Not your average Joe at Joe & Dough

I've been meaning to upload my Day #3 Taiwan photos! But I need some more time to edit them to be sui sui, so while we wait for Taiwan, here's a recommendation for a cafe that I patronised recently - Joe & Dough.

It's not hard to find coffee in Singapore nowadays, with cafes springing up almost everywhere (except in the North though) and it's even more common in town area. I settled on Joe & Dough on a Sunday afternoon, just because it occupies a larger area with more seats. I didn't expect though, to find myself to nodding and smiling to my partner after tasting the first sip of the latte, going "Hey this coffee is not bad eh!"

(LICK) Little Ice Cream Kafe - Crispy and Fluffy Waffles!

Tanjong Katong Road is home to a lot of small eateries, one of them include Little Ice Cream Kafe, also known as LICK for short. If not for the dental visits in this area, I really wouldn't have ventured this far out for food glorious food in this area. I must admit that it's a good mix of food choices here - Punggol Nasi Lemak, Wanton mee, a few ice cream parlours, Peranakan Food Village, and even a fruit stall selling king of fruits and the likes. 

I was attracted to LICK because of the photo pasted on the glass door - DJ Chong Qing with a pleasant looking lady whom I assume is the ladyboss? Well, I am ashamed to link this photo to good ice cream but in I go!

Friendly Service Crew & Delectable Dessert at Maison Ikkoku

A winning formula for a cafe is great coffee + friendly customer service + awesome food & dessert. Maison Ikkoku located near the Sultan mosque nailed all three and I especially love the small alfresco area with enough fans to beat the humid weather!

Oriole Cafe @ 313

What I really liked about Oriole Cafe is that I can people-watch with a cuppa in hand. Ok this count more like a secondary reason. The primary reason is the coffee. I like that the aroma of the coffee is not overpowering and there's a bittersweet taste which I love. The temperature of the coffee is just right too- perfect if you can't wait to get that caffeine dose into your system right away.

Cafe Latte, $5.5
Rating: 8/10

Flat White, $5.5
Rating: 8/10

To make our high tea even more perfect, we tried the sticky pudding and it was just addictively delicious! Think of sweet sticky cake drenched in rum and rasin with a spoonful of vanilla bean ice cream... that's what I meant by addictively delicious.

Sticky Pudding, $9

Rating: 8.5/10

I'll definitely go back to Oriole again for the reasonable prices of the food & beverage items and for the fact that it's situated right smack in the middle of the shopping belt.

Oriole Cafe
Pan Pacific Serviced Suites
#01-01 96 Somerset Rd
Oriole Cafe FB page