Fung Wong Biscuit

Kuala Lumpur is home to many Chinese immigrants from the Guangdong region from the 1930s to 1950s resulting in strong roots in Cantonese culture and cuisine. With Cantonese as the most widely spoken dialect in modern KL, there are still many famous shops and stalls selling traditional food and snacks using recipes passed down from their forefathers

Located at Jalan Sultan, Fung Wong Biscuits is one such shop founded more than 100 years ago. Using generation-old recipes, the shop first gained fame by exclusively selling wedding cakes which is an important part of a Chinese wedding. As the shop got more popular, the founder invented new recipes for more kinds of Chinese pastries and moved into the coffee shop from his small stall

The current modern hip stall was officially opened in December 2021 as a move from the original shop located on Petaling Street. The reason for the move was due to rising rent and space constraints. The current space allows for a better display of the biscuits as well as a sit-down space for people to eat the biscuits with a cup of tea or coffee. The shop also retains a historic alley and original white tiles on the pillars from the original tenants for an interesting contrast with the rest of the shop. It is a well-adapted concept of the co-existence of old and new which is a great background for Instagram pictures

You can find a wide variety of goodies at the store including; boxed biscuits which are suitable as gifts, pre-baked and pre-packed items like walnut and almond cookies in glass jars as well as freshly baked daily cookies and pastries at the glass showcase area.

I forgot to take a picture of the biscuits as I bought them to be brought home and some of the items I bought included the salted egg tart, siew bao pastry, wife biscuit, husband biscuit, lotus filling tarts, boxed almond biscuits and malted sugar biscuits.

Personally, I think the freshly baked tarts were really nice and had the traditional flavour found in old bakeries. The fillings are generous and the pastry and tart skin is generally very buttery and crumbly. The boxed ones are less delicious as it is missing the freshly baked flavour of the pastry which I find is quite important for such traditional biscuits. I would recommend anyone who likes traditional Cantonese-styled biscuits and tarts to visit them

Address: 85, Jalan Sultan, City Centre, 50000 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Operating hours: 9 am to 6 pm