Bei’s Pastry (鲍小贝糕点) is a new Chinese pastry shop towards one end of Jalan Dhoby, next to Tan Hiok Nee Heritage Walk. It occupies the location of what used to be Salahuddin Bakery, which relocated to Bandar Baru Uda in Johor Bahru.
Bei’s Pastry specialises in Chinese pastries, including xiaobei (小贝) and snowy mochi (雪媚娘), which are very popular in China.
Bei's Pastry's signature product is their freshly-baked xiaobei that uses chicken meat floss with several flavours. Apart from xiaobei in the glass shelves, there are many flavours of cheese tarts and egg tarts, in shortcrust pastry, and also a pistachio croissant tart. Other than baked pastries, there are other Chinese pastries, such as snowy mochi, mung bean cakes, taro mousse cake, taro milk xiaobei (without meat floss), and more.
There are 5 flavours of the meat floss xiaobei in the glass shelf — I ordered 4 of them in a box and will try the chocolate flavour another time.
The Seaweed Meat Floss Xiaobei (海苔肉松小贝) has crispy seaweed flakes and white sesame seeds in the meat floss that coated the soft cake. The lighter-colour Lemon Yogurt Xiaobei (柠檬酸奶小贝) has a light lemony aroma and the yogurt-cream filling has a pleasant taste and not too sourish nor sweet. Both the Lemon Yogurt Xiaobei and Seaweed Meat Floss Xiaobei are recommended for the wide difference in tastes from each other.
The Salted Egg Meat Floss Xiaobei (咸蛋肉松小贝) has distinctive salted egg flavour. The Crab Roe Meat Floss Xiaobei (蟹黄肉松小贝) looks very similar to the salted egg version with darker colour and white sesame seeds. The savoury flavour of crab roe is pretty similar to salted egg but still able to tell them apart.
In the midst of each handmade xiaobei is a very soft and fluffy cake — similar to the texture of soufflé. The soft cake has a white-cream filling that is not too sweet. The sweetness of xiaobei is mainly from the meat floss.
Snowy mochi, or xue mei niang (雪媚娘), is a type of Chinese dessert invented in Hong Kong that uses mochi as its skin with filling of milky cream (雪) and strawberry (草"媚"). The dessert is meant to be light-tasting with a pleasant fruity flavour.
Bei’s Pastry’s snowy mochi has several flavours: mango, Oreo, peach and durian. The Mango Snowy Mochi (芒果雪媚娘) has soft snow-white mochi skin with cuts of mango and milky cream as its filling. It is a nice dessert with light mango flavour. Also, there is not too much powder on the outer surface of the mochi, so it is sticky and best to be eaten chilled straight from the baking paper — and take care not to flip the content.
Similarly, the Peach Snowy Mochi (黄桃雪媚娘) will have cuts of peach flesh instead of mango.
It is a great opportunity to try Chinese pastries at Bei's Pastry without having to fly to China or Hong Kong. I have tried 6 items so far and will go for more.
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Address:
26, Jalan Dhoby, Bandar Johor Bahru, 80000 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
8:30am to 6pm | Daily
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