Singapore Souvenir: Pandan Chiffon Cake

Singapore souvenir: pandan chiffon cake

Singapore Changi Airport is one giant shopping mall. Well, the entire city is, with pockets of hawker centres.

But on your way back home, if you still have room in your hand luggage, bring home a pandan chiffon cake from Bengawan Solo. There is a shop inside the airport so there's no excuse not to swing by and check out the gorgeous cake.

Light, fluffy and delicious

It's a brilliant lime green colour from the pandan leaves and has a coconut smell from the coconut milk. The cake itself is so moist and fluffy, it's like a souffle -- like eating a puff of air.

Usually Hong Kong tourists buy them by the box and stow them in the overhead compartment of the plane. I couldn't squeeze an entire cake in my bag, but the shop has already thought of this -- you can buy a small plastic container of four slices to slip into your bag.

The shop sells cookies, pineapple tarts and kueh, a steamed glutinous rice cake of different colours and flavours, but the pandan chiffon cake is Bengawan Solo's signature product. 

And yes it's so good!

And yes you can bring baked goods into Canada as long as there is no meat in it!