Sukiya (Marina Square)

I was with my group of friends for gathering on Friday 9 March night for dinner.

There were just enough plates for the 5 of us and many bowls on the table.

However, after distributing and using the bowls on the table for their sauces (No bowls provided at their buffet section and sauces section, so we have to use our own bowl on the table), we do not have enough bowls or plates for other items as they r all filled with food.

When my friend requested for 2 eggs for the steamboat, I approach the buffet table but there were no bowls or plates available. I took a bowl from the ice cream corner (Transparent bowl which is different from the usual bow) and used it to contain the 2 eggs.

A male MANAGER immediately came to tell me that the transparent bowl is for ice cream only and asked me to remove the egg from the bowl and he took the transparent bowl back at the ice cream counter without offering another bowl or plate to us and left.

I was extremely disgusted by the action of the MANAGER and not the normal staff. I did not make any feedback immediately as I did not want to spoil the atmosphere with my friends but they were also very disappointed with the action.

If we are not allowed to use the transparent bowl and we do not have any bowls or plates available on our table, do the MANAGERS expect us to use our BARE HANDS to contain the food??? The manager should have offered us more bowls and plates if that is the case which shows that the manager has NO INITIATIVE!

If it is a regular staff, I will overlook this incident but if it is a MANAGER, I feel the management should do something regarding such service. The management should not expect customer to keep asking for bowls and plates all the time and with no initiatives at all.

Managers should set as an example but this form of service is ridiculous.

The food is good and money is considered as somewhat reasonable but with the service like this, I will never go back to this restaurant in my LIFE again!

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ready? get set...GO! 100 minutes to eat your fill at this shabu-shabu buffet for $21.90++!

there is a choice of three different soup bases - shabu shabu, sukiyaki (my favourite! sweet soy sauce <3) and kimuchi (a spicy miso soup). after choosing your soup, you're then free to get whatever food you like! :) but do not waste! cos they have a policy of charging 20% or sth for wastage. no idea how it works cos we didn't want to try it out! lol!

there are two rows of various kinds of vegetables, tofu, balls of every kind, mushrooms and sauces for you to take your pick from. we had tons of fun grabbing everything we saw! my two favourites were the tofu (with the skin, not the white kind) and the balls with CHEESE in it! haha it was d*** awesome. when you bite (deep) into it, the cheese will actually squirt out! :O it was quite hilarious actually! you need skill to eat it neatly xD i'm proud to say i mastered it ;) hahaha.

there are also eggs for you to cook any way you like. half-cooked eggs anyone?

there is also a free flow of meat - choice of chicken, beef and pork! :) dunno why the rest didnt like the chicken! i found it quite nice what! haha. i liked the pork the most!!! and the beef was not bad too. they were super thin slices of meat, so there was no need to wait very long before we could devour them :D

we completely spammed our pot right from the start! that's probably not a good idea though, cos it took forever to start boiling! :( Looks gooooood right! :D yippee!

each diner is also entitled to one serving of ice cream! :D yayyyyyyy! haha okay you can barely see my ice cream here, buried under all my toppings. you know how extreme i am right :P lols. anyway, it was nice! kinda reminded me of mr bean ice cream. haha. i loved the chocolate sauce! and the peanuts! and coloured sprinkles! :) so proud of my ice cream :D

The dinner buffet offers good value if you are a sabu sabu lover. Pretty standard selection of steamboat ingredients. Service is patchy, probably because of the large crowds at this popular resturant. Expect a long wait to be seated on weekends.

If you can drink, go for the Sake buffet; all you can drink within 3 hours for $25.90. Nothing beats a cup of warm sake to wash down the sabu sabu on a rainy day!

I went Sukiya with my high school friend after being recommended by another friend.

The food was really good. We had sukiyaki based soup and kimchi based soup, both of which tasted really good. The free flow meat (chicken, pork and beef) were all really tasty. Another must-try here is the porkball with cheese filling.

