After a very uncomfortable sleep on a single bed (my wife and I squeezed on it), we woke up five hours later and got ready for a morning walk and a breakfast on East Coast Road.
Looking out of the window on this very first morning, we saw the low houses near by and the clear blue sky.
The feeling of walking on a new distant land was good. Unlike Hong Kong, the morning air in Singapore was fresh. On the way we saw very beautiful houses. I guess the people inside must be rich to some extent. This was Still Road.
After about thirteen minutes, we arrived at a small coffee and cake shop called Chin Mee Chin Coffee and Cake shop, in Chinese “真美珍咖啡及西菓店”. My brother told me that he had been there several times for breakfast.
The shop had tiles on both its walls and floor. The chairs and tables were wooden, old, but still in use. It was not air-conditioned. The hanging fan was the only luxurious electric appliance in the shop. The cakes and bread were placed inside a Glass + Aluminium show-case.
From the outlook, I believed it was a family-operated cake + coffee shop because the ground floor and its first floor were both painted in light blue. My brother told me that it opened business only in the morning.The photos of the shop were taken recently by my brother. The shop is still there. Thanks to my brother, sister-in-law and other faithful customers.
1 comment:
The photos may have made you nostalgic about your holiday in singapore. It is amazing that the shop can survive on half day business.
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