A note on the words: bak kut teh is the Singaporean and Malaysian soup of pork ribs simmered in a peppery, herbal broth. Laksa is a noodle soup built on coconut milk and spice paste. Marunouchi is the office district between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace. Prices are as of this writing (August 2026).
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ANTHEMBLE by My Humble House on Tabelog (English) — opening hours, payment details and the Japanese address are kept up to date there, not here.
Hello, this is Hangover Meshi. This time, to the Singaporean restaurant “ANTHEMBLE by My Humble House” at Nijubashimae lol What a long name! It turned out to be on the third floor of the building behind the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum (Marunouchi Brick Square). Somehow it is a rather snugger shop than it looks on the website ^^
They showed me to a seat looking out over the courtyard.
The view is tremendous, but there is one thing — being on the third floor, I had the feeling I could be seen from below, which left me a little unsettled.
A toast with beer first!
Chili fried until crisp. It is not all that hot — if anything, it is like the sediment left at the bottom of a jar of chili oil? lol
The aroma of the chili is firmly there though, and as a snack it is delicious.
A salad where the sweetness and acidity of crab and citrus come through. Rather good, is it not.
A famous dish of Singapore. What sits in the sweetish house chili sauce is soft-shell crab.
Crab you can crunch through, shell and all, after it has molted! Since everyone says the chili sauce is so delicious, the correct move seems to be to scrape it up with this bread-like thing and eat it. Even eating the sauce on its own is good. I had it heaped generously over the crab.
The only Singaporean dishes I knew were roughly bak kut teh and Hainanese chicken rice, so — bak kut teh! A gentle flavor and delicious.
There used to be a bak kut teh shop in Akasaka too, but it has gone. Good stuff.
Laksa. Is it something like a curry?
A slightly spicy noodle dish on a coconut base. I have a vague feeling there used to be a laksa flavor of Cup Noodle, or perhaps not.
This creamy soup where coconut milk and spices come together is delicious! A distinctive flavor, the sort that stays in the memory. The noodles were relatively firm, so it is quite generous too. I filled myself up, thinking all the while that the soup alone would really have been enough.
I came to eat Singaporean food in the dead center of Tokyo, and the food itself is of course delicious, but the whole thing is pulled together in an elegant way, and “upscale Singaporean” may be the right image. If anything, a bar-like image fits it better, I think. I would like to eat rougher, more chaotic Singaporean food too. The view and the atmosphere are tremendous, so I recommend it!
ANTHEMBLE by My Humble House (Singaporean / Nijubashimae Station, Yurakucho Station, Tokyo Station)
Tabelog dinner rating ★★★☆☆ 3.4
I ate here and paid for it myself. Nothing on this site is a comped meal.
One more for the road?
