A Food Crawl Through Jalan Besar’s Shophouses
The walking is easy — the whole neighbourhood is ten minutes end to end. The timing is what ruins crawls here. Four routes built around verified last-order times, from a kitchen on the street.
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Jalan Besar Cafés: The Shophouse Coffee Trail
Every café on this list was checked on its own website on 21 August 2026 — which is why the list is shorter than most. Coffee, bread and tea between Tyrwhitt Road and Hamilton Road, from the restaurant at the end of the street.
Jalan Besar Bars and Late-Night Pours
Let us get the disappointing part out of the way first, because every other guide to this neighbourhood buries it. Jalan Besar is not a late-night drinking district. It has a reputation as one — it gets called a nightlife…
Lavender Food Guide: Worth Getting Off at the MRT For
Lavender is a station people pass through. It sits on the East–West Line between Bugis and Kallang, both of which have louder reputations, and most of the city treats it as somewhere to change trains rather than somewhere to get…
Jalan Besar Food Guide: Where to Eat and Drink
We should start with the obvious disclosure: we are on this street. Habibi-san is at 29 Hamilton Road, which runs off Tyrwhitt Road, which is the spine of everything below. So yes, this is us writing about our own neighbourhood,…
Why We Close Mondays (and When to Book)
We get asked this more than you would think, usually by someone standing outside on a Monday evening reading our door. So here is the answer, without dressing it up. We close on Mondays because a six-day week is what…
Getting to Habibi-san: MRT, Parking and Reservations
The practical version: which MRT station, which buses, where to leave the car, how to book — for 29 Hamilton Road and for Li'l Habibi at 55 Haji Lane, which is where half the internet still sends people.
What Dinner at Habibi-san Costs: Ordering Strategies by Budget
Our Hamilton Road menu prints no prices and Li'l Habibi's prints all of them. Here is the honest arithmetic for both rooms, worked through by party size, including where the omakase stops being the cheap option.
Habibi-san FAQ: Pork, Alcohol, Dietary Notes and Booking
Straight answers to the questions people ask before they book: whether we are halal, what pork is on the menu, how the bar works, what we can do about dietary restrictions, and how to actually get a table at either room.
What Reviewers Keep Ordering at Habibi-san
Five years of reviews, read back for the dish names rather than the star ratings — what people actually order at Habibi-san, and where the reviews now describe a menu we no longer serve.