# ovenmarvel.com: Oven Marvel, remembered > A fan tribute to Oven Marvel, a one-shop takeaway bakery on the ground floor of Sunshine Plaza, 91 Bencoolen Street, Singapore, run by pastry chef Johnny Ngiam. Earlier called Delicious Muffins (blogged January 2009), it sold flat all-butter puff pastry chicken pies, curry puffs and muffins, and closed in early 2022 (reported 17 March 2022; the owners reportedly retired). Every historical claim on the site cites a dated public source; recipes are clearly labelled home recreations, because the original recipe was never published. Note: ovenmarvel.com is a fan tribute. Oven Marvel, Chef Johnny Ngiam and the shop's former owners have not endorsed it and take no part in it, and you cannot buy their pies here. Key facts: one outlet only; no evidence of any connection to Don Pie; no egg in the Oven Marvel chicken pie; reviewer-reported chicken pie prices rose from about S$2.80 (around 2009) to S$4.00 (2018 to 2020). All images on the site are illustrations, not photographs of the real shop. ## History and evidence - [Home](https://ovenmarvel.com/): Overview of the shop, the menu, prices and the recreation kitchen. - [The Oven Marvel story](https://ovenmarvel.com/the-oven-marvel-story/): A small shop, three things on the menu, one pastry chef, and about thirteen years of paper bags. Every date below comes from a dated source, linked as we go. - [The price of a pie, 2009 to 2022](https://ovenmarvel.com/oven-marvel-prices-2009-2022/): Thirteen years of reported prices for one flat chicken pie, hung on a string. Drag along it, and every tag links to the reviewer who paid it. - [What happened to Oven Marvel](https://ovenmarvel.com/what-happened-to-oven-marvel/): One week in March 2022, a closed sign and a lot of disappointed phone calls. Here is exactly what was reported about the closure, and what was not. - [Sunshine Plaza and Bencoolen](https://ovenmarvel.com/oven-marvel-sunshine-plaza/): One address, two unit numbers, a ground-floor corridor and the smell of butter. Only the location facts the sources actually support, and a clear line where they stop. - [What we know and what we do not](https://ovenmarvel.com/what-we-know/): Memory is generous and the internet is careless. This page keeps them apart: every common claim about the shop, the source behind it, and how far I would trust it. ## The pie - [What the chicken pie tasted like](https://ovenmarvel.com/oven-marvel-chicken-pie/): A flat, round, all-butter puff pastry pie with a peppery cream filling. Here it is taken apart, layer by layer, using what reviewers wrote down at the time. - [The curry puff and the muffins](https://ovenmarvel.com/oven-marvel-curry-puff-and-muffins/): The chicken pie gets the headlines, but it shared a very short menu with two other things. Here is what reviewers recorded about each, and why the muffins came first. - [Why puff pastry, not shortcrust](https://ovenmarvel.com/why-puff-pastry-not-shortcrust/): The single biggest difference between Oven Marvel's chicken pie and the pie most people picture. What the two pastries are, how they behave, and what the choice did to the eating. ## Recreation recipes (home recreations, not the original) - [Recreation kitchen](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/): Index of all seven home recreation recipes. - [The flagship butter-puff chicken pie](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/butter-puff-chicken-pie/): My closest attempt yet at the pie from Sunshine Plaza. Flat, all butter, peppery, with a crackling top and a soft, sauce-soaked inner layer. It takes a day, mostly fridge time. - [Rough puff pastry](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/rough-puff-pastry/): The pastry behind every pie and curry puff on this site. All butter, four folds, and a schedule built around the fridge rather than against the weather. - [Peppery chicken bechamel filling](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/peppery-chicken-bechamel-filling/): The inside of the pie: chicken thigh cooked until just tender, soft vegetables, and a white sauce thick enough to behave under puff pastry and peppery enough to be remembered. - [Weeknight pie with bought puff](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/weeknight-chicken-pie-bought-puff/): No folding, no overnight fridge. Two sheets of shop-bought all-butter puff, a quick pan filling, a short freezer chill, and flat peppery pies on the table in under two hours. - [Curry puff recreation](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/curry-puff/): Same pastry as the pie, folded into half-moons around curried potato and chicken. The potatoes are boiled whole first, as reviewers described, so they stay in neat cubes. - [Banana walnut muffins](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/banana-walnut-muffins/): Before it was Oven Marvel, the shop was called Delicious Muffins. Banana Walnut was one of the flavours reviewers named. Here is a muffin with the crisp top and moist inside they described. - [Double chocolate chip muffins](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreations/double-chocolate-chip-muffins/): Of all the muffins at the Sunshine Plaza shop, the double chocolate chip is the one Burpple reviewers returned to most. This is my version: dark, moist, and crackly on top. - [Recreation log](https://ovenmarvel.com/recreation-log/): Eight logged home attempts with an opinion-only closeness score. ## Technique - [Technique notes](https://ovenmarvel.com/technique/): Index of the technique guides. - [Laminating in Singapore heat](https://ovenmarvel.com/technique/laminating-in-singapore-heat/): Butter starts to soften at the temperature of an ordinary Singapore afternoon. You can still make flaky puff pastry at home: you just have to plan around the weather. - [Bechamel thickness for pie filling](https://ovenmarvel.com/technique/bechamel-thickness-for-pie-filling/): Reviewers described Oven Marvel's sauce as medium-thick and slow to flow. Here is how to hit that consistency on purpose, and why it matters more under puff pastry than under shortcrust. - [White pepper](https://ovenmarvel.com/technique/white-pepper/): Nearly every review of Oven Marvel's chicken pie uses the word peppery. One says white peppery. This is a page about that one word. - [Reheating puff pastry pies](https://ovenmarvel.com/technique/reheating-puff-pastry-pies/): Oven Marvel's own staff had advice on this: let the pie stand before reheating. Here is that tip, expanded into a method that keeps the layers crisp and the centre safe. ## Reference - [Oven Marvel FAQ](https://ovenmarvel.com/faq/): Two dozen questions answered from the record. - [Sources and further reading](https://ovenmarvel.com/sources/): Every source used, annotated. - [Chicken pies to buy today](https://ovenmarvel.com/where-to-get-a-chicken-pie-like-that-today/): Honest round-up of Singapore chicken pies still on sale; none is the Oven Marvel pie. - [About this site](https://ovenmarvel.com/about/): A fan tribute to one closed bakery, written in one voice, with every historical fact linked to where it came from. Here is who is behind it, and how it is made. - [Share a memory](https://ovenmarvel.com/share-a-memory/): This archive is thin in places, and you might hold the missing piece: the year it opened, a photo you took, a receipt in an old wallet. Here is how to send it. ## Optional - [Full text](https://ovenmarvel.com/llms-full.txt): Plain-text version of the main content pages. - [Every page](https://ovenmarvel.com/site-index/): HTML index of the whole site.