📍 PRINCE COFFEE HOUSE - 249 beach road
⭐️ Traditional Hainanese Western Cuisine
💰 ~$10
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Support 80 years old uncle Jimmy who is super friendly and have been running this traditional kopitam since 1977!🙌 according to @misstamchiak , it used to be a popular hangout spot for Hong Kong opera singers in 70s ( no wonder my media industry cousin knew bout them and have been visiting them for lunch sets before covid 🤔🤩)
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Apart from your usual hainanese menu like oxtail stew and pork chop, the chicken pie is a must get and can’t find such traditional pastry as easily anymore!🥧 it’s a true hidden gem near the hearts of haji lane and kampung glam😍 do check them out and support during these tough times!💪
Best Hainanese Pork Chop Ive ever had!! The sauce was a nice mix of sweet and savoury, the deep fried pork chop was still crisp and the fries complemented the dish super well. It was $7.80 and they gave me a free cup of grass jelly for dessert:) Uncle Jimmy was really friendly and I loved the 70s vibe of the restaurant!
Would come back for this and to try the chicken chop and chicken pie as well
Drop by and buy their chicken pie you won't regret it. It's a messy and sloppy dish with the thickest chicken pie filling I have ever tasted. Pretty sure the thickness is from potato bcos it was so silky and smooth. Think a blob of chicken filling with a thin pastry!! What a good comfort food 😭❤️
To be honest, this place needs no reviews bcos there was a constant turnover. But I feel like young people needs to know what their missing out here!
The Chicken Chop - Take your pick between mushroom or black pepper sauce. The chicken chop comes with roasted potatoes and garden vegetables.
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#Noshtalgia is my mash-up of the words “nosh” which means “food” and “nostalgia”. I created it to refer to food I grew up eating. Like pork chop, a dish which I think many families have their own version of. My maternal grandma use to cook her hammered-flat, cream cracker crumbs-coated and fried pork with potatoes, cloves, star anise and cinnamon. It looked and tasted completely different from the one with tomato sauce most people are familiar with. Not quite sure how her recipe came about but I did enjoy it very much. T.H. on the other hand, is on a mission of sorts to find the best rendition of the pork chop with tomato sauce. The one at “Prince Coffee House” on Beach Road is not bad. Although I thought the sauce was rather one-dimensional, there’s French fries, tomato pieces and corn kernels tossed in with the crunchy slices of pork.
How many restaurants can you still find this kind of orange juice on their menu?
As someone cautious about tomato, this classic can be hit-and-miss for me. The version here is just nice, one that bothers to serve fries that are crispy.
This dish is pretty much always good. Maybe because it takes a pro to dare attempt it. And the gravy here was heavenly.
Walking along Beach Road looking for dinner and decided to drop by this old school coffee shop next to Haji Lane. Beef Hor Fun was one of their signature item here. The beef was juicy and overall taste great. The uncle was so kind that he gave me small Gui Ling Gao dessert for free. $7
Even then, this one was breaded right, fried well, the tomato sauce was a balance of sweet and savoury and most important...the chips were crisp and taut! Most Hainanese eateries don't care anymore these days...they do 😍🙌
The venerable Prince Coffee House is still alive and well, the food, just the way I remembered it when they were at Shaw House. Wok hei and that bloody savoury gravy, life saver!
Hainanese style pork chop, very thinly sliced drowned with oriental sauce. Quite a pleasant lunch meal though it could have been better if the pork was less tough. The 70s ambience of the cafe is unique on its own.
First time trying oxtail stew. Ordered the Prince Signature Oxtail Stew. It was suppose to come with roasted potato but they were accommodating when we requested to change to rice. The oxtail was very soft and the sauce goes well with rice. Glad that we had changed to rice. Had their chicken chop with mushroom sauce, meat was tender and juicy too.
A simple coffee house which had consistent flow of dinner patrons after 6pm. Interior design is similar to the 70s 80s coffee house. Will be nice to try other dishes someday too.
Usually classed as a western dish, Hainanese Pork Chop has always been overlooked by its other western counterparts due to it having a local touch that makes it what it is instead of being a fully western dish. Perhaps it is due to such a reason, but these days it is increasingly hard to find stalls selling this Hainanese delicacy in hawker centers when it used to be abundant a decade to two ago. I have had better ones, but Prince's variation is alright; tangy tomato sauce with onions and tomatoes cooked into the sauce smothered over fried, juicy strips of pork cutlet with some fries alongside and rice does help to make me reminisce the times when days are simpler. It's not the most gastronomic dish, nor does it have the glamorous vibes of western dishes but a hearty and familiar one that is often overlooked and almost near extinct in this age. #hawkerpedia
Home styled western dishes at affordable prices. Check out their set meal on week days where you get one main, soup, and a drink.
I love that they allow you customize your meal like changing your sides, adding sunny side up eggs and asking for more vegetables.
Here you get a full meal instead of some of the overpriced offerings along haji lane. They close late too! So it's a good spot to grab a quick dinner. I believe you get complimentary dessert as well.
Having their Thursday special chicken chop. Chicken was really tender.
Cheap and tasty, this simple one-dish meal is a winner for me. The "chye sim" is still green and crisp (overcooked veg is a waste of money) and there is enough fish to merit the price. The other good thing is the fish smells and tastes fresh, which is very important. I also like to top up a bit more for a fried egg.
Prince Coffee House is one of those legendary places that has been dishing up classic Hainanese-style cooking for decades (even the actress Lin Ching Hsia has dined here in her youth as evidenced by the wallpaper here). So it's no surprise they do old-school dishes well. What I always order is the stir-fried "chye sim" with sliced beef. The meat is tender and the vegetable retains colour and crunch - just the way I like it. There's also mushroom, slices of ginger plus a great "wok hei" aroma (which is the all-important enhancement to this dish). Service here gets my thumbs-up as well - the elderly uncle manager is a lovely chap who's very service-oriented.
A tasty local dish ($6.80) in one of Singapore's last surviving coffee houses from the 70s. Prince Coffee House was a favorite student hangout at Coronation Plaza along Bukit Timah back in the days. It's currently shifted to Beach Road with the same Hainanese owners and local feel.
