SG’s first tutu kueh stall, Tan’s Tu Tu Coconut Cake, closes outlet at Clementi & quickly closes Havelock outlet Tan’s Tu Tu Coconut Cake

For those that have no idea what tutu kueh is, it’s a rice flour cake sometimes full of coconut or peanuts. For extra artistic stalls, they often embrace extra trendy flavours of crimson bean, chocolate, or gula melaka.

Tan’s Tu Tu Coconut Cake was the primary to start out the entire ball rolling. Being the OG tutu kueh hawker stall in Singapore, Tan Bee Hua, the daughter of Tan, runs 2 stalls on a back-to-back foundation.

She runs the Havelock outlet within the day and Clementi outlet within the night, and the lengthy hawker hours of mending 2 stalls have turn into tiresome. Hence, the Clementi outlet might be closed completely, and the Havelock Road Cooked Food Centre outlet might be quickly closed until July 2023.

This Singaporean snack goes means again to the Thirties when Tan’s late father, Tan Yong Fa, bought the China-originated snack in Singapore. He first began promoting it as plain tune kueh, with none filling. But subsequently, he creatively added his personal twist of candy fillings— which birthed and popularised the well-loved tutu kueh which we’re accustomed to at this time.

The determination should have include a heavy coronary heart, as she gave up her company job of 20 years to hold on her father’s legacy.

With no official announcement, we came upon that the Clementi outlet has been vacated since Dec 2022, whereas the opposite outlet at Havelock up to date their Instagram bio with its short-term break. With the closure of those stalls, they may certainly be missed for its bite-size style of nostalgia.

I keep in mind an occasion once I was in line for Covent Garden Prawn Noodle, a woman struck up a dialog with me about tutu kueh as she noticed me snacking on them. She spoke very nicely of Tan’s Tu Tu Coconut Cake and I wasn’t shocked in any respect. There must be a cause why individuals would wait 45-minutes only for tutu kueh, and it’s an unsaid proven fact that all of us recognize its delicacy and heritage. 

For a small quantity of S$0.80 every, you may get the Coconut, Peanut or Original Tutu Kueh. Just an extra 10 cents extra, you may get their most adventurous providing— the Chocolate Tutu Kueh (S$0.90 every).

Well, for now, we are able to simply wait until the reopening of Tan’s Tu Tu Coconut Cake. I hope the proprietor might be enough rested to proceed on serving up the well-famed pillow-like snacks.

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