HEYTEA, the Chinese cheese tea and fruit tea chain behind drinks like the Cheezo Grape, has outlets across Singapore and a strong following, so its halal status is a common search. The register answer is at the top of this page; here is the context around it.
What HEYTEA says
HEYTEA has not published a halal certification or a halal position for its Singapore outlets, and it makes no Muslim-owned or no-pork-no-lard claims here. What the brand has announced is certification elsewhere: trade press reported that HEYTEA secured halal certification from JAKIM, Malaysia’s Islamic development authority, for its Malaysian operations. The same coverage noted that Singapore was HEYTEA’s first Southeast Asian market, ahead of Malaysia. That Malaysian certificate is a meaningful signal about the brand’s supply chain ambitions, but it applies to Malaysia, not to any Singapore premises.
What this means for you
Certification does not travel across borders. Until a HEYTEA premises in Singapore holds MUIS certification, there is nothing on the local register to verify, and ordering here remains a personal judgement about ingredients like cheese foam, jellies and syrups rather than a checkable status. The Malaysian development makes HEYTEA a brand worth re-checking on the register from time to time, since chains that certify in one market sometimes follow through in others. Our guide on what to do when an outlet is not listed walks through exactly this situation.
Certified alternatives
If you want a drink stop with a certificate you can actually check, start from these register-backed pages:
- Snack bars and bakeries - the register category that covers most certified drink and dessert kiosks.
- Mr Bean - a certified local chain whose soy drinks and desserts scratch a similar itch to fruit teas and toppings.
To check any specific outlet, use the register search with the outlet name or the mall’s postal code.