Why are there so many people commenting his English? How good the person is as a manager is more than his command of English, isn't it? He could be a great leader- empathetic, consultative, analytic, having amazing work ethic etc. Some people are just jealous of what this fellow is doing.
Dunno why the comments section so harsh on this guy. His expertise is in food, marketing, consumer preferences etc. Not politician or businessman or salesman. Calm your tits down jokers, and cut him some slack. Fine he cocked up the pronunciation of Ikea but overall he did a pretty decent run-thru here.
maybe in Spore, they read the brand as such …. 😂😂 or his boss too. HAHAHA. Imagine now the entire Ikea Spore need to relearn how to pronounce it properly!!😂😂😂
I'm Swedish and this does look really good! Do have to say though that the Falukorv is quite a bit off. While Falukorv does come in rings like seen in the video, the real Falukorv is a lot thicker with a diameter of some 5-7cm range and it's usually served sliced and the slices are pan fried, alternatively the whole Falukorv is cooked in the oven after making some partial slices into it and stuffing the gaps with cheese and sometimes it's covered with mustard as well. Another way to serve it is by making Korv stroganoff where the Falukorv is sliced and then the slices are cut into smaller pieces (think short fries almost) and cooked in a rich, creamy sauce that is flavored with ketchup and has onion in it. Korv stroganoff is ideally served with rice (usually long grain, not the very fragant kinds like jasmin or basmati) or mashed potatoes. Just pan fried slices of Falukorv goes well with creamy potatoes seasoned with parsley (basically small pieces of potatoes in a white sauce), some types of pasta, mashed potatoes or with fried eggs and fried chunks of leftover potatoes (the latter combination makes a good breakfast as well, but can be eaten anytime of the day)
Well he is asking a presumably Singaporean to try if it is traditional enough 😅 so... probably she was not swedish enough to notice as you have valuably fed back.
I personally love eating at the food court whenever I go to IKEA in the USA, it looks like I have to add this to my list of things to do when I visit Singapore in the future! I like how serious the manager is about the elements of the food (visuals, texture, smell, taste, etc.), you can tell he's very passionate about his job.
I really liked this interview. The interviewer said just enough to get the manager to tell us all about Ikea's food and not try to be the expert herself, which she might as have well been.
Its Ee-Kay-Uh.... And OMG... Even its own IKEA Manager pronounced it the US way instead of how its called/pronounced from its country of origin... Speechless.....
😊🙏 Noticing the many older , more experienced & dutiful kitchen crew in this IKEA eatery , no wonder IKEA foods are always well prepared & served! 🙏 Thank You So Much IKEA for giving customers your good services & foods over the decades & to CNA for the sneak peek into IKEA's kitchen! 🌷🌿🌏💜🕊🇸🇪
IKEA's approach to blending tradition with efficiency in their food service, particularly with the hand-rolled meatballs, shows their commitment to quality and authenticity. It’s impressive how they tailor their menu to local tastes while maintaining a fast and efficient self-serve system. 🍽
Congratulations. The key idea is to stay foreign couple with local food relevant to the local expectations, remain affordable and continuously bring in new menu. The turnout at Ikea have been quite consistent and profitable. Benefiting both parties. Well done.
I love his insight that the food should look like the picture. I like the meatballs and my sister bought 1 kg of it. I would cook it in tomato sauce or eat it with jam and gravy. The mushroom soup is an acquired taste.
Can ikea pls take note of the temperature of yr food as the aircon temperature is usually very cooling and by the time my food reach the table,it will be only lukewarm.Have feedback to ikea before but no improvement to the food temperature as it is still warm and not hot with smoke.
Ikea needs to serve pork sausage. Last time they had and suddenly disappeared and replace by chicken, nothing like pork sausage as European food and its traditional
Sadly, the taste of their köttbullar (meatballs) isn't as good as when I first tried in 2007 at the Tampines outlet. I have eaten a few times during the period in between then and now, and the balls seem to have gotten bland and plain as time went on, sometimes gamey.
