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There is a particular kind of exhaustion that sets in at the end of a long weekday. You want a proper meal, ideally something warm, balanced and comforting. What you may not want is the planning that comes before it: deciding what to cook, checking what is left in the fridge, making a grocery run and then spending the evening in the kitchen.
When Tsuklio recently sent me a selection of its meals to try, that tension felt immediately familiar. I genuinely loved the dishes. They offered the kind of comforting, home-style experience that feels especially welcome on a busy day, without requiring the usual effort behind a home-cooked dinner.
That balance between convenience and a sense of everyday nourishment is precisely where Tsuklio hopes to find its place in Singapore. The Japanese home-cooked meal subscription service has officially launched here as its first overseas market, bringing a model that has already served more than 30 million meals across 46 prefectures in Japan.
A different proposition from the usual takeaway
Tsuklio is operated by Antway Inc., a Tokyo-based food-tech company founded in November 2018. The service was previously known as Tsukurioki.jp before being rebranded as Tsuklio in March 2026 as part of the company’s international growth plans.
Its proposition is relatively straightforward. Instead of positioning itself as another on-demand food delivery option or a meal kit that still requires cooking, Tsuklio delivers freshly prepared Japanese home-style meals on a weekly subscription basis. The meals are chilled, never frozen, and prepared daily in a central kitchen under the supervision of registered dietitians.
The menu draws from more than 100 rotating recipes, spanning classic Japanese dishes, Chinese-inspired flavours and Western-influenced options. This variety is important in a market such as Singapore, where households are already accustomed to eating across cuisines and may not necessarily want the same type of meal every evening.
For its Singapore launch, Tsuklio is introducing a household plan priced at SGD 211 per week. Each weekly delivery includes three meals with four servings per meal, making the plan suitable for a family of three to four people. Subscribers can also skip or change deliveries and cancel their plans according to their schedules.
Why Singapore was selected as the first overseas market
Singapore is not simply a new delivery location for the company. It is also intended to serve as a launchpad for Tsuklio’s wider regional expansion.
Before entering the market, the company conducted online quantitative studies, qualitative interviews and a four-week test-marketing programme in March 2025 with a local food and beverage partner. The pilot involved 70 participants and, according to the company, demonstrated strong weekly order rates and high retention despite the premium price point.
The launch also attracted more than 3,000 registrations of interest ahead of its official debut. For Tsuklio, these signals suggested demand among urban households looking for a more practical way to manage everyday meals.
“In Singapore, we noticed that many families and busy professionals are constantly juggling work, home and personal commitments and mealtimes often become one more thing to manage,” said Kei Maejima, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Antway Inc. “Tsuklio was created to bring back the joy of sitting down to a comforting, delicious yet nutritious home-cooked meal without the stress of planning, grocery shopping or spending hours in the kitchen.”
A Japanese model with a substantial track record
While meal subscriptions are not new, Tsuklio arrives with a sizeable operating history in Japan. Alongside the more than 30 million meals served across 46 prefectures, the company reported JPY 8.6 billion in gross merchandise value for the financial year ending January 2026. The number of meals provided also increased by 64 per cent compared with the same month of the previous year, based on figures recorded in April 2025.
The company’s central-kitchen approach is core to its model. Meals are prepared daily with a focus on consistent nutrition, flavour and quality. In Singapore, Tsuklio says it will implement checks covering ingredient sourcing, supplier selection and kitchen processes in line with local regulatory requirements.
Antway Inc. has also established ANTWAY SINGAPORE PTE. LTD., which was incorporated in September 2025 as the base for its international expansion. Beyond household subscriptions, the company is exploring partnerships, franchise opportunities and corporate meal programmes across the region, particularly with operators that already have central-kitchen infrastructure.
Making convenience feel a little more thoughtful
Singapore residents already have no shortage of options when it comes to ordering food. What Tsuklio is offering is slightly different: a way to reduce the mental load of weekday meals while still retaining some of the comfort associated with sitting down to a proper dinner at home.
That distinction may matter. Convenience is not always about getting food as quickly as possible. Sometimes, it is about removing a recurring task from an already crowded schedule without making the meal itself feel like an afterthought.
Having tried the meals, I can see the appeal. The dishes felt comforting and satisfying, but the real value was the ease of knowing that a proper meal was already taken care of. For busy households, that small shift could make weekday evenings feel noticeably more manageable.
Tsuklio’s latest menus and subscription details are available at sg.tsuklio.com. Updates are also available through Tsuklio Singapore on Instagram at @tsuklio.sg and on Facebook at Tsuklio.sg.
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