Worth it for / Skip if
Worth it for — a table you can lock in — seats are booked through SevenRooms; arriving by train — the record puts it 3 minutes on foot from City Hall MRT.
Skip if — you are deciding at the door: the record carries a booking route, not a walk-in policy.
Every clause above is drawn from a named field in this venue's record — a published price, a booking route, the verified hours — and nothing else.
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
- Book through SevenRooms .
- Mon–Sun — 11.00am - 1.00am (last order 11:30pm)
- Online pick up/delivery — 11.30am - 11:30pm daily
last seating times, deposit and cancellation terms and party-size limits are not on record for this venue — ask when you book.
What to expect
- Getting there — City Hall MRT, 3 minutes on foot · 30 Victoria Street, #02-01 B/C, Singapore 187996.
- Dietary requests, dress code and group size — not on record. Ask when you book.
The longer version
New Ubin Seafood's CHIJMES outlet is the city-centre branch of the zi char restaurant that moved from Sin Ming to Hillview, seating large groups in a second-floor room off the CHIJMES courtyard. The single countable assessment is unfavourable: it found the KL-style hokkien mee's gravy good with real wok hei but the satay overly charred and the salted-egg pork chop competent but unmemorable, judged the pricing high for zi char, called the service chaotic and inattentive, and answered its own return question with a reassuring no.
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. The venue's own summary reads: {"mon-sun": "11.00am - 1.00am (last order 11:30pm)", "online_pick-up/delivery": "11.30am - 11:30pm daily"}. 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 — Kok Sen Restaurant (City Square Mall) · MIXED FORKS · Farrer Park · Farrer Park 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
Nearby
Inside New Ubin Seafood (CHIJMES)
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
No official Instagram account is on record for this venue yet.
Common questions
How do I book New Ubin Seafood (CHIJMES)?
Bookings are taken through SevenRooms at https://www.sevenrooms.com/reservations/newubinseafoodchijmes?venues=newubinseafoodchijmes. Last seating times, deposit and cancellation terms and party-size limits are not on record — confirm them when you book.
At a glance
CHIJMES30 Victoria Street, #02-01 B/C, Singapore 187996
City Hall MRT, 3 min
Mon–Sun11.00am - 1.00am (last order 11:30pm)Online pick up/delivery11.30am - 11:30pm daily
Last verified 17 August 2026
How this was assessed
This listing was assessed by the Forkin editorial desk from 2 linked substantive sources, at confidence low, last assessed 24 August 2026. The full scoring breakdown and every source is below.
Official pages only — no independent coverage on record. 3 sources in total.
Why New Ubin Seafood (CHIJMES) scores 5.5
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 calibreindependent0.00independent/blog-only attributable backing
- Praise specificitylow−0.10principally generic praise
- Consistencylow−0.15mixed stamp, explicit caveats, or material contrary signals
- Evidence recencydated−0.10newest dated support is before 2023 or unavailable
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.
One countable exact-outlet assessment survives re-verification: The Ranting Panda's dated 8 April 2018 self-funded visit to the CHIJMES level-two outlet, which is specific, carries no hosting disclosure and reaches an unfavourable verdict of 2.5/5 overall. That single negative verdict supports MIXED FORKS and nothing higher. Three factors move this pass: source consensus falls from moderate to limited on one countable source, evidence recency falls from current to dated because the only countable source is nearly eight years old, and praise specificity falls from high to low because the specific content of the source is criticism rather than praise. The score falls from 6.1 to 5.5, the floor of the MIXED FORKS band.
Last assessed 24 August 2026 · 2 linked substantive sources
Linked evidence
DanielFoodDiary (danielfooddiary.com) · 7 April 2018The Ranting Panda (therantingpanda.com) · 8 April 2018Caveat: Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition is tied to the original Sin Ming/Hillview Avenue outlet, not the CHIJMES branch, and is therefore excluded as exact-outlet evidence. Both located reviews date to shortly after the CHIJMES branch's 2018 opening; no more recent independent editorial evaluation of this branch was found. Re-assessment 24 August 2026: source consensus lowered from moderate to limited, evidence recency from current to dated, and praise specificity from high to low — the sole countable source is a specific but unfavourable 2018 verdict. The score fell from 6.1 to 5.5, the floor of the MIXED FORKS band. The stamp now rests on a single countable source that is nearly eight years old and negative. If no current independent assessment of this outlet emerges, the next pass should consider withdrawal rather than a further downward re-score.
How these stamps work · They are non-numerical and separate from Google Maps information.
Full source log
This listing is backed by the following public sources:
New Ubin Seafood official CHIJMES outlet page · 2026-08-17New Ubin Seafood official brand story · 2026-08-17New Ubin Seafood official website · 2026-08-17Facts, opening hours and social profiles can change. Confirm current details directly with the venue before visiting. Record last verified 17 August 2026.