Tipo — Singapore's halal-friendly fresh pasta group. Handcrafted pasta, pizza and gnocchi at Tipo Pasta Bar and Tipo Strada.

Somewhere between a late deadline and an early flight, a question stuck: why do we queue for yong tau foo and nasi padang — picking exactly what we want — yet order pasta off someone else’s fixed menu? In 2018, Tipo opened as the answer: a pasta counter run the Singaporean way. Choose your fresh-extruded shape. Choose your sauce. Stack the toppings you actually want.

“What if fresh pasta could be picked the way we pick yong tau foo?”

Eight years on, the ritual hasn’t changed — pasta is still extruded every morning, never dried, never outsourced. What’s grown is the family: the original counters at Aliwal and Waterloo, and Strada’s Asian-Italian dining rooms across town. Homegrown, halal-friendly, and unapologetically local.