Caffe Zeppin

This cafe serves Taiwanese food. We ordered their Zeppin Braised Rice ($5.80), Phoenix Tail Prawn Roll ($5.80), Signature Egg Fried Rice ($10.80) and Mini Waffle ($12.80).

Service was good and waitress even apologised for the longer wait than usual to be served due to Christmas Day lunch crowd. The food is also of a high standard, with the braised rice very close to what you can get in Taiwan. The pork is sliced into cubes instead of minced. Slightly sweet and savoury. The mini waffles requires a wait of 20 minutes but it is quite a work of art and definitely Instagramable.

The Signature Egg Fried Rice is not your standard serving of fried rice with egg coated grains of rice. It is more like Japanese OmuRice with watery scrambled egg pour over egg coated fried rice. Definitely a must for egg lovers.

There are more and more offerings for Taiwanese food these days but this one definitely is one of the better ones. Will come back to try their other offerings in their menu.

Flawless. The meat cake was surprisingly awesome and the rice was the type you get in Taiwanese and Chinese restaurants.

The carbonara aspect was passable. The mentaiko aspect was barely there. You can top up pasta here and I encourage you to.

Thumbs down. I like both wheatgrass and pandan, but this was quite artificial.

Another well executed dish at Caffe Zeppin. The fried rice is flavourful (in my opinion, comparable to Ding Tai Fung’s fried rice). The accompanying meat patty is tender and well seasoned.

Nothing special about this but a very decently executed egg dish that has that homely feel about it.