Pandan waffles are one of those Singapore snacks that rarely need an introduction.
You smell them before you see them. Someone opens a waffle iron at a neighbourhood bakery, that warm pandan-and-batter smell drifts out, and suddenly buying one seems considerably more urgent than whatever you went there to do.
The format is simple enough: a green waffle, folded in half, usually eaten warm and sometimes spread with peanut butter, kaya, chocolate or butter. Yet the differences between one bakery and another are much larger than they look.
Some are thin and crisp. Others are so thick that the centre is closer to cake. There are waffles with a chewy, almost kueh-like middle, and others that are soft all the way through. Even pandan intensity varies enormously.
For this guide, we are sticking largely to the old-school Singapore pandan waffle rather than café waffles piled with gelato and toppings. These are the ones you buy from a bakery or heartland stall, folded into a paper sleeve and eat while they are still warm.
About This Guide
This guide covers some of the best pandan waffles in Singapore in 2026, with an emphasis on texture, pandan flavour, freshness, filling choices and value.
We have deliberately included different styles.
If your ideal waffle is thick and cakey, Bakery Cuisine will probably make more sense than Gambateh. If you want something crisper, the reverse may be true. And if convenience matters because what you really want is a decent pandan waffle five minutes from home, a chain such as PrimaDeli or Swee Heng has an obvious advantage.
The point is not to pretend there is one universally perfect waffle. It is to help you find the version closest to the one you have in your head.
Who Is This Guide For?
This guide is for anyone searching for a proper old-school pandan waffle in Singapore, particularly the takeaway kind found at neighbourhood bakeries rather than plated café desserts.
It will be useful if you are trying to find a waffle that is extra crispy, thick and chewy, halal-certified, generously filled or simply easy to buy without travelling halfway across Singapore.
It is also for anyone who grew up eating these after school and has discovered that the phrase “pandan waffle” covers a surprisingly wide range of textures.
Key Takeaways
- Best overall: Garden Pastry & Cake
- Best thick pandan waffle: Bakery Cuisine
- Best halal-certified option: Swee Heng
- Best convenient classic: PrimaDeli
- Best for crisp waffles and generous fillings: Gambateh Cafe
- Best value heartland option: Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles
The biggest advice we can give is to eat the waffle immediately. Even an excellent pandan waffle changes considerably once steam softens the exterior inside the takeaway bag.
Best Pandan Waffles in Singapore at a Glance
| Pandan Waffle | Best For | Texture | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garden Pastry & Cake | Best overall | Crisp or soft, depending on your preference | Aljunied |
| Bakery Cuisine | Thick waffles | Large, crisp outside, soft and cakey inside | Raffles Place |
| Swee Heng | Halal-certified option | Soft and chewy | Multiple locations |
| PrimaDeli | Convenience and nostalgia | Light and fluffy | Multiple locations |
| Gambateh Cafe | Crisp waffles and fillings | Crisper and slightly chewier | Bukit Merah |
| Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles | Value and choice | Classic crisp-fluffy heartland style | Eunos |
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Garden Pastry & Cake
Best for: The best all-round old-school pandan waffle
Address: 95 Aljunied Crescent, #01-505/507, Singapore 380095
What to order: Pandan waffle, cooked crisp
Garden Pastry has been around since 1977 and is better known to some families for traditional pastries and its yam products, but its pandan waffle deserves considerably more attention.
The useful thing here is that you can choose how you want it cooked.
If you prefer a crisp waffle, ask for it that way and you get a lightly crunchy exterior surrounding a much softer centre. If you belong firmly to the soft-waffle camp, that is an option too.
That choice sounds like a small detail until you realise how many arguments about the “best pandan waffle” are actually arguments about texture.
The waffle itself leans buttery and fragrant rather than aggressively flavoured. We would start with it plain before moving on to fillings, particularly if this is your first visit.
Editor’s Verdict
Garden Pastry is our overall pick because it understands that there is no single correct level of pandan-waffle crispness.
Being able to ask for yours crisp or soft immediately gives it an advantage if you have strong opinions about texture.
We would go crisp. You get enough crunch around the outside to make the first few bites satisfying without losing the soft, warm centre that makes an old-school waffle feel like an old-school waffle.
This is the one we would make a deliberate trip for.
Bakery Cuisine
Best for: Thick, substantial waffles
Address: 5 Raffles Place, #B1-23/24, Singapore 048618
What to order: Pandan waffle with peanut or kaya
Bakery Cuisine’s waffle is difficult to mistake for anybody else’s.
