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[✨VINTAGE CAFE✨] Located at the foot of Mt Faber, Old Habits is a retro-style cafe serving interesting fusion dishes. Decorated with vintage items including vinyl records, typewriters, and many more! ☎️

These vintage decorations are also available for sale, so you can bring these back home as a keepsake of the good old times 🎟

🌟 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗸 ($𝟭𝟵.𝟱𝟬)
Coated with sesame, the top selling item is hard to find elsewhere. The sesame crust acted as a good contrast to the juicy and soft texture of the tuna steak. We chose fries and salad as sides to go along with this! 🐟

Overall, this spot is a unique space with value-for-money options and mains starting from only $9.90 💸 Staff was friendly and the vintage cafe is condusive for work/study too.

📸 Full review on Instagram (@myfoodframes)!

Crispy on the outside and soft in the inside. The size is nice and makes for a good bite. It was a hit with the kids.

The prata was well done. Nice level of crispy and the accompanying curry went well. Good place for prata

Inspired by time-tested recipes handed down from their grandmothers, the owners of Butter Studio are dedicated to honouring the tradition of crafting home-style bakes from scratch, and they’ve somehow managed to add a playful spin on some familiar favourites! This can be seen in their Gourmet Tarts which range from Sea Salt Nutella ($6.90) and Speculoos Cream Cheese ($6.90) to Raspberry Frangipane ($6.90) and Lemon Meringue ($7.90). Aside from these, they also come up with seasonal specials from time to time so be sure to pop by to see what’s bakin’.

Tried the pan-seared salmon ($16.90) with spaghetti tossed in spicy belachan chilli paste, aglio olio style 🍝 We opted for less spicy but we could already start to feel the burn. Definitely for the spicy lovers!🔥

If you are visiting on weekdays, you can also try their affordable set lunch (main + drink) starting from $11 😎

Wanted to try this as I saw it on social media. Ordered the egg appam ($2.80).

It tasted like thosai and pancake combined and I generally like it but probably minus the pepper in the future.

Came here for the popular char siew & roast meat rice ($5, cause we upsized). As usual, the char siew is the most delicious one with its unique flavorful meat. The roast meat which is usually my favourite cannot matched up with the char siew. However, is still a dish overall I would queue for. I am surprised that the price still remain even after the pandemic.

The steamed dumpling ($4.80) was quite disappointing for me as being a specialised dumpling stall, I had a high expectation, however I feel that the meat filling is not firmed and soft. Also, there is no burst of flavour of sort.

Visited Victor’s Kitchen on a Saturday night for dinner and it was quite packed but we didn’t have to queue for seats. Was rather excited to try their HK milk tea (the unsweetened version) but these days, they serve them with sugar only as they are pre-made. While it still retains the tea fragrance characteristic of HK milk tea, I wish they would offer patrons a no sugar version instead.

For our dim sum, we had a bowl of fish with century egg porridge. It came in a larger than normal bowl and was pretty filling for two people to share when you’re ordering other dim sum dishes as well. They gave a few big chunks of century egg and fish slices as well. On top of that, ginger and spring onion strips were also added, likely to neutralize the fishiness of the porridge dish. It’s definitely comforting for the tummy but nothing exceptional.

The fried prawn dumpling was the first dish served to us and as the plate used was big, the dumplings appeared really small in comparison. That said, served alongside tartar sauce, the prawn dumplings did concern a substantial amount of prawn meat and the skin did offer a nice crunchy texture after being fried to a nice golden brown color.

Was personally most excited for the chee cheong fun - with a fried youtiao encasing prawn meat being stuffed between layers of the silky rice roll. It’s a really nice combination of soft and crunchy textures, with the soft cheong fun contrasting with the crunchy youtiao before you reach the innermost layer of fresh juicy prawn meat. At the side, the usual sweet sauce was given but it wasn’t a sauce that would complement well with the cheong fun in our opinion.

We also had a bowl of their XO sauce with steamed carrot cake, which featured strips of radish and lup cheong cubes embraced by soft carrot cake in a bowl. It’s rather unique compared to the usual fried carrot cake pieces at dim sum places. What we liked best about this dish was the XO sauce that came in a metal saucer that we also enjoyed with other dim sum (like the chee cheong fun).

Not pictured, we also ordered their glutinous rice that my partner found a bit too soft for his liking but I personally thought the pillowy soft rice grains were quite enjoyable when eating with tougher chicken meat served in the dish.

While prices are on the higher side, the quality is worth paying for and most dishes are quite authentic. As a bonus, you probably wouldn’t have to wait as long for a table compared to swee choon but the trade off is that you do have fewer options here.

had the steak and egg, and it was pretty good and really worth the price with burpple beyond! the matcha latte was rich in flavor too, but the orange mocha felt just a tad bit diluted

Redeemed this with the 30% off bill deal and paid $18.95 for the pasta! Pasta was nice and creamy but got a bit jelak after awhile 🍄

To be honest, my friend and I initially saw the dinner menu and it looks normal even though many people talk about how good is it and wanted to go elsewhere. However, we decided to continue with the plan as if we don't go, we also don't know where else to eat.

We ordered the Tuscan Seafood Stew ($20), Grilled Kurobuta Pork Collar ($20) & Nacho Cheese Tater Tots ($11). The Tuscan Seafood Stew initially I was no expecting much. However after the Stew came, I was surprised the amount of seafood and its large choice. The sourough is really big and tasty by itself, let along dip into the sauce. The Pork Collar looks disappointing when it came as it is small and looks like just fats. However I was proven wrong once again as there is lots of lean meat and the pork although is grilled, the layer around is crispy which really shocked me. Lastly, our neighbouring table had the taer tots and I decided to get it too.

Crispynes wise is not there but flavourwise really packed the punch and the nacho cheese taste like smoked type which is delicious.

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I am a big fan of their Kouign Amann! Snagged a good deal during the flash deals on @pickupp.sg and managed to get a box of 6 for just $13.76!!

Look at those crispy golden caramelised layers!! 🤩🤩

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