CreatureS

Savour comfort on a plate at CREATURES, a modern-day café set in the culturally rich conservation area of Desker Road. Our hearty east-meets-west nosh comes with a twist – and without the MSG. We dish up irresistibly soothing comfort food with an Asian flair while staying true to the origins of the dish – all to make you feel both at home and in Eden. For over 20 years, the owners of CREATURES reinterpreted favourites, jazzing them up with an Asian flair. When CreatureS moved into their new home, CreatureS combined their love for cooking and tasteful interiors, and began inviting families and friends for intimate home dining experiences. With a passion for bringing out flavours through natural ingredients and experimenting with texture, the owners amassed a menu of their own creations after decades of thoughtful cooking. CREATURES brings that cosy home dining experience to all, with an aim to make the café a habitat of creature comforts. Desker Road, once Singapore’s oldest and notorious red-light district, is now home to old-time shopkeepers, adventurous backpackers, migrant workers, small modern offices and a myriad of back alleys. A key inspiration to CREATURES’ debut at Desker Road is to be an atmospheric dining enclave in the heart of this culturally rich conservation area. Desker Road, with its whiff of old-world charm, beckons one home.

CreatureS Location

CreatureS Maps
CreatureS Address 120 Desker Road, Singapore 209639
CreatureS Nearest MRT DT22 Jalan Besar MRT
CreatureS Website Website
CreatureS Phone +65 6291 6996
CreatureS Opening Hours Monday : Closed
Tuesday - Sunday : 12:00pm - 10:30pm
Friday & Saturday : 12:00pm - 11:30pm
CreatureS Food Price S$35 - S$60 per pax

CreatureS Menus

Vegetarian Mains Communal Starters Soup
Ceremoniously Caesar
Fresh baby romaine, 6-min egg, croutons, tossed in a rustic home-made caesar salad dressing
$16
Farmers Sweet Potato Fries
Crispy sweet potato fries, served with kaffir lime mayonnaise dip.
$13
Green Curry Vegetables & Butterfly Blue Pea Rice
Assorted local vegetable medley cooked in freshly prepared light green curry broth, served with fragrant steamed rice.
$24
Kyoto-Desker V Photo
Kyoto-Desker V
Cold tofu nestled on a freshly-blended century egg sauce laced with salted egg yolk, "pitan" bits and crispy lotus root silvers
$18
Truffled Mac N Quattro Formaggi Photo
Truffled Mac N Quattro Formaggi
Macaroni and sauteed mushrooms baked with coriander-infused bechamel sauce. Four cheeses - Parmesan, Aged Orange Cheddar, Gruyere and Mozzarella. Topped with herbed bread crumbs lawn and a drizzle of truffle oil, served with a side of lightly-blanched farmer's asparagus.
$24
Ah Gong Fried Chicken & Ah Ma Noodles
Crispy fried chicken leg with garam masala, served with chinchalok mayonnaise accompanied by la-mien tossed in fried shallot and light soy.
$24
Chinese Household Pasta Vongole
Linguine tossed with white angel clams sauteed with garlic, chilli padi, simmered in a hua tiao wine broth
$24
Creatures Crayfish Hokkien Mee
Royalty of local fare, wok fried noodles in rich fragrant prawn broth, served with fresh crayfish, tiger prawns and squid, topped with crispy pork lard, japanese tobikko(fish roe) and a side of home-made sambal belachan. *Available only on friday, saturday, sunday and public holidays
$30
Creatures Laksa Spicy Photo
Creatures Laksa Spicy
Quintessential nonya laksa, served with fresh prawns, quail eggs, chicken, fish cakes and cucumber laces simmered in a signature rich coconut laksa broth. A modern take on a traditional peranakan classic
$24
Crispy Chicken Rendang Mildly Spicy
Plump chicken thigh slow cooked in an heirloom home-made rendang recipe, coated with a crispy batter with lightly herbed spices, served with a side of butterfly blue pea coconut fragrant rice, nonya chup chye and egg omelette slice.
$23
Green Curry Barramundi & Butterfly Blue Pea Rice Mildly Spicy
Pan fried barramundi fillet with a bed of butterfly blue pea fragrant rice floated on freshly prepared light green curry paste, served with garden asparagus, baby snow peas, wild baby sprouts and garden cauliflowers florettes
$30
I Will Eat This Spicy Prawn Pasta Photo
I Will Eat This Spicy Prawn Pasta
Prawn Linguine tossed with gingery and garlicky brown butter, with chillies, garlic and coriander
$24
Miso Cod & Ulam Onigiri Photo
Miso Cod & Ulam Onigiri
Oven-roasted miso cod, belachan assam herb rice balls accompanied by cucumber salad in plum sauce and lime juice dressing
$40
Rendang Lamb Shank Photo
Rendang Lamb Shank
Lamb fore shank slow-braised in an heirloom home-made rendang recipe, served with lontong rice disc and grated coconut fried with medley of spices.
$34
Urban Baba Babi Pongteh Photo
Urban Baba Babi Pongteh
Slow-cooked pork belly in tao jio and assam gravy, served with nonya chup chye, green chilli and steamed rice, a traditional peranakan favourite comfort food.
$24
Urban Bibik Ayam Buah Keluah Photo
Urban Bibik Ayam Buah Keluah
Chicken stewed in an intense all-fresh-ingredient rempah and flesh of buah keluak, served with a ball of buah keluak flesh seperately sauteed with minced prawns and pork, nonya chup chye and steamed rice
$26
Baguette with French Butter
$5
Hainanese Chicken Rice Roll
Poached chicken and fragrant rice. Rolled with cucumber ribbons and rice paper, served with home-made chicken rice chilli, sesame soy sauce and spring onion-ginger dip.
$20
Ngoh Hiang & Cuttlefish Kueh Pie Tie Photo
Ngoh Hiang & Cuttlefish Kueh Pie Tie
Freshly homemade pork and prawn rolls fried to perfection, accompanied by cuttlefish turnip shreds in crispy cracker cups
$24
Truffle Fries
Shoe-string fries with truffle oil and parmesan cheese
$15
Ikan Bilis Caesar
Fresh baby romaine, 6-min egg, croutons, crispy ikan bilis(dried anchovies). Tossed in a rustic home-made caesar salad dressing, asian comtemporary twist to a salad classic.
$16
Kyoto-Desker Photo
Kyoto-Desker
Cold tofu nestled on a freshly-blended century egg sauce. Laced with salted egg yolk, "pitan" bits, crispy lotus root silvers and tobikko
$18
Roast Duck & Pear Photo
Roast Duck & Pear
Chinese roast duck and chinese pear silvers. Tossed in fresh butterhead lettuce with sweet plum sauce dressing, served with crispy prawn crackers(Keropok)
$18
Itek Tim
Classic Peranakan duck and salted vegetable soup. Boiled the old-fashioned way. Dedicated to creatures founder's Ah Ma.
$12

