Bengawan Solo (company)


Bengawan Solo is a Singaporean bakery chain. It has 43 outlets islandwide with a factory at 23 Woodlands. The bakery makes kueh, buns, cakes, cookies and mooncakes. All products are prepared at Woodlands and delivered to the stores 2-3 times daily. Pandan cake is the most popular treat in the shop, and nearly every visitor to Singapore will try it.

History

Bengawan Solo was founded in 1979 by Tjendri Anastasia or Anastasia Liew, who emigrated from Indonesia.
The first Bengawan Solo Cake Shop was set up in Marine Terrace.
According to the website of the company, Anastasia had initially started an unlicensed home baking business of Indonesian delicacies in their HDB apartment, before the Singapore Ministry of Environment caught up with her, an incident that compelled her to found and register her business in 1979.