Chin Bee Chin Confectionary - Eat in a 50s Coffee Shop

This little shop is located at a corner along East Coast Road.

I simply love the feel of this coffee shop.
Set foot into this place and you will feel as if you have been transported back to the 50s. Everything here reeks of the 50s - the furniture, the utensils to the way they make the coffee and toast (over charcoal fire).

We visited on a rainy Saturday morning and are a little surprised to see non chinese patrons having kaya toast with half boiled eggs and sipping kopi.

We were lucky to find an empty table and promptly place our orders.

Orders are kaya buns with half boiled eggs and coffee (what else?).

It was a pleasure to see the way they work, toasting buns and heating coffee over charcoal fire. It is just so nostagic as if you have stepped into a time machine to go back to the good old days when live was much simpler.

Back to reality, our orders finally came.
The much raved about kaya buns - the buns were crispy and slapped with generous serving of kaya and a thick slab of butter.
However, I found the kaya to sweet. A little below my expectation. Half boiled eggs were pretty good, cooked to near perfection, together with lots of dark soy sauce and pepper - great!

Kopi - aromatic and flavourful.

Overall, the setting and vibe of this coffee shop is excellent esp if you want to experience a little of the good old days when tv was still in black and white.

But the kaya toast was a little disappointing as I was expecting much better esp after reading so many positive review about it's popularity.

Chin Bee Chin Confectionary
204 East Coast Road, Singapore