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Desserts in Singapore I Can't Stop Thinking About Since My Trip
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items Went to Singapore expecting to eat my weight in chicken rice and laksa — did not expect desserts to completely wreck me. If you're planning a trip and your sweet tooth runs your life the way mine does, save this before you go. Took me three visits an...
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Traditional Kuehs That Ruined All Other Pastries for Me
Shaved Ice Bowls That Saved Me from the Heat
Egg Tarts and Baked Goods Worth Crossing the City For
Pandan Everything Because This Flavor Changed My Life
Durian Desserts for the Brave and the Curious
Hawker Centre Desserts Under Three Dollars
Traditional Kuehs That Ruined All Other Pastries for Me
Before Singapore I thought pastries meant croissants and danishes. Then someone handed me a kueh at a hawker centre and I literally stood there re-evaluating my entire dessert history.
Grab one of these pandan-coconut layers and try not to eat four in a row — failed that test myself. Perfect if you're someone who finds Western pastries too sweet and wants something more earthy and fragrant.
Kueh Ho Jiak
Bite into this tiny green ball and melted palm sugar explodes in your mouth. Brought a box back to the hotel for my partner who doesn't even like sweets — gone in ten minutes.
Bengawan Solo @ Jewel
Snag these early because they sell out by noon most days. Soft glutinous rice skin with peanut or mung bean filling — if you grew up on mochi you'll understand this immediately but it hits different.
Ji Xiang Everton Park
Shaved Ice Bowls That Saved Me from the Heat
Singapore humidity had me drenched by 10am every single day. These weren't just desserts — they were survival tools.
Try this towering mountain of shaved ice loaded with red beans, corn, and rose syrup before you judge the combo. Sounds weird to Western ears but my whole travel group converted after one bowl.
Jin Jin Hot Cold Dessert Sells Famous Ice Kacang
Get the original with gula melaka — that caramel-smoky palm sugar over shaved ice with green pandan jelly strips. Sat in a hawker centre at 2pm dripping sweat and this single bowl made me forget I was melting.
Old Amoy Chendol: Truly Artisanal Chendol
Pair this with a walk through Chinatown right after — cold mango coconut soup with tapioca pearls. For anyone who loves mango sticky rice in Thailand, this is Singapore's answer and honestly it might win.
📍Mei Heong Yuen （味香园甜品） Mango pomelo sago ($8)
Egg Tarts and Baked Goods Worth Crossing the City For
Spent an entire afternoon on the MRT chasing down bakeries because someone on Reddit told me to. Zero regrets, sore feet, happy stomach.
Ditch whatever hotel breakfast they offer you and go straight here instead. Flaky croissant with a molten salted egg custard center — bit into it on the bus and almost missed my stop.
Antoinette's Salted Egg Yolk Croissant - Singapore
Keep this address in your phone because you'll want to go back twice. Thin diamond-shaped pastry shell with silky egg custard — been around since 1935 and the line tells you everything.
Tong Heng
Toss a few boxes of these in your luggage for people back home — crumbly butter cookie topped with tangy pineapple jam. My coworkers wouldn't stop asking where I got them for weeks after.
Le Café Pineapple Tarts Review - Royal Bakery
Pandan Everything Because This Flavor Changed My Life
Never even heard of pandan before Singapore. Now I put it in my smoothies at home like some kind of convert. That coconutty vanilla-ish green flavor haunts me.
Use this as your intro to pandan if you've never tried it — soft as a cloud, barely sweet, and somehow tastes like vanilla's cooler tropical cousin. Picked one up at the airport on the way out.
Pandan Chiffon Cake (I)
Grab one fresh off the iron when it's still crispy outside and pillowy inside. Standing on the street eating this at 9pm after a long day was one of those weirdly perfect travel moments.
Crispy Pandan Waffles Recipe
Switch up your morning routine and start the day with thick toast spread with pandan coconut jam and a slab of cold butter. Sounds strange but the hot-cold-sweet-salty combo will rearrange your breakfast priorities.
