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89 East Coast Road, #01-01
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Telephone: (65) 6440-7071
Website: www.batterfluffyflaps.com/
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Pancake Speciality Cafe
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We were enamoured by the cute sheep figurine parked at the entrance of the shop and drawn by the prospect of having pancakes for brunch on a late Sunday morning.
Located along the narrow and sometimes congested East Coast Road, just diagonally opposite I12 Katong, Batter Fluffy Flaps or BFF for short, boasts a cute, sheep centric interior and menu. Great if you are into cutesy stuff.
The both of us had the BFF special, which included 2 drinks, 2 pancakes dishes (savoury or sweet) and 1 side to share. For drinks we ordered the Cookies & Cream ice blended and the Pure Caramel Coffee Blended; Both decent but a tad watered down. And I guess you can't really go wrong with drinks?
Honey Baked Chicken Wings - I'm sorry to say this but the wings suffered 50% burns on the outside but remained relatively unscathed on the inside. Read. Relatively raw with blood still seeping through. Very badly executed and we gave up after the 2nd wing.
Fish Flaps - This was essentially deep fried fish fillet served with tartar sauce, coleslaw and 2 flapjacks. The fish fillets had way too much flour and very little fish but was still palatable though you would probably need a lot of tartar sauce to down that much flour. Coleslaw was a tad too creamy, rich and sourish for my liking. On a slightly more positive note, the pancakes were quite fluffy (though smallish) and well cooked, but the accompanying "maple syrup" tasted like the hotcake syrup that MacDonalds uses. That's definitely not maple syrup for sure.
Banana Bonanza - 2 pieces of pancakes topped with sliced bananas, vanilla ice cream, caramel sauce and walnuts. Average tasting though the pancakes were quite fluffy. The bananas could have been grilled to achieve a certain degree of caramelisation whilst the ice cream was evidently from the tub as I could find ice chips in it. The sole saving grace was the relatively generous serving of walnuts.
The BFF special cost the both of us $42.80, which was honestly a rip off for the quality of food. Please heed my advise on this place; Look past the cute facade and name and give this place a miss.
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Had been curious about this pancake place since I read about it on 8days, and finally got the chance to try it this afternoon. They are located quite opposite Katong112, directly facing the HK cafe next to 112. You can look out for the cutest (fat) sheep mascot signage along the shophouses, or the actual sized sheep plonked at its entrance.
We were the first customers to step in at slightly past noon on a weekday which was surprisingly to me. The decor is nicely cute with a simple yet colourful setup. Seating could not have been more than say 35, including 2 corners of cosy seats.
The menu was simply done up but with plenty of offerings of pancakes (savoury or sweet), dotted with bites like truffle ruffles (truffle fries) and an interesting coffee menu that comes with visuals of what they are. Nice touch. And they have a very interesting beer & ciders and bottled tea menu. I like!
Okay, the food. All 5 of us had savories (each comes with 2 pancakes) and I only tried one so here goes:
Breakfast Mambo Combo ($14) - A delicious combo of ham, bacon, poached eggs, and chipolata sausages - I decided that all breakfast-y stuff should stick together. The portion is not overwhelming and really, its a comfort platter. The sausages were done crispy on the outside which is always a plus, and the poached eggs done well. But the bacon was too oily, and the ham tasted like it was plain old shoulder ham - disappointing. And the pancakes were....not fantastic which was a huge negative for a place which supposedly specializes in them. They were too dry and left a weird aftertaste in the mouth. Not fluffy at all. So much so that one of us thought it was frozen pancakes until we saw the chap pouring the batter.
Chicken Kebab Blab ($12) - chicken chunks, crunchy capsicum, juicy cube pineapples, mini eggs, and white grilled button mushrooms threaded on a kebab - a colourful plate and generous chucks of the ingredients.
Mushrooms and Tiger Prawns ($15) - buttery grilled portobello mushrooms with juicy tiger prawns - this looked the best: a huge mushroom sitting in the middle of the 2 pancakes with 2 medium tiger-ish prawns nestled within it.
Fishy Flaps ($14) - battered fish fillets with house-made tartar sauce and coleslaw - fish ad chips with pancakes.
Service was okay but it seemed like it was only 1 staff outside and 1 staff inside cooking. But the food took a really long time to arrive as I guess the chaps only had 2 hands. At least they arrived hot. The place also started to fill up around 1pm with students and teenagers, after school maybe.
I'm quite disappointed that a pancake place cant get it pancake right. Sigh. But if I'm in the vicinity, I dont mind returning just to try their beers :)
Login to add your comment. Or, Register for an account now. It's free!I always associate pancakes with sweet food like ice-creams, maple syrup... Guess I have to get used to having it with savoury food.... Pancakes are like ANGMO Prata :)
05 Sep 2012 at 2:23 pm
Yes well said ahaha. The savories are refreshing but the pancakes are disappointing
05 Sep 2012 at 2:45 pm