Ah Fang Coffee Shop

Last visited: 7 April 2007

Went there with my hall friends for lunch. This coffee shop has been one of our main food source during the 3 years of my campus life, providing good lunches, dinners and suppers. It is very populare among the NTU students as a supper place, especially to those who stay in Hall 1, 4 and 5, and sometimes the army guys staying in Jurong Camp as well because it is very near the camp site. Their prata is very famous among us for supper, and their zhu cha is good too. The actual name for the coffee shop is Lai Lai Coffee Shop. Yet we all called it as Ah Fang. Well, I don't know the reason behind this though. It operates 24-hours and hence you need not worry you will go hungry anytime.

Comments: I love the zhu cha stall here as their dishes taste really good. The chef is quite flexible as you can make small adjustments to your dishes such as to add vegetables to your normal sweet & sour pork rice for only S$0.50. They have some unique dishes like chilli-crab-sauce chicken rice, fried hokkien prawn mee (dried). The prata stall is especially popular for during the supper time. Even though the prata may not taste as good as the well-known prata stalls at Jalan Kayu and Upper Thomson Road, the prata here can be considered at above average with a very normal price at S$0.80-S$1.20. At least, I don't think you can get prata at this price at those famous stalls right? The coffee shop also sells other food such as bak chor mee and western food. The stall owner also offers home-made ice lemon tea at only S$1.00, in which most of the other coffee shops sell theirs at S$1.20-S$1.30.

Location

Lai Lai Coffee Shop
Block 907
Jurong West Street 91
Singapore 640907

Ratings (Total of 5 points)

Taste: 3.0
Quality: 3.0
Service: 3.5
Cleaniness: 2.5
Price: $$

Overall: 3.0

Other remarks: The coffee is more packed during the dinner and supper time. The drink stall aunty will only serves you up to midnight 12am, after which you will have to go to the counter to get the drinks yourself. Most of the stalls, EXCEPT the zhu cha stalls open 24-hours. But the zhu cha stall also operates till about 12am midnight on most days. The usual customers to the coffee shop are NTU students who stay in hall and the army guys in Jurong Camp. It feels good and cozy because most of time I get to see many familiar faces there or the same group of people.