84 Marine Parade Central
#01-21 Marine Parade Central Market & Food Centre
Singapore 440084

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Thursday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

Friday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

Saturday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

Sunday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

Monday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

Tuesday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

Wednesday:
05:30am - 08:30pm

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One thing we had been noticing for quite a while here is the various new-style coffee and toast stalls which have opened up at several hawker centres of the late. Similar to LifeCoffee at Amoy Street Food Centre, Marine Parade Food Centre has also got a stall named Creative Coffee & Toast that attempts to serve Vietnamese Banh Mi that seems to be almost no different to any coffee and toast stall serving Hainanese-style local breakfast sets in hawker centres all around; apart from serving various forms of Kaya Toast featuring different types of bread, the establishment also serves three variations of Banh Mi — think the Roasted Chicken Pate Baguette, Pork Hams Pate Baguette and the Roasted Pork Baguette. Whilst all of the local-style toast offerings do come in sets featuring soft-boiled eggs and a hot beverage (cold beverages can be opted ar an additional charge), the sets involving the Vietnamese Banh Mi comes only with hot beverage less the soft-boiled eggs. Beverages available at Creative Coffee & Toast includes the usual selection of Nanyang Kopi & Teh, as well as other local beverages such as Horlicks, honey-based beverages, Bandung, lime juice etc.; the only Vietnamese beverage here is the Iced Vietnamese Coffee with Milk.

The Roasted Pork Baguette was already sold out by the time we had headed to Creative Coffee & Toast for a light dinner; we found ourselves going for the Pork Hams Pate Baguette instead. Whilst the Pork Hams Pate Baguette was actually rather decent, it did feel that it could do with some slight tweaks. No doubt freshly prepared upon order, we felt that the baguette itself, though light and crisp with a slight chew, felt a tad limp — a little less than ideal when it came to the texture of the bread. Whilst the baguette was filled with a reasonable portion of ingredients such as the pork ham, cucumber and pickled carrots that one would usually find in Banh Mi, there was a lack of pate spread across the bread that would help to bind the lightly savoury cured meat and the vegetables together. We did like the inclusion of chopped chilli padi here; injects that fiery kick that should work fine with those who have moderate level of tolerance to spiciness as one chews on it, while they did seemingly also have cracked pepper to provide for a slight contrast of flavours here.

Having tried LifeCoffee at Amoy Street Food Centre that is a pretty similar concept to Creative Coffee & Toast, we did feel that the Banh Mi from Creative Coffee & Toast doesn’t quite hit the spot as compared to the well-stuffed and flavourful Banh Mi that LifeCoffee offers; we certainly preferred the offerings of LifeCoffee a little more and do feel that there is quite a fair bit of room for improvement where the Banh Mi from Creative Coffee & Toast is of concern — from the texture of the bread, to the pate spread; it just felt like it stopped short from the stellar version that we have had at LifeCoffee. It does seem a little unfair to make such comparisons, but it is also difficult not to — this is especially so when considering how similar both establishments are in terms of what they have to offer. Nonetheless, Creative Coffee & Toast does deserve to be commended for bringing the humble Vietnamese Banh Mi closer to the masses; definitely an interesting offering from a stall that seemingly serve local coffee and toasts in a food centre.

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