Love Korean chicken and fast food? Well if you do, we have great news for you because No Signboard Holdings is bringing in eateries under the South Korea-based Mom’s Touch Chicken and Burger brand to Singapore and Malaysia.

For those of you who are not familar with the brand, Mom’s Touch Chicken and Burger is a popular fast food chain with around 650 stores in South Korea.

The company’s adorable name stems from their belief that food made the same way as a mother would for her family is always the best.

Photo Credit: Mom’s Touch

Mom’s Touch mainly specialises in fried chicken wings, chicken burgers and hamburgers. Their all-time popular wings come in a variety of mouthwatering flavours such as spicy, chilli pepper, honey, garlic, onion cheese and curry.

What makes Mom’s Touch great is also the fact that they do not use trans fat oils or monosodium glutamate in any of their products, so you know that you are getting some great quality food.

The first of these stores will be opened in Malaysia in 2019, with another seven stores to be opened in different parts of both Singapore and Malaysia within the first three years of the agreement.

So, for all our fried chicken fans out there, get ready to sink your teeth in some solid Korean fried chicken real soon!

It’s only been a few weeks since Isaac Toast announced its plans to open in Singapore but the wait has been agonising. But all’s good now because Isaac Toast will begin operations at Plaza Singapura from tomorrow (15 July 2018) onwards!

This popular Korean toast chain is famous for their breakfast toasts that come in an assortment of flavours which include the likes of ham & cheese, bulgogi and more. Locals and tourists alike love their sandwiches for the over-the-top fillings and crisp bread slices.

We had a sneak peek of their menu before they officially open so carry on reading to find out more!

From their MVP Series, patrons are treated to savoury gourmet sandwiches such as Double Spicy Cutlet, Hot Chicken MVP, Bulgogi MVP, Shrimp MVP and Hot Tteokgalbi MVP.

We came to a consensus that the Double Spicy Cutlet stole the limelight. Comprising a thick chunk of chicken cutlet, barbecue sauce and shredded cabbage for that added crunch, every bite of this decadent sandwich was flavourful.

One of our other favourite at Isaac Toast is their Ham & Cheese, which comes with ham, savoury omelette and cheese in between two slices of toasted bread.

Other flavours you can find include the Steak Ham, Ham Special and Ham & Cheese—simple recipes that will leave your tummy and taste buds satisfied.

Coffee, tea and fruit smoothies make up Isaac Toast’s beverage menu; you can go for an Americano, Cappuccino, Earl Grey Tea or cold drinks such as Strawberry & Banana Smoothie and Iced Tea.

Isaac Toast Singapore
68 Orchard Road
B2-42, Plaza Singapura
Singapore 238839
Nearest Station: Dhoby Ghaut

Isaac Toast—popular Korean toast chain—is opening in Singapore at Plaza Singapura level B2 in mid-July 2018.

For those of you who are not familiar with Isaac Toast, it is known for its breakfast toast—savoury toasted sandwiches with fillings that include ham & cheese and bulgogi. There are different variations of toasts, of course.

Every toast is prepared upon order. You pick your preferred fillings, and the slices of bread will be toasted to a right level of crisp before the fresh fillings are piled on.

Photos credit: Isaac Toast Malaysia

Long queues are evident at almost every Isaac Toast outlet in Seoul daily. Despite its origins of being a breakfast item, Isaac Toasts are eaten throughout the day now; the queues do not simply stop once breakfast hours are over. Today, Isaac Toast is arguably one of the most famous all-day street snacks in Seoul.

Issac Toast current has over 700 retail stores in South Korea as well as overseas outlets in Macau, Taiwan and Malaysia. Issac Toast Singapore is brought in by local company Altitude Holdings—which is also behind Yoogane Singapore.

Issac Toast Singapore
Plaza Singapura B2
68 Orchard Road, Singapore 238839

South Korea’s ever-so-popular street food snack stall, Monnani Kwabaeggi, is making its international debut in Singapore! Kkwabaeggi, also known as Korean ugly pretzels, are essentially doughnuts made using glutinous rice flour dough and twisted to give them odd-looking shapes.

They are deep-fried to give it a golden brown and crisp exterior, then after coated with cinnamon powder and sugar. Mildy sweet, fluffy, and spongy, these snacks bear great similarity to churros.

Monnani Kwabaeggi is set to open in Singapore in the last week of April.

