[CAFE HOPPING IN SINGAPORE] EGG TARTS GALORE, HONOLULU CAFÉ OPENS IN SINGAPORE
Honolulu Cafe Here, Now
New food trend in town~ Especially when it comes to patronizing new eateries from overseas and on our shores. Well known for our undying love for food, more overseas eateries are coming over to Singapore to tap on our ever growing appetite.
Well, that's great news for patrons for sure. Yeah!
Honolulu Coffee Shop 檀島咖啡餅店 goes 'atas' with the Singapore’s version- Honolulu Café . An old school eatery in Hong Kong, with a very 80s shopfront and even more traditional interior decoration, the Honolulu Café goes all glam and polished with its first outlet inside Centrepoint Shopping Mall, Singapore. Can’t believe it!
We waited
Well known for its buttery smooth egg custard tarts with flaky crust, you can only guess the hard core foodies in us went on high alert mode once again, buzzing with excitement and anticipation as we forsake the waiting time in queue - an hour or more- just to savor the taste of delicacy on our shores.
We started queiing slighty past 1130am and the crowd was already way before us.
The Egg Rules
( as of May 2016. Not sure if this still applies after the "hotcake" phase now)
Each dine-in customer is allowed a maximum order of 3 tarts. If you cant finish the maximum order of tarts for your table served ( i.e 2 pax, maximum 6 tarts), whatever that's leftover are considered as take-away. However once you missed the first round of order you can't reorder the tarts to add-on for takeaway again.
Weird no? Such precious tarts hmmm.
Even the menu plays on the shape of Egg Tart!
Can't wait?
Neither can we. After patiently waiting in the queue we finally got our seats and can proceed to make orders.
Honolulu Egg Tart
$1.7
This tart holds the key to the hearts of many. Does it live up?
Well, for one, the pastry tarts were handmade painstakingly (?) with 192 layers after layers of frozen dough. As claimed they won’t taste oily but rather goes on crispy flaky and smooth. What we had: For me, the crust was slightly too thick and when served, was sadly, very minimally lukewarm. As the highlight of the cafe, it would be better to serve them hot.
The egg custard was silky and not overly sweet which was good.
Maybe I need a second try?
Honolulu Pineapple Bun with Butter
$2
Hmmm this was really quite the normal bun and the crust was not crisp enough. Unfortunately.
Baked Pork Chop in Tomato Sauce with Rice
$ 6
At last the baked pork chop with rice was still quite a pleasant dish to dig into with the chewy pork chop. The rice was plenty but the amount of tomato sauce was slightly overwhelming and can be too sweet. More cheese maybe to balance off will be good perhaps.
Chicken Wing with Swiss Sauce
3 pieces $6
I saw plenty of sauce remnant on the plate for some customers’ wings order, but ours was rather dry and could do better with more sauce. A more fanciful name for sweet sesame sauce, the Swiss sauce chicken wings were well marinated and braised, tender enough as the meat separates out from the bones easily.
Beef Brisket in Soup with Rice Noodle
$6
Beef was tender and not too hard makes a blissful bowl on a cold day. Soup gets absorbed by the rice noodle way too fast, pity.
Drinks
Add on drinks hot or cold with every mains/ noodles order + $1.5
We had the milktea warm and cold respectively.
GST and service charge applies.
Still worth a visit once. Return rate really hard to say, for me at least.
Hits and misses, we shall see if there are more improvements once the business stabilizes.
Honolulu Café Singapore Facebook
Honolulu Cafe Singapore
176 Orchard Road, Centrepoint
#01-33
Singapore 238843
T: +65 6734 6609
11am-10pm daily
#01-33
Singapore 238843
1 comments
This is an outstanding venue, with great and thoughtful staff, and a fantastic chef. The location of venues in Atlanta is well situated. We has been delighted to host our annual event at this location for the past few years, and the space has been perfect for our group of roughly 300.
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