Shokudo - Japanese Food Bazaar Concept, SG

It's 1.15am!

My eyes are this (.) close to dozing off. But.. but, I patiently waited for all the below photos to be uploaded for you to feast your eyes. Am I good or wat? Haha. (Actually, it was because I've not been diligently posting any photos here for a while now, so might as well... err, make it colourful).

Okay, here goes. Was in the land/island below one of the recent weekends, and am still recovering from the pain of my purse's injury. Not like GSS is already here, it's just we've been spending so much on yummy-delicious food like these! Sinful!

I'll try posting these places on separate entries (if I continue to be diligent that is, haha).

Here's my first "blood-flowing-from-the-purse" experience from the trip.

Behold...

Shokudo. It's a japanese food bazaar - where they've got similar concepts with Marche, the marketplace. Only with lots and lots of jap food! I like! :D

Okay now, on to the concept :

You walk around, spotting counters and stalls to hunt for your preference.

Stuffs like these....

Or these...

And then you present your card (you'll be given each a card upon entrance)...

To the guy over the counter, they'll swipe your order value, prepare your food... (You'll pay your total swiped upon exit at the counters).

A few random interiors & exteriors :

I was at the one in Heeren. There are quite a number of branches across Sg, you could find out more here on their website.

Random wall deco....

At the check-out counter...

Random umbrella deco hanging over the counter...

Alright, it's time to make you hungry! Nyehehe.

(But before I go on, I have to say, the thing about back-dated food posts, is that you kinda forget what these dishes are called, by the time you blog about them. So please just feast on the photos). We ordered to feed an army!

This one I know... sashimi - we've got a mix of salmon, octopus, yellow-tail, and tuna.

There were a few different combos to mix with, so you could choose according to what your taste buds prefer...

Can't remember what's this called. But that's a fish. And check out the glistening egg-wrapped rice (something like nasi goreng pattaya la...)

Yakitori - we had a stick of beef, and another stick of scallops. (Scallops super nice, I tell you!)

Okonomiyaki - I think we ordered this with Idako & Shitakes. Can't quite remember. But I do remember these are super tasty too! Not like the ones we have back here!

Double-layered chicken burger - from the counter where it sells rice burgers! Don't underestimate them, these are so huge that we had trouble biting that the chef had to cut them into pieces for us.

Macha with lots of azukis at the bottom!

(But a little too milky, I felt it made the green tea bland)

Me like this! Banana milk! And I thought milk ma... but when I opened the lid, got 'pssshhh' sound - carbonated! Special or not? But very nice lor... Don't know if we can find it here - shall hunt for it!

Dessert - obviously the green thing half-falling is the macha ice cream, followed by lots of shaved ice and huge azukis.

Not gonna tell you how much all these costs, 'coz then you'll start converting our ringgit value into SGD and feel the pain to splurge. Haha. But seriously, worth the try... not as expensive as you think. Give it a go the next time you're down south!

The Almighty Ash Cloud!

Ok. Here's the thing.

You know about that recent ash cloud affecting airspace and disrupted all air traffic, that comes from the unpronounceable volcano in Iceland? ( Ok, I checked, it's called "Eyjafjallajökull". Don't ask me how to pronounce, I dunno... -_-" ).

Here we are, thinking how 'fortunate' we are not to have been affected since we were not the ones stranded in some airports for days, with no proper beds, washrooms and comfort to make do with.

I'm telling you now. We ARE affected okay!

Why, you ask?

'Coz I was over at a japanese restaurant for lunch today, and we scrolled through the yummy pictures of all the sashimis and sushis (our favourite, of coz, was salmon). And then.... sigh... the horrible news came... Every dish related to salmons were not available! So disappointing.... NO SALMONS!! Not having salmons in japanese restaurants is like, practically not having a ball on a football field in a football match! And you can't play without the bloody ball! (Okay, maybe I exaggerated, you can still eat stuffs like unagi, hotate, idako, and loads more)... but hey, salmons are essential too okay!

So anyway, we had our disappointing lunch, and went to pay at the counter, where we couldn't resist asking 'So what happened to all the salmons?'.

The guy over at the counter said "Ash cloud".

We were like "What?? U think we stupid ah? To fly from Japan to Malaysia, where got impacted by ash cloud wan?"

Guy said, "From Norway! Not Japan!"

So yeah, now we know we're also victims to the ash cloud! :((

Worst Customer Service Experience

I've had the worst customer service experience today from M**bank.

You've always heard of the hall of fame and hall of shame stories from this bank.

But not until you're pissed to the pit of your boiling stomach that you really want to f*ck them off.

Why? Is it due to the fact that they're monopolizing the financial market locally, so they don't give a shit about their customer experience or reputation?

I swear if I was Iron Man, I would've punched and ripped the whole ATM machine off to retrieve my card!

I can now already foresee the agony I have to go through being pushed calls by calls, counters by counters, branches by branches from the bank just for me to want my card back!

And for all of that, not only do they not have the courtesy to offer empathy and resolve this from their end, but bounced the responsibility back to their customer to do the following ups, even when I pissed-ly demanded that they did.

One thing you shouldn't do when you're servicing your customers is reading off the bloody script.

I wondered if the rep actually understood or bothered understanding what I said.

Would they have done this to me if I was the CEO's daughter? Or maybe the President's daughter?

No.

So this is how they serve their customers.

I heard their Plat card customers are served amazingly.

So that's it.

Selective jugdmental and biased customer servicing.

It's such a shame that they're taking the lead in financial institutions.

I guess they're just comfortable where they are, being the first, and thought they'd be up there forever, without being knocked off their positions.

How disappointing...

Blah Blah Blahs From The Office

I get so easily tired these days.

It must have been the numerous unnecessary stress from the office.

Feels like I'm a few years older in a few months! :(

There comes a point where I just couldn't enjoy my weekend because all I was thinking of was the piling unfinished work.

There also comes a point where I just dread going to the office every single morning.

What's worse is that, I'm so fed up of listening to myself grumble and rattle about stuff at the office that I find myself becoming a nagging grandmother!

It has become so bad, that I wish I had just made a decision then and there, even without the basis of a backup plan.

I know, irrational you'd say...

But heck, I treasure my health and quality of life more than you think I do!

And this whole stress thing is sipping energy out of me every single day of the week.

Just don't know why I'm putting myself through such miserable demotivation that burns through my already unexciting life. -_-"

How pathetic...............

Promising myself I'm not gonna let this whole thing drown my any deeper!

Hello, Hello....

Hello April, and hello everyone!

I know I'm guilty of charge! Been MIA (missing in action) from my blog for a very very long time (for my standards) haha...

It's been long enough for me to kinda forget my login password to blogspot. Lol. I had to re-try a few times lor....

To start off, April has been pretty good to me (aside from the workload & bitches at work in the office... pardon my language... I seriously need an outlet... ah well, dramatic office politics... never-ending, don't they?), and apparently has been really good for the people around me too! That's good news, eh?

Whoever said rats don't fair well this tiger year? I hope we fair tremendously well for the rest of the year! (Okay, I know I know.. it's only April... too soon to tell & forecast for the rest of the year, haha). Things are finally looking like they're all starting to fall into the right places. And I'm feeling a lot of those happy vibes. Looking forward to more happy news to come! =)

Yup, I think I'm ready to face the world! Here I come... haha