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.
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.
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.
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.
Every drink at Li'l Habibi comes from Bar Stories, a Haji Lane bar that does not print a cocktail list. Here is how ordering actually works, and what to say when there is nothing to point at.
Whole-animal cuts, sauces that work three shifts, twice-cooking, and a set of scales. A prep-level look at what "use every ingredient" actually looks like on our menu.
"Fun dining, not fine dining" is the line we put on our own About page. Here is what it commits us to, what it does not excuse, and where you can hear it in the menu.
Charcoal has a macho mythology attached to it, and with it an assumption about who belongs in front of one. It is the wrong test. Fire cooking is a judgement job with a physical tax, not a strength contest — and the difference matters more than the mythology does.
She did not start in a kitchen. She started carrying plates out of one, part-time, as a student — and spent the next decade working her way back in. The route Nadine Tay took to a charcoal grill on Hamilton Road, with the dates and the sources attached.
Before Habibi-san existed, both of its founders cooked at the same Middle Eastern restaurant on Middle Road. That is where our mezze habit comes from. The twist is that the restaurant in question does not serve Middle Eastern food any more — so the thread now runs only one way.