Shake Shake In A Tub specialises in finger food items and its first outlet opened at Northpoint City on 27th July 2019. If you are one of those people who grew up with the childhood habit of dipping your fries into ice cream at fast food restaurants, you will probably enjoy some of the food combinations being offered here!
Various types of fries (Shoestring, Curly and Criss-Cut options), popcorn chicken and chicken tenders are available in 4 different tub sizes (i.e. Regular, Large, Huge and Giant) and how they will taste can be customised to your preference, by selecting from a choice of available flavours. Those who want a little something extra, can purchase the Giant tub, which allows one to have the best of both worlds – i.e. indulge in having soft serve ice cream added on to your fries/chicken for a different dimension of flavours! Other items on the menu include buffalo wings, milkshakes and soft serve ice cream on its own.
The food is prepared upon order, so that they are served piping hot to customers. In order to maintain a standard consistency in their serving portions, the ingredients are first weighed before they are put into the fryer.
Weighing in progress…
With considerations to provide the healthiest fried food possible, Shake Shake In A Tub uses a state-of-the-art fryer, AUTOFRY® MTI-40C, with cooking oil that has earned a Healthier Choice Symbol from the Health Promotion Board.
When the fries/chicken have been cooked and are taken out from the fryer, the next step will be to coat the food evenly with the customer’s Shake Shake seasoning of choice. First, place the fried food into the tub, then put in the seasoning.
A selection of eight different seasonings that are available are BBQ, Mala, Sour Cream & Onion, Truffle, Curry, Kimchi, Salted Caramel and Cheese. Customers can either select the flavours as is, or choose to be a little creative and mix several seasonings to become a new flavour, for example Truffle with Cheese, Mala with Kimchi, or Mala with Curry.
In the next photo, we can see the seasoning being scooped into the tub.
Then, the lid is put on and the contents in the tub are given a good **shake shake**.
Here’s what we tried…
Curly Fries
Regular size tub – $4.30 (choose 1 flavour)
Large size tub – $5.80 (choose 1 flavour)
Huge size tub – $7.90 (choose 2 flavours)
Giant size tub – $11.20 (choose 3 flavours + 1 soft serve dip)
Ordered the Regular sized tub with Salted Caramel seasoning and found it to be quite an interesting combination, as I’ve never eaten fries with this flavour. These curly fries somehow still remained crunchy even if you have left them sitting for a while.
Criss-Cut Fries
Regular size tub – $4.30 (choose 1 flavour)
Large size tub – $5.80 (choose 1 flavour)
Huge size tub – $7.90 (choose 2 flavours)
Giant size tub – $11.20 (choose 3 flavours + 1 soft serve dip)
This was a Large sized tub with Truffle seasoning. Just like the curly fries, these criss-cut fries still remained crispy for a while. Although the truffle seasoning gave the fries a lovely aroma, I felt that it was a bit too salty.
Shoestring Fries
Regular size tub – $3.30 (choose 1 flavour)
Large size tub – $4.50 (choose 1 flavour)
Huge size tub – $6.90 (choose 2 flavours)
Giant size tub – $9.80 (choose 3 flavours + 1 soft serve dip)
I decided to be a little adventurous and ordered the Giant tub, with Sour Cream & Onion, Curry and Cheese flavours and Bubblegum Soft Serve dip. The bright blue Bubblegum soft serve tasted more like a caramel flavoured ice cream and was a sweet dip to the savoury fries. I found that shoestring fries tend to lose their crispiness once they have cooled down, so if you order this, you’ll need to try to eat quickly, before the fries turn soggy.
Popcorn Chicken
Regular size tub – $4.80 (choose 1 flavour)
Large size tub – $6.80 (choose 1 flavour)
Huge size tub – $9.90 (choose 2 flavours)
Giant size tub – $15.80 (choose 3 flavours + 1 soft serve dip)
The Huge size tub comes with a choice of 2 flavours and thus I opted for Mala and BBQ. Both were good, but the Mala was quite spicy, so do have a drink on standby especially if you have a low threshold for spicy foods. I loved the crunchiness of each bitesize morsel and they were still crunchy even when they had cooled down.
Buffalo Wings
4pcs – $5.50
8pcs – $10.20
12pcs – $14.60
16pcs – $18.70
As there is only one default flavour for the buffalo wings, the only decision you’ll have to make is on how many pieces you want to order. Tastewise, it was quite normal and will be good as a light bite, or as a snack in-between meals. This portion below contains eight pieces.
Soft Serve
If you’re not in the mood for chicken or fries, ice cream lovers can choose to indulge in this dessert, which is available in Yoghurt and Bubblegum flavours ($3.80 per Cup/Cone). As I’m not particularly a fan of yoghurt, I decided to have Bubblegum, but it turned out tasting like caramel, instead of how I had initially imagined it would taste like. Still, it was a nice smooth soft serve and great for cooling down on a hot day!
Milkshake
Similar to the soft serve, their milkshakes are available in both Yoghurt and Bubblegum flavours ($5). As mentioned earlier, the Bubblegum flavour tasted more like caramel, but on the other hand, the yoghurt flavour was a little sourish, as what you would expect yoghurt to taste like.
Overall, my favourites out of all that we had tried were the Popcorn Chicken, Curly Fries and Criss-cut Fries. In terms of seasoning, I liked the Curry, BBQ, Mala and Salted Caramel flavours. I won’t comment on the milkshake and soft serve flavours, as I am biased towards sweet stuff and will choose sweet over sour anytime, but the drinks and desserts were pleasing to the palate in terms of their consistency and smooth texture. My only grouse is that this is a takeaway kiosk and you will need to eat on the go, so it could be a balancing act if you order too many items and try to eat them all at the same time.
**Disclaimer** This was an invited food-tasting, but all opinions expressed are entirely my own.
Address:
Shake Shake In A Tub
930 Yishun Ave 2, Northpoint City (South Wing), #B2-139, Singapore 769098.
Operating hours: Daily, 10am – 10pm
Six more Shake Shake In A Tub outlets are expected to be opening soon in heartland malls and more details will be announced in the near future, but I do know that one of the upcoming outlets will be at Suntec City (opening 23rd Aug at #B1-K6).
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