CreatureS Menu Recomendation

Durian Cake By CreatureS

Durian Cake

Ah Gong Fried Chicken And Ah Ma Noodles By CreatureS

Ah Gong Fried Chicken And Ah Ma Noodles

What people say about CreatureS

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4.8
8 reviews

  • Pork was done perfectly texture wise and this was a damn solid standard Babi pongteh for a restaurant that's known to switch things up

  • The Chap chye is damn good too with the prawn taste coming through

  • I prefer softer noodles though so this was right up my alley but if you like noodles with a bite which is what u usually expect from la mian

  • Crispy prata canapé with Peranakan flavors on top

  • It has fish maw mushroom dried oyster sea cucumber & some others veg topped with Lion Head (meatball)

  • As this dish is make up of so many good ingredients so you might find the sauce a bit sweet but it actually blend well when u have it with plain rice

  • The durian cake is soooooo good

  • The cake fills with lots of durian

Questions & Answers About CreatureS

  1. Take Downtown Line MRT
  2. Alight at DT22 Jalan Besar MRT
  3. Exit towards Exit B
  4. Walk about 329 meters from Exit B to CreatureS, walking time is around 6 mins.
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The nearest bus stop to CreatureS are
  • Opp Veerasamy Rd (bus stop no 07419) is 183 meters away around 4 mins walk, bus service no 23, 64, 65, 66, 66A, 66B, 67, 67W, 130, 139, 147, 857 will stop in this bus stop.
  • Bef Tai Hoe Hotel (bus stop no 07231) is 198 meters away around 4 mins walk, bus service no 21, 125, 130, 141 will stop in this bus stop.
  • Aft King George's Ave (bus stop no 07331) is 280 meters away around 5 mins walk, bus service no 130 will stop in this bus stop.
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