The Mid-Term Autumn Festival in Malaysia is a joyous celebration celebrated by the young, old and people of all races. This celebartion takes place from the month of September to early October every year. It is also the second most auspicious festival in Malaysia after the Spring festival.
To be honest, is there any cultural festival would be completed without a culinary feast or representative food? Totally no. In honour of this festival, mooncakes would be savour or gifted as a doorgift whenever visiting to any relative or friends. This round Chinese bakery product has rich thick filling made from red beans or lotus paste , wrapped with a 2 to 3mm crust. This delicacy may consist of salted egg yolks too.
In today, it is customary for every mooncake company and pastry chefs to create unique and special flavour of mooncakes in order to be differentiated from their competitors. However, there are still traditional local bakeries in Johor Bahru that still retain the most time-honoured mooncakes.
Here, SGMYTRIPS would like to recommend you some of the most time-honoured bakeries in Johor Bahru which offers original traditional flavour mooncakes until today.
Celebrating Mid Autumn Festival with Time-Honored Mooncake In Johor
- Kedai Roti Dan Kek Siang Yong 向荣饼店
- Hoo Peng Biscuit Company和平饼家
- Nam Yick Food Trading 南益饼家
- Yong Sheng Gift Shop
- 大四喜饼家
- Restoran Pai Jia Le百家乐饭店
- Yuen Fatt Bakery源發餅家
- Chop Hua Bee
- You Kee XO Restaurant有记XO 烧腊之家
- GN 万发 Food and Biscuits
1. Kedai Roti Dan Kek Siang Yong 向荣饼店
Kedai Roti Dan Kek Siang Yong is a three-decade old bakery available in Johor Bahru which still retain and offer traditional mooncake recipe to every of their customers. This bakery proved that old is gold as there are customers coming back for their traditional Mixed Nuts Mooncakes.
The reason why this traditional Mixed Nuts Mooncakes of Kedai Roti Dan Kek Siang Yong is popular among Johoreans is because it reminds them of the good old days as they ate the similar mooncakes as children. In order to keep the mooncake as traditional as possible, Mr Ong uses pork lard as a part of his mooncake recipe, making the mooncake taste authentic. Hams and wide varieties of mixed nuts such as walnut, almonds, sunflower seeds and sesame seeds are added as these fillings go well with a hot pot of Chinese tea.
Mr.Ong hoped that Kedai Roti Dan Kek SIang Yong would be a family legacy and continuously be passed on to the future generation. Luckily, the only son of him is willing to learn and take over the business.
With his help, Kedai Roti Dan Kek SIang Yong is now serving more than 30 types of mooncakes and traditional biscuits in the bakery which are great to be enjoyed during anytime in the year, beside just the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Additional Information:
Address: 20, Jalan Pendekar 1, Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, 81300 Skudai, Johor
Contact No.: +6016-722 0915
Operating Hours: Daily, 7:00am to 6:00pm
2. Hoo Peng Biscuit Company和平饼家
Hoo Peng Biscuit Company started their traditional biscuit business since the year 1961. It is one of the most visited bakery in Johor by the locals and tourists for authentic traditional biscuits and cakes. There is no exception for them to appear on this list as Hoo Peng Biscuit Company offers wide varieties of traditional mooncakes that sell as hot cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This bakery offers the most basic and most traditional flavor of mooncakes with sweet and savoury fillings like lotus paste, sweet bean paste, pandan paste and mixed nuts. Despite the common looking packaging, these mooncakes taste unexpectedly luscious and are well-received by both locals and foreign tourist.
Hoo Peng Biscuit Company also offers handmade traditional delicacies like sesame candy, tau sah peah, kaya puffs and siew bao throughout the year.
These delicacies are great to be enjoyed as afternoon tea or as a doorgift for relatives and friends during any visit.
Additional Information:
Address: 18, Jalan Kenanga 29/1, Bandar Indahpura, 81000 Kulai, Johor
Contact No.: +607-6631287 ,+6012-7387746
Operating Hours: Daily, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Also Read : Native Products To Buy In Johor
3. Nam Yick Food Trading 南益饼家
Nam Yick Food Trading keeps the tradition method of making biscuits and mooncakes with a heritage goingback to the early 1900s. This Chinese traditional bakery survived for seven challenging decades in now Kluang’s oldest and most visited, especially during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is proud to mention that those who grew up eating Nam Yick Food Trading’s mooncake are now grandparents, and their children’s children are enjoying eating the mooncakes as well.
Every pieces of Nam Yick Food Trading are made purely by hand, from mixing dough to casting shape using individual wooden blocks. There are no preservatives or artificial flavorings in the mooncakes too. It is a must to try Nam Yick Food Trading’s signature Five Kernel Mooncake.
