Finally had the chance to try the waffle. Ice cream flavor I chose pistachio and chocolate orange. The waffle is nice, a bit expensive though. Did not really like the chocolate orange flavor though. Should hv stick to earl grey. Waffle will be served in 2 pieces. It's made on the spot so its served warm. You help yourself to the plain water inside the cafe itself. My bill was $10.80.

Anyway there are two tables outside the cafe with one of the table expandable to fit more people if needed. Smokers will like it.

They seem to hv shifted all operations to the corner bigger unit. New signages are also seen, shouting out more of the steam fish offering. It's a change for the better actually as the place is now brighter and more seats under shelter. There is also a nice basin for hand washing.

But all this came with a price. The mee sua no longer comes in 2 sizes but 3 now. $5, $7 and $10. I was still under the impression of the old pricing of $5 and $6 so I ordered the large one and was slapped with the $10 bowl bill. Compared to my friend's small bowl $5 we certainly did not feel it justifies twice the price.

Anyway we shared a plate of sambal potato leaf $9. Suggest to order two $5 bowl instead if u want more.

But like I say u love and hate them, the herbal soup base is one of the best to have especially on a rainy day. Together with the red cut chilli padi, it's damn good

Parking is always a challenge in this region but its free parking after 5pm though. We parked near the indian provision shops area and walked down instead. This coffeeshop interior has been given new reinforcement in the form of steel support beams etc, probably with the concern of caving in due to the site works just nearby?

Anyway to the food, there were 5 of us and qty ordered below was just nice.

we ordered the large crispy vermicelli $18, one baby cabbage with fried hay bee shrimps $10, one steamed kampung chicken with wolf-berry $14 and one thai style pig trotter $22. The chao ta bee hoon came looking like Korean pancake actually with some green scallion, beanspouts and fored pork lard on top. It taste good, i like this style better that the toa payoh bai meefen, its slightly moist not not overly wet. The fried mini shrimps for the vege were bigger than normal, it went went with the nai bai chye. The wolfberry chicken reminds me of home-cooked style dish, i like the sauce though i find it a little too oiy, also it seems like this dish is a pre frozen one then heated up upon demand. The pig trotter was good not fatty, the only fatty part felt more like collagen. The skin is mostly crispy and dipped in the thai style chilli, it rivals that of german pork knuckle.

Drove by the area and saw this Balestier market place is opened after closing for renovations for months. Glad that the reno made the place brighter and airier. Not many stalls were opened yet but King's Roast caught my eye with its roasted meat selection, and of coz the cute looking logo. I had a hard time deciding between roast duck, sesame char siew, normal char siew, sio bak, white chic, roast chick and oil chicken. Settled for roast duck and char siew combination ($5) in the end as it was gleaming and shinning well . I also had a $4 dumpling soup to go along. The meat was the lean type which I like, very well roasted. But I felt the sauce could be better improved to match the nicely roasted duck and char siew. Fortunately the meats were good on its own. Do hope they improve on that. 

My dumpling bowl came in six nicely wrapped sacks, perfect to go with my rice dish as mains. It's cooked with xiao bai chye which for once I get a stalk and not just a few pieces like others. They also had a bit of pork lard added to enhance the flavor which I sneakily ate it with my rice (I'm supposed to be on diet )


I certainly want to try their Thai style toufu next time, it was placed behind the chef and its sheer size attracted me 

Newly opened for 2 weeks, decided to try them out. They have made this coffeeshop brighter kit up than before.As I was alone I could only evaluate their food based on individual portion dish. I've always like to use hor fun as a benchmark. Waiting time was impressive with my hor fun served in less than 4minutes. It look overly starchy from its look but I was pleasantly surprised with its taste. The kway teow was nicely pan fried before hand, fish cakes were thicker than most places and sauce was perfect. I slurp up all the sauce for the hor fun in he end. For only $3.50 I give this the thumbs up. Hopefully can bring my folks here next time to do a more extensive food testing.