Nowadays, many eateries don’t prepare food from scratch, they use food that are actually pre-cooked in their central kitchens or suppliers. These vacuum sealer plastic bags ( sous vide style) are use to keep them frozen and then supplied to all restaurants and eateries. Many F&B outlets use this method to thaw and defrost these prepared bags of sauces and food using hot water. They claim they are using food grade plastic sous vide style so it’s safe to eat. I saw with my own eyes some eateries even steam the whole packet of Siew Mai and prawn dumplings still intact in their plastic packaging. 🙄 I have reservations about eating food prepared this way and surely boycott them.
how about the 'green princess cake' maybe that's got to get permission/partnership with Miss Maud's but that was a sweet childhood memory now in my 30's? It's amazing how a mini meatball can almost take over buying furniture worldwide...I came for the furniture and left reminiscencing some meatballs.
I've enjoyed food from IKEA for many years! My only gripe is , the servers at JEM. Always grumpy and rude. Doesn't matter if it's peak or off peak timings. Recommend to go other outlets except JEM
Yes, I just commented: Please learn the proper pronunciation of “Ikea” before making the video. It’s “ee-keh-uh”. That’s the common way most Singaporeans say it anyway & it’s the correct Swedish pronunciation. You’re introducing a Swedish brand, obviously you need to pronounce it the Swedish way. Who says “Eye-keh-uh” 🙄🙄. Yes, the British say it but that’s not correct Swedish pronunciation. “Eye-kay-uh” sounds so wannabe and grating.
Really love the variety of dishes available but just hope for the veggie sides to be cooked more thoroughly or just change out the water more often, every time it tastes so much like there are chemical residues... Maybe not everyone cares but I really don't like wasting food!
bruh this IKEA in Singapore makes more money on the food then furniture and all the other items they sale he said 10 million Swedish meatballs and 175x customers pet hour: that's $250k per day feel free to check my math!!! 👨🍳 💡 💸 💰 🤑
If there's a minimum 2 shifts for each day at each outlets, there will be an estimated maximum number of 30 workers at one shift per outlet which sounds fair
IKEA food is bang for your buck. JEM outlet has food servers who are on another level of service. Rolled eyes.. “speak up! I can’t hear you!” are just a few amazing experiences you can expect. Have fun! 🙂↕️
4:09 “I THINK it’s a traditional Swedish..” Aeson Ong, the food manager at IKEA Singapore, is Malaysian or China. Because he can't communicate adequately in English. ❤
The food quality at IKEA cafe is terrible now. I cannot understand the continued popularity. Coffee is just plain bad, shame to call it coffee. The salmon is less than half the size it used to be. Everything tastes artificial and highly processed. A shadow of what it used to be.
When someone's accent is different than yours, it's a charactertic trait of that person, not a flaw. Wherever you are from, your English will be DIFFERENT than another person from you country, that does not mean their English is bad or worst. Think about it again, if his English IS BAD, then most likely, he speaks another language BETTER than you.
It’s funny most Singaporeans pronounce ikea starting with an E which is what Swedish people do while he did the American and English way of starting with an I….
ikea needs to do more to expand on its food offerings. we understand u use food as a marketing tool to attract people to come to ikea, we are not dumb. make everything more inclusive, make it all halal. larger variety of products for singaporeans. currently who tf cares about swedish mayo in a frickin toothpaste tube in the grocery store. do your part to help more singaporeans to accessible and affordable food. do more, do local.
This interview was so painful to watch and not because of Aeson but rather because of May. She could not hold a conversation or interview for dear life! English might not be Aeson’s first language, but he was trying very hard to share more about IKEA’s offerings. Meanwhile May was just giving statements rather than questions to ask him more about his role, and being so awkward with her body language and facial expressions. CNA, you can do better.
Tried IKEA meatballs. IMO it sucks. Just like western food in general. For someone who are accustomed to herbs and spices, the meatballs are very bland. Meatball themselves tasted fine but put everything together, they're pretty lackluster. They have something, a dollop of raspberry sauce(?) added which is akin to acar buah which is fine if you think of it that way but the gravy itself is already sweet so it became sickly sweet. Maybe iuf you're younger and/or dont care too much about sugar/diabetes then its fine. The karipap / curry puff on the other hand is great. Big portion, definitely worth the money (if you buy in set).
