Head to B1. That is the short answer — the mall’s food is concentrated one level down, a short walk from the Paya Lebar MRT link, and it runs the range from Malay and Thai to Japanese and Taiwan street food. Most of it is counter-service, which matters when you have thirty minutes between a meeting and the next train. This guide covers what B1 is good for, when to go, and where we fit in it.
Why is B1 the floor to head for?
SingPost Centre sits right next to Paya Lebar MRT, an East West and Circle Line interchange, so the crowd here is a commuter crowd — people passing through rather than settling in. The basement is where that shows up in the food. Independent food writers who have walked the whole mall land on the same conclusion: the basement is the place to eat at SingPost Centre, with coffee kiosks, hawker-style stalls and full restaurants sharing the same corridor.
The practical consequence is that B1 is best treated as two different meals. Between 12pm and 2pm it is a lunch floor with queues. After 7pm it thins out and becomes a takeaway floor — the same stalls, no wait, food going into a bag rather than onto a tray.
What can you get in five minutes flat?
If you are catching a train, stay with anything fried to order or ladled from a pot. Rice bowls, noodles and fried snacks move fast because the components are already cooked and the counter just assembles them. What slows you down is anything grilled or plated at the table.
The other five-minute rule is to order the drink at the same counter as the food, if you can. Two queues is what turns a quick stop into a missed train.
Where we sit on B1
We are at 10 Eunos Road 8, #B1-155, Singapore 408600, open Mon–Sun 11:00–22:00. The kitchen is built around two things: Taiwan fried chicken and hand-shaken tea.
The chicken is four items, all $6.90 — Original Chicken, Extra Crispy Chicken, BBQ Chicken, and Taiwan Popcorn Chicken. A few specifics worth knowing before you order. We use chicken thigh rather than breast, because thigh holds the marinade and stays tender even when it is fried hard enough to get a shatter-thin shell. Each piece is fried fresh to order rather than batch-fried and held under a lamp, which is why there is a short wait at the counter and why the chicken is still steaming when you open the bag. And the Taiwan Popcorn Chicken is fried with basil leaves in the oil — that hit of basil aroma is the thing that makes 鹽酥雞 read as Taiwan night market rather than generic fried chicken. If you want the full picture on that dish, we wrote about salt and pepper fried chicken, or xian su ji separately.
On the drinks side, Brown Sugar Milk Tea ($3.90 M / $4.90 L) is the pairing we point people to first. The house blends are 1988 Milk Tea and Moon River Honey Jasmine Milk Tea, both $4.50 M / $5.50 L. If you want something to eat with a spoon instead, the Braised Chicken Rice Set is our Lu Rou Fan — braised chicken rather than pork, on rice.
That last point is the one people ask about most. All our food is prepared with no pork and no lard, and no beef either, which is why the Lu Rou Fan is built on chicken. We are not halal certified and we do not claim to be — the honest framing is a pork-free and lard-free kitchen, made for everyone to enjoy. We answer that question in full in our note on whether I Love Taimei is halal.
We have been women-owned since 2009 — Phoebe Wang, who has run I Love Taimei since then, co-runs the business with Yadah — and SingPost Centre is one of 14 outlets island-wide. The full outlet list is here if you are closer to another one.
Common questions
What time does the food at SingPost Centre B1 close? It varies by stall. Ours is open 11:00 to 22:00 every day, which covers a late dinner but not a proper supper run.
Is SingPost Centre connected to Paya Lebar MRT? It is directly beside the station, which is an East West and Circle Line interchange. From the platform it is a short walk, and B1 is one level down from the main entrance.
Is the food at I Love Taimei SingPost Centre halal? No — we are not halal certified. What we can tell you plainly is that there is no pork and no lard anywhere in the kitchen, including the frying oil, and no beef on the menu. Whether that is enough is your call to make, not ours.
Is B1 workable on a lunch break? Yes, if you go before 12pm or after 1:30pm. In the middle of that window the queues at the popular counters will eat most of a 45-minute break.
Can you order ahead instead of queueing? Yes — ordering online for pickup is the reliable way around the lunch rush.
Come by #B1-155 the next time you are passing through Paya Lebar, or find your nearest outlet first.
Taste it for yourself — 14 outlets island-wide. No pork, no lard.
