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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

japanese food got ROSTI meh?

*playing I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

So my uni friends and I planned a dinner gathering to discuss about our gradaution trip in may. And we chose SHOKUDO Japanese Food Bazaar as firstly since it follows marche's concept of everyone having their own card. It was easier for us to pay our individual bill at the end.

We arrived at 6.20pm and already there was a queue building up. Are Singaporeans having earlier dinner nowadays or was it just me?

By the time we actually entered, it was close to 7pm.

First impression, great varieties of japanese food. So many choices so less money and all looks OH-SO-DELICIOUS good. Very market like (read: noisy, crowded, many stalls)

After settling down on our table and hearing one of the staff pouring out her sorrows about some table arrangement which involves us, we set out to buy our food. I think I walked like 3 rounds before eventually deciding on what to eat.

My sister have already told me about the japanese pizza (must try!) beforehand. So it was a no brainer to get one of those. After contemplating between japanese pasta and omu rice, i settled for omu rice Hamburg. The omu rice is not bad, tomato covered with ommelette but i would say it does not go well with a hamburg so my advise would be to get a chicken chop instead.

The desserts sold there although not as much choice but it makes you feel like trying all of them. I eventually settled for mango slush ice which was not a bad choice as my friends all agree it is nice.

The service over here was so-so only. They cleared some plates on our table but yet left others around. If you don't mind the queue and noise, I think it is worth coming when you feel like eating quirky japanese food stuff as some japanese food sold here are things like skewered meat and seafood or if you want to be spoilt for choices.

I spent a total of $32 although value wise u can probably top up a bit and go for Japanese buffet but sometimes you know you just don't feel like having buffets? And it is really dependent on how u spent your money to try the stuff not normally sold elsewhere in Singapore.

I'll definitely come back. Hopefully by then, the hype is gone.

Enjoy the pics below.

Omu Rice with Hamburg

Japanese "Hokaiddo" curry potato pizza

Grilled Beef

Rosti with sausage and sour cream (Taste ok but the sausage served at Marche's and Vi'lage is much better)

We order 3 versions of this omelette thingy (Ham and cheese, Unagi and pock slices)

Skewered meats, (seafood available too!)

Japanese Curry Rice with Chicken

Tenpanyaki Squid

Grilled Teriyaki Squid

Mango Slush Ice!

avec le prochain
jh out!~

p.s: this is the first time i have ever encounter a service stuff pouring out sorrows to me. I empathise her as I saw what was going on but still a first time for me.
p.p.s: since when rosti became a japanese food? marche and vi'llage might want to consider suing that is if they own the rights to rosti in the first place.

Labels: Japanese Food, Mango Slush Ice, Marche, Omu Rice, Rosti, SHOKUDO Japanese Food Bazaar, Squid, Vi'lage

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Not boring not exciting, not lazy not hardworking, not handsome not ugly, not short not thin, not a bad guy not quite mommy's boy either. Regular Singaporean guy who like most guys probably get several different colours of the same shirt, t-shirt, berms, jeans once they fall in love with a particular design. Been through the era of cassette tapes of walkmans to discmans(remember the anti-shock technology) as well as MiniDisc(coming out at a bad time) which obviously lost to the emergence of mp3s and the CD to LD which saw LD losing out to VCDs. Next came the DVDs which 0wned the vcds and try to act smart by having 2 groups, HD DVD and Blu Ray. 2 words BLU.RAY. Loves to reminisce the old days when A&W rootbear float was still around and KFC was still a restaurant complete with waiters serving you Kentucky Fried Chicken. The days where bus fares were 10 cents for students and pizza hut's lunch buffets. Moves/dances to the jumpy music of Ipod Ads and likes to laugh at the Hello I'm a Mac, Hello I'm a PC advertisements!

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