Bei’s Pastry (鲍小贝糕点) is a confectionery shop that specialises in Chinese pastries, including xiaobei (小贝) and snowy mochi (雪媚娘), which are very popular in China. Originally located along Jalan Dhoby, near Tan Hiok Nee Heritage Walk, Bei’s Pastry had closed its first outlet after opening a new one in AEON Mall Tebrau City in 2025.
Bei’s Pastry’s signature product is their freshly-baked xiaobei that uses chicken meat floss with different flavours — these flavours change over time. Aside from xiaobei in the glass shelves, there are several flavours of cheese tarts and egg tarts, in shortcrust pastry, and also a pistachio croissant tart. Other than baked pastries, there are other Chinese pastries, such as snowy mochi, mung bean cakes, taro mousse cake, taro milk xiaobei (without meat floss), and cookies.
The Signature Seaweed Chicken Floss Xiaobei (海苔肉松小贝) has crispy seaweed flakes and white sesame seeds in the meat floss that coated the soft cake. The lighter-colour Lemon Yogurt Xiaobei (柠檬酸奶小贝) has a light-lemony aroma and the yogurt-cream filling has a pleasant sour-sweet note. Both the Lemon Yogurt Xiaobei and Seaweed Meat Floss Xiaobei are recommended for their wide contrast in tastes.
The Salted Egg Chicken Floss Xiaobei (咸蛋肉松小贝) has distinctive salted egg flavour. The Crab Roe Chicken Floss Xiaobei (蟹黄肉松小贝) looks very similar to the salted egg version with darker colour and white sesame seeds. The savoury flavour of crab roe is pretty similar to salted egg but still able to tell them apart.
There are also flavours of Red Tea Chicken Floss Xiaobei (红茶肉松小贝), Truffle Chicken Floss Xiaobei (黑松露肉松小贝) and Matcha Chicken Floss Xiaobei (抹茶肉松小贝) with mellow flavours of respective additives in the savoury meat floss.
On the last visit, I tried Chocolate Chicken Floss Xiaobei (巧克力肉松小贝) with a pleasant chocolaty flavour; Spicy Chicken Floss Xiaobei (辣味肉松小贝) has just-nice spiciness using a Korean spicy flavour; and Osmanthus Salted Egg Chicken Floss Xiaobei (桂花咸蛋肉松小贝) has a subtle salted egg flavour without overpowering the light osmanthus flavour. It is always great to try something different on each visit — I have tried nearly all the flavours — 11 so far — and repeated the Signature Seaweed Chicken Floss Xiaobei every time.
In the midst of each handmade xiaobei is a very soft and fluffy cake — similar to the texture of soufflé. The soft cake has a white-cream filling that is not too sweet. The sweetness of xiaobei is mainly from the chicken meat floss with different additives for flavours.
Snowy mochi, or xue mei niang (雪媚娘), is a type of Chinese dessert invented in Hong Kong that uses mochi as its skin with filling of milky cream (雪) and strawberry (草”媚”). The dessert is meant to be light-tasting with a pleasant fruity flavour.
Bei’s Pastry’s snowy mochi has several flavours: mango, Oreo, peach and durian. The Mango Snowy Mochi (芒果雪媚娘) has soft snow-white mochi skin with cuts of mango and milky cream as its filling. It is a nice dessert with light mango flavour. Also, there is not too much powder on the outer surface of the mochi, so it is sticky and best to be eaten chilled straight from the baking paper — and take care not to flip the content.
Similarly, the Peach Snowy Mochi (黄桃雪媚娘) will have cuts of peach flesh instead of mango.
The Old-taste Walnut Dates Cake (古早味红糖核桃枣泥糕) has a texture that is very similar to brown sugar cake (黑糖糕) with a nice red date aroma. The handmade cake is topped with crunchy crushed walnuts and white sesame seeds giving it a nutty, rich flavour and yet low in sweetness. It is nice to snack on without worrying about calories.
It is a great opportunity to try Chinese pastries at Bei’s Pastry without having to fly to China or Hong Kong. The range of pastries changes over time, or new flavours added, so there are always something different to look out for at Bei’s Pastry.
Address:
AEON Mall Tebrau City, Level 2, Lot S119
1, Jalan Desa Tebrau, Taman Desa Tebrau, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
10am to 10pm | Daily
How to Get There:
Take BAS.MY J10 from JB Sentral or BAS.MY J16 from Larkin Sentral to Toppen Mall. Read JB Bus: To IKEA Tebrau, AEON Mall Tebrau City & Toppen in Taman Desa Tebrau.
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