May's Kafe (Beauty World)

Rather decent, it’s crisp and is sufficiently filled with kaya and butter. It falls slightly short compared to my favourite crisp kaya butter roasts from Yakun & May’s Kopi Bar (at sixth ave), but it still satisfies!

Pretty good! Very fluffy and soft especially when it comes out of the steamer. The ratio of kaya butter to bread is also rather appropriate. Could rival Yakun’s, except that we notice it dries out quite quickly - on our last piece it felt a bit dry already. So Yakun still wins bc theirs still tastes good even after some time has passed. Still worth a try tho, just be sure to eat it asap!

Crusty toast bread with kaya butter, half-boiled egg and kopi gao siew dia. Now I know why there is always queue when I am here over the weekend. Love it.

Location: May's Kafe, 144 Upper Bukit Timah Road Beauty World Centre, #B1, K20, 588177

Always quite crowded around here and rather difficult to find seats. But prices are very affordable for an air conditioned space and food is rather recent. Here I have Steamed kaya butter bun ($2.40), also ordered some kopi / teh / barley which were around $1.40-$1.80.

It is unlikely to stay and chat for a long time once you finish your food though, due to the high turnover of tables. Service is so-so as the staff are fast-paced and place is quite busy but staff is still helpful. Overall nice space to chill for a bit after a walk at Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.

Don't expect the artificial version of this. They use real barley squeezed with lemon - and it's damn weird. It made me long for artificial lemon barley.

Stumbled upon this Laksa Chee Cheong Fun at @mayskafe yesterday and was very pleased with how enjoyable it turned out to be. Silkier and softer than the usual thick beehoon, the steamed rice rolls were lovely with the sufficiently fragrant, thick-but-not-too thick laksa gravy. Soaking it up well enough were the default pieces of “tau pok” but you must absolutely add the “tau kee”. This extra ingredient was the most marvelous thing in the bowl for me. Each rolled-up piece were folds of beancurd skin so smooth and heavy, and proved incredibly shiok with the gravy.