I (L) SG Breakfast

Absolutely love it when I wake up to a set of traditional breakfast - kaya toast, 2 half-boiled eggs and HOT coffee/tea.

Those set meals are available EVERYWHERE in Singapore. You can find them at the beverages stall at your neighbourhood coffeeshops, hawker centers as well as food courts. Of course there are familiar brands like Ya Kun, Toast Box, Wang's cafe, Old Town etc..

Random brunch at BPP's Wang cafe.

(L)!! OLD TOWN WHITE COFFEE @ CHUN TIN COURT - Awesome atmosphere and feel. One of the rare branches NOT located in shopping malls, thus, there's more "by-the-street-kampong" feel. 

This is what got me to start drinking coffee. 

As for pricing wise, it's more or less the same. From what I know, the drinks stalls usually do not have set meals. Therefore, you have to buy separately.

Average price of coffee $1 ($1.10-$1.20 if you ordered KOPI C/TEH C), kaya toast $1 and half boiled eggs are about 70cents each, which adds up to $1.40.
Adding everything up will be about $3.40 - At a coffeeshop/hawker outside.
One downside of this is that every different location serves different types of bread and kaya. It tastes different everywhere. There are some places which use your normal square slices of bread loaves which are easily available at your supermarket. Definitely not Gardenia. Confirm some budget brand and the bread is not as soft as Gardenia's. But well, nobody can tell the difference after toasting. 

Standard kaya toast set at Ya Kun is $4.50

At Toast Box is $4.20

At Wang cafe is $4.40

At Old Town, it's about $3.90 but you can only get standard white coffee and not the hazelnut white coffee :( After GST AND SERVICE CHARGE (17%) it rounds up to $4.60.

There are also cheaper alternatives at food courts like Kopitiam/Koufu where each standard set is definitely less than $2.50

Koufu at NP costs only $2.20 for a standard kaya toast meal, and only $2 for the toasted kaya butter bun meal.

For me, toast > bun.

If I only look at kaya toast alone, I prefer the ones at Ya kun/Old Town. Both places uses the brown bread slices and toasted till crisp, but not too hard. Yakun uses salted butter which adds a tinge of savoury to the sweetness of the kaya paste - nice.

This morning's breakfast round 2 at Central when I was stuck in the rain. Nothing to do = Just eat only.

I only tried the kaya toast at TB once and that's it. Always order peanut butter toast from there. 

As for beverages, TB makes the BESTEST yuan yang - but it also depends on the coffee maker. The best one I had was made by a foreigner guy (Filipino/Indonesian) at Plaza Singapura branch before its renovation. I can really taste both coffee AND tea in that one cup of drink!! The taste was miraculously split into two the instant the yuan yang reaches the taste buds on my tongue. Goodness! Now that it's renovated I don't know about the quality. Tried a few times at NP but the quality differs each time. Once a trainee made my yuan yang with a weighing machine, weighing the percentage of coffee and tea precisely and that was really awesome. I guessed that's the secret golden ratio. Have to wait for a longer time as the trainee was taking her time to practice her coffee making skills but it's worth it. However, I doubt this will be the case if I were to order at peak hours.

Yakun makes really really really good Teh Xiu Dai (Tea with less sugar). It's really a drink which made me go wow! Usually when you say Xiu Dai (less sugar) at coffeeshops, the drink will still taste like sugar. But this old man at Jurong Point branch made the tastiest Teh Xiu Dai! Imagine that morning I only had 1.5hours worth of sleep because I went clubbing the night before, but had work in the morning at Jurong West... All that grumpiness gone with the best tea on earth. But I don't like the Yuan Yang at Yakun. Cannot taste the coffee/tea at all. Just some random taste which I have no idea how to describe.

At Old Town, hot hazelnut white coffee is the best coffee on earth. I can never forget how I started drinking coffee because I thought hazelnut white coffee is the best. I used to think that coffee tasted bitter and had this insect smell. But thanks to Old Town hazelnut white coffee, it's never the same again hahahaa. (Machiam some cheesy TVC lines)

Lastly, half boiled eggs... My favourite is from Old Town because the eggs are humongous and tasted bouncy (I have no idea why either). The rest are quite average. I like how Yakun's eggs are always cooked to the SAME level everytime at any branch - consistent quality. Don't really like food courts/coffeeshops/hawkers where I have to time and decide when to pick the eggs up from the hot water. Most of the time, they're undercooked (because I'm too impatient to wait). Other times, they're overcooked with slightly hard egg yolks... I want runny and watery yolks.

For my eating habits, I can't decide whether to get coffee or tea (Well, I cannot make decisions most of the time) and therefore, ALWAYS end up with Yuan Yang (A mixture of coffee and tea).

I will dip my toast into the watery half boiled eggs and slurp them up at the same time - Damn awesome. But you shouldn't do that if you want your toast to be crispy and crunchy. Dipping it into the eggs will soak up the toast and it will turn slightly soggy, depending on the duration you leave your toast in the eggs.

Now... for the best part... and I realised nobody else does this. Everybody thinks that it's disgusting and thought that I.HAVE.AN.ACQUIRED.TASTE. Oh well...

Disgusting not?

When there's only left with one spoonful of half boiled egg, I will scoop a few spoonfuls of my coffee/tea/both into my eggs to "clean up" the left over eggs on the plate. Afterwhich I will slurp the entire thing down. SLURPSSSSSS!!!!! Yummy!!!!!!!! 

I WILL MISS MY KAYA TOAST AND HALF BOILED EGGS BREAKKIE if I ever move to Aussie for further studies... 

Anyway, any *unique* eating habits out there?