Monsta Cafe

Last brunch with my lil sis before she flew back to Taiwan 2 weeks ago. Shen Sim brought us to this Monsta Cafe which is located at Bukit Indah. The cafe is located at the roadside, occupied a corner lot with its cartoonish billboard. I was surprised to find that the cafe is divided into two parts of completely different themes..lol! The front part is just a small area with their specialise coffee and bakery and the decor gives a vintage british feel which i love! The 2nd part of the cafe is mainly for dining. The space is much more bigger than the front part and it's filled with colourful furnitures and decorations.

A good menu design somehow gives me a better impression to the cafe as i think menu plays an important role in the cafe and i was really impressed with Monsta Cafe's menu. Their menu is quite thick, designed in a way that it looks like a magazine with the pictures of the food and some of their background story. I can see how much effort they put in for designing a menu like this as i just did a menu design for my assignment..lol!

Anyway, we ordered a mushroom soup and monsta fries to share. I really loveee the packaging of the monsta fries! Yes, i was a sucker for those pretty packaging stuff..hahaha! The mushroom soup was good but i think they can do better with the garlic bread..haha! For our mains, we ordered the grilled chicken chop, prawn aglio olio and huge chicken chop (yes the name is huge chicken chop)! The portion of the huge chicken chop was indeed huge..haha! So glad that everything on the plate was done very well without being too oily! I love the criss-cross fries! I love aglio olio a lot so i always order aglio olio if it's available on the menu. Sadly speaking, there isn't much good aglio olio around so i was glad that the aglio olio here was really good!


Monsta Cafe
157, Jalan Bestari 1/5,
Taman Nusa Bestari
81300 Skudai, Johor
Mon-Thurs: 10am-12am
Fri-Sun: 11am-1am

Curious Palette

The guys behind Stranger Reunion has opened a new cafe along Princep Street and I decided to bring my sis to try it! The cafe is quite hidden and might be easily missed as currently there's only one small blackboard lying on a chair outside of the cafe as their signboard..lol! We went on a Saturday afternoon and with no surprise the cafe was fully packed. We waited for around 15 mins to get seated.

Being a sweet potato fries lover, I can't resist myself to order the truffle sweet potato fries for our sides..hehe! Sweet potato fries already sounds amazing itself, but with truffle? Of course must order hahaha! However, we can't really taste the truffle in the fries. For our mains, we ordered a Curious Breakfast and a portobello mushroom with scrambled egg (can't rmb the exact name..lol) to share. I must say that the presentation of the food at Curious Palette was really pretty and instagram-worthy! For the mains, i thought it was pretty average, nothing to shout about.

Here's come the highlight of our meal - Berries Ricotta Hotcake!! I was telling my sis that we must order this for our dessert and i din expect the portion to be this big?? I almost got a shock when it was served...lol! The hotcake was decorated with strawberries, blueberries, sunflower seeds and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top, it was indeed the prettiest hotcake i have ever seen..haha! The hotcake was crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside though it was pretty thick. We couldn't finish the hotcake because we were too full from the other dishes #alwaysoverordering I think it would be good to share among 4-5 friends as the serving size was really bigg! Overall a pleasant brunch with my two sisters, would love to be back to try for their dinner menu since the place is quite near to where i stay..hehe!


Curious Palette
64 Prinsep Street
Singapore 188667
Mon, Wed, Thurs & Sun: 9am-10pm
Fri & Sat: 9am-12am
Closed on Tues

Chye Seng Huat Hardware

The question we always ask when the clock strikes 12 noon "Where are we going to eat today?" LOL! We usually have our lunch somewhere near our office but that day we decided to do cafe-hopping because our boss is not around, hehe! Went to Chye Seng Huat Hardware which is like 20 mins bus ride from our office and we were there quite early so the lunch crowd is not in yet (yeay~)

We ordered the truffle popcorn to share, we thought it's quite interesting but i can't really taste the truffle, it seems just like normal popcorn to me..meh! For the mains, shering ordered The Huat Breakfast while myct and me ordered the crab meat pasta. We sat along the bar so we got to see how the barista make their coffee, they have this very interesting hand-pressed coffee which they took numerous steps to prepare a cup of coffee, lol! Well, we didn't order the coffee because we were just not in the mood for coffee..hahaha!

Anyway, I thought the food was just decent but I always heard about the rave of this cafe, perhaps it's the coffee that attract the crowd.



Chye Seng Huat Hardware
150 Tyrwhitt Road
Singapore 207563
Tel: +65 6396 0609
Tue to Thu: 9am – 7pm
Fri to Sun: 9am – 10pm


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