Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar

Ok after a long long time away from my blog, I'm finally back to blog again! I'm now in Tasmania freezing my ass off but got so much back log to blog about. So instead about talking about some of my current eating escapades I shall backtrack to a few weeks ago before I left. Went for lunch with my relatives to Shokudo. It's a pretty neat place, actually you can say it's a Japanese styled Marche.



So you're given a card some what like Marche which you use to make purchases, and after which you check out at the cashier at the end of your meal to pay. They have many choices of food so you can slowly walk around and take your time to decide what you feel like eating.

Above is the oyster omelet, japanese style! Can't say much about this, because you can't compare it to the hawker style as it's different. Quite hard to go wrong with eggs too, unless you're a really bad cook. The oysters were not bad.

My brother said these kinda drinks were around since a long time ago but honestly I've never seen them until recently. Was pretty fascinated after watching those japanese anime and drama so I bought one to try. It's a peach soda by the way. Nice stuff!

Then we had pan seared tuna, cooked on the outside and raw on the inside. I like this dish, very unique. Had this kinda wasabi sauce on top of it or something. Tuna was thick cut and fresh too.

This is beef hotpot, slices of tender beef with vegetables and a kind of noodles. The stock was pretty sweet but it was quite delicious!

Spicy ramen was pretty standard, nothing to shout about as there wasn't much ingredients though I quite like the soup stock even though its not very authentic jap. It was pretty spicy. Noodles were just so-so only.

We also had our sushi and sashimi platters which were pretty decent. Raw fish is quite fresh. Thinking about the sucky sushi I ate in Australia makes me miss home. =(

Tempura was light and crispy. Everytime I eat tempura I am reminded about the painstaking process that goes into preparing these food stuff. When I worked as a cook in a Japanese restaurant many years ago I had to massage the damn prawns to get them straight!

I didn't get to take photos of some of the other stuff we ate, like the chawanmushi or rice stone pot but those were pretty good too. We ended the meal off with some sweets and I did capture a photos of their choco banana crepe. I think their crepes are not bad, very thin and soft.

Shokudo Japanese Food Bazaar is located at the basement of Raffles City and opens for lunch and dinner. Gets pretty crowded at dinner time so go early or make a reservation.