We headed over to the East side of Singapore for the afternoon, since we were picking up our (newly fixed, painted, polished) car. I’m hardly/never in the area, so I was excited!

We stopped in the Katong area for a quick snack. I heard 328 Katong Laksa is famous, so obviously it warranted a stickybeak.

I know, I know.. I’m a bit mad for going to a laksa place, when I can’t even eat spicy food. 

But, I will make allowances if it’s famous spicy food!!

I slurped. I panted. I drank loads of iced lime juice.

And I DID IT!

I finished a whole bowl of their yummy laksa. It’s totally different to the laksa we used to eat in Australia. So different that I can’t even classify it as the same dish. This style of laksa has an incredibly creamy and strong-tasting soup, with lots of little bits of ground baby shrimp throughout. The noodles are chopped up white round noodles, not the yellow noodles we get in Australia. It comes with lots of prawns, and lots of “sea hum” (some sorta tiny clam-like thing, that my Dad is always horrified about and never eats, but I like em!).

I love love love this laksa. You eat it simply with a spoon – just scoop it all up and stuff in your mouth! No chopsticks required, cos the noodles are all chopped up for you. It’s so tasty it’s kinda blows your mind, and so spicy it really does blow my head off.

But, I would soooo get this again!

A few shops down is Chin Mee Chin Confectionery (204 East Coast Road). I didn’t realise it’s famous, but now I know because I just looked it up online and there are tons of reviews!

It’s a really odd name, because “confectionery” just says “lolly shop” to me. But it’s not. It’s an old school (like, SUPER old school) coffee shop, that’s all Singapore in the 1960s retro. It’s really quaint and oh-so-cute!

I heard they’re famous for their cupcakes, so we bought 4 (3 chocolate, 1 vanilla). They were…. errrr… okay. Let me clarify – they tasted fine, and went down well. But nothing that astounded me. Basically, they tasted like cupcakes I made, with simple/cheap ingredients. It’s light and fluffy, which is nice, but doesn’t have much flavour nor have the rich indulgence of high quality chocolate. The chocolate icing was also ultra sweet, so I scraped it off.

However, I thought their signature kaya and butter on soft buns were a winner. They do homemade kaya (coconut jam), and it is DELICIOUS. With a very strong egg flavour, their kaya is very very sweet, but a nice treat. The pat of butter complements it well, and and soft buns are perfectly toasted.

It was fun going East-side. Makes me wanna move there. There is so much food there that I haven’t yet checked out!!!