Kopi Factory — Restaurant in Davao City

Adding to the line of coffee shops and cafe in the Davao's food street in Marfori is Kopi Factory who claims to serve authentic Singaporean coffee (kopi) and tea (teh).

I ordered their signature kopi with signaturr milk mixture, iced and milo toast.

Backgrounder: Singaporean coffee known as kopi is known to be a coffee with a kick and is usually served with sweet milk. Described as "toe-curling", kopi is a full-bodied type which is not for the faint hearted.

That being said, Kopi Factory lives up to its promise of Singapore's signature drink. While waiting for my order (which took a while), I was able to observe their preparation that followed the more traditional method of drip and steeping the coffee grounds. By experience, these method gives a fuller body to the drink which will require TIME.

Traditonal toast in Singapore would be served with kaya and sugar (and eggs on the side) but Kopi Factory offers an alternate of Milo (yes, the choco drink) with the same sidings. As mentioned, the soft boiled egg are served almost raw to my friends so I requested slight cooked coz I prefer egg whites not to be runny.

Overall, coffee was good, toast was also okay.

Value for money? I would say not bad considering cheap range of prices of beverage and food. Generally clean area but quite poor service. It appears the shop is under-manned and staff aren't ready to serve or prepare food. Long wait in the counter. Cashier serves as their barista and cook at the same time.

Location is excellent for students and has strong reliable wifi. No wonder students especially some ruthless stingy aliens who would stay and not even order a drink or food. It also has a open area, not much clutter in the wall (only to uncleaned tables left by customers for a long time).

The cafe do not man their area well and they appear to be under-staffed. The location used to be a school with sooooo much space but the ratio of staff to their space is not enough.

Not a big fan of their chairs but exterior appearance looks...

Legit 24 hour coffee shop. There are a number of beverages you can choose from and the cakes are delicious. The only thing I don't like about this coffee shop is that it is full of mostly students studying which gives you that feeling that the place is not for everyone. We went here with my friend as a last stop after watching a movie in GMALL and after Karaoke. We wanted to catch up more and talk but soon as we were finding our sit after taking our order we cannot really pick a seat where there's no student is studying so as a result we went outside and there's still a bunch of students there not studying but just chatting. So we stayed outside and just chat away. You know you can't really laugh out loud coz these students gives you that look that "hey, look I'm studying here, keep it down" yeah I know I can read minds. But coffee shops shouldn't be like this....

I’m only going to rate this two stars because the place was nice with great ambiance. But everything else sucked. The service was slow, despite us being the only customer at 8am, we waited 25 mins for our food and drink. And another thing, I’ve been eating and drinking Singapore kopi, but this kopi they served was weak... kaya toast was a sham, it wasn’t god damn kaya! It was the Pinoy coconut jam they used. So yeah, if you’re expecting Singapore kopi with kaya toast, don’t bother coming here. Wait for toast box or ya kun to miraculously come to Davao city, fingers crossed.

P.S. did you know they charged Singapore prices? I think that’s the only legitimately Singaporean thing...