$1 MEALS! Trying IKEA’s SEAFOOD & NOODLES Brunch in Singapore

Ikea has some AMAZING food in Singapore. They incorporated a lot of local cuisine into their brunch menu, like the Lor mee and water-cooked shrimp. The desserts are phenomenal as well.
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[@91008726]

Small correction, this is not actually the largest IKEA in Singapore. The largest one is at Tampines, they even have a specific Halal section at that outlet.

[@user-mv2vc4vf1z]

Omg tysm I've been searching for a halal one in sg but couldn't find any solid evidence on google

[@inblueendo3850]

Awesome!

[@shuyotirah9132]

Thank you!

[@skyezblue3136]

Ty for the halal recommendation.

[@angelena97]

@@user-mv2vc4vf1z the halal one at tampines has totally different dishes unavailable in the non halal section, sometimes lamb chop and last i visited, theres this beautifully tender beef cheeks dish. go and try!

[@citylumberjack9169]

Mike: "This has SUCH a delicate flavor!" ... proceeds to dump a half-cup of garlic hot oil on it.

[@jeweltaye4584]

So what.

[@billiebleach7889]

@@jeweltaye4584 keep your shirt on. It’s called humour

[@jeweltaye4584]

@@billiebleach7889 You feel better? I really don't GAF Forever. It's one thing to be humorous. It's another to be petty. Ok Sis y'all are worse than females. Foh. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tomevers6670]

@@jeweltaye4584 I know you know you have mental issues….. but try to hide them sometimes, it’ll benefit your life

[@jasonnop1861]

Gotta have the chilli oil!

[@Temsen]

As a swede it's fun to see how IKEA looks in other countries! Hillarious how many swedish words they tried to stuff into that place ^^

[@BlackRose.999]

as a Norwegian, I agree

[@FizzoDizzo]

Hej!

[@investigatingdwarf]

love the rave about the desserts. The Daim cake is a household piece of dessert that is avaliable in most grociery stores in the freezer. It is the exact same one you just had and it is delicious and a piece of childhood for many.

[@lauren3173]

Omg I’m jealous! It looks heavenly!

[@simplyme3306]

Actually the largest Ikea in Singapore is at Tampines which you should have went when you visited Tampines Hub. They have free shuttle service as well from the nearby bus interchange. However each Ikea like you mentioned have slightly different local menu. Their garlic toast is great as well and is perfect with the mushroom soup. FYI lor mai kai and siew mai is read using their Cantonese names hahaha that's how we call all the dim sum items in Singapore and Malaysia.

[@jaysaysneyx]

They actually have the shrimp here in the US! Most Filipino stores sell them in the frozen aisle. I grew up eating them and we always have it at every Filipino party. It’s so gooood! One of my favorite types of shrimp to eat! ❤

[@juzwantukkomen5595]

FYI Mike, here in Singapore diabetes is one of the chronic diseases that we really want to win the battle against. So that explains the lower sugar levels in our food/drinks.

[@TheRazerlg]

why sugar cane juice is so popular then?

[@mohaksharma7430]

Nah bro it's because of taxes, more sugar=more taxes.

[@wheeldanman5329]

@@TheRazerlg Singapore trying to reduce diabetes, not the ppl lol

[@lolilollolilol7773]

@@mohaksharma7430 Which is a good thing. And why do you think sugar is heavily taxed, if not to fight diabetes ? The US should do the same, but the sugar lobby fills Congress pockets.

[@nancyvasquez6211]

Just came from work at an IKEA! And I happen to work in food as well. Just in time to see this video 😊 Thank you for the review and it's so nice to see what other countries are doing.

[@tangt4860]

The quality in Ikea Singapore has dropped tremendously and like almost all the items are easily purchased from the frozen section. The prices except for the hotdog are straight out of Halloween.

[@anikatessman9203]

The meatballs and smoked salmon are always my go to’s, I’d love to try the different plates in Singapore. Those tarts looked amazing 🥲

[@huahua19]

The outlet at Tampines is the largest, it's a huge, blue building! The cheese tart is my guilty pleasure! You were there probably during the Deepavali season hence the briyani dish. Another seasonal dish I love is beef cheeks with spicy pasta. Not always available but it's so good!