We spent around sgd 22/pax for the buffet (dinner) and sgd 1.5 for hot green tea (free flow). We were only allowed to stay in the restaurant for 1 hour 40 minutes

We chanced upon this place 6 months back and has returned 3 times since. I am a huge sukiyaki fan, and when I find a place with sukiyaki soup base and unlimited decent quality beef slices - I'm in!

Service is nothing to shout about, but considerably prompt.

The vegetable bar counter is always filled with fresh mushrooms, tofu, greens to compliment the beefy goodness, though I was a little sad to not see any radish in my last visit (tip: put the radish in right at the beginning to enjoy it well flavored towards the end of the meal)

We ordered kimchi and sukiyaki soup base. I am clearly biased towards sukiyaki for personal preferences, but frankly feel the kimchi base is really not that great, though the pork slices goes really well.

For the reasonable pricing and central location, it is impossible for the beef to be of as high quality as En - where the prices are twice as much.

If my not-so-adventurous (and picky) dad loves this place and wants to go back, I don't see why I shouldn't recommend it! :)

I went for the dinner sake buffet based on the positive reviews here. Overall it was a good experience, and indeed a great value opportunity to load up on sliced beef. We had the sukiyaki and shabu shabu broths. The meat re-fill was relatively prompt, although beer re-fills took too long at times. Quality of the meat is good. All in all I would recommend and will likely be back here again for another protein boost!

My friend insisted that Suki.ya steamboat deserves a try so we trotted down to Marina Sq to do so. I love steamboat and jap food so the meal was essentially a good one. I like the sukiyaki soup base the most and when you cook the thin beef slices in it, the beef is just so so tasty and tender!!!! The rest of the ingredients are ok, but I really love the beef slices. I believe I ate 2 trays of beef all by myself!! :P I don’t regret tho. The buffet meal comes with one serving of ice cream and the interesting thing is that the servers will open the cabinet to put in the lever of the ice cream dispenser and after he/she is done dispensing the ice cream, he/she will remove the lever and KEEP it back in the cabinet. I guess they REALLY don’t want their guests to have a 2nd helping. Effective method tho a little school-like. I will return to get my beef slice fix!!

Lousy spread plus lousy service and no quality meats. Is definitely not worth the price..Funny management style. We ordered kim chi soup base. Subsequent kimchi paste for the soup will be charged. They will just top up the kimchi soup with plain soup..Then no point in ordering kimchi soup base. Definitely not worth the $..

Free flow of pork, beef and chicken for only $19.90 dinner or $16.90 lunch! They provide 3 different types of soup base and the pot can allow 2 types. The taste is reasonable good quality, cos they have high traffic flow of customers, so constantly buying fresh meat. (My guess! :P) I'm also quite surprise that for such cheap price, their service wasn't compromised! Whenever I asked for refill of meat, they came in within 2minutes.

Though not serving wagyu beef like En Lounge, but the beef still taste very good. I'm a beef lover, so when i say it's good, you can trust me on that! Haha! Nothing to talk about the ambience, clean and neat but like any other commercial restaurant, common.

A must try especially if you love beef too!

Sukiya is tucked away in the busy food corner of marina square's centrestage. i'm familiar with kenny rogers, mof, waruku, imperial treasure n thai express...I'm always curious about sukiya and if its worth my stomach space. everytime when i pass by, its filled and sometimes you can see a queue forming although it eases off quickly. So finally one day I decided to give it a try...since they were having a ALL YOU CAN DRINK sake beer, uneshu promotion @ $25..and i love sake. I order the kimchi and soy soup base...and unlimited supplies of beef came my way! i was in heaven! I found the meat to be very fresh and very good quality as compared to those other shabu shabu places that are charging slighly cheaper...I was impressed! the healthy vegetable bar has a generous variety of veg, sauces, condiments to make the broth taste super! I was so full after a couple trays of beef and i didnt even make it to dessert. I'm coming back for sure to try the other broth - sukiya - a slightly sweeter base and perhaps pairing it with umeshu...