End of an era - Chop Mui Lee Bakery
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Chop Mui Lee Bakery, a traditional teochew bakery which as been in business making traditional pastries for over 70 years will be closing shop this year as the owners retire.
They told me with a tinge of regret that they could not find anyone who would apprentice with them and take over the shop. Since they were getting on in age, they decided to close shop this year and retire.
They also lamented that the other traditional teochew bakery in Singapore was also closing shop this year for the same reason.
Singapore will be much poorer for the loss of these traditional bakeries
The shop owner
Their very traditional signboard
The shop front
The counter
The kitchen where everything is still done by hand
The baker putting pastries into the oven which they have used for decades
Behind the counter where everything is packed by hand
The traditional cooling racks which have been used for decades
This will be the last year I will be enjoying their mooncakes.
Alas...
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sad.........
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End of an era - Chop Mui Lee Bakery
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Mui Lee is a popular cake shop for teochew wedding cakes. Now is history already
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Pls let me die before the last of these shops closes.
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My father-in-law insisted on this Mui Lee as our wedding gifts when we send our invitation cards to the elders.
Mui Lee used to be in Chin Swee Road?
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I remember that fateful day I ate their 1kg mooncake in one sitting.
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ehhh... this mui lee shop looks like a certain shop in commonwealth crescent...
where is it located at?
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
ehhh... this mui lee shop looks like a certain shop in commonwealth crescent...
where is it located at?
Geylang Lor 35...i think -
They have two shops - one at Chin Swee Road and another at Commonwealth Crescent!
Why can't they just close down one!
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Ohhhhhhhhhhh... So they have one at commonweath crescent...
No wonder it looks soooo familiar... Even the settings are the same
Boss likes some of the stuff from the branch @ commonwealth crescent...
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Originally posted by av98m:
I remember that fateful day I ate their 1kg mooncake in one sitting.
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
Ohhhhhhhhhhh... So they have one at commonweath crescent...
No wonder it looks soooo familiar... Even the settings are the same
Boss likes some of the stuff from the branch @ commonwealth crescent...
I was gonna say the same. Use to go there for their tao sar pia....sweet/salty. This kind of traditional shops and practice is sadly dwindling in sgp.
Hmm this year....i hope late late if must.
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I have a friend who volunteers to help run it!
tink he is joking!
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That is similiar to throw marketing credits worth SGD $150,000 into the drain just by closing the business. *sigh~* I heard this before, but have not tried their food.
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there's still chin mee chin at east coast road ......
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Originally posted by Fatum:
there's still chin mee chin at east coast road ......
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Originally posted by Fatum:
there's still chin mee chin at east coast road ......
that's a kopitiam/cake shop..
this one is the traditional type of pastries.. recipes and methods which were handed down the generations... making wedding pastries as the traditional wedding gifts..
and mookie, the one at Chin Swee is where they sell the stuff made in the ovens of the Commonwealth "factory"
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with the elitist policies.....this is an inevitable end for us....sooner or later....
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Originally posted by Fcukpap:
with the elitist policies.....this is an inevitable end for us....sooner or later....
take your goddamned politics and fuck off... some things are not political.. this is one of them...
moron
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Oooh. Are they selling their mooncakes now? I want to go grab some before they close. never tried before...
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Ooooo ... traditional wedding pastry gifts eh ....
I'm looking for a "gold pile" ... jin dui .....
wonder if i can find it there ....
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why never approach me ???
give me the shop for free......................i sure continue business one............
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Sad No more wedding gifts for the whatever gen that comes along
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Originally posted by Susanteo2011:
why never approach me ???
give me the shop for free......................i sure continue business one............
devote u'rself to become a good apprentice, make good products and maybe?!