Hawker behind popular Old Airport Rd kaya toast stall co-invests S$300,000 into café in CBD – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

If you’re a fan of Toast Hut at Old Airport Road Food Centre, you’ll know that their kaya butter toast and Hainanese-style kopi are often sold out by 11am. Now, you can enjoy the same snacks on the all-day menu at the hawker stall’s new air-conditioned outpost in the Central Business District without having to endure the long queues. 

Toast meister Melvin Soh has been honing his craft part-time since he was 17 at a local kaya toast chain Ya Kun. At 23, after graduating from ITE with a certificate in Electrical Engineering – “but I’ve never worked in that industry” – he started his own hawker stall at Old Airport Road due to his strong interest in F&B. After all, he grew up helping out his father, a retired hawker who ran an economic rice stall.

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The boyish 39-year-old father of two also co-owned the now-defunct cafe Sandffee N Co, at Connection One at Bukit Merah for six years. “Coincidentally, our lease was up in 2020 – just when COVID-19 hit us – and we decided not to continue.”

Earlier this year, when the management from Hub Synergy Point at Shenton Way invited Toast Hut to open a café at its ground floor, Melvin gathered his old Sandffee N Co partners to launch the adorably-named Six Beans by Old Airport Road Toast Hut on Anson Road in September.

From left: Cindy, Melvin and Jasmine

Started a family business with aunt and cousins, invested $300K total

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