East Coast confectionery Chin Mee Chin not closing, staff insist
SINGAPORE – The staff and owners of Chin Mee Chin Confectionary today refuted rumours circulating online that the decades-old coffeeshop was due to close down.
SINGAPORE – The staff and owners of Chin Mee Chin Confectionary today refuted rumours circulating online that the decades-old coffeeshop was due to close down.
An employee of more than 15 years, who wanted only to be known as Ah Eng, said: “I don’t know where the rumours came from. We don’t use the Internet and we haven’t heard about it until people told us.”
The staff expressed frustration at the number of people who had asked them about the matter in the past few days. Almost all employees in the kitchen declined to be interviewed.
When TODAY visited the East Coast Road at 1.30pm, it was business as usual, the shop packed and certain pastries already sold out well before the coffeeshop’s 4pm closing time.
Established in the 1960s, the old-school confectionary is a landmark in eastern Singapore draws patrons from across the island.
“Their kaya is great,” said a patron who wanted only to be known as Terry, who lives in Thomson and was at Chin Mee Chin with his mother. “I come here once a month just for the kaya.”