THE RECOGNISED “APA CAFE AND BAKERY” PASTRIES CAFETERIA RUNNING ON THE EAST COAST NATION @ PAHANG
“Pastries Cafeteria” or somehow known the Patisserie Eating Cafe is a kind of the recent trendy dining house or leisure cafeteria which carrying the combination of their homemade pastries with other signature beverages, light foods & main courses under a roof in an environmental dining condition on respective home recipes on the ground. Here on the east coast nation, we found and being successfully recognised among the best recommended Pastries Cafeteria “Apa Cafe And Bakery” running at Kuantan, Pahang having great positive response from the market recently.
The Kuantan, Pahang local originated Ms. Cheong Phui Khei (born 1999), together with her partner Mr. Keith Ng Yuet Kei (Kuala Lumpur, born 1997) both were the initial couple-founders of this best recognised Pastries Cafeteria “Apa Cafe And Bakery” along the Kuantan territory, running in a families team with Phui Khei’s mother Madam Pong Chui Peng (Kuantan, born 1972) all are the recent immediate owners presenting all their home-baked pastries selection & other signature menus to the locals & visitors with their patience on the east coast ground at Pahang.
The first founder cum owner Cheong Phui Khei, also the cafe’s main baker who at her age of 26 years old currently all the while having interest in baking field since her teenage being initially touched the f&b industry at her 18th of age began as a trainee in a Japanese Cuisine restaurant at hometown Kuantan in the year of 2017. Later-on spent more than 2 years graduated from an culinary academy in Sunway, Selangor positioned as a chef at her 21st of age, then practically experienced the field nearly a year at Kuala Lumpur along her culinary journey. While Keith Ng Yuet Kei who is the cafe’s barista at his age of 28 years old recently, being stepped into the field at his about 19th of age experienced on the beverage section began from a trainee, then positioned as a barista at his about 22nd of age in the year of 2019 working in a western cuisine restaurant at Kuala Lumpur.
With experiences & recipes on-hand, added wishing to further expose in the baking field and foreseeing the market opportunity in the f&b industry especially in the pastries field enabled the couple Phui Khei and Keith Ng decided then started their very home-based pastries baking career in the year of 2021 for nearly a year. Having great supports & encouragements from Phui Khei’s mother Madam Pong then allowed them successfully established their very first owned Pastries Cafeteria officially named the “Apa Cafe And Bakery” at Indera Mahkota in the early of year 2022, then moved & expanded into a better environmental dining condition along the Jalan Berserah at Kuantan in the end of year 2023 continue serving all their homemade signatures to the public. And finally being recognised among the best in town by the Malaysian F&B E-Media for the year of 2025 on the east coast nation at Pahang.
In this Apa Cafe And Bakery, the owners’ very first top recommended in selections will be their signature “Mini Cream Puff” which prepared in daily fresh baked with flavours such vanilla, chocolate, matcha, strawberry & houjicha (roasted matcha) made available on customer’s preference. In-house hand-rubbed mini flour dough home-baked for about 20 minutes, then fillings with cream/flavour and finally served after decoration with either fruits, homemade caramel sauce, chocolate spread/decoration & seasoning powder/flakes (on flavour combination of decoration) will brings the wonderful crunchy bites with creamy tasty fair sweet swallowed kind of their Mini Cream Puff pastry eatery that you must have a try when reached Kuantan, Pahang.
Secondly will be their famous “Tiramisu in Cup”, also among their customer’s daily selection wanted from the beginning. Homemade in mixture of in-house espresso soaked lady finger piping with their slight salted mascarpone cream, then toppings with their homemade butter crumbles and dressed with coco powder will always bring the soft creamy with crumble’s crunchy bites in combination into mouth that you will never regret after tasted here.
Another will be their special “Vanilla Burnt Cheese Cake”, which among the cafe’s daily selection favourite by their visitors in the cake menus. Home-baked cheese cake (made from imported French cream cheese mixed into with home recipe vanilla paste in combination) in high temperature for about 30 minutes, finally served dining in slice surrounded with their homemade crunchy butter crumbles will brings the excellent creamy attached of exotic vanilla/caramel tasty swallowed kind of burnt cheese cake that you will neither found the same elsewhere in town here. Complete sides with a cup of their hot or cold home-brewed coffee will always the perfect matching.
Moreover, the owners also introduced their all time favourite “Homemade Macaron” which like by most of their customers in choices of flavours such chocolate, strawberry, salted caramel etc among the recommended in selections. Homemade macaron with mixture of almond flour, icing sugar, egg white & seasoning sugar, then kept drying for nearly an hour followed by about 13 minutes home-baked, and finally served chilled in flavour fillings will brings another tiny crispy bites kind of their macaron pastry eatery that you really cannot missed when stepped into this best recognised Pastries Cafeteria “Apa Cafe And Bakery” at Kuantan, Pahang.
APA CAFE AND BAKERY
Address: No. A 5492,
Ground Floor,
Jalan Berserah,
25300 Kuantan,
Pahang.
Business Hours: 12:00pm to 9:00pm (Sunday to Thursday)
1:00pm to 10:00pm (Friday & Saturday)
(Closed on Tuesday)