Circular Dragon Pte Ltd
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About Circular Dragon Pte Ltd
Dragon Chamber
When you arrive looking for The Dragon Chamber, you will find yourself at the entrance of a kopitiam with the Chinese words “Long Tang” where a hostess receives you, just like any other restaurant or cafe. “This must be the place,” you say to yourself. The hostess then gestures you toward the beer fridge as if to offer you a drink. But instead of pulling out an icy cold beer, the fridge door opens up into a passageway of psychedelic lights and visuals like something out of a real-life Alice in Wonderland. “This is where you must continue alone,” says the hostess, as the cabinet door opens into a disorienting passageway that transports you into the braised underbelly of the “Long Tang” that is The Dragon Chamber.
Things are not always as they appear. Secretly located within a brightly coloured kopitiam, The Dragon Chamber is a speakeasy style restaurant and bar. What may look like a regular beer fridge in a kopitiam is actually a secret door that opens up into its own inner recesses. Reminiscent of Chinatown gambling dens and secret society hangouts, the dim walls of Dragon Chamber are covered with artwork from local art collectives such as Tell Your Children and Sabotage referencing past and recent Chinese culture from a globalist, counter-culture point of view.
Dragon Chamber offers an unconventional menu serving “guerillastyle” food, representing dishes that are not typical banquet style Chinese food. Among its own wild concoctions from Dragon Chamber’s test kitchen, the underground restaurant also brings back age-old Chinese dishes that never caught on in mainstream restaurants, because of unconventional ingredients. Yet the flavors are immense. Contrasting lovable Chinese-American recipes, Dragon Chamber pushes the diner’s comfort zone with adventurous dishes that may even shock diners with unusual Chinese techniques of nose-to-tail animal preparation.
One such dish is the Dragon’s Claw. Touted as one of the restaurant’s signature dishes, it features a crocodile foot braised in Chinese herbs, served on a bed of kale and a literal ring of fire. Bearing a taste similarly close to chicken, the meat is tender and sweet.Its skin is painstakingly descaled with a torch, revealing a thick and rich layer of collagen that coats the succulent herb-marinated meat with a soft and sticky texture, adding a consistent mouthfeel to every bite. If crocodile foot and mammal innards might be too adventurous for some, we also offer more conventional favourites such as Smoked Bakkwa Salad and Wagyu Truffle HorFun.
Not a space for political correctness and mellow elevator music, the restaurant recommends not bringing your church pastor or any overtly conservative in-laws you might have. Make your way down to The Dragon Chamber, we dare you to enter the bowels of Chinese cuisine to discover your true gastronomic self.
When you arrive looking for The Dragon Chamber, you will find yourself at the entrance of a kopitiam with the Chinese words “Long Tang” where a hostess receives you, just like any other restaurant or cafe. “This must be the place,” you say to yourself. The hostess then gestures you toward the beer fridge as if to offer you a drink. But instead of pulling out an icy cold beer, the fridge door opens up into a passageway of psychedelic lights and visuals like something out of a real-life Alice in Wonderland. “This is where you must continue alone,” says the hostess, as the cabinet door opens into a disorienting passageway that transports you into the braised underbelly of the “Long Tang” that is The Dragon Chamber.
Things are not always as they appear. Secretly located within a brightly coloured kopitiam, The Dragon Chamber is a speakeasy style restaurant and bar. What may look like a regular beer fridge in a kopitiam is actually a secret door that opens up into its own inner recesses. Reminiscent of Chinatown gambling dens and secret society hangouts, the dim walls of Dragon Chamber are covered with artwork from local art collectives such as Tell Your Children and Sabotage referencing past and recent Chinese culture from a globalist, counter-culture point of view.
Dragon Chamber offers an unconventional menu serving “guerillastyle” food, representing dishes that are not typical banquet style Chinese food. Among its own wild concoctions from Dragon Chamber’s test kitchen, the underground restaurant also brings back age-old Chinese dishes that never caught on in mainstream restaurants, because of unconventional ingredients. Yet the flavors are immense. Contrasting lovable Chinese-American recipes, Dragon Chamber pushes the diner’s comfort zone with adventurous dishes that may even shock diners with unusual Chinese techniques of nose-to-tail animal preparation.
One such dish is the Dragon’s Claw. Touted as one of the restaurant’s signature dishes, it features a crocodile foot braised in Chinese herbs, served on a bed of kale and a literal ring of fire. Bearing a taste similarly close to chicken, the meat is tender and sweet.Its skin is painstakingly descaled with a torch, revealing a thick and rich layer of collagen that coats the succulent herb-marinated meat with a soft and sticky texture, adding a consistent mouthfeel to every bite. If crocodile foot and mammal innards might be too adventurous for some, we also offer more conventional favourites such as Smoked Bakkwa Salad and Wagyu Truffle HorFun.
Not a space for political correctness and mellow elevator music, the restaurant recommends not bringing your church pastor or any overtly conservative in-laws you might have. Make your way down to The Dragon Chamber, we dare you to enter the bowels of Chinese cuisine to discover your true gastronomic self.
