Soul Food

I know, i know... I am late again in posting my pics from the road trip.

We arrive home safely to a whole barrage of emails and orders to fulfil. Now that those are cleared up, I realised that the Zoombrowser program for downloading pics from my Ixus canon is misssing from the PC. Hmm....no one else at home touches my pc except me, so it must be no one else but me who had probably deleted the program or something. And plus the fact the right click for my mouse is not working too. .. oh well, will get these fixed some day.


I thought I should blog about a refreshing, not gastronomical lunch experience we had today. We needed to settle some legal matters at the Lawyer's office down at Furama today. We were early and decided to have lunch at People's Park Centre. We came by this dim sum restaurant called Breakthrough Cafe located on the 1st level.

Breakthrough cafe is run by a Christian based aftercare association that provides skills to former prisoners who have difficulty finding jobs because of their record. Many of the waiters sport fierce looking tattoos under their polo tee uniform, but service was really good, if I had to compare the service we received from a popular family restaurant that servces ice cream. The waiters were prompt to seat us, gave us our order sheet, and patiently waited to take our orders. Our food came promptly, no necessity to remind.

We also witnessed how a waiter react to a customer (the flashy tai tai with big hair, and just as big bling blings) who complained about the half boiled eggs not being done in the way she like it. I would have been really pissed at the way the lady talked down to the waiter, but he took the offending eggs away, and upon replacing the eggs, the lady told him that she did not want it anymore.

What amazes us is not so much the food, but the attitude of the staff. They seem just happy to be able to serve, and this joy seems to radiated towards their work attitude. Having had our fair share of sulky faced waiters and waitresses, and even sarcastic restaurant managers, what greeted us at this restaurant was indeed a refreshing change.

About the food, Breakthrough Cafe servces coffee shop type of food and tim sum at reasonable prices. We had the pei tan porridge, har kao, siew mai. All were delicious and so were the coffee and tea, whch were professionally done. All these served in a nice, clean, air-conditioned with nice furniture. Nicer than kopi tiam

So, if you are in the vicinity, drop by the restaurant. Give it a try, give them a shot!

Breakthrough Cafe is located at:
101 Upper Cross Street #01-02 People's Park's Centre