I’ve been hankering after Waraku for ages, every since I saw the brightly coloured plastic food adoring the shop’s exterior… Passed by a Waraku look-a-like along city link on Saturday, and decided to just have dinner there…
Shokudo (which means ‘cafe’ in Japanese I think) is quite a bright cheery place with yellow tones and a hip crowd. They serve a wide variety of pasta imported from Japan (feels stringer and actually lighter) and their own blend of sauces, a very interesting mix of the East and West.
There have up to 5 different sauce bases - wafu sauce (basically, I think that means any sauce with Japanese style of seasoning), tomato cream, carbonara, pesto and curry. They also have soupy pasta, like the white wine soupy mussel and pasta and this spicy tomato beef pasta thingy… We had the tomato cream with asparagus and grilled chicken and the curry with pork cutlet and spaghetti. Mine wasn’t too bad but the curry combi looked and tasted a bit weird. I think it might be a bit too revolutionary for our tastes. Haha…
The pizza looked awfully thin and very unsatisfying for 12.90. Hehe give it a miss!
The most interesting part was the dessert! It was so pretty and quite yummy! (from the limited spoonfuls I had) We had this green tea ice kacang topped with red beans (it’s looks different from the ones in our kopitiam) and the japanese type of chest nuts. Then there were four mochi around it too. Kawaii!
All in all, it’s a fun place to go for a refreshing taste, but don’t expect fine dining or immaculate waitressing for the price you’re paying.
Prices range btwn 13-16 for pasta / pizza, 4-8 for drinks/sodas and a bit more for the desserts.
