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Eng Chee Seng Bakery

永志成饼家

30, Jalan Temenggong, Bandar Hilir, 75000 Melaka

Heritage Hawker Traditional Pastry
88
Certified
Shiok
Google 4.3★

About

If you ask a Malacca local where to buy beh teh sor, they will not point you to Jonker Street. They will send you to Eng Chee Seng on Jalan Temenggong, a third-generation family bakery that has been making traditional Chinese pastries the same way for decades.

Beh teh sor (马蹄酥, horse hoof pastry) is a flaky, hollow pastry filled with gooey maltose and shallot oil, topped with sesame seeds. The name comes from the traditional baking method: the pastry was stuck to the inside wall of a clay oven, making one side thicker than the other, like a horse's hoof. Locals also call it heong piah (香饼, fragrant biscuit). Eat it warm for the best experience, when the maltose oozes.

The other essential is tau sar piah (豆沙饼), a mung bean pastry with a flaky crust. Fresh batches come out of the oven around 2pm daily. On good days, queues form. On bad days, they sell out before you arrive. The difference between Eng Chee Seng's version and factory tau sar piah is the difference between handmade and mass-produced.

Open Monday to Saturday, 9:30am to 7pm, closed Sundays. Buy extra. These travel well and make better souvenirs than anything in a gift shop.

ShiokScore Breakdown

Scored across 5 dimensions. Learn what each means →

Flavour 86

How the food actually tastes. Seasoning balance, depth, complexity. Does it taste like someone cared, or like it was made for volume?

Authenticity 94

Heritage and tradition. Family recipes, original techniques, generational knowledge. A 60-year-old stall doing it the same way scores higher than a 3-year-old franchise copying the format.

Technique 90

Craft and preparation skill. Hand-rolled rice balls vs machine-pressed. Fresh coconut milk vs packet. Charcoal fire vs gas stove. The effort shows in the product.

Value 88

What you get for what you pay, in SGD terms. Malacca food is cheap by Singapore standards. But cheap and good is different from cheap and forgettable.

Accessibility 80

How easy it is to get there. Walking distance from Jonker Street scores highest. A 20-minute drive to Bukit Rambai for weekends-only cendol still scores well if it is worth the trip.

Type: Heritage Hawker

Decades-old family operations. The recipe came from a grandparent. The queue is part of the experience. They close when they sell out, not when the clock says so.