Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast
Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hong kong style kaya toast. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A simple yet ingenious combination, kaya toast was created in maritime Southeast Asia by Hainanese Chinese immigrants, who worked as galley hands on This is also the only place in Hong Kong to serve up kaya pineapple buns! Think fluffy bolo bao smeared with Hainanese-style brown sugar kaya. Hong Kong-style French toast is for any time, any day.

Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have hong kong style kaya toast using 8 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast:
  1. Take Canola / Peanut / Vegetable Oil, For Frying
  2. Make ready 2 Eggs Lightly Beaten,
  3. Make ready 3 TBSP Evaporated Milk,
  4. Get 6 Slices Homemade Shokupan / White Sandwich Bread,
  5. Make ready Homemade Nyonya Kaya, 2 Heaping Spread
  6. Get Homemade Cultured Butter, 2 Heaping Spread
  7. Prepare Condensed Milk, For Serving
  8. Get Nature Superfoods' Yacon Syrup, For Serving (Optional)

Hong Kong-style French Toast with peanut butter Kaya toast is a Singaporean breakfast dish. A well-known snack in the region, it can be eaten during breakfast or as a afternoon snack. Believed to be invented by Hainan immigrants in Singapore, Singaporeans often consume this food with a cup of tea or coffee.

Steps to make Hong Kong Style Kaya Toast:
  1. This is how this dish looked like in 2014.
  2. Fast forward 2018, I recreated this dish and this is how it looked like. I kinda regretted dredging it with panko breadcrumbs as they lost that iconic yellowish look.
  3. You can get the shokupan recipe on my previous post or visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/shokupan
  4. You can get the nyonya kaya recipe on my previous post or visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/nyonya-kaya
  5. You can get the cultured butter recipe on my previous post or visit: https://www.fatdough.sg/post/cultured-butter
  6. In a skillet over medium-low heat, add about 2 inches of oil. - - To check the temperature of the oil, simply insert a wooden chopstick. - - If there are bubbles forming around the chopstick, the oil is ready. The bubbles should not be bubbling rapidly. - - In a shallow bowl, add eggs and milk.
  7. Whisk to beat the eggs and combine well. - - Remove crust from the bread. - - You can save the crust for bread crumbs or fry them up into bread fries - - Dredge the bread with the egg mixture on both sides.
  8. Gently drop the sandwiches into the oil away from you. - - Fry until lightly golden brown on both sides. - - The bread will brown and burn very fast. Make sure the temperature is at medium-low heat. Using a pair of chopsticks to keep flipping for even browning.
  9. Remove from heat and drain off excess oil on a wire cooling rack or on a plate lined with kitchen paper. - - Repeat the steps with the remaining bread. - - Spread kaya on 2 slices of the fried bread.
  10. Spread butter on another 2 slices of fried bread. - - Stack the butter slices onto the kaya ones. - - Finally, place the remaining slices on top. - - Slice and serve with a drizzle of condensed milk.
  11. To make bread fries, toss the crust into the remaining egg batter and fry until crispy. I like to serve with kaya as a dipping sauce and a drizzle of Nature Superfoods' yacon syrup or maple syrup.*

Wishing all a Happy Lunar New Year from Ya Kun Kaya Toast! I think kaya toast might be the Hainanese community's greatest contribution to the cuisine of the Malay peninsula. They took the traditional coconut jams found around Asia and boosted its flavour with dark caramel, combining it with toast and hand-roasted coffee for the original Hainanese café experience. "Do you know what Kaya Toast is? Kaya Toast is a soul food in Singapore!! Made from sugar, egg, coconut milk and pandan leaf (herb) Sandwich the kaya jam and butter.

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