[@1alicez145]

I absolutely love this guy's content it's just something about spending the quality time to eat delicious foods around the world and giving a valid opinion about it aswell keep up the great work strictly dumplings I'll always watch ur great content👍👍

[@forsakenknight6382]

Love watching you're videos they've helped me alot when I have anxiety always helped calm me down whenever I'm feeling overwhelmed or just over thinking so thank you so much Mikey for everything you do 😁❤

[@LaFemeTanya]

I was just introduced to the IKEA kitchen here in San Diego. I was shocked how good the food was. The Price is not bad either.

[@XxJoitchxX]

Loka Crush is sparkling water with added fruit juice to give it a little more and a very natural taste compared to other flavored sparking waters. I like them a lot, specially the flavors watermelon, pear and raspberry.

[@SmallBrotha79]

The ”prawn plate” looks like what we call räkor here in Sweden, land of Ikea. And they are often just lightly boiled. The IKEA food in Singapore looks better than what you get here😅 Would be thrilled if they brought over the steamed sticky rice package aka ”Laa Mai Kai” here😋

[@RonLarhz]

It's lor mai gai. In cantonese. Surprised mike chen didnt get it.

[@simplyme3306]

@@RonLarhz ya hahaha he read it in a english tone surprisingly.

[@thomasnoe2714]

Instämmer…. IKEA Menyn i Singapore är bättre och större sortiment än i Sverige.

[@avgperson25]

We have lots of those shrimp in Sweden! Also ”gravad lax” was the salmon dish you were eating, usually not smoked (cold smoked, if anything) But dry brined in salt and dill mainly! Sometimes mustard seeds aswell. There are some amazing spots in Stockholm Sweden that do the dish justice, would love to see u visit! Gothenburg also has some great seafood (prawns main focus).

[@tangt4860]

Used to love these saltwater shrimps from Sweden but they somehow disappeared even before COVID.

[@oliverkarehag9883]

I may have lost the plot when he skipped the “hovmästarsås” 😅

[@fredosinsemilla3896]

@@tangt4860 For sure, so many good things all disappeared during the pandemic.

[@nagleedmv]

I like how each IKEA sells something different in their cafeteria. I have an IKEA near me, and I enjoy going in to eat breakfast or lunch from time to time. To me, the food is always good .

[@lavonnehouse9217]

Merry Christmas and I love your Volgs channel ❤️🎄⛄

[@Solo-5050]

9 times out of ten I'm just sitting here at work, eating my chicken 🐔 and rice 🍚 😋, watching Mikey tear into something delicious. I could do this everyday 😄.

[@FlavorofMind]

Dang.. unlike in the US, I would go hog wild on Ikea food if I were in Singapore! Totally different ballgame, in a much better stadium 🤣

[@DLFH]

Well said!!

[@joeyvigil]

I love the US Ikea food, I literally go there every week.

[@lesliemooney2105]

@VirgA 5

[@lesliemooney2105]

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[@lesliemooney2105]

@VirgA zzzzxz

[@kezzyann]

The Diam Cake you can buy frozen in some countries, we have it here in the UK and it is honestly one of my favourite desserts.

[@cathybi25]

i loved the last ikea video, it’s so nice seeing you go back and get the cheese tart

[@alexwood9600]

love your vids keep it up man :)

[@Mr.Clean69420]

Never been to ikea so thanks for this one mikey❤🔥🔥🔥

[@ItchyTheRat]

as a Swede, its very fun to see swedish products and words just strewn around :)

[@andrewng9950]

Yes, actually the main swedish things I know of (and really like) are hygge and fikka (saw those on an ikea wall) Hygge -> Warm and cosy Fikka -> Afteroon break slow down enjoy the world

[@ItchyTheRat]

@@andrewng9950 Hygge will at least always have a sad notion as a chopped down forest can also be known as a Hygge, and Fika has one k :) but is indeed a very nice concept

[@de1443]

Ja man blir sugen på köttbullar nu 😁

[@thomasnoe2714]

@@andrewng9950 Hygge is Danish not Swedish…..