It is big.
More importantly, it is thick, with a deeply structured waffle exterior and enough soft batter in the middle to make one feel closer to a small meal than a quick snack.
The pandan flavour tends to sit further in the background than at some greener, more aromatic neighbourhood stalls. That will either be a strength or a weakness depending on what you want. Here, much of the pleasure comes from the contrast between the crisp exterior and the thick, soft centre.
Peanut is particularly well suited to it because the nutty filling gives the fairly substantial waffle more flavour without turning everything excessively sweet.
Bakery Cuisine still actively offers waffles in 2026, including classic fillings such as butter, kaya, chocolate, peanut, blueberry and cream cheese.
Editor’s Verdict
Go to Bakery Cuisine when your complaint about most pandan waffles is that they disappear in five bites.
This is the heavyweight of the list.
It does not have the strongest pandan profile, so we would not put it first for someone chasing fragrance above everything else. But if you prefer your waffle thick, crisp-edged and almost cake-like inside, few of the big bakery chains scratch the same itch.
Raffles Place commuters have a considerable advantage here.
Swee Heng
Best for: Halal-certified pandan waffles and easy availability
Locations: Multiple outlets across Singapore
What to order: Kaya or chunky peanut butter waffle
Swee Heng has been baking in Singapore since 1989 and obtained halal certification in 2010. The group now operates dozens of outlets, which immediately makes this one of the easiest pandan waffles on the list to actually find.
Its waffle leans towards the soft and chewy end of the spectrum.
There is enough structure around the exterior when freshly cooked, but the middle has a springier bite than the particularly airy PrimaDeli style. That texture has earned the waffle a following of its own, even among people who might visit Swee Heng primarily for bread and pastries.
The filling menu also goes beyond plain pandan. Current delivery menus include chocolate, chunky peanut butter and other familiar bakery-waffle combinations.
As with any large bakery chain, individual outlets and cooking times can affect the result. If yours has been sitting around rather than coming straight off the iron, you are not getting the best version.
Editor’s Verdict
Swee Heng is the strongest all-round recommendation if halal certification matters or you simply want a good pandan waffle without planning an expedition around it.
The texture is what distinguishes it from PrimaDeli. We find Swee Heng a little chewier and more substantial, while PrimaDeli tends to be lighter and fluffier.
Get it freshly cooked, eat it immediately and choose peanut if you want the filling to hold its own against the waffle.
PrimaDeli
Best for: The familiar classic that is easy to find
Locations: Multiple outlets across Singapore
What to order: Plain first, then kaya or chocolate
No pandan-waffle list in Singapore is going to feel complete without PrimaDeli.
For a lot of people, this is the reference point. It is the waffle they grew up buying at a mall or neighbourhood centre, and the smell coming from a PrimaDeli waffle counter can probably sell more waffles than any advertisement ever written.
The style is straightforward: relatively light, fluffy and best eaten straight from the iron.
Compared with some of the smaller bakeries in this guide, however, we would be careful about calling it the undisputed best. Recent customer feedback is noticeably mixed across outlets, particularly around consistency.
That does not make PrimaDeli a bad recommendation. It makes it a convenient one.
A good freshly made PrimaDeli waffle still delivers exactly the sort of warm, uncomplicated bakery snack many people are looking for.
Editor’s Verdict
PrimaDeli belongs on the list for nostalgia and accessibility, but we would no longer automatically call it Singapore’s best pandan waffle.
There are now better choices if you are willing to travel for texture or filling quality.
What PrimaDeli continues to do very well is convenience. If there is an outlet nearby and you can see the waffle being cooked fresh, it remains an easy craving fix.
We would take plain or kaya over piling on a complicated filling. This waffle works best when it still tastes like the snack you remember.
Gambateh Cafe
Best for: Crisp pandan waffles with generous fillings
Address: 1 Jalan Bukit Merah, #01-4516, Singapore 150001
What to order: Black sesame, kaya or peanut
Gambateh feels closer to a proper heartland waffle specialist than a bakery that happens to own a waffle iron.
The Bukit Merah shop sells drinks and Asian desserts as well, but pandan waffles are one of the things people continue to seek it out for.
The texture leans crisp, with enough chew through the centre to stop it feeling dry when it is eaten fresh. Filling portions are also generally more generous than what you get from many chain bakeries.
