Mei Heong Yuen Dessert (Chinatown)

Mei Heong Yuen Dessert is a Chinese dessert shop at 63-67 Temple Street in Chinatown. It serves hot and cold sweets, from smooth nut pastes to tall plates of Taiwanese-style snow ice. It makes an easy break between temple visits and shopping in the streets around it.

The name goes back to a family groundnut business, the one behind Farmer Brand peanuts. Connie and Clara Lee, daughters of the founder, turned the family name into a dessert shop. Eatbook dates the Temple Street shop to 2002. The brand is listed as a Singapore Chinatown Heritage Brand. Today there are several outlets, and the company runs its own factory and central kitchen.

What to order

The snow ice is what most visitors come for. It is smooth and finely shaved, and it comes piled high on the plate. There are more than 20 flavours, such as mango, durian, sesame, soursop and lychee. Mixed versions include mango with strawberry, and there is a local-style chendol flavour too.

The pastes are the other house speciality, which suits a family with a background in peanuts. Choose from peanut, walnut, sesame and almond.

Other good choices from the long menu:

• Mango with pomelo and sago, a chilled, fruity bowl
• Glutinous rice balls in ginger soup, filled with sesame or peanut
• Almond paste with black glutinous rice
• Cheng tng, a light, clear sweet soup
• Mango roll, thick mango slices wrapped in soft coconut, the favourite in Eatbook's 2026 review

If you want something savoury, the menu also has a few dim sum-style bites. These include chee cheong fun (steamed rice noodle rolls), yam cake and Cantonese rice dumplings.

The setting

The Temple Street shop takes up three shophouse units. Inside, it is plain and practical, with wooden furniture and plastic stools. It is fully air-conditioned and has more room than the shopfront suggests. That helps on a hot afternoon of walking around Chinatown.

Good to know before you go

• Payment: Eatbook's June 2026 review says the shop takes cash or PayNow only, so carry some cash.
• Other outlets: there are branches at Chinatown Point, Funan, Suntec City and several suburban malls.
• Getting there: the shop is about five minutes on foot from Chinatown MRT station.
• Menu: the full list is on the Mei Heong Yuen website.

Nearby

Temple Street sits right among Chinatown's main sights. Sri Mariamman Temple is a short walk away, and Buddha Tooth Relic Temple is close by. The Chinatown heritage walk covers the same streets.

A bowl here fits well into a food walk such as our Chinatown cheap eats crawl. For more ideas, see our guide to Singapore desserts, the Chinatown neighbourhood guide and all restaurants in Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar.