With workplace restrictions being lifted, the shift back to working from the office has begun. This may mean you now have to rush home from work and make dinner for your family every night. This can be a hassle – especially if you don’t have a helper at the moment.
For busy parents who don’t have time to cook but still want their families to enjoy healthy, home-cooked meals, tingkat deliveries are an increasingly popular option. The fuss-free service means freshly-prepared food is delivered to your doorstep, taking one less thing off your to-do list.
We’ve listed a number of tingkat services that boast a wide variety of dishes – including some that offer international cuisines and halal options. Many of them are healthier and more affordable than order-on-demand food apps, and many also accommodate dietary requests like less oil or no MSG.
Savoury Kitchen’s tingkat meals are similar to what you will find at a Chinese economy rice stall, but are definitely tastier and fresher, with much less grease. Their food is prepared with less oil, less salt, no added MSG, and cooked using vegetable oil, so you can be sure that their dishes are generally healthy. They are also quite accommodating – contact them in advance for any dietary needs.
The company offers a normal and a healthy meal package, and they’re available for both lunch and dinner. The main difference is that the healthy meal package includes a daily nourishing soup. The dishes are also prepared with zero processed food, and using healthier cooking methods such as steaming. For the normal meal package, you can choose whether you’d like a regular soup, or if you’d prefer to have another dish instead.
Prices start at $280 for two pax for a 20-day normal meal package that includes three dishes and a soup. Both steamed or brown rice options are available, though they are charged separately.
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Halal-certified Yeyeah Delights has a goal to provide nutritious, pre-portioned meals. With a focus on nutrition, their salt, sugar, and fat content are all dietician-approved.
Their family meal plan consists of one main course, one vegetable dish, one special side dish, a soup, and steamed rice. In addition to the family meal plan, they also offer a variety of other food plans such as weight loss meals, soup meals, and confinement meals.
Their family meal plan menu features a wide variety of dishes that switches up every day, including interesting items such as honey sriracha chicken noodle, and fried mee siam with salted egg yolk prawn. With a menu like that, you can be sure that the kids won’t get bored of the food.
Delivered twice a week, Yeyeah Delight’s meals are blast-chilled, and can be kept for up to three days. Simply warm the meals for two-and-a-half minutes before enjoying them.
A 20-day family meal plan for two pax is priced at $520. Brown rice options and special dietary requests are available at extra cost.
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Specialising in Chinese dishes, Ronnie Kitchen prizes quality and ensures you’ll get a great meal delivered straight to your home. Special dietary requests are not possible. They deliver to most areas in Singapore except condos and landed properties, so make sure to check the delivery route before ordering.
Prices start at $260 for two pax for a 20-day lunch or dinner package, which offers three dishes and a soup, or four dishes.
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Le Xin Catering offers a lunch package, as well as two different dinner packages – Family Deluxe or Asian Delight. Bonus: The dishes are customisable, and the company promises that their items are low in cholesterol, low in salt, MSG-free, and that pure vegetable oil is used.
You can expect a variety of dishes such as laksa yong tau food and teriyaki drumlets to crispy chicken cutlet with fries and old cucumber pork rib soup. Note that the actual menu will be given on the first day of delivery.
Subscription starts from $277.70 for two persons for a 20-day Family Deluxe plan, or $317.70 for a 20-day Asian Delight plan.
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Previously known as Kim’s Kitchen, the company has now evolved into Kim Paradise, but still guarantees scrumptious and nutritious dishes. The company is very accommodating – for example, you can request non-spicy food, or ask for boneless fish for your children.
There are two types of meal plans available, the regular Tingkat Specialist plan, or their Nutritious Healthy Meal – which incorporates Chinese herbs into the dishes – for either lunch or dinner.
Prices start from $280 for two persons for a 20-day Family Tingkat package, for three dishes and a soup. Steamed rice or brown rice comes at an additional cost. There is also an add-on item – the dish changes daily – that can be purchased a la carte.
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KCK Food Catering has been delivering in the food business since 1991, so rest assured that their service and food have stood the test of time. They are also one of the few tingkat caterers with a rewards point scheme.
The company’s tingkat service is dinner-only, and their halal-certified menu changes weekly. Dishes are mainly local Chinese such as shrimp paste chicken wings, and stir-fried vegetables. There’s also free dessert thrown in on Mondays.
A subscription package starts from $260 for two persons for a 20-day dinner package, for three dishes and a soup, or four dishes. White rice and brown rice are available at extra cost.
