Restaurants & Dining
Vegetarian kitchens, izakayas, dim sum, cafés and the one umeshu bar.
190 Middle Road · Bugis · Since 1980
The Bugis building where 40 years of vegetarian kitchens, Buddhist shops and accountants share one lift lobby.
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Levels 1 to 4 are the retail podium — food, salons, Buddhist shops, TCM. Levels 9 to 20 are offices, and there are more chartered accountants up there than most people would guess.
Vegetarian kitchens, izakayas, dim sum, cafés and the one umeshu bar.
Buddhist artifacts, crystals, opticians, salons, tailoring and trading firms.
TCM halls, acupuncture, massage, facials, feng shui and astrology.
Accountants, corporate services, law, shipping, training colleges and building facilities.
Journal
Guides to the building, notes on the Bugis strata market, and whatever else is worth writing down that day.
A 1980 strata block beside a temple turned into Singapore's densest vegetarian food cluster. Here is how the building actually works.
The building's reputation rests on these kitchens. A floor-by-floor run through the vegetarian and vegan options, and what each one is for.
Thirty-five units wrapped around the Middle Road frontage. The fastest food in the building, and most of the Buddhist retail.
The floor that rewards a slow lap. Dessert counters and cafés face the escalator; salons, a dental surgery and the first TCM halls sit behind.
The most mixed floor in the building. Japanese dining at one end, beauty rooms in the middle, and an astrologer next to a nail bar.
Four escalators up, and most people never make it. Curry puffs, nasi lemak and soup curry, sharing corridors with TCM halls and beauty rooms.