Photo Credit: younseo_julia

Monnani Kwabaeggi is highly sought after as an after-school snack for both students and adults in South Korea. For the many of us who have not been to South Korea and are dying to try this snack, you would be glad to hear that Monnani Kwabaeggi will be opening in Singapore’s Central Business District in Hong Leng Building on the 24th of April 2018.

Photo Credit: food_gwangju

This Korean ugly pretzel looks way even more appetizing than it sounds, and we absolutely cannot wait to try it out. The first 200 customers to pay a visit to this stall on the day of its opening will be entitled to a free pretzel so do remember to mark your calendars. These delicious snacks are sure to be your next obsession.

Monnani Kwabaeggi
When: 24th April 2018
Where: 16 Raffles Quay, Hong Leong Building, #B1-48, Singapore 048581

The wait is finally over. Kiss The Tiramisu, the popular South Korean Tiramisu soft-serve ice cream joint, is set to open in Singapore soon! Their first outlet will be located right in the heart of Orchard Road, at Orchard Gateway.

Kiss The Tiramisu has been a hit in South Korea ever since its debut in Hongdae, fusing two popular desserts into one awesome treat. Tiramisu and soft serve ice cream are like two peas in a pot. Each tiramisu soft serve from Kiss The Tiramisu is also served in a swanky gold-rimmed plastic “wine glass” for your perfect social media photo.

The dessert chain also opened in Bangkok in mid-2016, and it is definitely expanding to more and more countries in the region. We cannot wait for its grand opening here in sunny Singapore!

Each tiramisu soft serve is made pretty similarly to an actual classic tiramisu, with mascarpone cheese, ice cream, crushed cookies, coffee liqueur and cocoa powder.

You can expect other tiramisu soft serve flavours besides the original; some to look out for are Banana Tiramisu, Berry Tiramisu, Mango Tiramisu and Green Tea Tiramisu.

Be sure to mark your calendars once they release their opening date, because there would probably be long queues.

Kiss The Tiramisu
277 Orchard Road #01-15 Orchard Gateway
Singapore 238858
Nearest Station: Somerset

Images: Kiss The Tiramisu

Read: Guide to the best tiramisu in Singapore.

Singaporeans live for great food, and we are not ashamed of it. Even when we travel, we have a list of go-to places – famous cafes, Michelin-star restaurants and what-have-you.

We know too well those moments when indulging in BAKE Cheese Tarts on the streets of Tokyo and enjoying a pizza in PizzaExpress in London, and wondering when would be the next we could savour them again.

Luckily for us, Singapore has more and more international brands setting foot on our shores, and we are infinitely closer to satisfying all our cravings.

Now, let us take a look at the 13 Popular Overseas Dining Concepts That Opened In Singapore in 2016.

BAKE CHEESE TART

Originating from Kinotoya confectionery store in Hokkaido, BAKE Cheese Tart was founded by Shintaro Naganuma who strongly believes that freshly baked tarts taste the best and that only fresh ones can be sold to its customers.

BAKE is hence very well-loved for their cheese tarts for they are baked on the actual premises – nothing but fresh, fragrant, warm cheese tarts.

#B4-33 ION Orchard
2 Orchard Turn
Singapore 238801
Daily: 10am – 10pm
Nearest Station: Orchard

BURGER JOINT NYC

New York’s cloak-and-dagger burger restaurant – Burger Joint – made its debut in Singapore on 03 May 2016, with its first outlet at Amoy Street. Proudly deemed as a burger restaurant without all the fluff of gourmet burgers, Burger Joint makes genuinely unpretentious burgers that have left the harshest of critics in awe.

They have been known to refer to their burgers as anti-gourmet burgers. Although there is nothing wrong with a tasty gourmet burger, the main idea of the burgers at Burger Joint is to just serve up some honest and delicious burgers – maybe even the best one you will ever have.

#01-03
115 Amoy Street
Singapore 069935
Tel: +65 6221 8648
Mon to Wed: 11am – 11pm
Thu to Sat: 11am – 12am
Sun: 11am – 10pm
Nearest Station: Telok Ayer

FABCAFE

Singaporeans need their daily dose of caffeine and there is really no lack of cafes in town that provide good coffee. While most cafes are starting to look similar, FabCafe – a futuristic cafe with state-of-the-art new fabrication technology like 3D printing and laser cutting – has opened up in the ArtScience Museum that aims to bring technology, creativity and food together.

