Come this tumble Killiney Kopitiam, famous as Singapore’s oldest cafe, will have a initial U.S. outpost in downtown Palo Alto.
Amanda Steckler, a Singaporean local who has lived in Palo Alto, is opening an outpost of a now-franchised cafeteria sequence during 552 Waverley St. in early fall. The space between Tai Pan and The Prolific Oven final housed longtime office-supply store Congdon and Crome.
Steckler described herself as a food partner and zealous home prepare who felt University Avenue’s dining stage was “lacking in southeast Asian comfort food — some place infrequent that people and families could go to suffer good food,” she said. “This is something that not usually we missed, though my Asian friends and others that had lived in or visited Singapore missed.”
Killiney Kopitiam is named after a travel on that a cafeteria initial non-stop 100 years ago (and where it still exists today). In “Singlish,” a brew of English, Malay and Chinese, Kopitiam means “coffee shop,” Steckler said. The cafeteria became obvious for a coffee and normal charcoal-grilled bread toast though a menu stretched over a years to embody curries, rice and noodle dishes.
Killiney Kopitiam’s kaya toast with coffee and soft-boiled eggs. Photo pleasantness Killiney Kopitiam.
“Singapore is a food lover’s bliss with Michelin-starred restaurants as good as a extensive resources of travel food, with Killiney Kopitiam in a middle,” Steckler said. “Singapore is a mix of cultures and ethnicities — Chinese from many Chinese provinces, Punjabi, Hindi, Malay, Indian, Muslim, vegetarian, as good as a British colonial presence. Not usually have these cultures been blended, though a dishes have blended also, ensuing in a really singular Singaporean cuisine that we will be offering.”
Killiney Cafe Palo Alto will offer breakfast, lunch and dinner. Steckler skeleton to import a Singaporean coffee fry that she pronounced isn’t accessible anywhere else in a United States. The coffee, or “kopi” in Singlish, is done “in a really melodramatic conform by pouring between long-spouted vessels,” she said.
Steckler suggests training some Singlish to sequence other drinks that will be on offer: “kopi-c,” or coffee with precipitated milk; “kopi siew tai,” coffee with reduction sugar; and “kopi-o,” black coffee.
Traditionally, Singaporean coffee drinks are served with soft-boiled eggs and kaya toast, bread surfaced with a widespread done from eggs, coconut milk, sugarine and pandan leaf. There will also be Singaporean coffee buns and some low sum.
Other dishes will include fried carrot cake, a radish cake stir boiled with egg and dim soy sauce; bee hoon, vermicelli noodles with egg, vegetables and chili; nasi lemak, coconut rice surfaced with satay and curry; and Hainaise duck rice, poached duck served with rice and surfaced with chili, ginger and dim soy sauce.
Killiney Kopitiam also serves laksa, a coconut curry soup. Photo pleasantness Killiney Kopitiam.
“The core of these dishes are common to Killiney Kopitiams around a universe though we will be modifying some of them to improved fit American tastes,” Steckler said.
Steckler grew adult in Singapore and has given lived in Prague, Cupertino and Palo Alto. She worked for many years as a moody attendant out of Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Bahrain. She changed to Palo Alto 6 years ago with her father Vince Steckler, a former CEO of Avast Software. They returned to Singapore final year after he retired.
The Palo Alto Killiney will be a “trial cafe” for destiny locations in Silicon Valley and Southern California, Steckler said.
She’s aiming to open in September.