Breakthru Cafeteria

Ok my bad I've been quite busy the past few days haven't really had time to update my blog. Been out catching up with friends and relatives, when I get back quite tired and lazy to update the blog. Got quite a bit of backlog to blog about actually. Well lets start with something rather interesting. Went out with my aunt and her friend the other day for lunch to this place called Breakthru Cafeteria. Breakthru Cafeteria is run by Breakthrough Missions, a Christian organisation that helps ex-convicts. The cafeteria is fully run by ex drug addicts. They show videos of the testimonials of the ex-cons in the cafe as well. A pretty interesting place! They serve stuff like dim sum and nasi lemak. Quite an extensive range of food I must say.

Seriously, for just the 3 of us I think we over ordered. There was so much food we had to tao bao some. First up was nasi lemak. The chilli was good man and the rice was fragrant. Too bad it got cold really fast because we were directly under the air-con.

We had many different kinds of dim sum dishes and there were all pretty good too. All the dishes are freshly steamed and served hot. It would be a pain to individually describe all the dishes cause they were all good so I'll just make mentions of certain dishes.

Above is the siew mai

The xiao long bao had soft tender skin and a juicy centre with soup. Great with the vinegar!

Yam Cake steamed with some sauce

Chicken Feet. Not really my kind of thing. Didn't eat it but my aunt said it was good. I trust her taste because she's quite a foodie herself.

Chee Cheong Fan with prawns. They also have it with char siew or scallops.

I liked their char siew baos because the outside is soft and fluffy. What's inside is usually secondary to me, but the char siew also tasted pretty good.

Century egg and pork porridge was a big bowl. Leans more to the grainy kind of porridge so it's doesn't have such a smooth consistency like crystal jade but it still tasted pretty good. You get the creamy taste of the century egg along with bits of minced pork. The spring and fried onions also make it very fragrant.

Har Kow

On their tables are nicely laminated newspaper articles that put something like: "Last time I used to get charged by them in court, now I serve them food in court." Quite a fitting statement for these waiters and cooks at Breakthru Cafeteria, and it's great to see them being accepted back into society. They may look a little scary with their tattoos and gruff exterior, but they are friendly and service is pretty prompt and efficient. Even the famous defence lawyer, can't remember his name.,Supras or something like that was there for lunch. Prices here are also inexpensive. Dim sum items usually cost between $2.50 to $3.80. They also serve good coffee shop kind of tea and coffee.

Breakthru Cafeteria
People's Park Centre #01-02c(opposite subordinate court)
Opening Hours: Mon to Fri 7am to 7pm, Sat 7am to 3pm
Closed on Sunday and public holidays