ArtScience Museum
6 Bayfront Ave
Singapore 018974
Daily: 7am – 7pm
Nearest Station: Bayfront

GUDETAMA CAFE

Gudetama Cafe is opening in Singapore at Suntec City this November.

Fans of Sanrio’s lazy egg character will probably have heard of Gudetama Cafe in Osaka, as well as Gudetama Cafe by Izumi Curry and the dim sum pop-up restaurant at Dim Sum Icon in Hong Kong. We can finally look forward to Gudetama Cafe in Singapore!

3 Temasek Boulevard
Suntec City Mall #01-361
Nearest Station: Promenade

GREYHOUND

Greyhound Cafe, famous fashion and lifestyle cafe in Bangkok, will be opening in Paragon come November. With the brand’s background in fashion and graphic design, the new café is set to impress – in terms of both interiors and food.

We are looking forward to seeing the space, the specially designed staff uniforms, as well as being able to try the food that people often rave about. One item to look out for is the popular Greyhound Famous Fried Wings.

Paragon
290 Orchard Road
Singapore 238859
Nearest Station: Orchard

HONOLULU

Honolulu Café was founded in Hong Kong during the 1940s, and it started out as a humble eatery selling Hong Kong-style coffee and tea and baked confectionery. The casual eatery is renowned for their flaky egg tarts, pineapple buns and Hong Kong milk tea.

Local chefs from Hong Kong’s Honolulu Café are sent to Singapore to ensure that the dishes served here remain similar to the flagship store’s.

No trip to Honolulu Cafe is complete until you have tried their signature Honolulu Egg Tarts (S$1.70++ each). Each palm-size flaky pastry encases to-die-for sweet soft egg custard; the dough had been frozen overnight and folded into many layers to achieve a crisp shell.

#01-33F/G The Centrepoint
176 Orchard Road
Singapore 238843
Daily: 11am – 10pm
Nearest Station: Somerset

KAM’S ROAST GOOSE RESTAURANT

Kam’s Roast Goose – famous roast goose restaurant from Hong Kong – is opening in Singapore at Pacific Plaza this October. Kam’s had always been one of our favourite Hong Kong restaurants. We are glad that we no longer have to fly abroad just to satisfy our roast goose cravings.

Pacific Plaza
9 Scotts Road
Singapore 228210
Nearest Station: Orchard

KISS THE TIRAMISU

Kiss The Tiramisu, the popular South Korean Tiramisu soft-serve ice cream joint, is set to open in Singapore soon! Their first outlet will be located right in the heart of Orchard Road, at Orchard Gateway.

Kiss The Tiramisu has been a hit in South Korea ever since its debut in Hongdae, fusing two popular desserts into one awesome treat. Tiramisu and soft serve ice cream are like two peas in a pot. Each tiramisu soft serve from Kiss The Tiramisu is also served in a swanky gold-rimmed plastic “wine glass” for your perfect social media photo.

277 Orchard Road #01-15 Orchard Gateway
Singapore 238858
Nearest Station: Somerset

KYUSHU PANCAKE

Kyushu Pancake’s famed pancakes are made with seven different grains that are grown in Kyushu – the gem of Japanese agricultural regions. The result is a premium pancake mix that gives the perfect texture and unique taste.

The 42-seater outlet in Novena opened on 11 May 2016 and offers the Kyushu Butter Milk Classic Pancake, Salted Caramel French Toast, Matcha Azuki Waffle, Egg Benedict Pancake and Matcha Montblanc. Signature drinks that are served include Matcha Latte, Fresh Fruit Tea and Special Milk Tea.

#01-08 Novena Regency
275 Thomson Road
Singapore 307645
Tel: +65 6352 6265
Daily: 11am – 9pm
Nearest Station: Novena

PIZZAEXPRESS

This popular pizza chain has over 500 outlets in United Kingdom, various European countries, Hong Kong, India and the Middle East. PizzaExpress is now open in Singapore and sits on the basement level of Scotts Square.

The doughs are all made fresh on the spot, and you can watch the chefs in action via the open kitchen.

Classic pizzas include a variety of different flavours on a slightly thicker dough. They are smaller in size, which is great for solo diners. We had a taste of a popular flavour – Lava (S$20) which is topped with olives, burrata cheese, chilli oil, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella and passata, and fresh basil.

