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What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
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What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square

More space to shop, plus a larger delicatessen!

What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
If you have found Don Don Donki’s other two outlets at Orchard Central and Tanjong Pagar a tad cramped/cluttered and difficult to shop in, you’d be pleased here. The entrance is spacious, the aisles here are slightly wider, and the pedestrian walkways have ample room for shoppers to move around in. The high ceilings also give the impression of a bigger space. In fact, it reminds us of a prettier Japanese version of a FairPrice Finest supermarket.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Don Don Donki City Square boasts the biggest delicatessen of its kind, with both raw ingredients and ready-to-eat meals displayed in large coolers and on shelves. Unlike the Orchard Central branch, which has cooked and uncooked food products scattered everywhere messily, everything is cohesive and thoughtfully placed together here. The vast space here makes shopping for your dinner much easier, if only you don’t have to jostle with the inevitable hordes in the upcoming days.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Like other Don Don Donki outlets, there is a freshly-prepared takeaway food section here. We spied a large Donpen mascot cardboard sign holding a cup of bubble tea.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Okinawa brown sugar pearl with Hokkaido milk? Yassss. A regular-sized cup of Brown Sugar Milk costs $3.90, while the Sweet Potato Milk costs $4.90. They were previously only available at the Tanjong Pagar 100AM mall outlet.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
The 86-seat food court is surrounded by its five food stall tenants. You can order your food and sit anywhere you like. The eatery is smaller than Orchard Central’s XXX-stall food court, though.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
This Hokkaido ice cream brand has a takeaway-only shop at Carlton City Hotel in Tanjong Pagar, but here you can sit down and savour your soft-serve or gelato.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Other than a range of gelato and soft serve ice cream flavours already served at its Tanjong Pagar outlet, Naganuma Ice Co now boasts cream puffs ($4.20 each) and a sorbet soft serve ($6) made from “typhoon-hit apples” at this latest branch.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
While it specialises in ramen, Santouka also offers Japanese-style ‘kong bak bao’ for those who are feeling just a tiny bit peckish. The Eel Pao ($4) has a fluffy lotus bun hugging a thick slab of unagi on lettuce.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
The Fried Gyoza Pao ($3) swaps the unagi for a crispy fried pork gyoza filling. Interesting.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
As with the Don Don Donki’s outlet at Orchard Central, you’re greeted by the enticingly-displayed fruit section the moment you walk through the entrance, hawking everything from $39.90 Japanese rock melons (more perfect looking Nippon melons can cost $80 each elsewhere) to $9.90 bags of Arida Mikan tangerines.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
The wall-to-wall shelves of condiments here is mind-boggling; we spied $6.90 squeeze bottles of wasabi-spiked mayonnaise.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Each bigger-than-fist-sized cream puff (this larger offering isn't from Naganuma) piped with Hokkaido cream can easily feed two people. “For you that aren’t satisfied with the regular cream puff,” blared Don Don Donki’s hand-drawn Japlish sign with its cute Donpen mascot. The amusing signs are also one of the many reasons why we love shopping at Don Don Donki.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
For aspiring master chefs who want to prepare their own chutoro (prized semi-fatty Japanese tuna belly) sushi at home, the chutoro here is prized very competitively at $15.80 per 100g.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Good news: the snack section here is just as thrilling as the other outlets’.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
You can find the intriguing 2018 limited-edition drink here.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
As well as a strawberry & cream version.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Regular butter too mainstream for you? Try fermented butter-flavoured Pretz sticks (the fermented stuff is said to taste richer and, some reckon, better than regular ol’ butter).
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
For days when you just need to binge on ultra sinful junk food.
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
Don Don Donki also stocks matcha dessert specialist Tsujiri’s ice cream cones that are great for an after-dinner sweet treat. Ditto the matcha-flavoured popsicles ($8.50 a box).
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
We previously reported that the new Don Don Donki outlet will have a bargain corner stocked with $2, $4, $6 and $10 non-food ‘treasures’. Sounds like Daiso to us, except way quirkier. True to the discount store’s penchant for wacky products and even wackier displays, the cheap knick-knacks here are piled into actual treasure chests. Most of ’em are cheap gag toys that will amuse perhaps your toddler. We were actually a bit disappointed by most of the stuff in it. But if you dig deep enough, you can find bargains like the…
What To Expect When Don Don Donki’s Largest Singapore Outlet Opens Tomorrow At City Square
The Internet-famous cat coin bank where the battery-operated cat within slowly stretches out a paw to scoop the coin you place on the box. Ha.Don Don Donki City Square opens tomorrow (January 11), from 10am, at #B2-05/18 City Square Mall, 180 Kitchener Rd, S208539. Open daily 9am-midnight after January 11. www.facebook.com/donkisg.
By Yip Jieying
Published January 10, 2019
Updated August 27, 2019
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Japanese discount chain Don Don Donki’s highly-anticipated third outlet in Singapore opens tomorrow at City Square Mall, and 8Days.sg trooped down to the new store today for a sneak peek. Touted as the largest branch here so far, the single-storey, 26,000 sq ft space occupies a good part of the mall’s B2 level.

It also has its own food court, occupied by five established Japanese F&B tenants. They are: Hokkaido ice cream shop Naganuma Ice Co, Hokkaido ramen chain Santouka, Japanese barbecue joint Yakiniku Heijoen, donburi specialist Bonta Bonta and fried chicken eatery Rang Mang Shokudo. All of these eateries already have branches elsewhere in Singapore.

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