Swee Heng 1989 (West Mall)

🍞 Nacho Cheese Smoke Chicken
📍Swee Heng 1989 Classic (@classic1989sg)
📌 Multiple Outlets
💰 $1.90

1989 Classic is one of my favourite bakeries, and this cross section alone is probably enough to explain why because LOOK AT ALL DEM CHICKENS. SO GENEROUSLY STUFFED WOW.

The smoked chicken slices are pretty tender and soft, some are a tad dry but for the price and the serving I'm not complaining. I do think there could be more nacho cheese filling to offset the dryness a bit but generally really great! Super worth the price.

⭐ Rating: 8.6/10
🤑 worth the price: ye
🦖 would I buy again: ye
💍 would I marry: ye

I don't eat otah because I don't eat seafood, so I would never have bought this bun on my own accord. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this bun! The otah doesnt have any fishy taste. It's really soft and nicely spiced. The other toppings on the bread also add layers of flavour to the bun. The bread is suuuper soft and fluffy! This bun has made me reconsider my stance on otah. Though I still wouldn't willingly eat it, I'd definitely give it a shot when paired with bread 😋

⭐ Rating: 8/10 fish sticks
🤑 worth the price: sure
🦖 would I buy: maybe
💍 would I marry: I would date

Ever since I had the coconut bun from Swee Heng 1989, no other coconut bun has come close to its place in my heart. Just look at the thiccc fillings within! And that strong pandan fragrance from the fluffy bread itself. So good!

💸: $24.80

💬: First time having an ondeh ondeh cake and this here really set the bar high - real soft cake, fragrant ondeh ondeh sponge layer and the coconut flakes which really captivated the entire ondeh ondeh essence 🥵😖 Could've ate the entire cake on my own, just saying

They’re $1.70 each, and the mochi itself was flavoured! The buns were SOO soft and chewy buttt the fillings didn’t match up ☹️
The 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢 was a pass 🥴 I just couldn’t get past the artificial, sickly sweet apple filling. The honey flavoured mochi was not bad, but there was such a disappointing amount of it.
The 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢 with a brown sugar flavoured mochi filling faired a little better, but I would’ve preferred a darker chocolate fudge to balance the sweet mochi.

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𝐏𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧 𝐘𝐚𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐤 ($𝟐.𝟒𝟎)

I especially loved how the natural taste and sweetness of both the yam and pumpkin come through, they’re substantial in thickness and flavour without being too sweet. However, I wish the ratio were heavier on the yam, as there was less of it, and their pumpkin was already the stronger flavour to begin with.

And I know how people feel against the flowy, almost liquid-y mochi, but personally, I think it makes sense. The bun itself is really chewy, and I think that having a chewy mochi inside to compete with it wouldn’t work. The flowy mochi adds another element of texture, that isn’t the conventional chewy mochi.

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