Best Of Singapore Hawkers & Casual Dining: Lamb Chop

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Best Of Singapore Hawkers & Casual Dining: Lamb Chop

Lamb Chop
Lamb Chop



Nothing was sponsored, we visited as regular paying customers. Photos in this post were taken between 2000 and 2024 (across 24 years!), as such, the quality of photos varies drastically due to advances in camera technology. Mobile smartphones were in their infancy and had yet to become widespread.


Also Known As:
Lamb Chop, Lamb Ribs, Lamb Loin, Lamb T-Bone, Lamb Cutlets


Average Price Per Serving:
SGD $10 - $45








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Description:
The Lamb Chop is a Singaporean English dish that consists of a medium-sized cut of lamb, often with bone in, grilled and served with 2 or 3 side dishes. Also known as Lamb Ribs, Lamb Loin, Lamb T-Bone, or Lamb Cutlets, the Lamb Chop dish is usually priced around SGD $10 to $45 per serving. It's an uncommon dish, typically eaten during lunch or dinner.

There are several cuts of lamb used for Lamb Chop, including the ribs, loin, shoulder, and t-bone cuts. The ribs may either be cut as a rack or a cutlet. Often cut with a silver of fat, the lamb cut is simply seasoned with salt and black pepper, and grilled to either medium or medium well doneness. The lamb should still be tender and juicy, with a crisp charred crust, slicing easily off the bone, and robust fatty meaty savoury salty flavour.

Several side dishes accompany a Lamb Chop dish. Typically, this consists of 1 vegetable type of side dish, and 1 potato type of side dish, and most stalls offer a choice. The range for a vegetable side dish includes coleslaw, cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, carrots, or cherry tomato; having fresh crisp juicy tender texture with mild vegetal sweet flavour. The range for a potato side dish includes baked potato with sour cream and spring onions, mashed potato, French fries or English chips, or potato wedges; having soft tender texture with bold starchy sweet salty flavour. Other side dishes may include tender baked beans in tomato sauce with vegetal earthy sweet flavour, crisp buttered toasted white bread with bready sweet smoky flavour, crisp battered onion rings with bready vegetal salty sweet flavour, or gooey macaroni pasta tubes and melted cheddar cheese with robust cheesy salty sweet flavour.

Most stalls offer a fairly flexible choice of side dishes to accompany a Lamb Chop. There's almost always a serving of wobbly mint jelly, which alleviates the gamey notes of the lamb with minty herbal sweet flavour. In addition, there sometimes is a choice of gravy as well, either mushroom, black pepper, or brown gravy.


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1. Astons Specialities
@ 359 Joo Chiat Road
Opening Hours: Daily 11:30am – 10pm

Taken in 2024


Taken in 2024


Lamb Chop (SGD $25.90) @ Astons Specialities.

Established by founder Aston Soon in October 2005, this casual steakhouse serves hearty Western dishes at reasonable prices.

Their cut is from the lamb loin, with 3 bone-in slabs grilled till medium well doneness. Chunky with a firm juicy chew and smoky meaty savoury salty flavour, with a good burst of taste from the silvers of fat.

The side of fresh garden salad (lettuce, purple cabbage, carrots, cherry tomato, kewpie mayonnaise) is crisp and juicy, with bright vegetal sweet milky flavour. The side of crunchy chilled potato salad is satisfying with starchy sweet savoury earthy flavour.





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2. iSteaks Diner
@ myVillage, 1 Maju Avenue #02-03
Opening Hours: Daily 11am – 10pm

Taken in 2015


Taken in 2024


Taken in 2024


Taken in 2024


Lamb Chop (SGD $43) @ iSteaks Diner.

This casual dining brand has come a long way, since its humble beginnings as a coffeeshop stall in February 2008, now rivalling other premium steakhouse restaurants.

Their lamb t-bone cut commands a premium, chargrilled till a perfect medium well doneness. Succulent crunchy juicy with smoky fatty meaty salty savoury flavour.

The side of grilled garlic butter eggplant is tender soft with smoky buttery vegetal sweet spice flavour, addictive. The side of crunchy chilled potato salad is delightful with starchy sweet savoury earthy flavour.





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3. Next Western Station
@ Ci Yuan Hawker Centre, 51 Hougang Avenue 9 #01-27
Opening Hours: Daily 12pm – 9pm

Taken in 2024


Taken in 2024


Lamb Chop (SGD $13) @ Next Western Station.

This next western station (pun intended) opened in October 2022, and serves the most value for money, affordable rendition in this entire list.

There're 3 large chunky bone-in cuts of lamb rack, with a good ratio of fat to meat. Glazed with a rich black pepper gravy. Has tender juicy chewy texture, with deep smoky meaty fatty salty savoury peppery spice flavour.

There's crisp fresh lettuce with vegetal sweet flavour, crisp shoestring potato fries with starchy salty savoury flavour, and juicy corn kernels with vegetal sweet flavour.





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4. Western Barbeque
@ Old Airport Road Food Centre, 51 Old Airport Road #01-53
Opening Hours: Daily 11am – 10pm

Taken in 2011


Taken in 2024


Taken in 2024


Lamb Chop (SGD $13) @ Western Barbeque.

This long-serving stall has been dishing out hearty Western fare since 1974, and is well known for their house secret garlic sauce which is sweet savoury spicy in flavour.

The lamp loin was perfectly grilled, tender chewy succulent in texture, with pleasant smoky meaty savoury salty fatty flavour.

The crunchy chilled coleslaw (cabbage, carrot) is light with vegetal sweet flavour, while the fluffy crisp English potato chips hold starchy salty flavour. The old-school cream bun is pillowy soft with a thin layer of cream within, carrying bready milky sweet flavour, decent.





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5. Yummy Western
@ 409 AMK Market And Food Centre, 409 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 #01-29
Opening Hours: Tue - Sun 12pm – 10pm, Closed Mon

Taken in 2017


Taken in 2024


Taken in 2024


Lamb Chop (SGD $14) @ Yummy Western.

This long-standing stall has unusually had its internet presence wiped clean recently, and despite online rumours that they closed, this stall is very much still opening regularly.

Their lamb ribs is thick and chunky, having tender chewy texture with full flavoured smoky meaty salty savoury peppery spice flavour.

The heavily dressed coleslaw is crunchy with vegetal sweet flavour, while the crisp potato chips hold starchy salty flavour. The crisp buttered toasted white bread has straightforward buttery bready toasty sweet savoury notes, and the soft warm baked beans in tomato sauce carry vegetal earthy sour sweet flavour.





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- Eddy Western Delights – Permanently Closed
@ 210 Hougang Street 21 #01-261

Taken in 2011






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