Mama’s Boy Bakes Review: Muslim-Owned Mac & Cheese Hawker With Samyang Flavour At Amoy Street

The home-based kitchen began early last year, delivering mac and cheese along with muffins and tiramisu to the doorsteps of hungry shoppers. With loads of #foodporn shots of their tasty creations, the business gained quite a popular following and amassed a whopping 11.6k followers.

Motivated by its popularity, they began trading a hawker store at Amoy Street Food Centre in early July this year to bring their gooey mac and cheese to the masses. Food at Mama’s Boy Bakes We could smell the Truffle Mac & Cheese ($10.50) even before Fahmy handed it over. Instead of lazily baking macaroni and cheese together in the oven, Mama’s Boy Bakes uses a classic bechamel-based sauce as its main flavouring base.

This tasty concoction is made by combining cheese with milk, butter, and flour, giving it a thick and creamy consistency. Korean Mac & Cheese ($9.50) was another dish that came heavily recommended by Samuel.

This time, the cheese sauce is mixed with gochujang to give a sweet and tangy sauce. There’s also an option to get your mac and cheese “toasted” for an additional $0.50.

This involves directly blow torching the cheese, giving an aburi-esque taste to it. I like how it as well gave a pleasant touch of smokiness, and would recommend shelling out the extra $0.50 for this nifty upgrade.

A portion of gula melaka sauce is also given on the side for you to drizzle all over this sweet creation. Just like the real thing, these little dessert spheres are bursting with taste with every bite, and pack a subtle hint of pandan that gives a nice fragrance to everything. The bombshells are going at $1 off if you’re pairing them with an order of any mac and cheese, so ordering a portion of this to share around isn’t such a bad idea.

Ambience at Mama’s Boy Bakes Home to plenty of exciting modern hawker options such as Kinobe and Daily Noodles, Amoy Food Centre plays host to many exciting new concepts. Each order of mac and cheese is made fresh on the spot, so be prepared to wait for around five minutes for each order.

Fahmy and Samuel push each order out quite quickly, so you won’t have to wait as long as compared to the other stores in Amoy such as the legendary Han Kee fish soup and Pepper Bowl. On an execution level, the food served at Mama’s Boy Bakes was excellent and did not disappoint at all. The only thing I didn’t quite agree with Mama’s Boy Bakes was its rates.

I fear that they might be a little too costly for hawker centre standards, and that might detract a few from enjoying this tasty treat on a regular basis.