It is chockful of various nutty flavours fillings consisting of five types of toasted nuts and seeds such as walnuts, almonds, pumpkin seeds, peanuts and pumpkin seeds. In addition, candied winter melon, rock sugar and ham are mixed into the mixture for an additional sweetness.
Another signature mooncake of Nam Yick Food Trading would be the Shanghai Mooncake with Tau Sar (red bean paste). The creaminess and sweetness of red bean fillings go really well with the fluffy crust. Other flavours such as lotus paste, pandan paste, pineapple paste and green bean paste are available in Nam Yick Food Trading too.
There are always something for everyone in Nam Yick Food Trading. Be it in sweet or savory, this bakery has it all.
Additional Information
Address: No. 31, 33, 35, Jalan 10, Taman Sri Kluang, Kluang, Johor
Contact No.: +607-774 4750
Operating Hours: Daily, 9:30am to 7:00pm
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Yong Sheng Gift Shop
Established since 1952 in Muar, Yong Sheng Gift Shop is one of the market leader of confectionery manufacture in Malaysia. It offers wide varieties of premium quality pastry focusing on intrinsic Chinese culture blended with South east Asia flavour. Throughout the years, more and more creative biscuits are introduced by this confectionery store but they still retain the traditional biscuit flavour in order to provide the customers with ‘buang balik’ feel to their childhood memory.
The most signature and hot selling traditional mooncake of theirs would be the Egg Yolk Pie. Each of their Egg Yolk Pie is suffused with rich melange of preserved egg yolks and sweet lotus paste in a soft, golden pastry skin.
There are variations like Taro and Green Tea with Red Bean to be chosen if you are demanding for something new.
Yong Sheng Gift Shop also offers traditional Teochew Puff in different flavour such as Mei Dong Cai, White Lotus, Red Bean and also Durian. Do remember that this Teochew Puff is only available for the Mid Autumn Festival, so if you are interested in savoring it, you need to grab them at any if the 12 outlets of Yong Sheng Gift Shop during the month of September and early October.
Additional Information
Address: Lower Level, Lot 1965, Batu 3 1/2, Jalan Bakri, 84000 Muar, Johor
Contact No.: +606-986 3362
Operating Hours: 9:00am to 7:00pm
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大四喜饼家
To your surprise, 大四喜饼家is actually a home-inspired mooncake bakery started up in a normal terrace house. The founders of 大四喜饼家 actually started making mooncakes and bakery goodies as hobby., but they turn up opening their business in the house as there are more and more orders received from their customers. They offered wide varieties of traditional and modern mooncakes like Shanghai Mooncake, Teochew Mooncakes,Cantonese Mooncakes and Jelly Mooncakes.
大四喜饼家 mooncakes will add colours to your day! All their mooncakes are made with natural food ingredients, with no preservatives or artificial colouring.
These natural colour makes their mooncakes to be distinguish from each other too. For example, the green one would be the pandan flavour, black would be the black sesame flavour while the mooncakes with golden yellow crust would be the sweet lotus flavour.
Currently they are expanding their mooncake business online. Delivery would be provided if you ordered their mooncakes through their online sales assistance.
Additional Information
Address: Jalan Murni 10, Taman Putera Murni, 84000 Muar, Johor
Contact No.: +6 06-953 1453
Operating Hours: Daily, 9:00am to 5:30pm
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Restoran Pai Jia Le 百家乐饭店
Can you imagine that there is an unexpectedly delicious mooncake hidden in a Chinese style restaurant? Yes, Restoran Pai Jia Le is offering Teochew style mooncake in their menu throughout the year. This is the place where you can savour wonderful Teochew mooncake as dessert after your meal.
Restoran Pai Jia Le’s Teochew mooncake has a flaky skin with rich buttery taste wrapping a ball of creamy, smooth savory sweet yam paste. You even can taste the bits of fried shallots embedded in the yam fillings in every bite. Best eaten while still hot to taste the crispy texture of the skin.
Additional Information
Address: 113 Jalan Pendekar 2 Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, Skudai, Johor
Contact No.: +6016-712 7749
Operating Hours: 11:30am to 10:30pm
7. Yuen Fatt Bakery源發餅家
Yuen Fatt Bakery is the first bakery that offers Shanghai Mooncake in Kluang.
Unlike the common round or square shaped mooncake, Yuen Fatt Bakery’s Shanghai Mooncake has an elongated shape which looks like a rugby ball. It has a buttery fragrant crust that crumble easily and sweet, smooth filling. They offer three different flavour of mooncakes, which are the pandan, lotus paste and black sesame paste. For egg yolk lovers, the bakery also have the golden option for you.
