Dona Manis Cake Shop 865 Mountbatten Rd #B1-93, Katong Shopping Centre (Map) 10am – 4.30pm
Mon & Sun
The talk will always be about their ex-staff opening an almost similar competing outlet next door two years back. But Dona Manis has some standouts and differences. Their signature dense banana pie is rich in flavour, buttery, softly crumbly and nutty on top. But their standout item is the apple crumble, adorned with baked buttery crumbles and the best part is the lightly crunchy apples within. So enjoyable. Their banana cake is fluffy, fleck with banana bits leaning slightly in the drier side of moist.
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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