A first look at Lotteria Singapore at Jewel Changi Airport and its menu, with local-exclusives
Korea’s top burger chain Lotteria has finally opened its first outlet in Singapore officially today, and with a Singapore-exclusive burger, to boot!
Located at Jewel Changi Airport’s basement one, Lotteria Singapore’s debut outlet faces the world-famous Rain Vortex and sits snugly between two popular chains, Hoshino Coffee and Jinjja Chicken.
It’s a small, but bright area, with comfortable seating decked out in Lotteria’s signature shades of red and yellow, coupled with pale wood finishings.
Compared to Lotteria’s Korean counterparts and most other fast-food chains, Lotteria Singapore adopts a seemingly more toned-down aesthetic, allowing you to focus on what’s more important — its burgers.
Lotteria first came about in 1979, making its mark as Korea’s first hamburger restaurant, and has since grown to over 1,600 outlets — of which 1,300 are in Korea — around the world.
Its name is a portmanteau of the words “Lotte Group”, its parent company, and “cafeteria”, and it specialises in Korean-style burgers.
This latest outpost is Singapore’s first, but it already has a presence in other countries such as Vietnam, Myanmar, the US, and also recently launched in Malaysia in end-2025.
Digging into Lotteria Singapore’s menu
Whether you’ve had Lotteria before or not, the Singapore-exclusive kimchi bulgogi burger (from S$7.80) is a must-try.
Created specially for our sunny island, the burger packs a bright, bold punch of kimchi, on top of a signature beef patty that’s glazed with sweet-savoury bulgogi sauce.
Sweet, savoury, spicy, and tangy all in one — it’s a great introduction to the brand, but also a robust item that checks all the flavour, aesthetic, and nutritional boxes.
If you’re dining with company or have an appetite for more, you’ll want to grab its Korean bestsellers, such as Ria’s bulgogi burger (from S$7.20) and Ria’s shrimp burger (from S$7.20).
Ria’s bulgogi burger is inspired by the well-loved Korean dish of bulgogi, packing onions, a beef patty, and a bulgogi glaze (yes, that same one in the kimchi bulgogi burger). The patty here is surprisingly bouncy, tasty, and moist.
The patty is not as beefy and moreish as most burgers from western chains usually are, but that’s not a bad thing — just different. If you want more proteins, there’s also Ria’s bulgogi double burger (S$8.80) on Lotteria Singapore’s menu.
In the same vein, the Ria’s shrimp burger’s patty, which comes breaded and deep-fried, is also flavourful and bouncy, but also brimming with crustacean sweetness.
Topped with a mildly tangy tartar and Thousand Island sauce blend, it reminds us of McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish somewhat, albeit sweeter and with more bite.
We can already see it being a hot favourite among Singaporeans.
(Who knows, maybe it’ll even trigger a new food trend — much like the salmon sashimi and Filet-O-Fish that’s gone viral. Perhaps with raw shrimp from the nearby Don Don Donki?)
If you’re gunning for something unique, the mozzarella burger with tomato basil (S$12.50) fits the bill. It was first introduced as a limited-time menu item in Korea in 2025, as a collaboration with Culinary Class Wars season 1 winner Kwon Sung-joon (or Napoli Mafia on the show).
It was so popular, with 450,000 burgers sold in its launch week, that it became a permanent fixture on Lotteria’s menu.
The burger comprises a breaded mozzarella patty on top of its signature beef patty, with tomato and basil. It’s hefty, textural, and refreshing, too, owing to the addition of tomato and basil — we can see why it was so well received.
Not enough cheese? Lotteria Singapore has a long cheese stick (S$2.80) — a deep-fried stick of mozzarella — that you can get as a side, too.
While everyone may make a beeline for its beef and shrimp burgers, its chicken items shouldn’t be sidelined either. There’s a hot crispy chicken burger with a deep-fried chicken cutlet on its menu, but the star is the gangjung chicken, which starts at S$9 for two sizable pieces.
The gangjung chicken is a take on the popular Korean dish of dakganjeong, and is essentially deep-fried chicken coated with a sweet, sticky, and mildly spicy sauce.
The version at Lotteria Singapore comes with an especially sticky coating, with a good dose of savouriness, without being too spicy. The chicken also retains its crispiness, even though it is completely covered with the sauce — a huge plus, since who really likes soggy chicken anyway?
All prices above are a la carte prices for the individual items, but there’s the option to make your burgers a set that comes with a drink and fries. The brand is giving out limited-edition keycap keychains in blind bags, with every set purchase, too.
And to celebrate its grand Singapore opening, diners can get a free upgrade if they order a set meal, from today (February 11) to February 13.
Lotteria Singapore is operating in partnership with Katrina Group, a Singapore-based lifestyle company, which has been behind the likes of F&B concepts such as Daily Chicken in Singapore, Daily Beer, So Pho, and Bali Thai, and residences such as the ST Signature brand.
The group has expansion plans for Lotteria Singapore in the coming year, but remained tight-lipped on the details, promising to release more information in due course.
This was a hosted tasting.
For more Jewel Changi Airport eats, check out our food guide, or visit TikTok-viral Creamie Sippies’ latest Jewel, too!
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Sarah is constantly seeking out new coffee spots and cocktail bars around the world, and should probably drink more water while at it.
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