A different Japanese 'Marche' in Tampines

Just visited Tampines 1 today - yes, it has opened quite sometime ago, and I only visited it NOW. Well, frankly, I only patronised VivoCity 6 months after it first opened; and Ion Orchard - 1 month after it first opened. I have yet been inside Orchard Central.

So today I brought my parents and sister to Tampines, and we just stroll into Tampines 1 unknowingly. Only inside then I realised that we're in one of the new malls in Tampines.

We haven't had lunch yet, so we walked around to browse through every restaurant. Then, we discovered this marche conceptualised Japanese restaurant. There were samples displayed outside the restaurant, and one look at them, without a second thought, we went in. Man, were we awed...


This is very delicious. Something I've never tried before - it's potato and cabbage mashed together into egg and fried. Toppings are mayo, cheese and a brown japanese taste sauce


Love everything in this bento - except the salmon; it's a bit too dry - and a must try. Especially the chawan mushii - its appearance does not keep up with its unique delicious taste. There's lots of stuff in the steamed egg - not just the usual crabstick and ginko nut. The greyish look has a reason - a genuine example of 'don't judge a book by its cover' - don't judge the taste of a chawan mushii by its colour and appearance.


Superlicious dessert - ice cream on top of cornflakes. Right is vanilla ice cream with black honey poured delicately over it. Left is mixed vanilla-green tea ice cream. The ice cream has a very smooth texture, like that of Mcdonald's, but is very sticky, just like Ben n Jerry's. Must try.



Seafood Omurice - sauce is not very appetising, but the rice is really richly flavoured with tomato sauce. The sotongs and mussels were rather overcooked and not soaked with the tomato taste, as it looked like it should.

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