[@vperra]

@@thomasnoe2714 Hygge is also a Swedish word, as @itchythekitty stated. Hygge is an area where the forest have been chopped down to create an area of rejuvenation, to plant new trees and make the forest younger.

[@waywardgypsy]

You should travel in Scandinavia and try some of their foods! ❤

[@DLFH]

Yes a whole series on IKEA world food tour.

[@greenzxne2356]

Scandinavianfood and asian food have a lot in common! Both big on fish and pickled stuff.

[@Gleowyn]

@@greenzxne2356 Though the spice usage is on the complete opposite ends of the scale lol

[@maestrobash7822]

@@Gleowyn Naamas kii

[@greenzxne2356]

​@@Gleowyn very true

[@mouldyfart]

The pronunciation of the Singaporean dishes are getting increasingly spot on haha. looks like you've been coming here often

[@leigh459]

Love your videos. The food looks amazing.

[@nannettebennett2317]

Yum, love your channel Mike. I’m hungry right now but it’s late, so instead I’ll eat vicariously through you, lol. Like you always say, till we eat again. Thanks for stirring my food imagination. Bon appetite 🙏🏼❤️

[@timothycheng5710]

Always a great joy to watch this guy talking about food passionately :)

[@hihellokitty85]

10:20 That's basically same as Foppen Norwegian Smoked Salmon Slices (12oz) that you can get from Costco for ~$14.00 in US.

[@Maria1000G]

You know it's good when Mike taps the flour. I love Ikea restaurant, great video.

[@nicholassmith8212]

Love your videos Mike

[@arnelpijuan7618]

I love your job Mike

[@nikkikhooniqi]

Thank you for constantly making Singapore known to the world.

[@shelaughs185]

Scandanavian and Northern European countries do mushroom soup like no other. I would expect no less from an Ikea, even in Singapore. Best mushroom soup I've ever had was in Oslo, Norway. I made a Serious Eats recipe for it just a few weeks ago because I was chasing that monster. It was almost but not quite.

[@pothospathic]

I think the tricks that have worked the most for me are using Vegeta and making a double strength dried mushroom stock with shaoxing wine (because that's all I had once and it was nicer) and using too much white pepper in it. Honestly I think it's the vegeta doing all the heavy lifting that stuff is magic.

[@scandisnowgirl3696]

Hmmm I live in Oslo and mushroom soup isn't exactly standard cuisine here in Norway so not sure how you ended up with that impression.

[@shelaughs185]

@@scandisnowgirl3696 Try the little out of the way bar around the corner from the Grand Hotel in Oslo. We also had good renditions of it in Iceland and in Amsterdam. The Oslo version was spectacular.

[@fredosinsemilla3896]

@@scandisnowgirl3696 Of course it's not standard in Norway. "Scandinavian" mushrooms naturally grow in forests, which you have little of in Norway compared to Sweden. You have the entire Atlantic ocean though, which makes great seafood :)

[@scandisnowgirl3696]

@@fredosinsemilla3896 what? You think we have few forests in Norway? Ummmmm 🤣

[@nordicson2835]

Never would have thought ... wow ... thank you. , again.

[@dbsommers1]

A true visual treat.

[@gdparry2727]

I'll often go to my local IKEA in Wales just for the food things. Bag of frozen meatballs for home, the cookies/biscuits and a herbal soda which is sort of like cola but isn't - only available in winter though - miss it when I go rest of year.

[@kayhoward1743]

Best music to theme the videos every time! Had to check the details on this one *chef’s kiss Epidemic Sound

[@ashebrightsidhe2142]

I love the soups at Ikea and the Swedish meatballs

[@JesusLovesHisCreations]

Try the Tampines’s outlet…n every festive season like Christmas, Chinese New Year etc, they’ll have specialty in their menu 😋👍enjoy 😅

[@iammmsarah2185]

The chocolate cake he is eating. I m glad i had that yesterday in my country . It was tasty tbh and very sweet too🫢

[@holymackerel6200]

IKEA cakes and pastries are too sweet for my taste. The Swedish cookies sold in the IKEA market too. Is it because Swedes like then that way?

