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
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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 — Harbourfront MRT, 2 minutes on foot · 1 HarbourFront Walk, #B2-36, VivoCity, Singapore 098585.
- Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.
The longer version
No longer read of this venue is published yet. The desk has assessed the public coverage behind this listing — 2 linked sources — and that assessment is set out 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 Japanese and Ramen listings from Forkin's own directory — cuisine first, never geography alone.
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Inside Kikanbo
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Official Instagram
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Common questions
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At a glance
Harbourfront1 HarbourFront Walk, #B2-36, VivoCity, Singapore 098585
Harbourfront MRT, 2 min
Opened 7 September 2025
Last verified 19 July 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence medium, last assessed 28 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Sourced from Kikanbo Ramen Singapore. Plus 1 official page. 2 sources in total.
Why Kikanbo scores 7.5
WORTH A LOOK · band 7.0–8.4 (base 7.5)
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 consensuslimited−0.15one/limited attributable source
- Critic calibreindependent0.00independent/blog-only attributable backing
- Praise specificityhigh+0.10multiple concrete dish/experience signals and supporting guide detail
- Consistencymoderate0.00generally favourable without a strong unanimity signal
- Evidence recencyrecent+0.00newest dated support is 2023–2024
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
WORTH A LOOK
Confidence: mediumForkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.
Two independent, exact-outlet, dated and attributable assessments of Kikanbo at VivoCity. Daniel Food Diary (2 Nov 2025) and Ah Boy Like Ramen (20 Sep 2025) both praise the broth's density and the noodle texture in specific terms, and both also record specific criticism — DFD finds the richness turns cloying partway through, Ah Boy finds the numbing spice fades. Source consensus is held at the limited tier because only two sources are countable, and consistency at moderate because neither source reads as unqualified. Both are independent enthusiast food sites rather than staffed mastheads with named critics, so critic calibre is held at the independent tier. This record supersedes the venue's previous UNRATED stamp.
Last assessed 28 August 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources
Linked evidence
Daniel Food Diary (danielfooddiary.com) · 2 November 2025Ah Boy Like Ramen (ahboylikeramen.com) · 20 September 2025Eatbook (eatbook.sg) · 25 August 2025 · contextCaveat: Only two countable sources — the floor of the standard, not a comfortable position. Eatbook's Kikanbo article (25 Aug 2025) is self-tagged as an advertisement and is therefore excluded entirely rather than held as context; a hosted or sponsored post cannot support a stamp. danielfooddiary.com served a captcha/bot wall on direct fetch during this pass; the DFD source was confirmed against a Wayback Machine capture of the article, not the live page.
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:
Grand Opening Alert! Tokyo's legendary Kikanbo spicy miso ramen is finally in Singapore, opening 7 Sep! · 2025-09-05Kikanbo Ramen Singapore – Spicy, Numbing Miso Ramen at VivoCityFacts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 19 July 2026.