Homestyle Malay cooking that tastes like someone's mother made it

Simple, honest kampung-style food. Get there before 1pm or the good stuff is gone.

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Shima’s Kitchen started as a stall at Holland Drive Market and built a following on one idea: cook a short list of Malay dishes properly, every morning, and stop when they run out. The Harper Road outlet, tucked into the ground floor of an industrial building near Tai Seng, keeps that promise.

What to order

This is nasi campur, so you pick from the trays. The rendang is the anchor: deep, dark and tender, with the coconut cooked right down. The sambal goreng, with tempeh, long beans and tofu in a red chilli gravy, is the dish that tastes most like a home kitchen. Ayam masak merah is sweet, sticky and mild enough for kids.

If you come early, the lontong is the move: rice cakes in a pale sayur lodeh gravy with a spoon of sambal on top. It is breakfast food and it is gone by mid-morning.

The feel

Brighter and calmer than the original hawker stall: a clean corner unit with big windows, dark wooden tables and stools, and three mustard-yellow prints on the wall that say Homestyle Malay Delight. Quick service, a mix of workers from the surrounding offices and families who have clearly driven over on purpose. Nobody is trying to impress you. The food does that.

Worth knowing

Hours are short and it closes once things sell out, usually by early afternoon. Closed Sundays. Parking is easy at Harper Point compared with the original Holland Drive stall, which is the main reason to choose this branch.