Welcome to Jurong East. Looking for Buffet places?

Enjoy the best of both worlds (Shabu Shabu & Yakiniku) with @shaburikintan.sg all-you-can-eat buffet!

They have recently launched a new seasonal Hokkaido Festival Menu, featuring unlimited Hokkaido meat cuts (Pork Collar/Jowl/Belly), Ramen Salad, Potato Mochi, Crab & Potato Croquette, Sapporo Miso Ramen, Hokkaido Milk Ice Cream and many more!

This buffet is a bang for your buck because for under $40, you get to enjoy a wide variety of meat, vegetables, noodles, rice, side dishes, dessert and drinks! You can select Single Pot for the individual hotpot or top up $1 for the Twin Pot. Choose the soup bases from Original Konbu, Chicken Collagen Paitan, Hot Miso, Tonkotsu, or Sukiyaki.

A secret hack I learnt is to grill the potato mochi! Trust me and try them out for yourself! It's so good!

The seasonal Hokkaido Festival Menu is only available for a limited time only, so hit them up soon!

So here's a guide(we figured out only after the meal)
1) you start off with a a clear broth, that's to cook your fishcake and oden-like things. Google Korean fishcake(odeng)
2) order the sauce when you're ready to start your tteokbokki, they pour in the sauce and you wait for it to thicken, throw stuff in and when it becomes similar to what you expect of tteokbokki sauce you can enjoy tteokbokki
3)after you're done w tteokbokki you can ask for the fried rice

Finally there's dessert(pictured), it's a very average bingsu, I wouldn't waste my calories on that but it's hard to resist after a full heavy meal

If the food was good enough it would mask all the problems to some degree but this place was average. You can buy most of the stuff yourself tbh

The cheese tofu(v fluffy) and the cheese mochi were nice though

And this cheese ring was the saving grace to some extent, it's mozz and it's well browned(that's why it takes a while to come)

Nothing out of the ordinary but quite satisfying

The kimchi fried rice at the end was delicious actually, and thankfully the portion was manageable(about 1 pax portion if it's a normal meal) because who isn't stuffed after a buffet

The food is average, but there's a few teething issues that combine to make for an annoying experience

1) no obvious place to put the huge ladle
2)no fixed "dustbin" for used skewers and mussel shells etc
3)no option of proper tea, which is extremely unnerving for what I tot was a respectable Korean place(it's not, just think of it as a place that happens to sell tteokbokki
4)the choice of music was weird, not to mention not Korean at all
5) free flow water had to be ordered(slightly more understandable I guess because the buffet includes drinks)
6) some things took ridiculous long after ordering on the tablet, we only got them after asking the staff which really makes us question the need for a tablet (rmb it's a timed buffet, 90mins only so speed is critical)

Went to Dookki for the first time to try out their student lunch deal ($17+ after gst and svc charge per pax)😋 Really loved their cheese tteokbokki and their fishcakes were good too!!🥰 Would definitely come back again as its really worth the money🤣 Ratings 8.5/10!!

Ps. For those who cant take spice, mild spicy already has quite a kick so this might not be for you unless u request for less spice😅

3.5⭐ Ok, I don't know what get into me that I agree to eat steamboat with WB. We just ate Bijin Nabe last week. 🤨 I had Tonkotsu soup and WB had spicy soup. We ordered 2 plates of pork, chicken and beef each and 3 plates of pork belly. I have seen on variety show that Japanese like to dip the meat into beaten egg when eating sukiyaki. I tried and it's surprisingly good, there's a hint of raw egg smell but don't feel eating something raw.
#ShabuSai

3.5⭐ Ok, I don't know what get into me that I agree to eat steamboat with WB. We just ate Bijin Nabe last week. 🤨 I had Tonkotsu soup and WB had spicy soup. We ordered 2 plates of pork, chicken and beef each and 3 plates of pork belly. I have seen on variety show that Japanese like to dip the meat into beaten egg when eating sukiyaki. I tried and it's surprisingly good, there's a hint of raw egg smell but don't feel eating something raw.
#ShabuSai

The choice to choose between Yakiniku or Shaburi Shabu-Shabu, went for the latter because the slots for Yakiniku was packed all the way. Thankfully my friend went to get Q number early at 5+pm and we were informed of an available slot at 7pm.

Upgraded to the Special Shabu, so its 90 mins dining time, with more choices of meat. I usually go for beef 🥩 when it comes to Japanese hotpot, and preferred Angus Beef here compared to Tasty Beef as I prefer less fats in meats generally.

Individual Twin Pot for soup, Tonkotsu and Hot Miso. Tonkotsu was satisfying, rich broth and doesn’t interfere much with the taste of the ingredients. Hot Miso was lackluster, doesn’t pack as much flavor and spiciness as I would like.

For drinks bar, an array of cooked food and other ingredients there will be lists of papers to order due to the covid situation now. Would recommend this place for their Shaburi Shabu-shabu due to the quality of the meat and at least I discovered a broth I really like on my first try!

Affordable buffet for the quality as there are many varieties of vegetables to choose from. All meats were relatively fresh today.

Quite a lot of variety of dish from side dish to meat and pasta , salad , kimchi . as cheap as $14 ++ on weekdays! sastify me and my tummy hehe😍🤤

The beef slices are good. The selection of vegetables is wide - fresh too. Quite worth the money ($24.90++ for dinner). Super worth for lunch!

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Back by popular demand, Salmon Seasonal Buffet returns to Shaburi & Kintan!
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Featuring fresh and premium cuts of juicy, thick slices of sashimi as well as sushi dishes all on a ala carte basis for freshness. It is one buffet you should not miss!
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For Shaburi, each person will get their individual hotpot with choice of single pot or twin pot and soup choices of original konbu, chicken collagen paitan, hot miso, tonkotsu and sukiyaki.
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Shaburi Seasonal Lunch - $28.80++
Kintan Seasonal Lunch - $32.80++
Combo Seasonal Lunch - $37.80++
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Shaburi Seasonal Dinner/ Wkend - $36.80++
Kintan Seasonal Dinner/ Wkend - $42.80++
Combo Seasonal Dinner/ Wkend - $49.80++
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Location:
JEM
#03-11/12
50 Jurong Gateway Road
Singapore 608549
+65 6262 4329
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Opening hours 🕦
Daily 1130 - 2200
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Thank you @singaporefoodlisting for the invite and @shaburiandkintan for having us! 🙆🏻‍♂️
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