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 — Farrer Park MRT, 4 minutes on foot · 180 Kitchener Rd, #04-31/32 City Square Mall, Singapore 208539.
- Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.
The longer version
Kok Sen's second outlet sits on the fourth floor of City Square Mall, a Michelin Bib Gourmand zi char name transplanted from Keong Saik Road into a food-court-like unit. The single countable assessment is unenthusiastic: it found the signature Golden Dragon Chicken lacked the crispness it craved, the big prawn thick beehoon broth short on depth and decidedly average, and the deep-fried yu gai bland without its sauce, with only the roasted pork in black sauce judged a highlight. Its conclusion is that the branch may serve as a decent introduction for newcomers but will disappoint anyone who knew the original.
What the published coverage says, assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 1 linked source — 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 Singaporean and Zi Char listings from Forkin's own directory — cuisine first, never geography alone.
- Same tier — New Ubin Seafood (CHIJMES) · MIXED FORKS · CHIJMES · City Hall MRT
- A different call — 328 Katong Laksa · FORKIN WORTH IT · Katong · Marine Parade MRT
- Also on record — Chin Mee Chin Confectionery (NEX) · WORTH A LOOK · Serangoon · Serangoon MRT
Inside Kok Sen Restaurant (City Square Mall)
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Official Instagram
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Common questions
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At a glance
Farrer Park180 Kitchener Rd, #04-31/32 City Square Mall, Singapore 208539
Farrer Park MRT, 4 min
Opened 11 January 2025
Last verified 19 July 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 1 linked substantive source, at confidence low, last assessed 24 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Sourced from SethLui and Asia361. 2 sources in total.
Why Kok Sen Restaurant (City Square Mall) scores 5.7
MIXED FORKS · band 5.5–6.9 (base 6.0)
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 calibreestablished+0.05established editorial food/lifestyle publication backing
- Praise specificitylow−0.10principally generic praise
- Consistencylow−0.15mixed stamp, explicit caveats, or material contrary signals
- 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
MIXED FORKS
Confidence: lowForkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.
Batch 52 re-verification confirms 1 dated, attributable, exact-outlet countable assessment (Asia361 (asia361.com)), each re-read live this pass. Their registered highest publisher calibre is established, not 'independent', so B46-R1 corrects criticCalibre to established and recomputes the score to 5.7. The existing MIXED FORKS verdict remains supported by the record’s assessed evidence balance.
Last assessed 24 August 2026 · 1 linked substantive source
Linked evidence
Asia361 (asia361.com) · 22 January 2025SG Food on Foot (sgfoodonfoot.com) · 22 February 2025 · contextCaveat: Positive counterpoint is an invited tasting and cannot support approval; independence/disclosure of the critical source remains unresolved. Re-verified 24 August 2026: the Asia361 review is live, bylined, dated and exact-outlet, and the stamp rests on it alone. Re-assessment 24 August 2026: source consensus corrected from moderate to limited on a single countable source; the score fell from 5.9 to 5.7 and the stamp is retained only under the disclosed one-source provisional route. Slug check 24 August 2026: the stamp slug does not match the public URL. The live listing is /restaurants/kok-sen-city-square-mall (HTTP 200), not the stamp slug kok-sen-restaurant-city-square-mall, which 404s. The venue is correctly present in the derived rankings under the live slug, so this is a stamp-slug naming divergence rather than an orphan. Flagged for the alias map.
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:
SethLui · 2025-01-20Asia361Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 19 July 2026.