Batu Pahat Buy: GN Food & Biscuits (满發传统手工糕饼店) Teochew La Piah
- Rick
- Jun 3
- 2 min read
One of the best things to do when visiting small towns in Malaysia is to search for local-made products. GN Food & Biscuit (满發传统手工糕饼店), located along Jalan Abu Bakar in Batu Pahat, is a traditional bakery that makes and sells many traditional pastries, including their signature Teochew la piah (潮州朥饼), tau sar peah (mung bean biscuit), and more.
"朥" (pronounced as "lao" in Traditional Chinese), means the fatty meat of animals or fats /oil that is extracted from frying fatty meat. The biscuits that are baked using animal fat-oil are called "朥饼". However, in Simplified Chinese, it is written as "腊饼“ or la piah.
GN Food & Biscuit's traditional la piah are available in two sizes with different fillings. The bigger-size biscuit has 4 different types of filling in each biscuit and the smaller biscuits will have either one or two types of filling.
The smaller Teochew la piah have 7 types of fillings. The available flavours are:
lotus (莲蓉)
black bean paste + salty mung bean paste (鸳鸯)
pandan + salty mung bean paste (翡翠明珠)
pandan + black bean paste (碧玉明月)
winter melon + black bean paste (双清)
malt (麦芽)
black bean paste (黑豆沙)
The photo below shows a pandan + salty mung bean paste biscuit (翡翠明珠) on the left and a winter melon + black bean paste biscuit (双清) to the right. Although the fillings are supposed to be sweet, they do not taste too sweet.
Getting 7 pieces of different flavours is cheaper and is a great way to try most of the flavours.
The bigger la piah (大朥饼) with 4 different types of fillings is also known as the Four Heavenly King (四大天王). The sweet fillings are lotus (莲蓉), rose-flavoured red bean (玫瑰豆沙), pandan (翡翠) and winter melon (水晶冬瓜). To make the biscuits suitable for vegetarians, vegetable oil is used instead of animal fat-oil.
The big la piah is thicker and rather large (roughly equivalent to about 3~4 of the smaller biscuits). The flavours of the fillings are surprisingly distinguishable, taste nice and mild-sweet. The crust is crispy when consumed within 2 days.
Apart from la piah, GN Food & Biscuit makes and sells Chinese-favourite sweet and savoury mung bean biscuits. Their salty-version of the mung bean biscuits, or tau sar peah (咸豆沙饼), have crispy layered crusts with savoury-sweet fillings.
GN Food & Biscuits has a branch outlet too in Taman Setia Jaya that is a stone's throw from the shopping cluster that includes AEON BIG Batu Pahat, Square One Shopping Centre, etc.
Address:
GN Food & Biscuits (HQ) (满發糕饼店)
180, Jalan Abu Bakar, Kampung Pegawai, 83000 Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
8am to 7pm | Daily
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