How Singapore Burmese restaurant Club Rangoon smashes stigmas with its ‘playful’ dishes

Nine months after Club Rangoon closed its doors in Hong Kong, it has returned – albeit in a different city.

The contemporary Burmese restaurant opened in Singapore’s trendy Duxton area in August, marking Hong Kong-based hospitality group Common Abode’s expansion into Southeast Asia.

The relocation feels more like a homecoming, however, to the group’s co-founder Nelson Htoo.

“I first moved to Singapore when I was 13 and spent high school and middle school here, before heading to London for university,” he says.

Club Rangoon’s co-founder Nelson Htoo. Photo: Club Rangoon
Htoo’s fondest memories of Singapore are of food, particularly eating chicken rice with his schoolmates at round tables in hawker centres. With his mother and stepmother living in Singapore, moving Club Rangoon means being closer to family.

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