Shalaby Sweets is a Turkish baklava, kunefe and delights shop in Singapore, with its storefront at 54 Haji Lane in the heart of Kampong Glam. The team sums up its own story simply: a shop that has made a name for itself among lovers of Turkish sweets, priding itself on offering the best and highest quality to its customers.
The counter is built around three families of sweets. Baklava comes in pistachio, walnut and chocolate versions, plus burma, ring and mussel shapes and fried telumba churos. Kunefe ranges from the traditional rendition to cheese kunafa — available with Biscoff or Nutella — along with bird nest, burma, royal and burger variations. The Turkish delights counter adds rose and pomegranate lokum, saffron delights with pistachios and chocolate-wrapped creations.
Beyond the trays, Shalaby Sweets also serves coffee and tea and assembles gift boxes and sets. Ordering is easy online: secure payment by card or wallet, a 50 SGD minimum order, and free islandwide delivery on orders above 100 SGD, with the shop standing behind a promise of 100% customer satisfaction.
On Haji Lane — the slim, colourful street in Kampong Glam lined with independent boutiques and cafés — Shalaby Sweets keeps a focused brief: Turkish sweets, done properly. The shop describes itself as a Turkish baklava, kunefe and delights shop in Singapore, and its range reads like a tour of a Turkish confectioner's counter. Trays of baklava in different shapes and fillings, kunefe in both classic and modern guises, and soft lokum in flavours from rose to saffron — it is a compact catalogue with real depth.
That focus is deliberate. The team states its mission plainly: to provide the best and highest quality to its customers. Rather than scatter across a long menu, Shalaby Sweets builds everything around three core families of sweets — baklava, kunefe and Turkish delights — backed by coffee and tea, and a line of gift boxes and sets for turning any selection into a present.
Baklava is the anchor of the shop. The pistachio baklava is the reference point — flaky filo, nuts and syrup in the classic proportion — but the counter goes well beyond it. Walnut baklava answers the purists, a chocolate version tempts the cocoa-minded, and burma baklava winds shredded pastry around walnut. The mussel baklava folds the pastry into its namesake shape, while the baklava ring makes an impressive centrepiece for a table. For something fried rather than baked, telumba churos rounds out the tray.
Because the online shop offers "choose options" on each variety, building a mixed box is easy: pair pistachio and walnut for tradition, add chocolate for variety, and finish with a few pieces of burma for texture.
If baklava is the anchor, kunefe is the showpiece. The traditional kunafa is the classic rendition — crisp shredded pastry and sweet syrup — while the cheese kunafa brings the molten centre the dessert is famous for. Modern riffs sit comfortably alongside: a cheese kunefe finished with Biscoff, and one with Nutella, both clearly aimed at the dessert-shop generation.
Smaller and playful formats fill out the section: bird nest kunafa, burma kunafa with pistachio, a royal kunafa for bigger appetites, and a burger kunafa that turns the pastry into something fun. Whatever the format, kunefe is a sweet that rewards being eaten fresh and warm.
The Turkish delights section is where Shalaby Sweets plays with flavour. Rose and pomegranate lokum leads the classics, with saffron delights studded with pistachios close behind. Then come the chocolate crosses: coffee delights wrapped in chocolate, pistachios wrapped in chocolate, and a brownie wrapped with chocolate and hazelnut. Marshmallow makes an appearance too — pistachio marshmallow in melted chocolate, and pomegranate paired with marshmallow.
Coffee and tea are on the menu to accompany it all, and gift boxes and sets package any combination for giving.
Alongside the Haji Lane storefront, Shalaby Sweets runs a full online shop with secure payment and a satisfaction guarantee it phrases as "100% customer satisfaction". Online orders carry a 50 SGD minimum, and delivery is free islandwide for orders above 100 SGD — room enough to stock up on baklava for the office or assemble a spread for a gathering. Payment is frictionless: American Express, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Mastercard, PayPal, Shop Pay, UnionPay and Visa are all accepted.
Whether you call in at Haji Lane for a box of pistachio baklava, order a cheese kunefe for the table, or send a gift set of lokum across the island, the idea stays the same: Turkish and Arabic sweets made with care. On a street full of choices, that single-mindedness is what has given Shalaby Sweets its name in Singapore's dessert scene.