Cafes around Keong Saik Street

My friends and I have been working in the city center, and decided to visit Keong Saik Street to check out all the new hipster and indie cafes that just opened up. There are the cafes Orange Thimble, Whisk, Drips Bakery, Tiong Bahru Bakery and also Tiong Bahru market. Very very exciting.

Today we decided to go to Orange Thimble for their famous ice-cream. Wanted to order the coffee ribs but they were sold out! So we ordered the oxtail stew with rice and salad. The oxtail was great, it was cartilaginous and had a great meat:proteinaceous ratio, one qualm however, was the small quantity of oxtail meat which Orange Thimble served. There were only 3 sad chunks of oxtail in this oxtail stew!

We also tried the chicken wrap, the chicken was nicely done and very refreshing, quite filling.

I wanted to try the famous gula melaka milkshake, but again, they were sold out. I settled for the teh tarik milkshake which did have the rich condensed milk and powdered tea flavor, so I was satisfied. We also got the coffee macchiato which was sweet, creamy and frothy. 

If you go to Orange Thimble, try to find a friend with an OCBC card. You get 10% off if you order 2 stews or 2 breakfast items, and you also get 1-for-1 coffee on top of this promotion. The food was rather average, nothing to rave about really. Ambience was okay too. Lunch for 2 = $34

Orange Thimble

56 Eng Hoon Street

#01-68

Singapore 160056

+65 9750 3989

(54%)

We then headed to Drips Bakery Cafe for their famous cakes and dessert. They had a nice chocolate tart, fig tart and many fruity tarts such as raspberry and blueberry tarts which looked really tempting. I wanted to try something exciting and uniquely Singaporean, so we got the cinnamon egg tart!

It was really good! I thought it was even better than a Portugese egg tart, the crust was soft and the custard was sweet but not cloyingly so, and the cinnamon provided the perfect contrast in flavor, for a nutty and sweet dessert. 

At $5 for an egg tart, it is slightly above the average price of a neighborhood bakery store, but I thought that for the ambience and for its humungous size, it's pretty worth it! 

Drips Bakery Cafe

82 Tiong Poh Road

Singapore 160082

+65 6222 0400

(62%)

We then headed to Tiong Bahru Bakery by Gontran Cherrier & Spa Esprit Group for more pastries!

The croissant were great. I would recommend the Kofi Annan, the bread had a crisp crust and really soft body! The coffees were average.

56 Eng Hoon Street

Singapore 160056

(60%)