With a $23.8 million price tag, Hougang’s Coffee Express 2000 is easily Singapore’s biggest “kopitiam” deal
$23.8 million – is this way too much? Well, for a 4,025 sq ft coffee shop with a total of 17 stalls, real estate experts believe that if the Coffee Express 2000 is a worthy investment, $23.8 million is still considered “reasonable”. But we bet you’re not here for property talk. You’re properly wondering what’s good to eat at this million dollar kopitiam!
At Coffee Express 2000, you’ll find award-winning stalls, media-recommended grub and famous names such as Pontian Wanton Noodle
If you’re not a “native” to Hougang, finding your way here might be a bit of a challenge. If you walk in from the main road, you’ll probably come across at least two coffee shops, which might confuse you a bit. For easy navigation, this coffee shop is located at Block 682 along the fringe of Avenue 4 (you’ll see Avenue 8 right across the street).
Sure, the Coffee Express 2000 may be an ordinary-looking kopitiam, but believe it or not, plenty of its 17 stalls have been touted noteworthy by the media (mainly Channel 8 TV programmes) and many of them boast culinary awards and certifications.
The tze char-style seafood stall at the corner of the kopitiam (Seafood Kimly) has pictures of famous celebrity Kim Ng – who visited the stall for a TV programme – plastered just below its signboard. Must-try dishes include the curry fish head, fried prawns, chilli crab and Fu Zhou pig’s trotter.
A bowl of prawn noodles with pig tail from the well-known Geylang Prawn Noodle stall (top); tasty kway chap from the Duck Rice-Kway Chap stall (bottom)
In the mood for some a la carte dishes instead? There are plenty of award-winning choices to pick from. Follow the long queues (that’s how you sniff out the best food in kopitiams, right?) and bite into a plate of white carrot cake at Hai Sheng Fried Carrot Cake for breakfast ($2.50 or $3), super affordable $2.20 nasi lemak (lovin’ the chicken wings) at the Economical Delight stall, or belly-warming soupy creations such as the $3.50 kway chap at the Duck Rice-Kway Chap stall, or delish prawn mee ($4+) from Geylang Prawn Noodle.
Maybe after giving all these dishes a go, you'll also learn to see why $23.8 million isn't so bad after all!
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