Friday’s Featured Food: Brunei Cheesecake

Friday’s Featured Food: Brunei Cheesecake in Bandar Seri Begawan. Top notch!

Brunei Darussalam is a tiny country, as well as being an unusual one. On my travels I always sample local food, it’s a key ingredient of a visit to any country in my opinion. Brunei offers a few local dishes for dinner, but for afternoon coffee I opted to try the local Brunei Cheesecake. So today’s Friday’s Featured Food comes from Bandar Seri Begawan, as I headed to the waterfront to try the Brunei Cheesecake at Dermaga Cafe.

The Dermaga Cafe on the Waterfront in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei where I had the Brunei Cheesecake

This had an added bonus for me as I was able to use the internet for the first time in Brunei – they have free Wi-Fi so that alone makes the Dermaga Cafe worth a visit.

My excellent Brunei Cheesecake with an iced coffee in the heat of Bandar Seri Begawan

Brunei is generally pricier than its Borneo neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia and this coffee shop is not an exception. I paid $2 Brunei Dollars for an iced coffee and the Brunei Cheesecake cost me $3. Worth it for a one-off treat!

The menu in Dermaga Cafe showing the Brunei Cheesecake. $3 for the privilege!

So my Brunei Cheesecake arrived. Looking slightly more elegant than your average cheesecake and with a napkin reading Royal Brunei Catering, I sample the cheesecake.

Enjoying an iced coffee and my exquisite Brunei Cheesecake at Dermaga Cafe in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

White, yellow and blue in colour, creamy and sweet in texture it was a bit of a special dessert! The blue came in the form of an iced sugar wedge on top and sat on the cheesecake accompanied by a small chunk of peanut butter. The Brunei Cheesecake sits on a gold coloured shiny piece of cardboard. Admiring the food before devouring it was an essential part of this particular culinary delight. I loved it!

Our tabel with my girlfriend and travel buddies Neil and Melanie in the Dermaga cafe in Bandar Seri Begawan loving it.

So if you’re ever in Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei and you want to try the Brunei Cheesecake head to Dermaga Cafe on the waterfront. It’s unmissable – there are only a few cafes and restaurants along the seafront. And I’m also not sure if this is in any way a speciality of Brunei at all – I’d actually assume it’s not, but it was nice and surely you can only get Brunei Cheesecake in Brunei…

A Video of my Brunei Cheesecake in Bandar Seri Begawan:

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