Coracle

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The Japanese breakfast set includes grilled fish, rice, soup, something fried, something grilled, a little sashimi and pickles.

Cosy interiors at the Anderson Street cafe, renovated in 2018.

Fluffy shokupan toast with Earl Grey jam.

A closer look at the Japanese breakfast set, $55.

Buttery, fluffy shokupan bread is grilled over binchotan, a clean-burning Japanese charcoal.

Vietnamese hot coffee blends condensed milk, evaporated milk and coconut milk with coffee that’s been dripped through a filter for eight hours.

Coracle is perhaps best defined as a fine-dining cafe. There’s coffee and tea, eggs and toast, soup and sandwiches, but everything is rendered with deep thought, pristine ingredients and exquisite care. Just ask the toast: cloud-fluffy Japanese milk bread grilled over binchotan charcoal.

Owners Duong “Jane” Nu Duc Tam and her partner, Wong “Benny” Tat Ying are from Vietnam and Hong Kong respectively, and they’ve embraced a passion for Japanese culture and cuisine. Those three cultures are all represented on the menu, but the bedrock dish is the Japanese breakfast set, a tray of small dishes that includes fish, rice, soup, something fried, something grilled, a little sashimi and pickles.

The Viet coffee is its own feat of creativity: a blend of condensed, evaporated and coconut milks, steamed together with filter coffee. Breakfast really can be the most important meal of the day; Coracle reminds us to slow down and enjoy it.

Must order: The Japanese breakfast set. It’s a premium product and is $55 to account for that.

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Last visited: June 2026

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