Shokudo, Marche-style Jap restuarant

• crimson soldier

  11 Feb 08, 23:44

  Visited Shokudo with a friend. The place is really big, really comfy tables and chairs...got a nice "jap feel" to it. Its like marche where you get a card and go in and swipe and swipe and pay when you exit. 100 dollars penalty for losing the card of course.

   

  Good:

  Super huge range of food( teppanyaki, jap hot pot, meat skewers, udon, donburi, curry rice, fried rice, jap "yong fau foo", jap dumplings, dessert, soup, salad)...about 230 items in total according to the sunday life article ytd(the article caught my eye and made me go)

   

  price is reasonable or maybe some would consider a bit steep. For me the price is ok because I shared lots of dishes with my gf.

   

  ambience

   

  decor

   

  Bad:

  have to queue for about 30 minutes(new and popular mah)

   

  some of the popular choices were sold out and THEY DID NOT put "sold out" signs...the chefs left the counter without telling me who was waiting in front of him

   

  quality of food(personally I was satisfied with the quality of food but many of my friends who went after me claim that it was below-par, however I can safely tell you guys  not to order the vege paper hotpot cos its' tasteless)

   

   

   

  The waffle is really great...my GF asked for the butter and honey waffle but changed her mind half way so there was butter, honey and ice cream on our waffle in the end(haha beautiful mistake)...it was crazy omg. but i forgot whether the price is 5.80 or 8.50(ulps).

• crimson soldier

  11 Feb 08, 23:45

  ok seriously where is the edit button

• ^tamago^

  11 Feb 08, 23:51

  click the cog to the left of time of post

• FireIce

  11 Feb 08, 23:55

  no have location?

• motoway

  12 Feb 08, 00:48

  how is the price range like?

  Around marche?

• monoslayer

  12 Feb 08, 00:54

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  no have location?

  SHOKUDO JAPANESE FOOD BAZAAR
  Raffles City Shopping Centre B1-44E
  
  Tel: 6837-3793
  Open 11.30am - 10 pm daily

• Hello Kitty

  13 Feb 08, 20:46

  get many frds to go.

  swipe oly one card.

  den lose dat card.

• browniebaobao

  13 Feb 08, 23:49

  is this ur blog?

   

  http://singapuradailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/02/shokudo-japanese-food-bazaar-raffles.html

   

  how's the pricing like?  example.. a plate of sushi, a bowl of don or ramien..

   

  ala carte? buffet?

   

  $100 penalty for a lost card makes it seem like a high-end restaurant.

• FireIce

  14 Feb 08, 04:06

  last time marche oso charge $100 for lost card

• browniebaobao

  14 Feb 08, 18:48

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  last time marche oso charge $100 for lost card

  
  is it?  2 person eat might not even cost that much.

• FireIce

  14 Feb 08, 19:01

  imagine u go in a group of 10
  all order via one card
  Then someone decide to shred it up and swallow it
  declare lost card, pay $100 nia....

• motoway

  14 Feb 08, 20:29

  boh la.. Marche also not toot..

  That time i saw a grp of ah lian and ah bengs who went in den they also "decide to lose the card accidently"

  Den obviously they eat alot alot den lose the card la..

   

  When they were going out they were asked to pay 300/400+ for their food + the lost card which they refused. den manager threaten to call police lor.. DEn they lao lan haf to pay..

   

  My fren says that wen ur card hits around 70 bucks the workers their will start taking down the things u order by hand liao..

• browniebaobao

  17 Feb 08, 00:29

  Originally posted by FireIce:

  imagine u go in a group of 10
  all order via one card
  Then someone decide to shred it up and swallow it
  declare lost card, pay $100 nia....

  
  can meh?

   

  i tot everyone muz have a card...

   

  SIM also like that ar..

   

  and erm...

   

  i got craving for waffle from V'illage.. so i went Heeren today.. and to my disappointment, it closed down already..

   

  heard the one near Far East Square also closed down...

   

  sigh..

   

  i know currently Marche is still available at Vivocity.. where else? 

   

• caleb_chiang

  17 Feb 08, 01:00

  Normal mah... go eat the most expensive stuffs and lose that card lor...

   

  But I think that they can set up a computerised system to prevent such thing from happening one lor...

• motoway

  17 Feb 08, 01:21

  Originally posted by caleb_chiang:

  Normal mah... go eat the most expensive stuffs and lose that card lor...

