Everything seemed so unreal to me. I was at Kandahar Street, near Sultan Mosque, the heart of Singapore's Arab and Malay culture, then there was this 'colonial' cafe, isn't cafe part of the western culture? And the cafe is named after a famous Chinese poet back in the Song Dynasty, Su Dong Po (苏东坡). So many different culture elements mixed together and reminded me Singapore is such a melting pot of different cultures.
The interior of the cafe is like a living museum. Advertisement posters from 1930s and 1940s are displayed on the walls. The tables are doubled as display tables. Below the glass table-top, items from yester-yester years are on display.
The items are really too old even for my generation. You have to live in the period before 1970s to have a nostalgic feelings, while for me, it was more like a visit to the museum, as many items are seen first time for me.
A museum it may be, it is still a business. They have quite a selection of cakes on offer to go with their typical South-East Asia milk tea and coffee. Some set menus are available too.
We ordered their set, two cakes with a choice of coffee or tea. Both the butterfly cupcake and the aloe vera cream cake were good. Not too sweet, perfect companions to the coffee/tea. And they were very smooth.
When we were there, both locals and tourists streamed in to patronize the cafe. The place is not very big and with limited seating capacity, so most people just finish and go.
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