Singapore Eat: Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品) Traditional Desserts @ Chinatown
- Rick
- Oct 10
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 11
Looking for after-meal desserts or a place to get out of the heat when sight-seeing in Chinatown? Go for traditional or iced desserts at Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品) in the heart of Chinatown. Mei Heong Yuen Dessert has been serving traditional desserts along Temple Street, in Chinatown, for many years and has expanded to having several outlets across Singapore.
Mei Heong Yuen Dessert serves both hot and cold traditional desserts (almond / peanut / black sesame / walnut paste, mango pomelo sago, egg / milk pudding, etc), light snacks (rice dumpling, glutinous rice balls, carrot / yam / pumpkin cake, mochi, etc) and a wide range of snow ice / ice-shaved desserts. There are really a lot to satisfy anyone.
The hot Walnut Paste (生磨核桃糊) is ground till super-fine with a viscosity that is neither too thick nor too fluid. It is rich in walnut flavour. The Osmanthus Cake (桂花糕) has a pleasant osmanthus aroma and refreshing flavour. They are of very low sweetness and delightful.
The hot Egg Pudding with Ginger (姜汁炖鸡蛋) has mellow ginger-eggy flavour, again not too sweet, and without the spiciness of ginger. The cold Coconut Pudding (椰汁糕) is soft and bouncy with delightful coconut flavour — not the sweet coconut milk flavour.
Other traditional desserts that I have tried over the years include Water Chestnut Cake (马蹄糕), Mango Rolls (芒果卷), Lemongrass Jelly (香茅果冻), Peanut / Sesame Glutinous Rice Balls in Ginger Soup (汤圆姜汤), etc. The low-sweetness traditional desserts are really nice.
Mei Heong Yuen Dessert’s wide range of snow ice desserts are hot-sellers on hot and humid days. There are fruity series with real fruits and also snow ices with traditional flavours, like mocha, chocolate, black sesame, almond, milk tea, etc.
The Almond & Sesame Snow Ice (杏仁芝麻雪花冰), with glass jellies and crunchy melon seeds, is a traditional dessert with an icy twist. Ice are formed using almond and black sesame and shaved to make the "tower" dessert. The natural tastes of the ingredients are not overly diluted — just don't wait for it to be fully melted.
If Mei Heong Yuen Dessert's main outlet is packed, the nearest alternative is the branch outlet in Basement 2 of Chinatown Point (shopping centre), about 250 metres away next to Chinatown MRT Station.
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Address:
63-67 Temple Street, Singapore 058611
Opening Hours:
11:30am to 10:30pm | Closed on Monday
*If a public holiday falls on Monday, the dessert shop will close on Tuesday instead.
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