Ultra-dreamy desserts！Rainbow burst cheese hot toast — only available in southern Taiwan

Reporter Li Ziyi / Interview and report

Currently only available in Kaohsiung and Tainan！This popular hot burst toast in southern Taiwan features an authentic Canadian flavor, and has recently launched a super-dreamy rainbow cheese flavor. When you split the toast, five colors of cheese flow out delicately — the visual is incredibly enticing！

▲ The “Rainbow Burst Cheese Sandwich” that’s creating a craze in southern Taiwan. (Photo /Hore Jien Burst Cheese SandwichProvided, same below)

The Hore Jien Burst Cheese Sandwich specializes in authentic Canadian-style hot toast. The bread is buttered and grilled, resulting in a crispy crust. When you take a bite while it's hot, the melted cheese oozes out from inside — extremely comforting and loved by cheese lovers. Recently, they’ve taken it a step further with the Rainbow Burst Cheese version, which uses natural vegetable pigments instead of food coloring to give the cheese soft pastel shades, hiding a rainbow inside the toast. The visual is super dreamy when you tear it open！

▲ The rainbow burst cheese sandwich with its super soft and dreamy colors looks absolutely eye-catching when split in half.

▲ The cheese is dyed with natural vegetable colors, making it very wholesome.

The Rainbow Burst Cheese Sandwich achieves its rainbow effect using natural vegetables and plants for dyeing. Red comes from tomatoes, green from basil, purple from purple cabbage, yellow from cheddar cheese, and white from mozzarella. During the initial R&D phase, food coloring was used to dye the cheese, resulting in bright and beautiful colors, but it was rejected by a foreign chef who insisted on using plant-based dyes. The process is labor-intensive: chopping, cooking, cooling, and dyeing the vegetables, with each color requiring five rounds of repetition. Once the colors are ready, making the sandwich involves layering different colored cheeses one by one. Due to the complex process and higher cheese content, the price is slightly higher than the original flavor sandwich.

▲ The new drink “Sea Cheese Pop” offers a taste you can’t find anywhere else.

There’s also a new drink called “Sea Cheese Pop.” Its name doesn’t give away what it is, but Hore Jien explains that it’s made with fresh lime juice and is an exclusive recipe you won’t find elsewhere. Customers who have tried it say it tastes like a mix of lemon and Yakult, and some even say it’s addictive！

▲ Hore Jien’s signature “Original Burst Sandwich,” with its oozing cheese that’s hard for cheese lovers to resist. (Photo / provided by mimi Han)

Kaohsiung Hore Jien Burst Cheese Sandwich (Taiwan’s first original takeaway specialty store)
Business hours? 07:00～22:00 (Closed Mondays)
Address? No. 330, Bo’ai 1st Rd., Sanchong District, Kaohsiung City
Phone: 07-3130090
FB：https://www.facebook.com/lulujohn2015/

Tainan Hore Jien Five-Star Chef Food Truck
Business hours? Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays 13:00～20:00
Location? In front of No. 164, Section 2, Guohua St., Tainan
Phone: 06-5115092

*Prices vary depending on the store or stall setup. The Rainbow Burst Cheese Sandwich is NT$80 at the Kaohsiung flagship store and NT$65 at the Tainan Guohua truck; Sea Cheese Pop is NT$35 per bottle.