HarriAnns Nonya Table (Suntec City)

HarriAnns Nonya Table at Suntec City is a Peranakan café from a family business known for handmade nonya kueh. These are the small, colourful cakes of Straits Chinese cooking. The Suntec City café opened in October 2018 in the West Wing of the mall. It is the brand's largest café, with about 100 seats.

HarriAnns began as a wooden pushcart selling kueh and glutinous rice in Tiong Bahru. Its stall at Tiong Bahru Food Centre is still running, and the website says Uncle Harry and Auntie Annie still look after it. The family recipes have passed down three generations, and the brand's motto is "Happiness is Handmade".

What to order

The menu mixes simple Peranakan one-dish meals with local breakfast sets and a wide counter of kueh. Good choices include:

• Nonya laksa: one of the house signatures, with noodles in a spicy coconut gravy.
• Curry chicken and mee siam, both named by the brand as signature dishes.
• Ayam buah keluak: chicken cooked with the black buah keluak nut, a classic Peranakan dish.
• Babi pongteh: pork braised with radish and mushrooms.
• Kaya toast and eggs: a local breakfast set that goes well with a cup of kopi or teh.
• Glutinous rice and yam cake for a lighter bite.

Save room for kueh. Look for ondeh ondeh, soft pandan balls filled with palm sugar and rolled in coconut. Kueh salat has a glutinous rice base under a pandan custard layer. The rainbow lapis is a striped, layered steamed cake, and kueh talam is a soft two-layer pandan and coconut cake.

The setting

The café sits in the West Wing of Suntec City, next to the escalator that leads down to the fountain. It is a relaxed mall café, not a formal restaurant. It draws a mix of office staff, mall shoppers and visitors, and you may have to queue at busy times.

Handmade cookies are displayed on a traditional pushcart. The brand suggests them as gifts and souvenirs. The café can also be booked for corporate or family events.

Good to know before you go

• Takeaway: kueh, cakes and cookies are sold to take away, so you can pick up a box for later.
• Online orders: the brand's e-shop offers same-day collection, delivery and pre-orders.
• Other outlets: there are cafés at Bugis Junction Towers and Keppel Bay Tower, plus the original stall at Tiong Bahru Food Centre.

Nearby

Suntec City is within walking distance of the Singapore Flyer and the Helix Bridge. Hotels close by include The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore and PARKROYAL Collection Marina Bay.

To see where the story began, visit Tiong Bahru Market. For more ideas, browse our Peranakan restaurants, our guides to Peranakan food, and Hainanese vs Nyonya kaya to understand what goes on your toast.