Style demo: Shophouse. A heritage website style by Darren Lim. Pintu Hijau is a fictional restaurant.

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Behind the green door.

Nyonya cooking from our grandmother’s recipe book, served in a 1920s shophouse in Joo Chiat. Buah keluak, laksa and kueh, made the slow way.

Tue–Sun, lunch and dinner

A two-storey Peranakan shophouse with ornate tiles and shuttered windows
Shophouses on the streets around us, built in the 1920s.

Three dishes she was known for

Each takes a day or more to make. Order them and you’re eating a family recipe that has never been written down outside our kitchen.

Ayam buah keluak, chicken and black nuts in a dark tamarind gravy

Ayam buah keluak

$28

Chicken braised with black keluak nuts, their earthy filling scraped out, pounded with rempah and stuffed back in. Two days of work in one bowl.

Our signature. Limited each day.

A bowl of laksa with cockles, prawns and cut noodles in coconut gravy

Nyonya laksa

$18

Coconut and dried-shrimp gravy, thick rice noodles cut short so you can eat it with a spoon, prawns, cockles and laksa leaf.

Lunch and dinner.

Slices of kueh lapis showing dozens of thin layers

Kueh lapis

$6 a slice

Eighteen layers, each grilled one at a time, with butter and spice. We bake one cake a day.

Whole cakes by pre-order, $88.

Tok panjang, the long table

The Peranakan feast for birthdays, weddings and reunions: one long table and every dish at once. We cook it for groups of eight to twenty.

  • Twelve dishes, kueh and drinks
  • $78++ per guest, the whole house for 16 or more
  • Book at least a week ahead
A pink Straits Chinese porcelain plate painted with a phoenix and peonies
Nyonya ware: phoenix and peonies, the feast’s pattern.

Plan your tok panjang

Email [email protected] to plan a tok panjang.

Book a table

Joo Chiat, Singapore

Look for the green door between the tile panels. Eight minutes from Eunos MRT, or bus 33 to Joo Chiat Road.

Lunch, Tue–Sun11:30am–3pm
Dinner, Tue–Thu, Sun6–10pm
Dinner, Fri–Sat6–10:30pm
MondayClosed
A row of pastel shophouses along a Joo Chiat street

Reserve for two to eight

Call +65 6000 0004 to book.