Food Picks: Refreshing iced salted coffee from Bee Hoe Coffee
SINGAPORE – Sure, drinking an isotonic drink after exercising o r s weating buckets in the hot weather is the sensible thing.
Drinking Bee Hoe Coffee's Iced Salted Coffee is just a lot more fun and satisfying. I have been nipping over to this covert coffee place in a Joo Chiat back alley after my workouts. Look for barber shop Autocutt Boardroom, and go round to the back. There, amid a jumble of plants, is Bee Hoe, a cool refuge from the heat.
The Iced Salted Coffee ($6) is a latte with salt in it. Simple, but everything about this drink works.
The coffee is powerful, but not in a shouty way. Think of it as the drinkable version of American singer-songwriter Barry White's voice – deep and smooth. The ratio of coffee to milk is just right, neither overwhelms the finished drink. And the salt just lifts it from the ordinary.
Can't get enough of this love, babe.
Where: 55 Joo Chiat Place
MRT: Paya Lebar
Open: 8.30am to 2pm (weekdays), 8.30am to 4pm (weekends)
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