Ya Kun Kaya Toast
Durian Desserts for the Brave and the Curious
My friend dared me to try durian my first night in Singapore. Smelled like gym socks, tasted like the richest custard I've ever had. Here's where to start if you're on the fence.
Try this if you want durian training wheels — the pastry shell and chilled filling make it approachable even if the smell scares you. Brought a skeptical friend here and she ordered seconds.
Mao Shan Wang & D24 Durian Delights at Coffee Lounge
Warm durian coconut soup that tastes like the fanciest custard dessert you've ever had. For anyone who keeps saying they'll try durian someday — this is your someday, just commit.
What's a dessert that reminds you
Swap your usual gelato stop for this — frozen durian in a cup that removes the texture issue some people have. Eaten at midnight on the street with strangers who all nodded at each other in silent agreement.
Four Seasons Durians
Hawker Centre Desserts Under Three Dollars
Some of the best things I ate in Singapore cost less than my morning coffee at home. That fact still bothers me a little.
Get the warm version if it's raining — silky smooth soybean pudding with ginger syrup that costs almost nothing and tastes like someone's grandmother made it with love. Went three mornings in a row.
Rochor Original Beancurd
Black glutinous rice porridge with coconut milk — sounds like health food but eats like dessert. Perfect if you're the type who wants something sweet but feels guilty about actual cake.
Maxwell Food Centre
Snag these fried banana fritters right when they come out of the oil because they lose their crunch fast. Crispy battered outside, warm banana inside — two bucks and you'll wonder why banana desserts back home even try.
Old Airport Road Food Centre
Fancy Patisserie Stops When You Want to Sit Down and Cool Off
Sometimes the hawker centre heat got to me and I needed air conditioning, a chair, and something beautiful on a plate. No shame in that.
Layers of spiced butter cake so precise it looks like it was built by an architect. Bring this to any dinner party back home and watch people lose their minds trying to figure out how the layers work.
Janice Wong Singapore
Pandan and coconut layered into those famous crepe cakes — walked past the window display, turned around, walked in, no regrets. For anyone who already loves Lady M but wants something you literally cannot get outside Singapore.
Lady M - Singapore
Rich nutty black sesame ice cream with waffles and toppings in a space that feels like a design magazine. Take your time here — rushed through my first visit and wished I'd stayed longer.
Black Sesame Soft Serve
Late Night Sweet Spots When Jet Lag Keeps You Up
Wide awake at 1am thanks to the time difference and wandering around looking for sugar. Singapore delivered every single night.
Throw your diet out the window and order crispy flatbread drizzled with sweetened condensed milk at midnight. For every fellow jet-lagged traveler sitting in a fluorescent-lit shop at 2am wondering if this is real life — it is and it's great.
Step-by-step roti prata guide - Singapore Noodles
Open until late and the cold mango soup with pomelo bits is exactly what you need after walking fifteen miles in tropical heat. Sat there exhausted and happy, texting everyone back home that they need to visit.
Ah Chew Desserts (Cineleisure) Menu, Price
Warm peanut soup with chewy glutinous rice balls — sounds like something your body shouldn't want at midnight but it's oddly comforting. Been in the same spot for decades and the simplicity is the whole point.
Singapore Heritage: Ah Balling Peanut Soup
Dessert Souvenirs to Bring Home So the Magic Doesn't End
Landed back home, opened my suitcase, and immediately started rationing everything I'd packed. Should have bought more.
Toss a jar in your checked bag and spread it on toast every morning until it runs out — then immediately start planning your next trip to restock. Coconut egg jam that makes regular butter and jelly feel boring.
Homemade Kaya (coconut jam) - Little Vienna
Sweet smoky barbecued pork jerky that technically isn't dessert but I ate it like candy. Vacuum-sealed packs survive the flight home — brought five and they lasted exactly four days between two people.
Bee Cheng Hiang
Pack these carefully because the crumbly ones will break — learned that mistake on trip one. Hand these out at work and suddenly everyone wants to hear about your Singapore trip in detail.
Gin Thye Pineapple Tart Yellow Tin 黄莉挞 黄锡盒