[@akeemz9330]

Man..watching you eat makes me hungry again even if i already ate

[@zaidshaikh6706]

that looks amazing

[@arvs7356]

I don’t think Alexandra is the largest IKEA outlet in Singapore 😅 but it’s the closest to the city, so a lot of locals frequent it!

[@nelc9824]

Mike, I love the way you threw your chilli oil into this video 😂 there are so many different types of food in a Singapore IKEA 😬🥰 I would love to try. Did you say put gravy on a chicken biriyani?! It supposed to be dry, that's why it's usually served with a veg curry. Yummy. 😋 Thank you for sharing Mike 🥟

[@powerpuff4200]

Mikey thank you for your videos, you inspire me to possibly do this someday. I hope if I get big enough I can do a Collab with you 😊

[@UnkoPants]

Next time you come to Hawaii (Oahu) you should try Miki's. Its in Pearl City, they only open late night, like 8pm+, but they have famous Teri Meatballs! and dont forget the Pickled Onions side!!! ALOHA!

[@peterkwok9608]

Looks delicious Mike 😎😎👍👍

[@gregmuon]

The first place I ever tasted fishballs was in... Sweden. It's the Swedish-Asian nexus. 😁Then I ate a lot of them in Norway. Fiskeboller!

[@JooJoo14336]

That slurp just makes noodles seem all the more delicious!

[@brenthan800]

Mike I saw you on mxrplays and I was like OMG and holy wha- how when did you reach 4 mil?!!!?! Congrats

[@TheAkumaChan]

I rarely used to eat meatballs and wasn’t too into European food, but that was until I went to Sweden. OMG the meatballs were so good. I’m from an area of Canada where Lingonberry also grows, but for some reason we would only eat cranberry sauce. Meatballs have never been the same, but I haven’t had any since I’ve been back from Sweden 3 years ago.

[@krimsworld]

About time you discovered the joys of Almondy! One of my favs.

[@AussieAngeS]

I have Mr we eaten at an IKEA restaurant before. That food there in Singapore IKEA looks delicious

[@Hiiigh_Sierra]

Love the music in this episode 😸

[@sheybaby6504]

I wish I wish everything looked so amazing and yummy and delicious I love your videos thank you for sharing!!!!I hope one day I will be able to go there prayers up

[@Willecederstrand]

you should really come to sweden and try our foods!!

[@PirrePirre]

i work at IKEA in Sweden, all country has very different menus but all ofc have our staples like meatballs, the gravad lax and Daim cake etc. All fish at IKEA is MSC, The ecolabel shows that the fish is well managed, comes from viable stocks and that measures have been taken to reduce the impact on the marine environment.

[@tiannamcgraw1662]

Wish your hot oil was shipped in Canada!!! My boyfriend would absolutely love the taste of them and it would make a great Christmas gift!!

[@TyRoViper]

Why would you open the luo mai gai like that

[@Nokenify]

Those whole shrimp are a staple in Sweden. Extremely delicious.

[@pineapplepetcorneats]

haha YESSS the IKEA in Singapore is pretty good. There's even a Halal section for our Muslin friends and the nasi lemak is good!

[@MrTjollen]

That's not fair ! I come from sweden like IKEA and we don't have that kind of food here ! I think that IKEA restaurants here in sweden should have like a "international corner" in their swedish restaurants with a themeweek with food from their different restaurants in the world ! Especially singapore 😋 !

[@chidambaramramesh7638]

I've been following your videos from when you first posted your chilli oil video years ago. Crazy to know you were at the IKEA at the end of my street. 😂 Small world indeed.

[@richiedaaznboi]

Did anyone else cringe from the way he opened the law mai gei?! Savage!

[@karenschulze2605]

Yummy!!

[@michaeljabronis7271]

Just had their mushroom soup last week, its divine! Ikea for the most part is hit or miss, when its a hit though you get shocked!

