JB & Kulai Buy: Verbena Bakery & Pastries
- Rick
- Oct 18
- 2 min read
Verbena Bakery & Pastries is a confectionery chain that is well-known for its wide range of affordable, visually-appealing Japanese-French inspired pastries, cakes and breads at very low sweetness. Verbena has several outlets in Kulai and Johor Bahru with its headquarter in Bandar Putra of Kulai. Another of its branches is located in Taman Sri Kulai Baru, in the "new town" of Kulai, and is named "Verbena Patisserie Shop".
The confectionery's innovative pastries are really visually-appealing and I picked quite a number of items on the first visit: Egg Tarts, Volcano Japan Cheese Bun, Korean-style Garlic Bun and Sweet Potato Bread.
Top-Left: The Korean-Style Garlic Bun is a garlic bun that is stuffed with light cream cheese. The use of real garlic bits on the soft bun with white sesame seeds, parsley, etc, gives the bun a nice garlicky aroma and flavours with the savoury cream cheese contributing a second burst of flavour. This is so good!
Top-Right: The Volcano Japan Cheese Bun has a flower-shape soft crust filled with cream cheese, covered with cheese and baked till crispy. It is a double cheesy delight.
Bottom-Left: The Sweet Potato Bread is a black bun, sprinkled with sweet potato powder, and filled with yellow sweet potato paste with big red beans. The bun is soft and fluffy with natural flavour of sweet potato and of low sweetness.
Bottom-Right: The Egg Tarts (2 pcs per box) have smooth, creamy custard in soft, crumbly short crust. The sweetness level is similarly very low yet not to the point of being tasteless.
First visit to Verbena and their pastries have captivated me. I will visit their shops for more.
Other than in Kulai, Verbena has outlets in Sutera Mall, Austin 18 and Bukit Indah too. A new bus service from JB Sentral to Sutera Mall, introduced on 30 September 2025, created a convenient alternative to visit Verbena’s Sutera Mall outlet.
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Address #1:
12, Jalan Susur Kulai 4, Taman Sri Kulai Baru, 81000 Kulai, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
9am to 7pm | Daily
How to Get There:
Take BAS.MY J30 from JB Sentral to Kulai Bus Terminal and change to BAS.MY J300 / CityBus 2. Read: JB Bus & Train: To Kulai District, Johor (柔佛.古来).
Address #2:
Sutera Mall, L2-550A (near main entrance)
Jalan Sutera Tanjung 8/4, Taman Sutera Utama, 81300 Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
11am to 9:30pm | Daily
How to Get There:
Take BAS.MY J34 from JB Sentral to Sutera Mall. Read: JB Bus: To Beletime Danga Bay / Angsana Mall / Paradigm Mall / Sutera Mall along Skudai Highway.
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