Singaporean's Guide To Ulu Café Hopping

Price Range: $20-$25

Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar

Instagrammability: Moderate -
Cool store facade and nothing else.
It's hard to see during sporadic blackouts.

Food:
1) Salted Egg Eggs Benedict [$17.00]
The main protein was barely sufficient, and felt like it spent a tad more than it needed on the pan.

2) Tandoori Chicken Olive Oil Rice [$16.00]
Not something I would've ordered, and not something you should order. Chicken was functional; rice was meh.

3) Grilled Prawn Tom Yum Pasta [$16.00]
Switched to this as they ran out of duck confit at 1pm.
Pasta cream was not bad, and the dish was more palatable due to the selfless contrast provided by the Olive Rice and Rösti.

4) Truffle Mushroom Rösti [$14.00]
Switched to this tragedy as they ran out of Beef Quinoa at 1pm, and got served with a one-two punch of soggy saltiness.
There's not enough avocado to take the edge off, and the uncrisp rösti's sodium overload can't be salvaged by the appropriately-seasoned mushrooms or eggs.
The taste of truffle is almost completely masked by the salt's heavy-handedness.
A very unenjoyable way for your kidney to get rekt.

5) Hot Chocolate [$4.50]
Decently "gao" but small.

6) Strawberry Lychee Cake [$6.00]
Very light sponge and well-balanced, with both flavours coming strong but neither overpowering each other.
One of the meal's winners.

Plagued with infrequent power cuts that day and the disappointing mains didn't help. Without 1-for-1, don't Entertain this lane.

Come Here: Never.