Coffee Trail, Singapore

Accepting an invitation by Eddie and Ros to attend their new offspring, Nicole's full moon party was a good enough excuse to take the drive down south.

Besides catching up with the usual suspects (Minh, Hsueh Wei, Will, May, Jack, Chris, Robert, Shan), besides the "odd" shopping, the trip turned out to be a Coffee Trail.

Day#1 - tea time at Forty Hands

Still bloody good.. though the music was crap. Some fusion rap funk, not a good companion for a drizzling lazy afternoon in a rustic cafe.

Walking around the area again before heading back to the hotel.... it's confirmed - Tiong Bahru is damn cool. 

Day#2 - breakfast at Tiong Bahru Bakery (Coffee by Forty Hands)

Sunday morning princess. Damn cute lah.

Very good coffee and pastry. 
Not cosy enough to hangout for long though and the music was crap too - some drum & bass mix.
The wife commented that the same people are behind both Forty Hands and Tiong Bahru Bakery and the marketing efforts have taken the edge off their street credits.
3 of 3 magazines we picked up at the hotel featured them one way or another.
I agree.
Consistency in coffee quality AND crap music =]

After the full moon lunch party, we needed to get our caffeine reload before the long drive back to K-helL.... Searched and thanks to Will, found Papa Palheta.
Nice area behind the famous Teck Kee Pau outlet near Newton Circle.

Very very cool - entrance round the back, rustic deco, payment for coffee not a menu-ed price but by tips. We tossed in 2 red ones into the tip jar and drank on a park bench nearby on Hooper Rd in front of some nice conservation houses.

Then we were on our way out of Sin-less city and north to K-helL.
A stop at the Johor Premium Outlets for 3 swipes of the plastic on a Shanghai Tang shirt (for D), a Tumi cabin bag and Nike tennis shoes (for A), and a "simple" dinner at a local shophouse chinese restaurant near the Ayer Keroh toll  broke our journey.

somewhere near the Ayer Keroh toll off North-South Highway

until the next roadtrip

Pix posted by A on Instagram.
Stolen by D (still holding out on getting my own Instagram-freindly device)