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restaurantChinese · Hokkien · FujianOpened 13 weeks ago

LINKUS (Takashimaya)

2026 opening record. Confirm current status

A Fujian/Minnan restaurant chain from China has opened its second Singapore outlet (after Suntec City) at Takashimaya, serving dishes like Fujian Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and Quanzhou Ginger Duck with Abalone.

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

  • Halal — Muslim-friendly on the record for this venue.
  • Getting there — Orchard MRT, 5 minutes on foot · 391 Orchard Road, #04-22, Takashimaya Shopping Centre, Singapore 238872.
  • Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you call ahead.

The longer version

Miss Tam Chiak's firsthand review of the Takashimaya outlet specifically (own photography, named favourite dish) is the only qualifying independent exact-outlet evaluation found. Daniel Food Diary's firsthand visit was to the separate Suntec City branch and does not transfer under the shared-brand-name rule. EatBook's Takashimaya piece uses restaurant-supplied imagery throughout and reads as a press-supplied announcement rather than an independent review. With only one countable source, this is recorded as a provisional, low-confidence WORTH A LOOK stamp.

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.

The official menu

No official menu is on record for this venue. Forkin transcribes a menu only from the venue's own published source, never from a review or an aggregator listing.

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.

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Photographs

Inside LINKUS (Takashimaya)

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Official Instagram

Latest from @linkus_singapore

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Common questions

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At a glance

Orchard391 Orchard Road, #04-22, Takashimaya Shopping Centre, Singapore 238872

Orchard MRT, 5 min

Opened 23 July 2026

Halal: Muslim-friendly

Last verified 24 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 10 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.

Sourced from Eatbook. One source in total.

Why LINKUS (Takashimaya) 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 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

WORTH A LOOK

Confidence: low

Forkin desk assessment of attributable public coverage — not a personal dining review.

Provisional low-confidence stamp based on a single qualifying substantive exact-outlet evaluation from misstamchiak.com, an established independent Singapore food blog, with specific first-hand dish-level praise for the Takashimaya outlet. Two other candidate sources are excluded: Daniel Food Diary's firsthand visit was to the separate Suntec City branch (a different exact outlet, only briefly mentioning the Takashimaya opening), and Eatbook.sg's Takashimaya piece uses restaurant-supplied photography ('Image credit: LINKUS') throughout with no indication of an independent visit, reading as a press-supplied opening announcement.

Last assessed 10 August 2026 · 1 linked substantive source

Caveat: Single-source basis: only one countable independent source was found for the exact Takashimaya outlet; this stamp is provisional per the evidence standard's single-source low-confidence allowance and should be revisited if independent second-source coverage of this specific outlet emerges. misstamchiak.com's sponsorship/hosting status was not independently resolved; the piece was published during the outlet's grand-opening promotional period (no explicit disclosure found either way). Daniel Food Diary's Suntec City branch review is NOT exact-outlet evidence for this Takashimaya listing and was excluded per the shared-brand-name rule.

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Full source log

This opening record is backed by the following public sources:

Eatbook

Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 24 July 2026.

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