Now that you have successfully identified what makes a cafe a hipster cafe in Singapore, here are 10 quintessential hipster foods you are expected to know by heart and consume regularly if you ever wanted to become a bona fide hipster.
1. Nutella tart
Everything With Fries - 40 Lorong Mambong, Singapore 277695
Normal people: Buy a jar of Nutella for $4 at the supermarket.
Hipsters: Work part-time to earn money. Walk into eatery. Buy a slice of Nutella tart for $6. Savour small quantity of Nutella baked into pastry. Feel emo. Take photo. Filter. Emote on Instagram about cherishing what you have.
2. Truffle fries
SPRMKT - 2 McCallum Street, Singapore 069043
Because normal fries is too mainstream. Hipsters somehow don't feel bothered that truffle oil from a bottle is synthetic and can be bought off the shelf at any good supermarket.
Thinks liquefied petroleum gas smell of truffle oil is "earthy scent".
3. All-day breakfast
Bread Yard - 20 Dover Dr, Singapore 138682
Mainstream people: Eat breakfast during breakfast time, eat lunch during lunch time and eat dinner during dinner time.
Hipsters: Eat breakfast the whole day.
4. Waffles
Strangers Reunion - 37 Kampong Bahru Rd, Singapore 169356
A food that has been served as a dessert for the longest time has been turned into a kind of bread by hipsters.
5. Pancakes
Strictly Pancakes - 44A Prinsep Street, Singapore 188674
Pancakes eaten with maple syrup is so Y2k. Now it is made more palatable with hipster ingredients like Nutella, salted caramel and garlic butter prawn.
6. Eggs Benedict
Riders Cafe - 51 Fairways Dr, Singapore 286965
Poached eggs cannot be too hard. Cannot be too soft. Must be just nice. Perfect balance. So quaint.
7. Coffee art
Nylon Coffee Roasters - #01-40 4 Everton Park Singapore 080004
Art that doesn't have permanence is real art. It is as fleeting as a hipster's chances of landing a real job.
8. Craft beer
79 Brighton Crescent, Singapore 559218
Drinking beer is not to get high or get drunk. It is to feel quaint.
9. Rainbow cake
W39 Bistro & Bakery - 39 Jalan Mas Puteh, Singapore 128637
Time taken to make rainbow cake: 5 hours
Time taken to eat it: 3 minutes
Yup, as impractical as a real hipster.
10. Cupcakes and muffins
Fluffy Bakery - 12 Jalan Pisang, Singapore 199079
Normal people: Staple diet consists of carbohydrates, protein and fibre.
Hipsters: Staple diet consists of sugar, flour, cream and butter.
This explains why some hipster cafes only sell coffee, waffles and cake.
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