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Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery (Bangkok)
If you love Penang’s famous salty Tau Sar Piah, Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery (鄭老振威餅家) located in Yaowaphanit Lane in Bangkok’s Chinatown (Yawaorat) has a sweet treat waiting for you. The old Chinese pastry shop is well-known among the local Chinese and Thai communities in Bangkok. This family run bakery has been around for over 70 years and is renowned for its delicious hand-made Teochew pastries and candies such as Khanom Pia (Tau Sar Piah). The pastry skin is thin and generously filled with smooth red bean paste in sweet and salty version. I like the Chinese candy made with peanuts and sesame seeds. The snack is very crisp, fragrant, strongly sweet and free from stickiness into teeth.
Delicious hand made Teochew pastries and candies (Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery, Bangkok’s Chinatown)
Teochew Wedding Cakes (Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery, Bangkok’s Chinatown)
Besides the famous Teochew betrothal gifts - “si dian jin (四点金)”, the Teochew wedding cakes play a crucial role in Teochew wedding and it must be ordered from a Teochew bakery. They are literally “big cakes”, with dense bean filling and a flaky pastry skin. In Chinese wedding customs, male has to give cakes to female has part of their engagement gifts.
Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery, Bangkok’s Chinatown
Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery, Bangkok’s Chinatown
During the 1950s, the Teochew wedding cakes were very popular in Singapore, and even became a famous snack at local kopitiams. The Teochew bakeries of today have become a minority. I am really glad that on this trip, I discovered some hidden gems of Bangkok’s Chinatown.
Tae Loa Chin Seng Bakery ( 鄭老振威餅家) also sells Chinese mooncakes - a traditional Chinese snack
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