Black sesame is particularly interesting if you are bored with the standard chocolate-peanut-kaya rotation. Its deeper, nuttier flavour works surprisingly naturally with pandan.
Expect to wait if several people order ahead of you. That is not necessarily a bad thing when the alternative is a waffle that was cooked earlier and left sitting around.
Editor’s Verdict
Gambateh is where we would go when filling matters almost as much as the waffle.
There is a more handmade, heartland-snack feel to it than the big bakery chains, and the waffle itself has enough crispness to stand up to richer spreads.
Our pick is black sesame.
It is not the most traditional combination on this list, but the slightly savoury nuttiness keeps the whole thing from becoming excessively sweet.
Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles
Best for: Affordable pandan waffles in the east
Address: Block 5 Eunos Crescent, #01-2605, Singapore 400005
What to order: Plain, pandan kaya or crunchy peanut butter
Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles is exactly the sort of place we like finding for this guide: a neighbourhood dessert shop where pandan waffles are part of the identity rather than an incidental menu item.
Its current menu has an entire pandan-waffle section.
A plain pandan waffle is S$2.60, while versions with pandan kaya, crunchy peanut butter, creamy peanut, butter, chocolate or red bean are currently listed at S$3.90.
That makes it one of the better-value options here if you want something more substantial than a plain waffle without moving into café-dessert pricing.
This is also a useful alternative for east-side residents who understandably have little interest in crossing Singapore for a snack that should fundamentally remain an affordable neighbourhood pleasure.
Editor’s Verdict
Kiasu is the sleeper pick on this list.
It does not have PrimaDeli’s brand recognition or Garden Pastry’s heritage, but it gets the basic proposition right: warm pandan waffle, sensible prices and enough filling choices to keep repeat visits interesting.
We would start with plain once. If the waffle itself works for you, move to pandan kaya or crunchy peanut on the next visit.
At this price point, that is hardly a difficult research project.
What Actually Makes a Good Pandan Waffle?
The easiest mistake is assuming greener means better.
Colour tells you very little about whether the waffle will actually taste good.
What matters more is the balance between fragrance, sweetness and texture. Pandan should be noticeable without making the waffle taste like flavouring, while the batter itself needs enough flavour that eating it plain does not feel like something is missing.
Then there is texture.
A good crisp-style waffle should have some resistance at the edges while remaining tender in the centre. A softer waffle should still have enough structure that it does not become limp the moment it is folded.
Most importantly, it needs to be fresh.
Pandan waffles trap steam remarkably efficiently once placed inside a bag. A crisp waffle can turn soft on the journey home, which is why comparing two stalls after carrying both around for half an hour is not particularly fair.
For serious pandan-waffle research, eat on location.
Crispy or Soft Pandan Waffle: Which Is Better?
This is mostly personal preference.
If you like crispy waffles, start with Garden Pastry’s crisp option or Gambateh.
If you prefer thick and soft, Bakery Cuisine is the obvious choice.
For chewy, Swee Heng sits somewhere in between.
PrimaDeli is the one we would choose for a lighter, fluffier style.
This is also why we do not think a single ranking from first to sixth is especially useful. Someone who loves Bakery Cuisine’s thick centre may find a thin crispy waffle disappointing, while somebody else will regard exactly that thickness as too cakey.
What Is the Best Filling for a Pandan Waffle?
If you are trying a bakery for the first time, order plain.
That sounds boring, but it is the easiest way to work out whether the waffle is actually good rather than being rescued by a large spoonful of chocolate spread.
After that, our default choice is peanut butter.
Pandan and peanut work well because the filling adds saltiness and richness without completely masking the waffle.
Kaya is the most obviously local pairing and works particularly well if the waffle itself is not already very sweet.
Chocolate is comforting but tends to dominate more delicate pandan flavour. Cheese gives a good sweet-savoury contrast, while black sesame at Gambateh is a more unusual choice worth trying.
Why Do Pandan Waffles Taste Different From Shop to Shop?
The recipe is only part of it.
Batter thickness, waffle-iron temperature and cooking time all affect the final texture. The amount and type of pandan flavouring also change how aromatic the waffle tastes.
Then there is timing.
A waffle eaten 30 seconds after it leaves the iron is fundamentally different from the same waffle after ten minutes trapped in a takeaway bag.
This is why even different outlets of the same chain can produce noticeably different experiences.
Are Singapore Pandan Waffles the Same as Vietnamese Pandan Waffles?
