Tiny’s Café & Lounge
Picket & Rail Building
@ 566 Woodlands Road
Singapore 728697

Opening Hours:
11am to 10pm Daily
Tiny’s Café and Lounge is a new joint set up by Hokkien spouting Janson Lowe and his mother Annie Fernandez. The café managed by Denise Chu, an ex-SIA first class cabin crew, specifically serves up Eurasian food. According to Janson, the term Eurasian stems from the arrival of the Portuguese in Malacca as traders, explorers and colonisers. Portugal had a policy of racial integration that encouraged the intermingling of themselves with the native population of Malacca. The hybrid race called themselves Jenti Kristang (Christian people).

The Eurasians have developed East-West dishes that combine Portuguese cooking methods with the ingredients of the local cuisines. From the Malays, they learnt the use of tamarind, lemongrass, lime and galangal, from the Indians they learnt the art of mixing spices to create rempah, from the Chinese the art of stir frying, and from the Peranakan the taste for sweet and sour. As for the fiery touch, the Portuguese themselves introduce the ubiquitous chilli pepper to Asia after the discovery of the Americas.

Ambience at Tiny Café and Lounge

Tiny Café and Lounge is located at Picket & Rail’s Factory Outlet at Mandai. It is a good place to take a breather if you are visiting the Picket & Rail outlet or hanging out while your car is being washed. The café has an al fresco area that is best enjoyed after 5pm when it is cool. The wrought iron tables and chairs lend a Mediterranean feel. Part of the al fresco area is set over with broken granite stones where you can sit and enjoy a cool breeze while downing your beer or wine. Perfect atmosphere for small gatherings.

Tiny’s Bar serves alcohol. Beers served include Tiger, Carlsberg, Corona, and Guinness. It also offers spirits such as Jim Beam, Gordon’s Gin, Jack Daniels, Martell, Smirnoff and house wines.

The interior of the café feels cosy and is tastefully done up with the accent on wooden furniture and wooden wall signs in the style of Irish pubs. It is almost a sports bar as well with TV and a pool area. If you are visiting between meal times you could take your ice lemon tea made from freshly brewed tea leaves and real lemons at the comfortable leather sofa while away your time reading magazines and books from the rack. There is also local coffee which is reputed to be the best in the old Woodlands and Mandai area.

The speciality here is the salted fish steamboat. The first of its kind in S'pore. Its an old Portugese recipe where salted fish bones are used. The taste is rich and sweet from hours of boiling salted Kurau fish bones.