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JOHOR BARU - He used to drive over to Johor Baru often to eat and buy his favourite pastries for his friends and family. But because of the Covid-19 pandemic and its restrictions on travel, Singaporean Jeremy Chua has been unable to do so for two years. With the full opening of land borders between Singapore and Malaysia on Friday. ....
JOHOR BARU: He’s hoping that the whiff of the banana cake made by his family-run bakery will bring in customers again, once land travel between Singapore and Malaysia resumes on April 1. ....
Lim preparing the coal-fired oven at Hiap Joo Bakery and Biscuit Factory at Jalan Tan Hiok Nee. BUSINESS at the two remaining old-fashioned bakeries in the older part of Johor Baru city has plummeted because of the Covid-19 pandemic and movement control order. Century-old Hiap Joo Bakery & Biscuit Factory’s famous banana cakes, which are baked in a coal-fired oven, are popular with the locals and Singaporeans. Usually, there is a long queue by 11am daily for the cakes at the bakery located in Jalan Tan Hiok Nee. “But not these days, the line only lasts for about five minutes, ” said Lim Toh Shin, 41, who manages the outlet’s operations. ....