KToast Review: Legit $2.90 Korean Toast Cooked By An Ahjussi In The West

Legit $2.90 Korean Toast Cooked By An Ahjussi In The West Food at KToast At $2.90 , the eponymous K-Toast is the cheapest Korean-style toast you’ll find in Singapore. While the white toast used was perfectly soft and decent, it lacked the fluffiness and flavour of breads like brioche.

Ham and cheese are the two other main components in this sandwich, but both didn’t quite hit the mark. The former had a lacklustre bouncy texture and was short of taste, getting overpowered by the sweet house sauce. I’m an absolute sucker for bacon, and the Bacon Toast ($3.90) was objectively the best sandwich we had.

In addition to the corn omelette and a generous squirt of house sauce, it came with three fatty strips of bacon, a bed of cabbage and a pickled slice of daikon. While it did have a slight sear, the texture was more meaty, akin to the thick pork belly slices used in shabu shabu.

Unlike the ham, this stood up well against the sweet sauce, granting the sandwich a good balance of flavours. This sandwich ticked all the boxes: sweet and salty, charred and fresh, eggy softness and vegetal crunchiness.

Bulgogi sauce is supposed to be sweet, but this was a little one-dimensional. I felt that more could have been done to offset the sweetness and provide more variety in terms of savour. Thin strips of beef are what usually comes to mind when we think of bulgogi, but this comes in the form of a Sausage McMuffin-esque patty.

While it was tender and juicy, the meaty texture of beef was missed. For a hot bulgogi toast, I was barely able to discern spice, which could have gone a long way in combating the dish’s sweetness. Just like a cheeseburger, the sandwich in addition came with pickles and cheese.

We would perhaps have liked more of both to counteract the sweetness, with pickles providing a sour tang and cheese supplying a salty edge. Together with the cabbage, omelette and bread, it’s perfectly respectable for a light brunch.

Considering the number of schools and army camps around Clementi, as well as its proximity to Clementi MRT, this humble stall is sure to be popular with students and soldiers on a shoestring. The verdict Korean culture is popular as ever in Singapore, and with KToast offering the cheapest rendition of Korean-style toast here, it’s sure to gain popularity.