They are related but not always identical.
Vietnamese pandan waffles, often known as bánh kẹp lá dứa, commonly have a chewier interior, partly because recipes may incorporate ingredients such as tapioca starch and coconut milk.
The familiar Singapore bakery-style pandan waffle tends to be closer to a conventional waffle batter flavoured with pandan, although recipes vary widely from bakery to bakery.
There is considerable overlap, which is why some especially chewy Singapore waffles can feel almost kueh-like in the centre.
Are Pandan Waffles Halal?
It depends on the bakery.
Do not assume a pandan waffle is halal simply because the ingredients appear straightforward, as certification also covers sourcing and preparation.
Swee Heng identifies itself as a halal-certified bakery chain and is the clearest option in this guide if certification is important.
For other independent bakeries and stalls, check current certification directly before purchasing if this is a requirement.
How Much Does a Pandan Waffle Cost in Singapore?
The old-school pandan waffle remains one of Singapore’s more affordable snacks.
A plain neighbourhood version commonly costs only a few dollars, with an additional charge for fillings such as peanut, chocolate, kaya or cheese.
Prices differ between shops and outlets, and richer fillings naturally cost more.
Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles currently lists its plain pandan waffle at S$2.60 and filled versions at S$3.90, which gives a reasonable indication of where the heartland market sits in 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions About Pandan Waffles in Singapore
Where can I find the best pandan waffle in Singapore?
Our overall pick is Garden Pastry & Cake in Aljunied because you can choose between a crisp or soft finish and the waffle itself has enough flavour to enjoy plain.
Bakery Cuisine is our choice for thick waffles, while Gambateh is particularly good if you want a crisper waffle with generous filling.
Which pandan waffle is the thickest?
Bakery Cuisine is one of the most distinctive choices for a thick, substantial waffle. Its centre is soft and cakey rather than airy.
Which pandan waffles in Singapore are halal-certified?
Swee Heng is a halal-certified Singapore bakery chain and sells waffles at many of its outlets.
Always check current certification if halal status is important, particularly when buying from independent stalls.
Where can I buy pandan waffles near Raffles Place?
Bakery Cuisine has an outlet at Raffles Place MRT and is especially well known for its large, thick waffles.
Where can I buy pandan waffles in the east?
Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles at Eunos Crescent is one of our preferred east-side options. PrimaDeli and Swee Heng also operate numerous branches across Singapore.
Where can I buy pandan waffles in the west?
Swee Heng has multiple outlets in western Singapore, making it one of the easiest choices. Availability of waffles can vary by outlet, so check before making a special journey.
Is PrimaDeli still good for pandan waffles?
PrimaDeli remains one of Singapore’s best-known waffle chains and can still be very satisfying when the waffle is freshly cooked.
However, customer experiences vary between branches, so we rate it more highly for convenience and nostalgia than as the undisputed best waffle in Singapore.
What is the best pandan waffle filling?
Peanut butter is our favourite all-round choice because its salty, nutty flavour works well with pandan.
Kaya is the classic local combination. If you want something less conventional, try Gambateh’s black sesame.
Should pandan waffles be crispy or soft?
Both can be good.
The best texture depends entirely on preference. Garden Pastry is particularly useful because you can request yours crisp or soft, while Bakery Cuisine suits people who like a thick, soft centre.
Are pandan waffles best eaten fresh?
Absolutely.
The waffle begins losing crispness once trapped steam softens the exterior, so eat it as soon as possible after cooking if texture matters to you.
Final Verdict
The reassuring thing about pandan waffles is that this is still a category where the best snack does not have to come from an expensive café.
Our overall pick is Garden Pastry & Cake. The waffle has the old-school appeal we are looking for, and being able to choose the doneness solves one of the biggest disagreements people have about pandan waffles in the first place.
For something thicker and more substantial, go to Bakery Cuisine.
If you need a halal-certified option, Swee Heng is the easiest recommendation and has the advantage of being widely available.
Gambateh Cafe is our choice when you want a crisp waffle with a more generous filling, while Kiasu Beancurd and Waffles deserves considerably more attention from east-side residents.
And PrimaDeli?
We would keep it on the list.
Not because we think every PrimaDeli waffle is automatically better than what a neighbourhood bakery can make, but because a freshly cooked one still tastes unmistakably like the Singapore snack so many people grew up with.
Sometimes nostalgia deserves a place in the rankings too.
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