The vibrant patterned tiles, wooden chairs, marble-top tables, lazily spinning wooden ceiling fans set the mise en scene of a Little Nyonya-esque film set, but modern amenities like the cake display-chiller and cashier demystify the facade.
Avid instagram/social media photographers will have a field day here trying to capture all shades of the colour spectrum reflecting from both the kueh-kueh snacks and the tiles of the peranakan mini-museum at the back of the cafe. A pity though, that the snacks were below par - ondeh-ondeh were tiny and hardly filled with brown sugar syrup, banana glutinous cake was more mushy than chewy. Ang ku Kueh and Kueh lapis were so-so. I can imagine Peranakan matriarchs wincing in disapproval...