Family-owned bakery Tiong Bahru Galicier Pastry, that's known for their kueh, will be closing by June or July 2022.
At the moment, there are a staggering nine people helping out at the store regularly – no surprises, since their kueh has long queues from morning to evening. Over at family bakery Tiong Bahru Galicier Pastry, its old-school kueh and traditional bakes are a legacy of sorts. The store has been around since the 70s – making its way from Orchard to Serangoon, before setting up shop in its current premises at Tiong Bahru. To everyone’s dismay – mostly the loyal patrons of its nonya kueh – the store just recently announced that it’ll be closing down by mid-2022.
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It is about the memory and the history. "This is an old shop selling traditional stuff, if they close down, then that's one less temptation for me," she said. And then we will have new stuff, more cakes, more cakes and more cakes," she lamented. "(Now) there goes ondeh ondeh, there goes kueh dadar (rolled coconut crepes), there goes everything. And so we decided to stop." "We are old and we've done this for 30 to 40 years.