Salahuddin Bakery — used to sit in one corner of Tan Hiok Nee Heritage Walk in Bandar Johor Bahru for over 80 years — was a little rustic shop, with olden-day steel folding doors and a little vintage signboard above the doorway, that stood oddly out of place among rows of modern cafes and new restaurants. The day eventually came that the old bakery gave in to urban development and moved.
It was a pity to see the old, nostalgic bakery walking into history… I mean the physical shop. Salahuddin Bakery is still around but had moved to another location (see address below) and began a new phase with a new name — Salahuddin Bread Bakery.
Standing inside the previous bakery, it seemed like time had stopped since 1937 — the year when Salahuddin Bakery started business. There was not a touch of “modern” in the traditional bakery. Batches of breads, coconut buns, cakes, etc, were freshly baked daily with wood-fire in an old oven at the back of the shop.
When the bakery opens for business in the morning, all baker’s confection will be neatly laid out on a long table — in the new bakery too. Apart from whole loaf of breads, they have coconut buns, kaya buns, muffins, curry puffs, cream rolls and varieties of cake too. Anyone who steps into the bakery will be spoilt for choice. Most amazing of all, they are very cheap.
A large loaf of Salahuddin’s freshly-baked, old-school soft bread costs just RM2.50. I like traditional breads with freshly-roasted aroma and pure bread taste.
The most recommended pastries by many websites are karipap ayam (chicken curry puff), karipap kambing (mutton curry puff) and karipap sardines, at just RM2.50 each. Karipaps with potatoes are also available at RM2 each.
Karipap is a kind of “curry puff” but is triangular in shape and has layered crust that is flaky and carries an aroma of Indian spices. The chicken puff contained chicken with potato curry and the mutton puff contains minced mutton instead of chicken — personally, I like the mutton puffs. Sardine-filled karipaps have original crust and not spiced so as not to affect the taste of the sardines.
Other goodies that I have also tried include coconut buns, cream rolls, banana cakes, vanilla cakes, etc, from many visits — almost every time when I was in Tan Hiok Nee Heritage Walk unless the bakery was closed or sold out.
When passing by Salahuddin Bakery, drop in and check out what they have in store. Salahuddin Bakery’s karipaps, sweet pastries, bread and coconut buns are popular and usually sold out by around mid-day.
Address:
15, Jalan Jagong 1, Bandar Baru Uda, 81200 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
Opening Hours:
8am to 5pm | Closed on Friday
How to Get There:
Take BAS.MY J30 / J31 / J32 / J33 / J34 from JB Sentral, or BAS.MY J40 / J50 from Larkin Sentral to Bandar Baru Uda.
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