Singapore Buy: Hiap Joo Bakery Banana Cake Self-Serve Bar @ Bukit Panjang

Hiap Joo Bakery is a well-known name in Johor Bahru for its wood-fired banana cakes. To try the aromatic and moist banana cakes, Singapore residents will need to go over the Singapore-Johor border to get them from Hiap Joo Bakery in Tan Hiok Nee Heritage Walk.

Here's a good news: HYPHA, a vending stations provider in Singapore, brings the banana cakes over from Johor Bahru and sells them through their unmanned vending machine (or Self-Serve Bar) — at Senja Hawker Centre in Bukit Panjang. Since its launch on 17 May 2025, the Self-Serve Bar has been drawing long queues to get its banana cakes, which sold out fast after every stock-up.

The banana cakes are sold at S$8.60 per box from the Self-Serve Bar and limited to 1 box per purchase. The cakes will be stocked up twice daily at 11:30am and 4:30pm except Monday — if there are leftovers from Sunday, they will still be available on Monday, although chances seem very slim. Each stock-up is about 48 boxes, so there are 96 boxes per day.

The freshly-baked banana cake in each sturdy plastic container is still warm and cut into 10 pieces — exactly the same way as those purchased directly from Hiap Joo Bakery. Plastic carriers are available by the side of the vending machine for the banana cakes — but, bring your own carrier if possible.

Each box of banana cake will cost RM13 in Johor Bahru — or slightly less than S$4 based on recent exchange rate of S$1 : RM3.28.

Some passers-by commented that the price of $8.60 is pricey. Of course, buying the cake is cheaper in Johor Bahru if one happens to be there. But, considering the efforts by HYPHA to bring the cakes over the border, the cost of the vending machine, its running electricity, rental, profit margin, etc, the price is quite reasonable to be fair — anyway, food delivery services charge S$3 and more for longer distance per delivery.

I hope HYPHA brings in Hiap Joo Bakery's coffee cakes, butter cakes and buns too, including their popular wood-fired coconut buns.

Address:

Senja Hawker Centre

2 Senja Close, Singapore 677632

Stocking Time:

11:30am & 4:30pm daily except Monday

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