What do you normally get when you are in a bakery? Likely bread which should be the case for most people but whenever i walk past Hong Kao Liao Li (烘烤料理) at its Clementi branch, something else would pull me into the shop and it's not their bread!
It's their amazingly wide array of cakes and they are not even the fancy kind you get for birthdays! To be frank, i don't usually succumb to temptations for cakes but two colleagues of mine couldn't resist the first time we stepped in and when i was asked to partake; it's a point of no return.
I have tried a few since then; honey castella, banana cake, carrot cake, butterly peaflower etc and even their tapioca kueh. Even though i do know how to bake a mean tasting banana / carrot cake, laziness is the rule of thumb nowadays whenever i am at home and it didn't escape my eyes that the cakes are so reasonably priced (from S$3.00 for a banana cake to S$5.50 for a brownie with cheese cake)!
This branch at Yishun was fairly new to me as the two branches i initially knew of were at Clementi and West Coast, and i only got to know about it when i was jogging! Honestly, I wouldn't expect a branch to be so far from the rest as logistically speaking, branches under the same brand would benefit from being closer to each other, especially when they are limited numbers.
Very old school packaging! My favourite, out of those i have tried so far, is their banana honey castella cake but sadly, it's not available at the Yishun branch!
I shall make do with my second favourite, the honey castella cake that cost just S$4.00! As i don't have good slicing skill, i had requested the staff to help me slice the cake and she did it so quickly with nice, smooth strokes. Darn, i need that knife.
Loving the crispy, sweet bits on top that differentiated from those sold by most bakeries! Texture of the cake was also soft and what i enjoyed most was that Hong Kao Liao Li's cakes, in general, were not overly sweet and had that home baked feel. It's always a fight to control the temptation as Yishun Ring Road, where the bakery is located along, is my frequent jogging route!
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Block 291, Yishun Street 22,
#01-355, Singapore 760291
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