On the morning of my second day in Singapore, Szym took me to Toastbox, so that he could introduce me to a slightly hipster take on kaya toast. (Because well, nothing says Szyngapore more than ‘slightly hipster take on amazing food’). Kaya is a a very sweet coconut jam, made from coconut milk, eggs, sugar and some pandan leaves, that is popular throughout SE Asia. It was also very popular in my houshold growing up, due to the fact that at some point my father locked onto it, and subsequently ate kaya sandwiches pretty consistently for about 10 years. Anyway. If you’re doing kaya toast the proper way, you eat the very buttery coconut jam toast with super-soft boiled egg, dipping the sweet toast into a salty spicy gooey mess (add some soya and chili paste first). Very very delicious. Can recommend. We had hoped to wash down our toast with some fancy bakery finds, but alas! the nearby bakery seemed to skew savoury instead of in the sesame, red bean or pineapple bun direction … Continue reading Szymgapore, part II: ‘Let’s Du-rian it!’