Do remember that these Shanghai mooncakes are handcrafted with no preservatives and can be kept for a maximum of three weeks if you refrigerate them. Yuen Fatt Bakery is Muslim friendly as they do not use any lard or pork in their mooncake.
Additional Information
Address: No.39, Jalan Haji Manap Nordin, Kluang Baru, Kluang.
Contact No.: +607-773 7107 / +6 012-715 8287
Operating Hours: Monday to Saturday, 9:00am to 8:00pm Sunday, 9:00am to 1:00pm
8. Chop Hua Bee
Chop Hua Bee is a 70 years old biscuits and cakes store that is always crowded since months prior to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Today, Chop Hua Bee is run by the third generation of the Tan family, carrying on the family’s traditional biscuit recipe.
The secret to Chop Hua Bee’s delicious mooncake is that they are using pork lard in producing their mooncake. Also, Chop Hua Bee even make their own mooncake fillings every morning to ensure the freshness. Chop Hua Bee’s biscuits, cakes and mooncakes are affordable gifts of Tangkak. We can see that there are lots of locals and tourists buying them in bundles. Even Singaporeans travelled all their way there to order their traditional wedding and full moon gift set for distribution to relatives and friends.
Additional Information
Address: 10, Jalan Solok, Kampung Padang Lalang, 84900 Tangkak, Johor
Contact No.: +6 012-635 2327
Operating Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 7:00pm Saturday and Sunday, 8:00am to 6:00pm
9. You Kee XO Restaurant有记XO 烧腊之家
Whenever talking about You Kee XO Restaurant, there are always two giant urns of theirs appearing in the visitors mind – the Crispy Roasted Pork and Honey Glazed Char Siew. Well, do you know that You Kee XO Restaurant actually serves delicious mooncake in their menu? Yes, this restaurant do offers Teochew style mooncake which are great to be savour as afternoon snack.
You Kee XO Restaurant’s Teochew Flaky Mooncake is a perfect combination of soft mellow yam paste with crispy ‘thousand layer’ crust. Instead of a flat, cubic shape, Teochew mooncake is usually shaped round and oil fried, making it easy to recognized.
This mooncake is suitable for yam lovers as it is full of yam fragrance and silky smooth yam paste underneath the crispy oil fried crust. Also, options of with or without salted egg yolks are offered by the restaurant to suit the preferences of the customers.
We are lucky to have four You Kee XO Restaurant outlets in Johor Bahru. Using the similar menu and recipe from the main restaurant, all flavors and taste of You Kee XO Restaurant’s delicacy are guaranteed by quality. Not only that, the restaurant also provide mooncake gift packaging service if you would like to have their mooncakes as doorgifts. So, the next time you are craving for some delicious Teochew Mooncake to be enjoyed during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you will know where you ca go.
Additional Information:
KSL Branch
Address: Lot LG-33, KSL City Mall, 33, Jalan Seladang, Taman Abad, 80250 Johor Bahru, Johor
Contact No.: +607-289 1483
Operating Hours: Daily, 10am to 10pm
Johor Jaya Branch
Address: No 83, Jalan Dedap 7, Taman Johor Jaya, 81100 Johor Bahru
Contact No.: +607-355 5037
Operating Hours: Daily, 10am to 10pm
Impian Emas Branch
Address: No 15, Jalan Impian Emas 5/6, Tmn Impian Emas, 81300 Johor Bahru
Contact No: 07-556 0639
Operating Hours: Daily, 10am to 10pm
Skudai Branch
Address: 93, Jalan Pendekar 2, Taman Ungku Tun Aminah, 81300 Skudai, Johor
Contact No.: +6016-7719802
Operating Hours: Dialy,10:30am to 9:00pm
10. GN 万发 Food and Biscuits
GN Food and Biscuits is one of the oldest self-producing Chinese traditional pastry shop in Batu Pahat.
At GN Food and Biscuits, all Shanghai Mooncakes are made one at a time, by using hand with care and passion. This is to ensure that all the Shanghai Mooncakes are tally in shape and size. Sweetened red bean paste, lotus paste or pandan paste are added as fillings along with their home made salted egg yolks. Also, the crust of these Shanghai Mooncakes are not overly thick nor too sweet in order for not overtaking the balanced sweet and savory fillings taste.
Besides that, there are wide varieties of traditional biscuits and cakes produced and sold in GN Food and Biscuits daily. This is a great biscuit shop to buy some customary gifts or eaten alone.
Additional Information
Address: No.180, jalan Abu Bakar, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor
Contact No.: +6018-2991755
Operating Hours: 9:00am to 6:00pm
Also Read : Singapore’s Unique Mooncakes For Mid Autumn Festive Celebrations
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