Best for baking goods
If you're baking aficionado(or if you've ever had to hunt down uncommon ingredients for that recipe you're dying to try), Phoon Huat is the place to be for value-for-money baking supplies. The only occasional grouse shoppers have of this one-stop shop, which has outlets all over the island, is it's cramped aisles - but none of that will bother you at the Buona Vista branch, which proudly calls itself the largest in terms of floor space and range of products.
The wide, brightly lit corridors here are all jam-packed with anything you could ever want to fulfil your baking dreams. Looking for an ice cream maker? You'll finde it sitting next to a smoothie blender and a yogurt maker. In need of colourful edible flowers to prettify your cake? Choose from gum paste ones that come in the form of pastel-hied rose lilies,peonies,hydrangeas and more. Besides these, it's got everything from baking trays, wooden kueh moulds and lollipop sticks to pastes (like pineapple and double chocolate lotus), gluten-free cake mixes and silicone moulds.
Newbies can try the Ultimate Decorating Set ($278.20), which comes with a variety of 177 tools (including a fondant smoother, a dusting pouch and modelling sticks) - a handy way to kickstart your new hobby. Even if you're not a fan of sweet treats, there are rows after rows of recipe books, herbs, spices, nuts, pastas and savoury produce.With all this at your fingertips, it's baking made easy, just as Phoon Huat's slogan says.