JB Buy: Kueh Ho Jiak (赞) @ KSL City Mall

Rick
Sep 15
2 min read

Updated: Oct 23

Kueh Ho Jiak (赞) is a new kiosk located outside Lotus’s supermarket in the basement of KSL City Mall. It sells a wide varieties of kueh, rice dumplings, cookies, cakes, etc.

Among the varieties of kueh, there are Teochew kueh, such as peach-shape png kueh (潮州饭粿), Hokkien ang ku kueh (红龟粿), Hainan kueh, Malay kueh, Nyonya kueh, Shanxi crystal kueh (水晶糕), yam cake, and many more. The different types of crystal kueh look beautiful in their near-transparent skins and their fillings are visible.

Kueh Ho Jiak (赞): Wide varieties of Chinese, Malay, Nyonya kueh, Hakka choy ban, yam cake

Each takeaway box can hold 5 or more pieces of selected crystal kueh. From left to right, then bottom:

Mushroom Vegetarian Crystal Kueh (水晶香菇素糕) has small cuts of mushroom with sweet turnips enclosed in crystal skin.
Traditional Mang Kuang Crystal Kueh (传统芒光糕) has sweet turnips with shreds of red carrot.
Spring Garlic Crystal Kueh (水晶香蒜糕) contains egg and spring garlic.
Chive Crystal Kueh (水晶韭菜糕) has egg and chive.
Yam Crystal Kueh (水晶芋头糕) is filled with yam cooked with mushroom and dried shrimp.

Besides different ingredients, the ways some types of the crystal kuehs are wrapped differ too. They are quite big in size and taste nice with their respective flavours in soft, slight-chewy crystal skin.

The Yam Cake (芋头糕) is quite big and comprising two portions. It has chunky cuts of yam embedded in the softer yam cake and garnished with lots of fried shallots, spring onions and white sesame seeds. The cake has both soft and firmer textures of yam with a nice natural yam flavour. The garnishes provide extra flavours.

New on the shelves are mousse cakes that are sold in slices — get more with discounts during the new-launch limited-time promotion. I have a Coffee Mousse Cake, a Pandan Mousse Cake and a Japanese Cheesecake.

The Coffee Mousse Cake has nice coffee-flavours mousse, between layers of coffee-flavoured soft cake, and topped with crunchy nuts (chocolate chips, walnuts, etc) and is mild-sweet. The Pandan-Kaya Mousse Cake has jelly-like pandan-kaya layers with shredded coconut, instead of mousse, between layers of soft cake and has a nice pandan-coconut aroma and is similarly mild-sweet. The Japanese Cheesecake is slightly denser than the other mousse cakes, but is still soft and has light cheesy flavour.