Manpuku Japanese Gourmet Town

Found this interesting Japanese Gourmet Town, Manpuku on Level 3 of the new Tampines 1 Mall while trying to join the excitement of the opening of this new mall and to visit the new Japanese clothing store, UNIQLO located at Tampines 1 Mall too. Its a lovely find! Look at the many cute and interesting food representations of the Japanese cuisines they have inside.

The concept is similar to The Marche @ Hereen/Vivocity or Shokudo @ basement of Raffles City, that is to say, they gather a few food stalls/restaurants and have all housed within a concept food mart where one can walk around and purchase food at the same food mart. They make use of a food stored value card to accumulate your purchases and then bill you at the exit.

Stored value food cards and Reservation Signs to reserve your table

For Manpuku, the concept is a really strong Japanese flavour with the place like a Japanese town decorated with sakuras, Japanese sake barrels, wooden Japanese signboards and such. The stalls feature affordable food from 10 restaurants, some of which are famous brands which began in Japan since 1920s -1930s.


Ted ordered the Shio Cha-shu Ramen @ $10.80 from Aoba Hokkaido Ramen which is famous in Hokkaido and has over 60 years of history. The soul of the ramen is the soup stock. Its really fanastic and does not contain any MSG as I did not feel thirsty after that. The Shio Ramen broth is painstakingly boiled from pork and chicken. The average-quality of the noodles is greatly enhanced by the delicious salt broth. The pork slice is thick and goes very well with the noodles.


Craving for rice sets, I ordered the Oyako Don @ $6.80 and potato croquette @ $4.80 for two pieces from Asakusa Tei (whose specialty are the fried items like agemono, tonkatsu and tempura) located just beside the Toku Toku handmade Udon Noodles. Unable to resist the tempting food next door, I also ordered the Tem-musubi (tempura sushi) from Toku Toku, which is an interesting tempura wrapped in a seaweed sushi for $2.50. I will have to get my hands on the handmade udon claypot sets from Toku Toku the next time I visit this place again as they also look really delicious!

To complete my Japanese meal, I also went for some fresh salmon sashimi (@ $8) offered from Umi, the sashimi stall just directly opposite Asakusa Tei. To my delight, the sashimi were really fresh and soft! And at such a great reasonable price! Understand the sashimi are also all airflown fresh from Japan. No wonder its great taste!

View of Azabu Sabo Dessert

Ted and me had a wonderful meal. Seated just in front of the Japanese dessert stall Kyoto Sabo, we fell prey to it when the waitress came by our table and told us to place our last orders before 9pm. So finally we ended our lovely evening with a Macha Parfait (red bean and green tea ice-cream fruit parfait $5.80) which was really sweet and icy cold. This one is a special recommendation from me to all those who have a sweet tooth like me!

There are still a few other stalls but pity we had too little time that evening to try all. Believe all Japanese food lovers will enjoy the food there as much as we did, given the many choices and good quality food offerings.

Manpuku is at 10 Tampines Central 1 #03-16/17/18 Tampines 1, Singapore 529536. Tampines 1 Mall is located just at the exit of Tampines MRT Station.