Dona Manis Cake Shop 865 Mountbatten Rd #B1-93, Katong Shopping Centre (Map) 10am – 4.30pm
Mon & Sun
The old couple in this old retro- grade shopping centre (can’t call this a mall) are icons of the place. Head to the basement and you'll inevitably smell the freshly baked whatever they care to do that day, from Banana Pies and cakes (the mainstay), cheesecakes, chocolate tarts to cream puff with freshly made choux pastry. The shop is very unassuming, looking more like a space for baking than a cake shop. The one not to be missed too is the signature Banana Pie, with a crusty and buttery pastry hiding densely packed layers of banana inside. They sell out fast. The other sin is the Rum Ball, a whole round little golf ball of chocolatey, rum and condensed milk goodness. It's sweet enough and this goes very well with kopi-o kosong or long black coffee sans sugar.
HarriAnns Delight
30 Seng Poh Road #02-25 (Map) https://harrianns.com/ Tues – Sun: 6am – 2pm Mon
They started with a pushcart stall selling glutinous rice and kuehs in the 60s. It was Ah Ma, the late matriach who started this tradition and handed it down to Harry Tan and his wife Annie (who still run the hawker stall in Tiong Bahru). A third generation – led by son Alan and his wife Sharon, now helm this and they took the business to another level. They turned it into a chain of pretty Nonya cafes, also offering hot items like laksa. Their range of Nonya kuehs and cakes are vast and varied with a lot of elbow grease work that continues into making their little sweet morsels of delight. Their signatures include the Ondeh Ondeh (glutinous pandan mochi balls fills with oozy gula melaka), Kueh Salat (kaya cakes with coconutty blue pea glutinous rice), Rainbow Lapis (soft, wobbly layer multi coloured steamed glutinous rice cakes) and, Ang Ku Kueh (red sticky cakes filled with peanut and palm sugared grated coconut). They still maintain much of their hand made goodness, despite introducing some automation (alongside manual labour) in their central kitchen.
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