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Ghee Hiang

  • ★ 4.5
  • Tau sar pneah and sesame oil
  • George Town
  • Penang

Ghee Hiang has baked tau sar pneah since 1856 and presses sesame oil to match, the Beach Street institution every Penang visitor carries home.

Bunn Choon

Bunn Choon, a family business that began as a teahouse in 1893, bakes egg tarts on Jalan Balai Polis in Kuala Lumpur under its fourth-generation owner.

Kenny Hills Bakers

Kenny Hills Bakers opened its original bakery restaurant in Bukit Tunku, Kuala Lumpur, known for sourdough loaves and flaky egg tarts daily.

Croisserie Artisan Bakery

  • ★ 4.3
  • Laminated pastries and croissants
  • Damansara Heights
  • Kuala Lumpur

Croisserie Artisan Bakery laminates butter croissants and kouign-amann every day at its Plaza Damansara shop in Damansara Heights, Kuala Lumpur.

Le Petit Four Pâtisserie

  • ★ 4.3
  • French viennoiserie
  • George Town
  • Penang

Le Petit Four Pâtisserie laminates Penang's flakiest croissants on Beach Street, led by a patissier trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and it shows.

Tommy Le Baker

Tommy Le Baker, baking sourdough in Kuala Lumpur since 2010 under founder Tommy Lee, now runs its bakery from the Zhongshan Building in Kampung Attap.

ChinaHouse

ChinaHouse bakes about 30 cakes a day for the long counter running through its three heritage buildings, comfortably Penang's largest dessert spread.

Black Kettle

  • ★ 4.2
  • Breads, scones and sourdough bakes
  • George Town
  • Penang

Black Kettle runs a bakery counter, cafe and bistro through a high-ceilinged Beach Street building, Penang's roomiest all-day bread-and-brunch room.

The Maker

  • ★ 4.1
  • Composed French pastries and tarts
  • George Town
  • Penang

The Maker composes patisserie like plated desserts in a roomy Beach Street cafe, the studied, architectural end of Penang's French pastry wave.

Yin's Sourdough Bakery & Cafe

  • ★ 4.1
  • Naturally fermented sourdough
  • Gurney Drive
  • Penang

Yin's Sourdough ferments every loaf naturally across three Penang branches, and its blistered sourdough pizzas convert the doubters at dinner.

Fung Wong Biscuit

Fung Wong Biscuit, a Chinese pastry house dating to about 1909, sells wife biscuits and egg tarts from a cafe-style shop on Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur.

Orito KL

  • ★ 4.0
  • French choux pastry and canele
  • Sri Hartamas
  • Kuala Lumpur

Orito KL bakes choux pastry, Paris Brest and canele at Plaza Damas in Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur, a French patisserie counter with no seating.

La Vie en Rose Pâtisserie

  • ★ 4.0
  • Madeleines and French pastry
  • George Town
  • Penang

La Vie en Rose Pâtisserie bakes madeleines behind a pink shopfront on Lebuh Melayu, Penang's specialist counter for the little French shell cakes.

Le Dux Patisserie

  • ★ 4.0
  • French entremets and tarts
  • George Town
  • Penang

Le Dux Patisserie plates Parisian-salon pastry a few doors from its Beach Street rivals, rounding out Penang's unlikely little French dessert quarter.

Tong Kee Bread & Tarts

Tong Kee Bread & Tarts has run its Pudu headquarters in Kuala Lumpur since the 1960s, known across the city for its butter pastry egg tarts.

Der Backmeister

Der Backmeister bakes German sourdough, rye breads and pastries from a shoplot counter on Persiaran Zaaba in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Kuala Lumpur.

PAUL Bakery

  • ★ 3.9
  • French breads and viennoiserie
  • Bukit Bintang
  • Kuala Lumpur

PAUL Bakery runs a French bakery and restaurant on Level 2 of Pavilion Kuala Lumpur on Jalan Bukit Bintang, baking croissants, eclairs and fruit tarts.

The Bread Shop

  • ★ 3.9
  • Sourdough and savoury Danish
  • Bukit Damansara
  • Kuala Lumpur

The Bread Shop bakes sourdough loaves and savoury Danish pastries on Jalan Setiakasih in Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur, a residential corner shop.

Sin Hwa Bee

Sin Hwa Bee has handmade Chinese wedding biscuits and kacang biscuits in Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur for more than sixty years, all done by hand.

Whisk

  • ★ 3.9
  • Custom cakes with edible flowers
  • Little India
  • Penang

Whisk drapes its Queen Street bakery in greenery and builds flower-strewn custom celebration cakes, easily Penang's prettiest counter for an order.

Nyonya Colors

Nyonya Colors sells handmade Peranakan kuih from a counter inside Suria KLCC in Kuala Lumpur, including kuih lapis, seri muka and onde onde.

Broom

  • ★ 3.8
  • Pastries, tarts and sourdough
  • Bukit Bintang
  • Kuala Lumpur

Broom bakes tarts, country sourdough and a raisin wheel on Jalan Sin Chew Kee in Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur, and stays open later from Friday to Sunday.

Bray Bakery

Bray Bakery, whose best-sellers include a curry puff croissant, kaya toast and basil focaccia sourdough toast, now bakes at 9 Jalan Seputeh in Kuala Lumpur.

Moody Cow Cafe

  • ★ 3.8
  • High-concept cheesecakes
  • George Town
  • Penang

Moody Cow stacks over-the-top cheesecakes at its Transfer Road flagship, the dessert stop Penang pairs with a roti canai breakfast next door.

Nyonya Tingkat

  • ★ 3.7
  • Nyonya kuih and tingkat sets
  • Bangsar South
  • Kuala Lumpur

Nyonya Tingkat sells Peranakan kuih and packed tiffin sets from a Bangsar South kiosk in Kuala Lumpur, alongside kuih talam and karipap pastries.

Swiss Roll

Swiss Roll has run a pushcart stall on Lorong Yap Ah Loy in Kuala Lumpur Chinatown, filling soft sponge rolls with homemade kaya every morning.

Yin's Sourdough Bakery & Cafe

  • ★ 3.6
  • Sourdough bread and cafe pastries
  • Mid Valley
  • Kuala Lumpur

Yin's Sourdough bakes loaves from its own starter, fermented for 48 hours, and fresh daily pastries on the second floor of Mid Valley Megamall, Kuala Lumpur.

Baker's Cottage

Baker's Cottage runs a long-standing outlet in Lucky Garden, Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, part of a bakery chain known for its chocolate cakes and buns.

The Roti Man Bakery

The Roti Man Bakery sells fresh loaves and butter buns from a Sri Petaling storefront in Kuala Lumpur, part of a small local bakery chain here.

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