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A vibrant, lovely crowded place, even if it is at the graveyard for food operators, Ion Orchard. With thick, rich black coffee and the traditional bakery comforts of white bread- probably only the antiquated ways stand, to fill up the tummies of longtime customers.
Like the asian sweet and dessert stores which has become popular over the past few years, they are like staples, or power menus which can easily forge with our daily habits, because they are foods that we always have a craving, or space for. They have now incorporated this with air-conditioning, and lush, plush comforts.
Like here at Tea Loft, it thrives with the most modest, honest kind of menu, and it can just live like that. It is the only different Toast Box, because besides being at Ion Orchard, it also tries to come up with a colonial theme with a menu with strong Nanyang flavour. In its cheekiness to be dissimilar, it really also has some exotic, and funky foods.
Yam Kaya (SGD 1.80)
One of the foods on its picture display that makes you wonder is it a Toast Box, or is it not a Toast Box? Because there is everything like the miniature kopi cup, the same thick toasts, the toast sets— but a purple one in the menu? This would probably have been one of the 'Nanyang flavour', flagged by Tea Loft. Denomination of Toast Box, from the BreadTalk Group.
To be very honest, one has seen many foods, and they are all acceptable and definable, no matter what shape and size they are. But this time, this thick toast just wins hands down. Because with all one's conceptualization and perception, one just cannot imagine a yam and a kaya together, how simple it might be. While it may, for others, this just remains an imagination block, for some reason.
P.S. And finally, only the yam kaya itself can tell me. Yam kaya is like a kaya toast, with less of the sweet pudding taste, there is an impression of a muted coconut. Yes, the savouriness of a coconut. It must have been how the yam is, in a 'kaya' 's base. And in a yam kaya, the toast seems thicker and coarser than usual, because there is no buttered base for the crust, or the smoothness of a slick kaya.
