Express Teppan-Yaki Tampines Mall

After reading countless negative recent reviews, i am quite delighted that I have quite a decent experience overall. This is my first visit on this shop, so I will not know how good it is previously. Anyways, while i agreed that the price is slightly costly, the experience do matter. The food is cooked in front of you and the chef will do the allocations. My portion of squid and beef is rather decent, with lots of vegetable too. Personally, it is abit spicy and the squid is frozen, so it does not taste as good. Beef is not bad tho. However, the soup is too cold, tasted horrible. The rice is also subpar (a lazy homecook rice will be like this) Overall, we are contented eating. A one time experience would be fine.

Express Teppanyaki, my go-to spot for Taiwanese-style teppanyaki, has taken a hit lately. The food quality has gone downhill, and prices have skyrocketed. And to make matters worse, they now need to certify their food as halal, which means they can’t use certain ingredients like rice wine or non-halal sauces. That’s a big change, and it’s definitely affected the taste of the dishes. Oh, and the best part? They don’t even have pork as a protein option anymore. That’s a huge bummer for all you pork lovers out there.

Have been visiting this outlet over the years. And for the last few times, my portion of vegetables as compared to others were at least 50% difference. The chef gave other tables huge load of portions but mine were just very little. I find that it was not fair. And when there were a portion of beansprouts left, he topped up to a table that was given more share rather than mine that were very little.

I recently order take away from the place, and yes I do understand that taking away food from a place that serves u food directly after being cooked would cause the quality to diminish but I have taken away from that place many times over the years and so far it seems to me that their quality of raw ingredients and overall food quality has dropped quite alot. I usually order the garlic chicken drumstick, which is why I feel the quality has dropped due to some of the chicken being very hard and sauce given being sour and a little bitter when its suppose to taste sweet and salty.

Have patronised this place on and off but never left a review. Returned recently on a friday evening and we managed to get a seat immediately since we were still early (6pm). My mum ordered the beef while i took the squid set, which was really disappointing and kinda 'scam'. The picture in the menu showed fresh squid but it turns out to be those frozen squid flower which was definitely not worth the price im paying ($11~12). FYI, a 400g frozen pack from NTUC is about $5~$7 max. Although the taste was fine and the beef set was well cooked, i still cant rate this place highly becos of the scammed squid hahah. In all, perhaps just avoid the squid and everything else should be fine.

This is the worst teppanyaki meal I’ve had in my life. My sis and I paid $19 each for the sirloin set, which is not cheap. The steak was overcooked and VERY tough— we couldn’t finish it because our teeth and jaw hurt from chewing so much. To make matters worse, the rice was undercooked. Additionally, the cashier was rude and rushed us to place our order, seemingly so she could return to watching shows on her phone.

It has been a while since my last visit, and I noticed that their prices have increased significantly, and the menu has also changed. I ordered their Set C combo. The overall food quality hasn’t changed much—it’s the standard teppanyaki. It seems like they now have more teppanyaki chefs, and the female chef I wasn’t too fond of is no longer there. (This is based on my subjective impression that she tended to allocate smaller portions compared to the other chefs, possibly to serve more customers in fewer rounds of cooking.) With her absence, I found the experience more satisfying. However, there are two areas I hope they can improve: first, the texture of their steamed rice is too hard, likely due to insufficient water used when cooking. Second, I wish they would offer sugar-free canned drinks. Overall, I’m quite satisfied with my visit.

Had the beef set and pork set. Many reviews have touched on the service. The order counter lady is fierce. Just plan your order and pay. Don’t expect nice words and you’ll be fine. Upon paying, if there is no queue, you’ll get a seat. There’ll be soup and the chef will begin cooking once all orders are in. Most of the food is pretty good. The sauce definitely helps and chili is great. Portion is decent and most people would be full from the portion I think. For what it is, a tableside cooked meal. It’s serviceable.

Food not representative of the cost $25 for a third of a piece of white fish, squid that doesnt even match that of the photo, a singular scallop and cai fan looking beef. Sauce is not bad, but $25 can go mile longer at other places in the mall compared to here. Wouldnt recommend if youre hungry or looking for something worth ur time and money.

The pricing has been increasing rapidly while their portion decrease rapidly as well. $15bucks for a simple meal, blend sauce, tough meat, salty vegetable and bean sprout. Not to mention, their half scoop rice into a bowl to make it look full. See "full" bowl rice when split into 2 bowl. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️