HOME Private Dining

Retired sales director at the Pan Pacific Hotel, Mary Silva Sundarason, brings decades of home cooking experience to her simply titled supper club, HOME Private Dining. Unlike some of the others on this list, she offers a steak dinner and an Italian pasta menu alongside nasi lemak, biryani and a sumptuous Keralan feast, drawing from her ancestral home province in the Malabar Coast of India.

Keralan classics include a fish and meat curry, spicy fried chicken, thorans (dry vegetable dishes cooked with coconut) and other veggies, plus a sweet treat to finish off the home dining experience in her classily appointed Bedok home.

HOME Private Dining
Location: 30 Jalan Chempaka Kuning, Singapore, 489068
Booking Details: $80 to $150 per pax ($120 for Kerala feast), depending on menu (Book at least a week in advance; 6 to 12, or 8 for Kerala feast)
Tel: +65 9781 5495
Website: https://lynnetteskitchen.com/private-dining/

Ladyboss Dining Club

Ladyboss Dining Club specialises in elevated Chinese plates served up in the home dining ambience of an colonial elegance of a black-and-white bungalow space, courtesy of its eponymous lady boss, chef-restaurateur Sandra Sim.

Expect signatures inspired by the chef’s time in China and Hong Kong such as soya sauce chicken, a full-bodied claypot rice brimming with homemade Chinese waxed sausages, chicken and pork belly, Iberico pork char siew fancily layered with gold flakes, and xiao long bao with an unusually rich filling of hairy crab roe, served with 20-year-aged Chinese vinegar.

Ladyboss Dining Club
Location: 29 Beng Wan Road, Singapore, 339856
Booking Details: $238 to $388 per pax, depending on menu (Check website for booking slots; 8 to 15)
Tel: +65 8511 5077
Website: https://www.ladybosschicken.com/

Liu Fu Si Fang Cai

Self-taught chef Henry Lau has been running Liu Fu Si Fang Cai, which translates from Mandarin to Liu’s Private Kitchen, from his Tembeling Road home since he was retrenched back in 2017. Slots for the popular private home dining space open on a monthly basis, though you have to move fast to secure a spot as they’re snapped up quickly.

Henry specialises in Chinese food with an emphasis on local favourites – think Hokkien mee stir-fried in a prawn stock that’s been simmered for two days and served on a traditional opeh leaf, ngoh hiang and a hearty double-boiled chicken soup fortified with pungent black garlic.

Liu Fu Si Fang Cai
Location: 20 Tembeling Road, Singapore, 423556
Booking Details: $155 per pax (Check Facebook for booking slots; minimum 8)
Tel: +65 8525 0020
Website: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063732872721

Little Social

While Little Social began as a humble supper club serving Peranakan flavours handed down from self-taught chef Danial Chua’s grandmother, the private home dining experience has now evolved into something closer to a full-fledged restaurant having moved to opulent digs in a Geylang shophouse.

The private dining experience now begins with a walk through an indoor garden flanked with faux peacocks, before heading upstairs via a floating staircase for a meal filled with true-blue Peranakan nosh like ayam buah keluak, sambal udang petai and chap chye.

Little Social
Location: 9 Lorong 24A Geylang, Singapore, 398533
Booking Details: $155 per pax (Check Facebook for booking slots; minimum 8)
Tel: +65 8820 5726
Website: https://www.facebook.com/littlesocialsg/

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