Kaya toast is Singapore's national breakfast food. The toast is grilled over an open charcoal flame, and then slathered with kaya (a coconut jam made with coconut, milk, and sugar).

Visitors often skip K-JC, as the area is called. But Koh, a lifelong resident, invites them to stay awhile and sit down to Singapore’s best breakfast: wobbling soft-boiled eggs, kaya toast, and a ...

Singapore, although among the wealthiest countries in Asia, has a heavily urbanised land area of just 730 square km (280 square miles) and relies largely on imported food, energy and other goods.