   

  But I think that they can set up a computerised system to prevent such thing from happening one lor...

  
  u got try b4 meh? dun cock leh dun work one la..

• FireIce

  17 Feb 08, 02:30

  Originally posted by browniebaobao:

   

  i know currently Marche is still available at Vivocity.. where else? 

  that's the one and only one now

• crimson soldier

  6 Mar 08, 15:06

  Originally posted by browniebaobao:

  
  can meh?

   

  i tot everyone muz have a card...

   

  SIM also like that ar..

   

  and erm...

   

  i got craving for waffle from V'illage.. so i went Heeren today.. and to my disappointment, it closed down already..

   

  heard the one near Far East Square also closed down...

   

  sigh..

   

  i know currently Marche is still available at Vivocity.. where else? 

   

  
  V'illage is gooood...heard from my friend that they are closed for renovation? Hmmm hopefully they will be back..

   

  somehow i thinkn village> marche leh

• browniebaobao

  7 Mar 08, 20:00

  Originally posted by crimson soldier:

  
  V'illage is gooood...heard from my friend that they are closed for renovation? Hmmm hopefully they will be back..

   

  somehow i thinkn village> marche leh

  
  dun think it's renovation..

   

  looks more like ceased operation.

   

  anyway, i tried shokudo liao..

   

  not much difference from marche/village..

   

  juz that they got more jap food..

   

  still can find rosti, waffles, crepes etc..

   

  food is nice, but many ple, v long queue de..

   

  the layered egg omelette is nice.. pasta is nice.. but frens say citylink also got one shokudo pasta & grill restaurant..

   

  wanted to try their waffles but v long queue..

   

  probably will not visit the second time in the near future.

• crimson soldier

  7 Mar 08, 22:45

  Originally posted by browniebaobao:

  
  dun think it's renovation..

   

  looks more like ceased operation.

   

  anyway, i tried shokudo liao..

   

  not much difference from marche/village..

   

  juz that they got more jap food..

   

  still can find rosti, waffles, crepes etc..

   

  food is nice, but many ple, v long queue de..

   

  the layered egg omelette is nice.. pasta is nice.. but frens say citylink also got one shokudo pasta & grill restaurant..

   

  wanted to try their waffles but v long queue..

   

  probably will not visit the second time in the near future.

  
  the layered egg omelette is nice! you just reminded me! :D

   

  I probably will not visit a 2nd time in the near future unless its with a large group of friends....then shokudo will be fun. otherwise not worth it lah

• browniebaobao

  8 Mar 08, 17:58

  i find that place v cramped..

   

  unlike marche.. got lots of spaces.. quiet, easier for talking..

   

  shokudo is really cramped.. the table beside u is really juz beside, less than one chair apart kind..

• crimson soldier

  8 Mar 08, 22:46

  Browniebaobao...ohhhh myyy

   

  I thought marche was the cramped one!!! small table and little space to move around!! can't even talk nicely cos the other tables just beside me

   

  for shokudo I felt so much more comfortable :)

   

  for marche the aisles' are pretty cramped too

• skeujin

  8 Mar 08, 22:55

  food there is so so only. edible but nothing to boast about.

  terriyaki was salty n had so much sauce on them they only taste of the sauce

  grilled saba was only half a fish. something they did not state on the order board

  waffles w ice cream had soggy and limp waffles before the ice cream melted. eeewww

  tempura soft shell crabs had anorexic crabs

  sashimi wasnt fresh.

   

  my rating - 5/10

  only go when u r very hungry, other places r full. n u have money to waste.

• cApitaland

  8 Mar 08, 23:07

  i know SIM de cafe oso use tht kind of system. but how many ple can share one card?

• browniebaobao

  8 Mar 08, 23:36

  yes.. nv try sharing before..

   

  but it doesn't matter if u return a card unused..

   

  if u lose that card, i think penalty is $20.

   

• browniebaobao

  8 Mar 08, 23:37

  Originally posted by crimson soldier:

  Browniebaobao...ohhhh myyy

   

  I thought marche was the cramped one!!! small table and little space to move around!! can't even talk nicely cos the other tables just beside me

   

  for shokudo I felt so much more comfortable :)

   

  for marche the aisles' are pretty cramped too

  
  Marche where got cramp?

   

  if u mean the one at vivo, yes it's a big small..

   

  but previously at HMV and later changed to V'illage.. it was v spacious..