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This dinner-only service aims to provide balanced, wholesome meals that consist of up to four dishes and a soup. Their menu is mostly made up of Chinese favourites, including dishes such as glass noodle beancurd, ginger soya chicken, and a daily seasonal vegetable. Their dishes contain no pork or lard.
Flexibility is a bonus since they have an Android app – Jessie Catering HMD – for you to view their menu and reschedule meals if needed. Meal preferences (like less spicy and no meat on Fridays) can also be arranged via the app.
Prices start at $235.40 for two people for a 20-day plan of three dishes and a soup, or four dishes. White rice and brown rice are available at extra cost.
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To ensure that their dishes comprise of the freshest available ingredients, Hong Choo doesn’t have a fixed weekly or monthly menu. Their dishes mainly revolve around Chinese Cantonese cuisine, and examples include steamed minced pork, braised tofu with mushrooms, and stir-fried long beans.
Prices start at $288.90 for two people for a 20-day dinner package, for three dishes and a soup, or four dishes. Hong Choo provides their food in re-usable tiffin containers that are collected the following day, which also helps to save the environment.
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FattyDaddyFattyMummy was initially a small business founded on the premise of providing assistance to busy working parents by delivering daily homecooked meals, but is now a full-fledged catering company. Their kitchen director is a professional chef who used to work at Brasserie Wolf, Hiroki 88, and Jewel @ Mount Faber, so you can be sure that the menus are top-notch.
On offer are three subscription plans. The Regular Tingkat menu is reminiscent of a Chinese economy stall’s dishes and includes dishes such as fried cereal chicken and herb roasted potatoes. Meanwhile, the Love, Tingkat! menu focuses on nutrition for health-conscious families, and uses zero processed or canned food, and zero MSG. Lastly, the Delightful, Tingkat! offers varying cuisines such as udon, nasi briyani, and chicken chop.
Prices start at $300 for two pax for a 20-day Regular Tingkat meal plan that includes three dishes and one soup, or four dishes.
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The catering company aims to provide sumptuous and nutritious meals just like your mother makes. In classic Asian style, all meal plans comprise of three dishes and one soup, and its home-style dishes include dishes like stir-fried spinach with wolfberry and nonya laksa prawn. There is also the occasional Western fare such as grilled chicken chop, and spaghetti.
The company caters for common dietary requirements such as a non-spicy diet, no beef, or no prawn, but are unable to accommodate additional requests.
Subscription plans start from $481.50 for two pax for a 20-day dinner service plan.
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If you’re looking for variety instead of sticking to the same old cai fan dishes, Royal Cuisine Group is able to offer just that in their International Meal subscription. For instance, you can expect yakitori chicken sticks and pork katsu for the Japanese menu, Thai-style fishcake and papaya salad for the Thai menu, and other Singaporean cuisines like baked kecap manis chicken and fried samosas.
Apart from their unique International Meal subscription, they also offer plans for homecooked daily meals, low carb meals, nonya meals, and vegetarian meals.
Their 20-day lunch or dinner International Meal subscription starts from $308 for two pax, and includes three dishes and a soup, or four dishes. Meanwhile, the Homecooked Daily Meals package start from a more affordable price of $220 under the same parameters.
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Best Catering has two plans on offer – a Healthy Tingkat and a Family Tingkat. The difference, as its name suggests, is that the Healthy Tingkat meal plan will feature Chinese dishes cooked with healthier methods such as steaming and braising.
A new menu is out every week, and the company also provides re-usable tiffins that they collect the following day, which helps to cut down on plastic waste.
Prices start at $280 for two people for a 20-day package for three dishes and a soup, or $300 for four dishes. You can also top up the menu with side orders that include cakes, kuehs, and dishes such as curry fish head and herbal black chicken soup.
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This catering company was founded with the goal to make sure that the elderly get the proper nutrition they require daily. Dishes are cooked with less salt and oil, and are generally softer in texture and easily digestible, making them an excellent choice for your young children and your elderly parents. They also accommodate common dietary requests, such as no spicy food, no seafood, and no fish with bones.
This tingkat company stands out for its seven types of speciality rice (olive, yam, garlic, long beans, pumpkin, lemongrass, cabbage), as well as desserts that can be added on to meal plans. It’s also one of the few that also delivers food all year-round, including weekends.
Prices start from $480 for two pax for a 20-day meal plan.
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Text by: Rachel AJ Lee & Ashley Tham/HerWorld
Additional Reporting: Jesslyn Lye, May 2022