Decent video but I think Aeson wasn't well prepared? 4:06 I THINK its a traditional swedish sausage - Really shouldn't be using THINK here when you're presenting the dishes. Makes you seem that you aren't knowledgeable about your own product 5:08 crunchy skin? Haven't tried it but I think you meant snappy/snap?
I hope I am not the only one to comment that some of the counter serving crew at all the three outlets and are impatient, loud, rude and as though they own IKEA cafeteria.
Having seen what was offered at IKEA HK, have to say the SG current offerings are boring. Even the famous chicken wings are no longer great. Hopefully your new menu will improve the offerings.
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Why are there so many people commenting his English? How good the person is as a manager is more than his command of English, isn't it?
He could be a great leader- empathetic, consultative, analytic, having amazing work ethic etc.
Some people are just jealous of what this fellow is doing.
He look like a nice person
So true. He seems to know what he’s doing - not something you can say for all managers. So what if his enunciation isn’t the best?
Lies again? Evil Angel USD SGD
nah, we dont know him to judge that. we only know his language skills
He can't speak Swedish and Norwegian and read Danish, so what?
Dunno why the comments section so harsh on this guy. His expertise is in food, marketing, consumer preferences etc. Not politician or businessman or salesman. Calm your tits down jokers, and cut him some slack. Fine he cocked up the pronunciation of Ikea but overall he did a pretty decent run-thru here.
maybe in Spore, they read the brand as such …. 😂😂 or his boss too. HAHAHA.
Imagine now the entire Ikea Spore need to relearn how to pronounce it properly!!😂😂😂
I'm Swedish and this does look really good! Do have to say though that the Falukorv is quite a bit off. While Falukorv does come in rings like seen in the video, the real Falukorv is a lot thicker with a diameter of some 5-7cm range and it's usually served sliced and the slices are pan fried, alternatively the whole Falukorv is cooked in the oven after making some partial slices into it and stuffing the gaps with cheese and sometimes it's covered with mustard as well. Another way to serve it is by making Korv stroganoff where the Falukorv is sliced and then the slices are cut into smaller pieces (think short fries almost) and cooked in a rich, creamy sauce that is flavored with ketchup and has onion in it. Korv stroganoff is ideally served with rice (usually long grain, not the very fragant kinds like jasmin or basmati) or mashed potatoes.
Just pan fried slices of Falukorv goes well with creamy potatoes seasoned with parsley (basically small pieces of potatoes in a white sauce), some types of pasta, mashed potatoes or with fried eggs and fried chunks of leftover potatoes (the latter combination makes a good breakfast as well, but can be eaten anytime of the day)
Well he is asking a presumably Singaporean to try if it is traditional enough 😅 so... probably she was not swedish enough to notice as you have valuably fed back.
matching the food to the picture - this is what I like best from the Food Manager
and if you work in the food industry...you know that's a lie LOL
Aeson is such a hands-on leader! kudos for the ability to explain all of the products well. Will definitely try that mushroom soon.
Hats off to all those old grannies making Swedish meatballs for IKEA restaurants 🫡
you think grandmas are making meatballs for IKEA? LOL.
they are requesting factories to make the balls uneven to have that ‘traditional’ look.
@@DieThinking0:51
@@DieThinkingyou must be fun at parties. Do you not know what sarcasm means? Read between the lines..
I personally love eating at the food court whenever I go to IKEA in the USA, it looks like I have to add this to my list of things to do when I visit Singapore in the future! I like how serious the manager is about the elements of the food (visuals, texture, smell, taste, etc.), you can tell he's very passionate about his job.
I really liked this interview. The interviewer said just enough to get the manager to tell us all about Ikea's food and not try to be the expert herself, which she might as have well been.
RUclips is scary. I just mentioned about going to dine in Ikea Jurong and this vid appeared top on my recommended list.
I seriously wonder how they always recommend videos on topics that I just thought about but have not told anyone else. It’s crazy
From your search history. And don’t forget your phone is listening too, there is mic.
Always happen to me even when my boss and customer are talking about a certain topic. It'll come out in my yt feed.
You need to block camera cause it reads iris
It’s a video uploaded just 5 hours ago. Obviously it appears on everyone’s recommended list. Don’t think too much. My hubby also just watched it..