[@dancyano]

It's all about the UMAMI! 😅

[@thatgirl9532]

The dessert chefs at ikea in Singapore definitely need a raise… I trust Mike when he says they are delicious but also in general they look really nice!!! 🤤

[@hungryhobbits]

Ikea food is always comfort food. Delightful!

[@connartistt8]

Finally the mushroom soup is getting the recognition it deserves!!! EASILY the best I’ve ever had

[@nalanat]

Singapore Food Heaven. 😋👍🏻

[@Sean-bp6xb]

Wishing ikea in Canada served those dishes. Lol. Looked yummy. Watching from Ontario Canada 🎉

[@TimothyS66]

Wish I was your travel buddy, all that fantastic food ya be chowing down on I want to try it all.

[@Angelvalare]

I found you on fb, a great plane video...I'm a fan now :)

[@XNerinoX]

That's a new chellange: try not to say UMAMI for a full video 🤣 great video btw

[@SynthhInHD]

That pear crush soda you are drinking is Swedish! Sugar levels in most drinks are lower in Europe than in the US too, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's imported directly from Sweden.

[@dominicsianez3409]

It will forever amaze me how he can eat so much

[@janedough2529]

Man those Swedish meatballs are staple in 🇨🇦 especially with the gravy over egg noodles. So good

[@samanthamoorhouse2088]

33 secs lol perfect timing just sitting down for supper.

[@owl77]

We went there for food most of the time. The chicken wing is a must to get. 😋

[@55zamba]

I live 20 min from the factory who makes the meatballs... I can buy 2 kg for about 3 dollars ... I live in Sweden 😆

[@ronaldelia9956]

Bought all the chili oils to try, thanks for the free shipping too!

[@xafilthyfatmanx3215]

I just always remeber getting an ikea hotdog witch was amazing

[@NewleafDx]

hehe, nice review once again!

[@TrueAlmightyOutcast]

I didn’t know where Mike was going with the mushroom soup 😅 shaking his head, face like he hates it

[@joannaazar7396]

I work at IKEA in NewJersey. The food is pretty good 👍🏻

[@janel9468]

Love the small prawns too. Sadly they don't have it all the time!

[@lauren3173]

I NEED to know the secret of the consistency of that cheese tart! Wow!

[@Sandles_3199]

My personal favorite from ikea is the wings and of course the Swedish meatballs.

[@ReyOfLight]

The Crush drinks are really just flavored fizzy mineral water with a bit more soda characteristic than the usual flavored fizzy mineral water. Pretty common drink here in Sweden and we also love our flavored mineral water. I drink a fair bit of both Loka and Ramlösa with various flavors, especially in summertime. I struggle with just plain tap water even though Sweden has excellent tap water both when it comes to taste and safety. For me plain water is a texture thing (I’m autistic), along with it just going straight through me so I feel dehydrated more easily. If I drink carbonated flavored mineral water or diet soda, I can somehow both drink more and stay hydrated better. IKEA food is surprisingly good for something mass produced. Been many years now since I last went to IKEA though (last time was in 2010), currently my closest IKEA is little over an hours drive away so I just never get around to going for some reason. Last year when I did drive past an IKEA I was considering stopping by to have dinner there but it was approaching rush hour so I wanted to try to get past the potential bottle necks if I could, so ended up at a famous Neapolitan style pizzeria in my neighbor town instead of IKEA in Gothenburg. Almondy Daim cake is amazing in moderation! We can buy them in grocery stores here in Sweden and initially they came around as a gluten free cake but they’re so good people buy them even if not being on a gluten free diet. Almondy has some different cakes but the daim one is by far the best!

[@mooruthmoo]

Just move to Singapore already!

[@dancingkay2604]

I am so hungry! Wish I was there!

[@lotta6488]

The daim cake is straight from freezer you can buy them in Sweden and Finland from a regular store.

[@vincently1995]

Yummy!

[@cl_smoov5124]

It’s lingonberry, not lingo-berry. Lol.

[@goron1578]

Try eating at Boon Lay Place Market and Food Village the pork satay, duck noodle not forgetting boonlay nasi lemak

[@lucillegriffin9525]

I love the meatballs and mash with gravy.