Worth it for / Skip if
Not on record yet. Clauses here are generated only from named fields — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and this venue carries too few of them to draw the line honestly. Nothing is inferred to fill the gap.
What it costs
No priced item is on record for this venue. Forkin publishes a price only where a dated public source carries it, so nothing is estimated here.
How to get a seat
No online booking channel is on record for this venue. Verified hours are not on record either, so call ahead before travelling.
What to expect
- Getting there — Clarke Quay MRT, 2 minutes on foot · 38 Carpenter Street, #01-01, Singapore 059917.
- Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.
The longer version
Two independent reviews published within weeks of each other in June 2026 both praise ASIN's progressive Asian tasting menu at its Carpenter Street premises, with no material criticism recorded. A CNA Lifestyle piece on the opening is held as announcement context rather than counted evidence.
What the published coverage says, assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked sources — not a personal dining review. Every source behind it is under How this was assessed.
Signature dishes
No dish is named for this venue in any source on record. Dishes are listed here only where an official source names them, so none are guessed from menus or reviews.
Opening hours
Day-by-day hours are not verified for this venue. Hours are published here only once a dated source has been read for the whole week, so a partial week is never shown as a full one.
If not this, then
Assessed Modern Asian and Fine Dining listings from Forkin's own directory — cuisine first, never geography alone.
- Same tier — Saint Pierre · FORKIN WORTH IT · Marina Bay · Raffles Place MRT
- A different call — Imperial Treasure Huaiyang Cuisine · WORTH A LOOK · Orchard · Orchard MRT
- Also on record — Behind Clay · WORTH A LOOK · Clarke Quay · Clarke Quay MRT
Inside ASIN
No rights-cleared photograph of this venue is on record. Forkin publishes a photograph only where provenance and permitted use are recorded against the file, and never republishes an image from a review, a social post or a search result.
Official Instagram
Official posts by @asin.sg on Instagram ↗. Forkin' Worth It does not host or reuse these images — displayed as links to Instagram's public posts only.
Common questions
No question can be answered from this venue's record yet. Answers here are generated from sourced fields only — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — so none is written where the field behind it is missing.
At a glance
Chinatown38 Carpenter Street, #01-01, Singapore 059917
Clarke Quay MRT, 2 min
Last verified 12 August 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 29 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Sourced from CNA Lifestyle (Facebook). Plus 2 official pages. 3 sources in total.
Why ASIN scores 9.2
FORKIN WORTH IT · band 8.5–9.5 (base 8.8)
The Forkin Evidence Score is a transparent calibration of the published evidence behind this venue's editorial stamp — not a personal dining rating, and never derived from Google data. It starts from the stamp's base value, applies the five evidence adjustments below, then clamps the result inside the stamp's band.
- Source consensusmoderate+0.05two independent attributable sources or some disagreement
- Critic calibreestablished+0.05established editorial food/lifestyle publication backing
- Praise specificityhigh+0.10multiple concrete dish/experience signals and supporting guide detail
- Consistencyhigh+0.10multiple sources and explicit broad/consistent agreement
- Evidence recencycurrent+0.05newest assessment, publication, or verification is 2025 onward
Scores are rounded to one decimal place and are only published for venues carrying an evidence-backed editorial stamp. Full rubric: Forkin Evidence Score methodology.
Editorial stamp
FORKIN WORTH IT
Confidence: mediumForkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.
Batch 50 re-verification confirms 2 dated, attributable, exact-outlet countable assessments (The Ranting Panda (therantingpanda.com) and The Honeycombers (thehoneycombers.com)). Their registered highest publisher calibre is established, not 'independent', so B46-R1 corrects criticCalibre to established and recomputes the score to 9.2. The existing FORKIN WORTH IT verdict remains supported by the record’s assessed evidence balance.
Last assessed 29 August 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources
Linked evidence
The Ranting Panda (therantingpanda.com) · 6 June 2026The Honeycombers (thehoneycombers.com) · 23 June 2026CNA Lifestyle (cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com) · contextCaveat: ASIN is a small, newly opened restaurant (chef Ace Tan, formerly of Asu) and coverage skews toward opening-period announcement pieces; a CNA Lifestyle article describing the concept and menu was found but reads as an opening announcement rather than an evaluative first-person review, so it is held as context only. No high-volume SEO-farm domains (eatdrinkasia.com, bestrestaurant.com.sg and similar) were found covering this venue; the two counted sources are established independent food/lifestyle blogs (The Ranting Panda, The Honeycombers), not thin programmatic content. A Time Out Singapore piece on ASIN exists but is excluded under the standing publisher-level ruling on Time Out Singapore. Identity check: 38 Carpenter Street, #01-01, Singapore 059917 confirmed against the Supabase listing 'asin-carpenter-street' (area Chinatown) and matches both counted sources.
How these stamps work · They are non-numerical and separate from Google Maps information.
Full source log
This opening record is backed by the following public sources:
Instagram (announcement) · 2026The Ranting Panda (Instagram) · 2026-06-07CNA Lifestyle (Facebook) · 2026Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 12 August 2026.