Scotts Square
6 Scotts Rd
Singapore 228209
Tel: +65 6538 0083
Daily: 11.30am – 10pm
Nearest Station: Orchard

POPBAR

Popbar, the famed popsicle store from The U.S., is opening in Singapore at Plaza Singapura. We tried Popbar’s popsicle when we were in New York City and trust us when we say that they taste as good as they look. With the opening of Popbar in Singapore, there is no need to fly all the way to the States to have a taste of these Insta-famous popsicles.

The store will be housed in Plaza Singapura, and from what we understand, it is set to open within the next few weeks.

Plaza Singapura #B2-64
68 Orchard Road
Singapore 238839
Nearest Station: Dhoby Ghaut

SMOOTHIE HOUSE

This is Taiwan’s most popular and bestselling shaved ice store that sits along Yong Kang Street. Singapore’s Smoothie House imports the blocks of ice directly from Taiwan so you can be assured that the quality and taste will be exactly like the original snowflake ice in Taiwan.

Mango Snowflake Ice with Panna Cotta (S$12.90) is their signature and probably the most ordered item in their Taiwan stores. Many reasons to love this bowl, indeed. Why, just look at the generous chunks of fresh mango atop the powdery snowflake ice. And a panna cotta to top, too!

A little fun fact: every piece of mango is sliced with precision to ensure a consistency in the size for the best dining experience, and the number of mango chunks is even on each side! Also, every bowl of Mango Snowflake Ice actually comprises almost a whole mango fruit.

#01-08 Westgate
3 Gateway Drive
Singapore 608532
Tel: +65 6710 5567
Daily: 12pm – 11pm
Nearest Station: Jurong East

TAI CHEONG BAKERY

Tai Cheong is an institution in Hong Kong, and its egg tarts are well-loved by people from all around the globe. Egg tart is one of the must-try local food in Hong Kong, and we are extremely delighted to know that Tai Cheong Bakery’s egg tarts can be found at he basement of Takashimaya now!

Other than the much-lauded egg tarts, the old school bakery is also selling pineapple buns (bolo buns), doughnuts, egg rolls, pastries and local cha chaan teng dishes.

Tai Cheong Bakery’s egg tarts are priced at S$7.60 for a box of 4.

#B208-5 Takashimaya Shopping Centre
391 Orchard Road
Singapore 238872
Tel: +65 8223 1954
Daily: 10am – 9.30pm
Nearest Station: Orchard

You are probably wondering, Korean tacos? Is this going to be another sorcery?

Well, if you have been to Seoul, then Vatos Urban Tacos would be no stranger to you as it is one of the hottest and most popular restaurant chains there. And yay, they are now in Singapore too!

This outlet in Singapore is their first overseas outpost. Now, it is not just the Koreans that get to enjoy the tacos!

Opened by three Korean-Americans who are ever passionate about food, they decided to fuse Korean and Mexican flavours to produce a unique Ko-Mex style restaurant, hence the birth of Vatos Urban Tacos. Since their opening in 2011, the response has been overwhelming, and over the years, they have garnered thousands and thousands of fans.

Way back when the three founders grew up in Texas and Los Angeles, they were heavily inspired by street-style tacos, which are all too readily available in the U.S.. And the birth of this unique concept was to be unlike any other. Marinated BBQ meats with Korean spices and chilli are so popular, and they decided to wrap these meats on a nice warm taco – simply brilliant and very convenient.

Crowd favourite dishes include Kimchi Carnitas Fries (which was voted the “best dish in Korea” by 10 Magazine), Galbi Short Rib Tacos (marinated short rib, ssamjang aioli, Asian slaw, cilantro, chopped onions, and roasted sesame seeds on a handmade tortilla) and Mango Prawn Quesadillas (chipotle marinated prawn flash fried and topped with cilantro lime crema and fresh mango salsa).

You can now head down to Vatos Urban Tacos at South Beach Quarter for your Ko-Mex fix. Vatos Urban Tacos will be opening more outlets across Singapore, and we are keeping our eyes peeled.

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Vatos Urban Tacos
36 Beach Road
South Beach Quarter
Singapore 189767
Tel: +65 63856010 or +65 63856970
Mon to Thu: 11.30am – 11pm
Fri to Sat: 11.30am – 12am
Sun: Closed
Nearest Station: Esplanade

*Photo Credit: Vatos Korea