JB Buy: Kwan Kee Store (坤记糕品) Traditional Desserts @ JB City Square

Rick
Oct 30
2 min read

Kwan Kee Store (坤记糕品) has opened its third JB outlet in JB City Square Shopping Centre to serve its Hong Kong desserts. The store is located on Level 3 of JB City Square, near to the entrance from JB Sentral. I have visited the Kwan Kee Store's first Johor Bahru outlet, below Hotel Holiday Villa, few times and really happy with the opening of the new outlet much closer to the checkpoint.

The JB City Square outlet serves the same oriental desserts from Hong Kong. There are the signature White Sugar / Brown Sugar Rice Bowl Cake, Steamed Pandan & Coconut Milk Cake (very similar to Nyonya-style pandan cake), Steamed Almond Cake, Hawthorn Cake, and more.

Kwan Kee Store (坤记糕品): Traditional desserts in shelf

Various flavours of sticky rice roll (peanut, mango, etc) are laid out in another glass shelf with Chinese-popular Water Chestnut Cake (马蹄糕) and Osmanthus Cake (桂花糕).

Other than the signature White / Brown Sugar Rice Bowl Cake, which I have tried at the Hotel Holiday Villa outlet, there is another version of rice bowl cake called Yam & Purple Potato Rice Bowl Cake. It is similar to the White Sugar Rice Bowl Cake except that red beans are replaced by a soft purplish paste of yam mixed with purple sweet potato in the centre. This dessert is similarly of low sweetness with rich flavours of yam and sweet potato. Nice!

Kwan Kee Store (坤记糕品): Yam & Purple Potato Rice Bowl Cake

From left to right, the Steamed Red Date (Jujube) Cake, Molasses Chestnut Cake and Steamed Osmanthus Cake are of ultra-low sweetness with nice flavours from each cake. As usual, they are great desserts to have without having to worry about calories.