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Kokomama (Closed)

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Korean Fusion Desserts and Cakes Burgers and Sandwiches Bakery Café

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Located on the busy stretch of passerbys walking from dhoby ghaut to bras basah mrt is Kokomama. It is also situated on the ground floor of School of the Arts (SOTA), as such, they have an affordable menu. They have an excellent location between SMU, SIM, NAFA along with the SOTA students as well as being in a central location. Kokomama is marketed as a hip fusion cafe that sells different varieties of food and beverages - french bakery, chilli crab/curry/clam chowder bread bowls, rice bowls, c

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Located on the busy stretch of passerbys walking from dhoby ghaut to bras basah mrt is Kokomama. It is also situated on the ground floor of School of the Arts (SOTA), as such, they have an affordable menu. They have an excellent location between SMU, SIM, NAFA along with the SOTA students as well as being in a central location. Kokomama is marketed as a hip fusion cafe that sells different varieties of food and beverages - french bakery, chilli crab/curry/clam chowder bread bowls, rice bowls, coffee (latte etc), traditional kopi/ teh and dessert such as waffles and korean bingsu. And also affordable bread for people to take away!

As the previous tenants of this shop used to be the now defunct 3 Petit Croissants, the massive industrial ovens are still embedded into 30% of the kitchen that you can see through the glass window. Which is why Kokomama offers pastries, cakes and even bread. It has a large variety of croissants to pick from.

Once you take a glance at the menu, you realize you are looking at foods from different regions, like chilli crab sauce, QQ beef, unagi, baked rice and korean bingsu. It's quite hard to decide what exactly does this cafe cater to. But you can also tell based on the dining room arrangement, the owners probably wanted a no-frills cafe environment for students to hang out, grab a quick bite and dine in a comfortable environment.

You can't miss this shop walking from Dhoby Ghaut or Bras Basah MRT.

1. QQ Beef Rice $9.90

First up, we had a QQ beef rice, the beef reminded me of Yoshinoya's beef bowl, but with less fats. I liked the salad that came in the rice too, made it feel more nutritious. Sadly unlike the yoshinoya beef bowl, the rice here was just your typical rice, rather than Japanese rice.

There are options for sauces for the rice like chilli crab, clam chowder and curry chicken. These are also their soups for their signature blackout bread bowl. They serve these sauces to you in a small cup and you have the option to pour it into your rice. I felt that without the sauce, the rice was too dry to be eaten. The beef itself was slightly dry too and the texture could've been better.

Chilli crab sauce

There also sprinkle some seaweed garnishing on the top.

BBQ Unagi with Chilli Crab sauce

2. BBQ Unagi with Chilli Crab sauce $12.90

Next up unagi! They pretty generous with the unagi but same thing again, the rice wasn't Japanese rice. I wonder why they tout this in their Japanese menu but it's only Japanese because of the unagi and the seaweed?

I enjoyed the unagi was it was tasty and because of the sauce, the rice wasn't as dry as the QQ beef.

BBQ Unagi with Chilli Crab sauce

After mixing the unagi together with the salad and rice, you will have a mashed-up ungai salad with rice! Not a bad blend! If you're feeling up to it, you can also spread some chilli crab sauce into it. But I felt the unagi didn't go well with the chilli crab sauce. Which, can be a tad spicy.

BBQ Unagi with Chilli Crab sauce

However the rice together with the chilli crab sauce made the rice more bearable.

3. Ham and Cheese baked rice $7.90

Ham and Cheese baked rice

The cheapest on the menu was their student meals and at $7.90 with a drink, I felt it was still a bit high for this area. I can't imagine spending $8 a meal in my secondary school days. The cheese was well baked. I attribute this to their well-equipped baking infrastructure passed down from the previous tenant. The cheese was thick and delicious. The cheese went through about half the layer of the rice, so the bottom half of the rice stayed dry. I guess it's your part to mix the cheese around to ensure you have a properly balanced rice and cheese ratio.

For the rice that had cheese on it, the rice was good and tasty, together with the numerous slices of ham. It was better than expected. I felt that this was a better option than a well-known chain that also offers student baked rice.

4. Seafood Cheese Baked Rice $15.90

Seafood Cheese Baked Rice

Next I tried the seafood cheese baked rice. For the price, it's alot! Yes there's prawns and squid and what not, but $15.90? That's being a bit bold, I must say. The cheese tasted the same and the same thing with half the rice being dry. I wish they could've added more cheese to the rice, to ensure you don't end up with half a tray of plain baked rice.

For drinks each person get a syrupy drink for a top-up for $2 with any main course. You can choose from blackcurrant, blueberry, iced lemon tea, lime, honey lemon and green tea.

Check out the fun colours of our drinks! These are definitely catered to the students for sure!

The blackcurrant drink tasted like ribena to be honest! So not a bad choice for ribena lovers.

The blueberry looked cool but it was too articial for me but hey! They were a couple of real blueberries at the bottom of my drink! How cool was that? Didn't expect that at all!

Overall : A hit and miss place, good location, quick and fuss-free food.

(The above review is the personal opinion of a user which does not represent OpenRice's point of view.)

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