JB Buy: Bei's Pastry (鲍小贝糕点) Meat Floss Xiaobei @ Tan Hiok Nee
- Rick
- Nov 6, 2025
- 3 min read
Bei’s Pastry (鲍小贝糕点) is a Chinese pastry shop towards one end of Jalan Dhoby, next to Tan Hiok Nee Heritage Walk. It occupies the location of what used to be Salahuddin Bakery, which relocated to Bandar Baru Uda in Johor Bahru. Bei’s Pastry specialises in Chinese pastries, including xiaobei (小贝) and snowy mochi (雪媚娘), which are very popular in China.
Bei's Pastry's signature product is their freshly-baked xiaobei that uses chicken meat floss with several flavours — the flavours change over time. Apart from xiaobei in the glass shelves, there are several flavours of cheese tarts and egg tarts, in shortcrust pastry, and also a pistachio croissant tart. Other than baked pastries, there are other Chinese pastries, such as snowy mochi, mung bean cakes, taro mousse cake, taro milk xiaobei (without meat floss), and more.
The Signature Seaweed Meat Floss Xiaobei (海苔肉松小贝) has crispy seaweed flakes and white sesame seeds in the meat floss that coated the soft cake. The lighter-colour Lemon Yogurt Xiaobei (柠檬酸奶小贝) has a light-lemony aroma and the yogurt-cream filling has a pleasant taste and not too sourish nor sweet. Both the Lemon Yogurt Xiaobei and Seaweed Meat Floss Xiaobei are recommended for the wide difference in tastes from each other.
The Salted Egg Meat Floss Xiaobei (咸蛋肉松小贝) has distinctive salted egg flavour. The Crab Roe Meat Floss Xiaobei (蟹黄肉松小贝) looks very similar to the salted egg version with darker colour and white sesame seeds. The savoury flavour of crab roe is pretty similar to salted egg but still able to tell them apart.
There are also new flavours of Red Tea Meat Floss Xiaobei (红茶肉松小贝), Truffle Meat Floss Xiaobei (黑松露肉松小贝) and Matcha Meat Floss Xiaobei (抹茶肉松小贝) with subtle flavours of respective additives in the meat floss. It is always great to try something different on each visit.
In the midst of each handmade xiaobei is a very soft and fluffy cake — similar to the texture of soufflé. The soft cake has a white-cream filling that is not too sweet. The sweetness of xiaobei is mainly from the chicken meat floss with different additives for flavours.
Snowy mochi, or xue mei niang (雪媚娘), is a type of Chinese dessert invented in Hong Kong that uses mochi as its skin with filling of milky cream (雪) and strawberry (草"媚"). The dessert is meant to be light-tasting with a pleasant fruity flavour.
Bei’s Pastry’s snowy mochi has several flavours: mango, Oreo, peach and durian. The Mango Snowy Mochi (芒果雪媚娘) has soft snow-white mochi skin with cuts of mango and milky cream as its filling. It is a nice dessert with light mango flavour. Also, there is not too much powder on the outer surface of the mochi, so it is sticky and best to be eaten chilled straight from the baking paper — and take care not to flip the content.
Similarly, the Peach Snowy Mochi (黄桃雪媚娘) will have cuts of peach flesh instead of mango.
The new-launch Old-taste Walnut Dates Cake (古早味红糖核桃枣泥糕) has a texture that is similar to brown sugar cake (黑糖糕) with a nice aroma of red dates. The handmade cake is topped with crunchy crushed walnuts and white sesame seeds giving it a nutty and rich flavour. The not-too-sweet cake is nice to snack on without worrying about calories.
It is a great opportunity to try Chinese pastries at Bei's Pastry without having to fly to China or Hong Kong. The range of pastries changes over time so there are always something different to look out for at Bei's Pastry.
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Address:
26, Jalan Dhoby, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
7am to 8:30pm | Daily
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