Coffee & Tea with Fresh Cow Milk in Singapore @ Madras Coffee House's Kerbau Road

Milton has been telling us about this road side cafe that serves coffee and tea with fresh cow's milk at Kerbau Road in Little India. Six of us dropped by after a scrumptious biryani lunch at Mr Biryani steps away around the corner at Chander Road. (More about Mr Biryani in a future post - it is highly recommended 👍)

Stall name: Madras Coffee House's

Address: 54 Kerbau Road, #01-06, Singapore 218179

Nearest MRT: 10 minutes walk from Little India station (exit E)

Tel: 9499 9945

Hours: 5:30am - 9:30pm (timings need confirmation)

Fresh cow's used to be easily available in Singapore up to the 1980s, delivered in bottles or plastic bags on motorcycles or bicycles. Today, such fresh milk deliveries are gone in Singapore. It remains a fond memory for those fortunate enough to live through that era. (Picture of Singapore milk man in 1950 courtesy of National Archives of Singapore.)

The last Singapore milk men retired in the 1980s (photo courtesy of National Archives of Singapore).

Luckily, there are still a small handful of stalls serving coffee or tea with fresh cow's milk today in Singapore's Little India.

Madras Coffee House's is a tiny street side stall with no seats, so we had to drink our coffee or tea there standing or taking away in styrofoam cups. Fortunately, it was a breezy cloudy day, so it was no sweat at all, literally.

The masala tea was nice with mild spice flavours and fragrance. The cow's milk has lighter body compared to evaporated milk or condensed milk. Cow's milk is also less sweet. This allows the spice flavours to stand out more and I could drink another without feeling overdosed on sugar.

Menu of Madras Coffee House at Kerbau Road in Little India. They have coffee and also Indian sweets which I must come back for. No, whenever I am here, will get my tea from here 😄

While we were enjoying our tea, we bumped into a group of Indian visitors who were ecstatic about drinking tea at Madras Coffee House's far away from home. They told us that such tea shops and fresh cow's milk are "everywhere" in India. Picture of tea shop in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India courtesy of Flickr.

            

Written by Tony Boey on 6 Feb 2023