Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品) is a traditional Chinese dessert brand with roots connected to the iconic FARMER BRAND groundnuts, founded by the daughters of Mei Heong Yuen's original founder, Connie and Clara Lee. The brand specialises in an array of ground pastes and steamed egg puddings, alongside cold desserts and Taiwanese-style Snow Ice.
Its peanut paste is fragrant and finely ground for a smooth texture with no peanut bits, sweet without being cloying. The walnut paste is a silky-smooth cream, while sesame and almond pastes round out what the brand calls its four 'heavenly kings' of paste desserts — with a sugar-free almond paste also available for the health conscious. On hot days, cooling options like mango with pomelo and sago, and Snow Ice served in thin, smooth sheets reminiscent of fine powdered snow, are popular choices.
Mei Heong Yuen has grown from a single dessert shop into a brand with its own factory and central kitchen, holding ISO 22000 Food Safety Certification. It is recognised as one of the 'Singapore Chinatown Heritage Brands', an initiative by the Chinatown Business Association to introduce long-established heritage names to visitors, and the associated FARMER BRAND peanuts have been recognised for over 50 years of quality and value. Today, Mei Heong Yuen is a popular home-grown brand with both locals and tourists.
Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (味香园甜品) traces its roots to the iconic FARMER BRAND groundnuts, and today is run as the brainchild of Connie and Clara Lee, daughters of the brand's original founder. What began as a single dessert shop has grown into a business with its own factory and central kitchen, holding ISO 22000 Food Safety Certification — a scale that reflects just how far the traditional dessert specialist has come.
At the heart of Mei Heong Yuen's menu are its ground pastes. The peanut paste is fragrant and delicately ground to a smooth texture with no peanut bits, sweet without tipping into cloying. The walnut paste is another favourite — a silky-smooth cream described as soothing for craving taste buds. Alongside these sit sesame and almond pastes, together forming what the brand calls its four 'heavenly kings' of paste desserts. For the health conscious, a sugar-free almond paste is also on offer.
On a hot day, Mei Heong Yuen's cold desserts come into their own. Mango with pomelo and sago blends cool mango puree, pomelo and sago into a tangy, refreshing dessert built for quenching thirst in Singapore's heat. The Snow Ice, styled after the Taiwanese original, is served in thin, smooth sheets reminiscent of fine powdered snow — a texture quite different from typical shaved ice.
Beyond the signature pastes and cold desserts, Mei Heong Yuen's menu spans an extensive range of Snow Ice flavours (from mango and durian to milk tea and pineapple), special desserts like egg pudding with ginger, herbal jelly, red bean lotus, cheng tng and premium bird's nest, savoury-leaning items like Cantonese dumplings, yam cakes and chee cheong fun, and a small drinks menu including mango smoothie, grass jelly, and fruit and floral teas.
Mei Heong Yuen is proud to be named one of the 'Singapore Chinatown Heritage Brands', part of an initiative by the Chinatown Business Association to introduce visitors to long-established heritage names. The brand's commitment to quality has also helped establish FARMER BRAND peanuts as a household name — recognised for over 50 years for its excellent quality, great value and established reputation.
What started as a single storefront has become a genuinely popular home-grown Singapore brand, drawing both locals and tourists from many countries. The move to its own factory and central kitchen, backed by ISO 22000 certification, has allowed Mei Heong Yuen to maintain consistency and food safety standards as it's grown.
Mei Heong Yuen's full menu can be browsed and ordered online, with the extensive Snow Ice, special dessert, cakes and dumplings, healthy paste and drinks sections giving visitors plenty to choose from, whether they're after a cooling treat, a nostalgic bowl of tong sui, or a taste of the pastes the brand first built its name on.