Place: Yishun
Address: Sembawang Road (Beside Drive-thru Mac)
Features: Baked Rice, One Pax steamboat, HK Dim Sum, Chinese Food, Western Food
USP / Must try: Baked rice, One Pax steamboat, Pork cutlet
Description: The cafe is rather remotely located along the stretch of shop along sembawang road. Therefore, it may not be heard of widely by many people. Still i considered this find as a gem among stones. The entirely area is aircon (think HK cafe style) and the cafe setting is rather simple. Posters on the walls, some decorations at the coutner, old magazine at the entrance for you to read while waiting. Not too much of a posh kind of setting, which does it really matter that much? Not to me. Let's move on to the food.
Personally, I have been there a few times and the food there is rather consistently good in the taste department. Ordered baked on two occasion and concluded that it is a must try item for people who like cheese. One of the only 2 baked rice shop that I have found to have sufficent cheese for cheese lover like me. The other one, by the way, is at Swensen Thomson Plaza. I particularly like the Fish baked rice with mushroom cream (app $8). The rice is fragrant while the creamy sauce mixed with rice taste fantastic. Fish served is also cut into appropriate size.
The tomato soup based steamboat soup ($9.80) with a choice of either mixed meat or seafood is another dish you have to order. They call it the one person steamboat 一人火锅. I ordered the meat one and beside sliced meat, it is served with assorted vege and egg, noodles and such. Of course, for steamboat, it is up to you to customise the taste and to me, the soup based goes very well with the meat. Adding soup is a must.
For a HK cafe, they serve western food as well and very good western food in fact. I ordered Pork Cutlet with black pepper sauce and it comes served with 2 big pieces of pork cutlet, some pasta, fries and the heated black pepper sauce separated in a metal bowl. The pork cutlet is not only big piece but also thick enough to ensure biteness feeling is there. Separated black pepper sauce also let you choose how much (or how little) black pepper sauce you served on your meat.
Comments: The cafe is not usually crowded even on weekends. Reason being geographically yishun is out of range for most people unless you live the north. Even if you manage to drive here, there are not readily available parking lots around. The nearest is the HDB carpark across the road of the private housing estate behind the cafe. Both of which are about 200m away from the cafe, not a pleasant news for singaporean drivers.
Cafe is opened till 1am daily, therefore if you are in the north happen to be looking for places to eat, this could be one of them
Price: I find the price reasonable and to some extent cheap for a cafe / restaurant setting. There is GST but no service charge.
Rating: 4 / 5 Most of the food are that good.
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