Maison Ikkoku @ Kandahar Street

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Boy booked out on a Saturday morning. Despite him being tired, he's still willing to get dressed up and walk along with me to our cafe hunt. 


Everyone has their favorite hangout cafe. It’s where we go when we need that temporal break from the atrocities of urban living. It’s a somewhere that fits into our schedules, regardless of how complex they may be. My disappointment lasted quite a minute when I realised that La marelle cafe is closed for birthday party. Subconsciously when my boy and I continued to walk further down, we came across to this unexpected surprising cafe.  
Maison Ikkoku is one of my favourite list hangout cafes. I can’t exactly deem it my absolute favourite because there are a few more places that I really love as well. But this little cafe along Kandahar Street is definitely one of those that I return to again and again, even on rainy days. 
It is located along a quiet street in the kampong glam area. A cosy cafe is located on the ground floor of a 3-storey shophouse, while the second and third floors house a boutique and cocktail bar respectively – all part of a multi-concept lifestyle store that the people behind maison ikkoku are trying to sell.




Here’s a peek at the menu:


Highlights for today: 




Break of dawn – $22
This is hands-down one of the most value-for-money brunch dishes i have ever had. seriously. at bigger establishments like wild honey, you’d probably pay more than this and get something barely 1/3 the size? just check out the size of that plate – it was HUGE and piled high with an array of breakfast foods. i think two average eaters can share this plate very comfortably and leave feeling very satisfied! Each component on the plate was good which i thought was no mean feat, given that its rather hard to achieve that with the number of different things they served up. What it contains inside this enormous dish: Bratwurst/ Wedges/ Toast bread/ Cherry Tomatoes/ Salad/ Scrambled eggs/ and oranges or grapefruits?! 

And our preferred choice of dessert. Red velvet cake with nutella paste in the middle of the sponge cake ($8). This cake has a pretty good cream cheese frosting, which is not too sweet, allowing you to taste the cream cheese. The cake however, has little chocolate taste to it and most importantly, it is not moist enough. This is perhaps because it has been refrigerated for a few days? It could have been more moist if it was freshly baked. The red is really vibrant which explains why there is little chocolate in this cake. I like my red velvet to be more chocolately but this is just personal preference.






 Maison Ikkoku Cafe
20 Kandahar Street, Singapore 198885
Mon-Thur: 9am~9pm
Fri-Sat: 9am~11pm
Sun: 9am~7pm
And don’t forget to pop by haji lane and kampong glam while you’re in the area! its always nice to take a stroll around a culturally rich area rather than being constantly surrounded by towering skyscrapers. 














My dress down outfit for that day. If you are wondering where do I get this from? Its actually from one of the blogshop at Nex but apparently it has closed down for some reason ): I think I bought this dress for $20 under their sales item. 


We spent our afternoon at Maison Ikkoku cafe and then decided to window shopping around while waiting for the time to pass by. After which, we headed down to Sultan hotel to celebrate his friend's 21st. They held the party at a hotel room which accommodate 30+ people? The room is just as simple as a deluxe room so you can imagine us squeezing inside the room. With the accompanied of his secondary school friends, we had quite an enjoyable times together talking about the army stories and cracking up their old jokes. Our next meet up together will be on the 24th Christmas eve night with his sister and the other few who didn't turn up for that party. Can't wait for this day to come. Hehehehe.


And boy bought this packet of DAIM chocolate for me which is kind of unexpected and definitely my favourite. Who doesn't love chocolates yeah?  But still thanks for this caramel love chocolates (:


Till then.

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