A (Failed) Trip To Kilang Bateri

It was another weekend night spent across the border, this time with my work buddies. As usual, we're always looking for a new space to chill at and came across Kilang Bateri. With all the hype and photos I've seen of the place from my friends' social media accounts, obviously I was excited as hell. Unfortunately though, it was a battle of expectations versus reality, and the latter won.

Disclaimer: If you were looking for a visitor's guide to Kilang Bateri, sorry to burst your bubble but this is extremely, extremely far from that.

 

As you can see, they said the place was gonna be open til three in the morning. We arrived before midnight and to our surprise, almost everything was closed. Not even closing— but already closed. This isn't the first time my heart's been cheated by Google Maps. The property owner probably didn’t update their Google Business Listing. 

Full Tank is the only restaurant that was still taking customers but unfortunately, we were told that their kitchen was already closed during our arrival. My friends and I didn't get to try any of the awesome hipster food that we saw online but since we were already there, we decided to just get drinks. Oh well. But we did enjoy the lovely ambiance though. The setting and the lights were really nice. I really wish we came earlier.

I feel like this is the most redundant post I've ever written in my life but I hope you've enjoyed the pictures. Check the place out yourself or see what they have to offer on their official instagram page, or other bloggers (like this) who've written about their successful visit to this great place. It was so heartbreaking to see 95% of the shops closed when we arrived at midnight but despite the disappointment, I loved loved loved the hipster vibe, the fairy lights.. simply just the whole ambiance that the whole place gave. I will be back here (in broad daylight next time) to try as much food as I can and then write a proper post with photos of food that might make you salivate.

Bobby ended up driving over to our favourite chill-out place (Banafee Village) that is still always open this late in the night. We even caught the Real Madrid vs Arsenal game, have some great talks over good food, and then called it a night.

Til next time!