Reviews for POCHA! Korean Street Dining Tampines Mall
Casey Tan
4
Great 👍 value for money! Especially, the Senior $15nett deal 🥰 on weekdays.
Shared with all my family n friends about this place😍
The staff volunteered to change my grill, while I was trying to clean it for the next round! So professional 👏 👌
But strangely, not crowded on weekday's lunchtime 🤔
Dessert need more variety, not just 3 flavors of ice-cream.
Francisco Rog
5
Good price for the food.
Seniors will get dicount so its not bad.
Best to come during non peak as u cab enjoy your meal compare to peak hrs when there is a lot of people and the pressure is high.
Lee Jason
1
Don't trust the menu. Food ain't great either. Service is non existent.
Ordered a set meal, which claims free banchan. It looked like 3 side dishes and I ended up with a platter of 3 with only 2 side dishes. (See pic of what they showed in the menu Vs what I got)
When I wanted a refill, I had to raise my hand for over a minute before a person who was coming back from his break told the service staff that I wanted something. And this was like 2pm where the restaurant was less than half full.
Ordered a Sagol, the beef was bland and so was the soup.
Highlight was the bibimbap, which had a good amount of beef and the sauce was good too.
Would not recommend not revisit this place.
Peter Pak
4
Price point is good. But only issue is how to reduce saltiness in soup without making it too soupy (some of us love the dry version with some smoky flavours) and allow customers who love spicy to add in chilli paste.
Overall still a good experience.
mentaik.o
2
Tried their K-Griddle Buffet that starts from $16.90++. The unlimited cooked food including fried chicken, tteokboki and fishcakes were decent.
There’s options to “add-on” free flow beef and ala carte seafood platter. But probably don’t. The cut of beef was tough and gamey. Would be better if it was the shabu / sukiyaki cut. The seafood platter had hits and misses. Though the prawns were fresh, the clams were sandy and fishy.
Just stick to the default ingredients! Some items like veg were kinda black and not the freshest. But given the price point, can’t expect too much. The ramen selection though, was GR8. They had tom yum and spicy carbonara flavour shin ramyun 🤝🏻
Mervyn Phea
5
Pretty good semi buffet, Korean style. Order the main and get the sides that needs to be cooked and those cooked side like chicken wing, tteokbokki, etc. Free canned drinks and ice cream. Some ready made sauce like cheese are available. Staff are ready to assist for any help. Only 1 hour so make it count, though they are not very strict on the time.
Yeap Jo Ann
3
First time at pocha! Ate during buffet dinner. Overall food is good and cheap also la.
But tteokbokki was not top up and by 8.30pm they started to clear of the cooked food. Can see the small bowl of tteokbokki here, its the same portion when we came in at 7.30pm.
Their last dine in time is 8.30pm and i assumed that their last order should be 9.30pm since they close at 10pm and dining time is 60mins. But then again at 8.45pm they already started to do closing.
Martin Low
4
We came here on a Friday evening and got the promo for 2 mains + tteokbokki.
Food: We got the pork sundubu which comes with rice, which was good tasting and had some clams inside. We weren't really impressed by the tteokbokki sauce though, otherwise the mains were great.
There are several "K-Drama" mains avail too but ala carte only.
There is an option to top-up for free flow drinks and dessert, but there was limited choices and no sugar free drinks avail.
Price: Korean food is relatively pricey in this country, and this place is no exception.
Service: I would describe it as efficient. The few waiters looked stressed or emotionless, perhaps due to understaffing, but they got the job done.
Atmosphere: The architecture gives the contemporary Korean shoppe vibes, though the rather small seating area means there is usually a long queue at peak hour.
Others: If you're seeking the 1m K street platter, do inform the waiter before going in. It is required to have 2 tables to have enough space; we saw a couple had to re-queue for the tables after being allocated a single table by the waiter, when they wanted the platter.
Overall, it's a decent place to check out trending Korean food with k-fan friends, but temper expectations on service.
Kean // keanmono IG & TT
5
Came to try POCHA's new K Griddle Buffet at Tampines Mall, 🍗🔥 From addictive fried chicken to crispy Kimari rolls... let's just say, your taste buds will be very happy!
Kickstart the stew from a choice of 3 different broths (Budae (army stew), Kimchi or Sagol) and loaded up on 13 different meats including pork, chicken, you name it! And with over 25 fresh veggies and ingredients, you will be spoilt for choice! 😅
Indulged in their signature Hangari Fried Rice – with smokey and wok hei goodness 🤤🔥.
Oh, and did I mention free flow drinks, banchan, desserts, AND ice cream?! All these starting at a crazy price of just $16.90++ for weekday lunch.
Need more? Top up a lil’ extra and enjoy free flow beef for just $5, a seafood platter for $8, or a cheesy upgrade for just $1! 🧀
Buffet Pricing
$16.90++ for weekday lunch
$18.90++ for weekday dinner & all-day weekend
Marc Soh
2
A messy environment, poorly trained staff & generally poor value for money, with the advertised girdles plate not readily available.
I went there specifically for the girdles plate but ended up with a normal hotpot because they "don't have enough" of the correct type. I estimated a mere 30% of the overcrowded space had the hot plate that was advertised. It is distinctly underwhelming & borderline feels like a bait & switch scam. A shallow wok is not the same as a pot.
There's apparently 2 broths on offer but i only found out when i overhead a neighbouring table talk about it and neither are really delicious & meant for a traditional style hotpot as they both seem diluted.
Food on offer is ok, good enough freshness levels but nothing amazing. The top up beef looks really bad, almost like off cuts & not do not seem worth the money. The nice surprise was the fried rice, it was really good. The fried chicken isn't bad but, again, nothing special.
Disappointing at best, would never go back.