PASTORIES

Pastories 

 

Our 34th baker at Baker X @ Orchard Central is Pastories, operating from 16 October to 9 December 2024. We spoke to founder, Yeo Min, to find out more about her journey.
Yeo Min is a pastry chef and author of ‘Chinese Pastry School’, a book that offers a comprehensive look at Chinese pastries to help home bakers understand and recreate them successfully. She started Pastories to tell stories through her bakes, and currently runs it as a home-based business offering custom cakes for special occasions as well as a range of classic Chinese pastries.
 
A fourth-generation Singaporean Chinese, Min’s great-grandparents travelled to Singapore from Southern China in the 1930s and her grandparents were born in Singapore just before the Second World War. Like much of the Chinese diaspora, she finds herself equal parts Chinese and not-so-Chinese — she eats as much bread as she does rice; scored a C for her O-Level Chinese but manages to write Chinese pop songs; and attended a French-focused pastry school but decided thereafter to specialise in Chinese pastries. 
 
Her journey in the kitchen started as a necessity when she was an undergraduate student. Her activity of choice when procrastinating school projects was baking in communal kitchens. This inspired her to make a career switch to the food industry after working for two years as a social worker. 
 
In 2021, Min took part in the Channel 8 baking competition, ‘Creme de la creme’. She impressed judges with her creativity and placed as a finalist on the show. In the same year, she took part in the World Gourmet Summit Apprentice Chef competition and placed second with a reinvented mooncake. 
 
When not running Pastories, Yeo Min does food research, freelances as a pastry instructor and plays the cello in a community orchestra. Her dream is to open a museum of Singapore food one day!

Being a part of Baker X @ Orchard Central 

 

Yeo Min has been toying with the idea of setting up a physical space, where she can share her bakes, hold hands-on workshops and demos, and get to meet customers in person. Specialising in the field of Chinese pastries and traditional bakes is a relatively risky one, given the general preference for more Western-style pastries in Singapore and the low price point of heritage food. Min hope to use Baker X as a testbed for traditional bakes, to gauge interest in workshops, and to see if it is feasible to continue developing her work in the direction of heritage food. 

Specially curated for Baker X @ Orchard Central    

 

Pastories will be offering their classics and bestsellers.

Look forward to their Gula melaka banana cake, Almond-sesame marble cake, Orange blossom sugee cake, Bandung tres leches, Mushroom rendang focaccia, Kueh kosui crumble bars and Egg tarts.

See you at the museum of food!

 

Operating hours: Wed to Sun, 12pm - 7pm.

 

About Baker X @ Orchard Central

 

Baker X @ Orchard Central is a project to give budding home-baking entrepreneurs the opportunity to trial with a physical outlet and scale their business.

 

Through this initiative, Far East Organization aims to encourage the entry of new brands and enhance the business ecosystem in Singapore by providing customers with more choices and encouraging greater diversity.

 

Bakers work in a fully equipped baking studio and café, a physical space provided to them at no cost, over a period of 2 to 6 weeks to bake and sell. The cafe also houses social enterprise, Tea Ideas, which opens from Tuesdays to Sundays.

 

Don’t miss out on these delectable bakes, head down to Baker X @ Orchard Central #04-29 today! Spend min. $30 to qualify for 2x SFE$*. Limited quantity daily. While stocks last. Download the shopFarEast app from Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

 

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