| Lana Cake Shop | |
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| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1975 |
| Owner(s) | Jason Kwan |
| Street address | 36 Greenwood Avenue |
| Postal/ZIP Code | 289239 |
| Country | Singapore |
| Coordinates | 1°19′55″N103°48′23″E / 1.331844°N 103.806457°E |
| Website | https://www.lanacakes-since1964.com/ |
Lana Cake Shop, also known as Lana Cakes, is a cake shop on Greenwood Avenue in Singapore. The shop sells various cakes, but is most known for selling fudge cakes. [1]
The shop was opened in 1975 by Violet Kwan, who had begun selling cakes from her home in 1964. [2] [3] Kwan learned the cake's recipe from her sister-in-law, Lani. [4] The shop is named after Lani. [5] Kwan put the shop up for sale in 2016 as she wanted to retire. [6] [7] By September, she had received numerous offers, but she had not accepted any, as she believed that she had not yet found a good match. [8] However, instead of selling the shop, Kwan decided to pass ownership to her son, Jason Kwan, who was previously a banker working in Tokyo, and reopened the shop in March 2019. [9]
Tan Hsueh Yun of The Straits Times ranked the store as having the best chocolate fudge cakes among the top 10 fudge cakes in Singapore in 2016, giving it a score of 16.7 out of 25. [10] [11] Delfina Utomo of Time Out included the shop in her 2019 list of the 8 best traditional bakeries and cake shops in Singapore. [12] Dolly Dai and Ho Guo Xiong included the shop in their 2021 list of where to get the best and most indulgent chocolate cakes in Singapore. [13]
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