A Coffee Date

Since I've been lurking around Serangoon for a few appointments and to run a number of errands, I took the chance to have a few casual lunches with J at NEX where there're plenty of boring but dependable food choices. Easy Chinese food meant we have a choice of eating at The Ship, Dian Xiao Er, Canton Paradise, Putien and some other I-forgot-the-names restaurants. NEX is ridiculously crowded though, so we gotta make reservations a day or two prior. The restaurants are packed out at lunch on week days too. 

We usually gotta rush off after lunch, so there isn't time to sit down for a coffee. And, there aren’t good coffee options at the mall anyway. I'd rather not drink those. The usual places for a kopi-o-siu-dai are always packed out. Drinking a coffee while walking now isn't quite do-able. Getting a coffee to-go doesn't make sense either. It simply means that I'll get a cup of coffee only when I get home. 

That day at Canton Paradise, J plonked down a flask on the table. I was like... WOW. SUSTENANCE! She had made coffee at home earlier and brought it out in a flask for me. Wheeeeee. It was still hot, so I couldn't gulp it, but I could certainly do quick sips. OMG. I drank it all while waiting for the food to arrive. (And the food didn't take that long to get to the table.) Certainly gives new meaning to 'coffee date'. Heh. 🤩

I was up early that day running around. And didn't have time to drink any coffee at all. So it was just gorgeous to have a cup of coffee when I most needed it. And beans from Koffee Mameya too. Mmmm. That’s a little bit of travel memento during this year of non-traveling. Ahhh, that beautiful scent of a favored roast and terroir. Some say it's the best drip coffee in Serangoon. I think so too. Muahahaha. 🤎