Proud, Never Boastful
We state what we have. We do not oversell it. Forty years of collecting speaks without embellishment.
Level 2, Orchard Towers · Singapore 238875
Level 2, Orchard Towers · Singapore 238875
Our Story
Forty years of collecting. One room to share it.
Our Founder
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Chef · Collector · Philanthropist · and the man who opened his home to Singapore.
Raymond learned to cook watching his grandmother. He learned to collect by haunting the antique lanes of Malacca, Penang, and Batavia for four decades. He learned what community means from forty years of running the Saturday Movement — feeding Singapore’s most vulnerable seniors long before it was fashionable to care.
The Peranakan Club is the convergence of all three. A kitchen that has never needed a consultant. A museum that took forty years to fill. A business whose primary purpose is to fund someone else’s dinner.
Together with Janet Khoo, Raymond runs an institution that refuses every category it is placed in. Not a restaurant. Not a gallery. Not a charity event. All three — simultaneously — at Level 2, Orchard Towers.
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We chose it deliberately. Not despite its reputation — because of what it represents.
The Peranakan Club is part of the building’s cultural renaissance. Where the ground floor once belonged to the night, the second floor now belongs to heritage. The entrance has pintu pagar swing doors. You will know it immediately.
What We Stand For
We state what we have. We do not oversell it. Forty years of collecting speaks without embellishment.
Never “traditional recipes” — always Nasi Ulam Dulu Kala, twenty-two herbs, hand-shredded. The detail is the respect.
The artefacts are not behind glass. You eat off nyonyaware. You sit beneath a chandelier from a colonial estate. This is the whole point.
The Collection
A Timeline
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The Saturday Movement founded — hot meals for Singapore’s most vulnerable seniors.
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Baba Raymond begins four decades of Peranakan artefact collection across Malacca, Penang, and Batavia.
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The collection outgrows the family home. A living museum is conceived.
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The Peranakan Club opens at Level 2, Orchard Towers — the museum you can eat inside.
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Registered as a social enterprise with raiSE Singapore.
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Kebaya Bar launches in partnership with Brass Lion Distillery.
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The Atelier prepares to open — carrying a little heritage home.