Its Ee-Kay-Uh.... And OMG... Even its own IKEA Manager pronounced it the US way instead of how its called/pronounced from its country of origin... Speechless.....
i miss the older version of the salmon where it has those vegetable "cakes" and this tangy white sauce ;-;
Love from Sweden fellow Singaporeans
😊🙏 Noticing the many older , more experienced & dutiful kitchen crew in this IKEA eatery , no wonder IKEA foods are always well prepared & served! 🙏 Thank You So Much IKEA for giving customers your good services & foods over the decades & to CNA for the sneak peek into IKEA's kitchen! 🌷🌿🌏💜🕊🇸🇪
I searched up May OF days ago, and i got this as my recommendation. Wow. Just wow.
What do you mean by OF lol
As someone who goes to IKEA Tampines wayyy too often, just for the food. This was a fun watch! :D
IKEA's approach to blending tradition with efficiency in their food service, particularly with the hand-rolled meatballs, shows their commitment to quality and authenticity. It’s impressive how they tailor their menu to local tastes while maintaining a fast and efficient self-serve system. 🍽
Malaysia Ikea got generous portion of delicious tender beef ribs at a great price
Congratulations. The key idea is to stay foreign couple with local food relevant to the local expectations, remain affordable and continuously bring in new menu. The turnout at Ikea have been quite consistent and profitable. Benefiting both parties. Well done.
I love his insight that the food should look like the picture. I like the meatballs and my sister bought 1 kg of it. I would cook it in tomato sauce or eat it with jam and gravy. The mushroom soup is an acquired taste.
I wish the hawker centres are as clean as ikea kitchen.
Keep dreaming 😂
Will you accept that they charge similar prices then?
you wish you had better Intellectual understanding level instead
that whole tasting menu looks incredible…keep it up 🥳
She is so cute and very excited
Creep
Can ikea pls take note of the temperature of yr food as the aircon temperature is usually very cooling and by the time my food reach the table,it will be only lukewarm.Have feedback to ikea before but no improvement to the food temperature as it is still warm and not hot with smoke.
5:02 "Texture-wise, it is flavourful" What?? Texture and flavour are 2 different aspects, boss.
Always love IKEA foods! Hats off!!
This is neat, I love seeing stuff like this. Keep up the good work IKEA! The food is great.
3:26 to match the photos to the dishes
i love this guy❤hes so inventive, and good at creating hospitality
I want to know more about the freshness of the ingredients. Like how long they keep the frozen ingredients and so on.
Frozen means not fresh already lol
The menu is damn confusing. The menu keep flashing around on the screen. Cannot stay still. Cannot see whats in their menu
its nice he calls his colleagues co-workers
It's IKEA's lingo. IKEA calls its employees "co-workers".
@@Kyle-kc8cw thanks. i didnt know about this corporate culture
Ikea needs to serve pork sausage. Last time they had and suddenly disappeared and replace by chicken, nothing like pork sausage as European food and its traditional
cos' it is not halai?
they need to bring back pork in their meatballs too…maybe have a halal and non halal section
@@matreen427 halal dont work like that
@@matreen427 no point to have 2 kitchens and twice the staff. This is not SAF canteen.
Sadly, the taste of their köttbullar (meatballs) isn't as good as when I first tried in 2007 at the Tampines outlet. I have eaten a few times during the period in between then and now, and the balls seem to have gotten bland and plain as time went on, sometimes gamey.
Yea. I had it recently. So disappointed! No longer how it was in the past
Is it bad to eat food cooked/ heat up in plastic? Eg sauces in plastic
Yes
Depends, microwave plastic pots are ok to use
If you are not worried about getting cancer, then go ahead...
@jogo798
Still not recommended. Plastic and heat don’t mix well. You never know what chemicals will be leached into the food.
Nowadays, many eateries don’t prepare food from scratch, they use food that are actually pre-cooked in their central kitchens or suppliers. These vacuum sealer plastic bags ( sous vide style) are use to keep them frozen and then supplied to all restaurants and eateries. Many F&B outlets use this method to thaw and defrost these prepared bags of sauces and food using hot water. They claim they are using food grade plastic sous vide style so it’s safe to eat. I saw with my own eyes some eateries even steam the whole packet of Siew Mai and prawn dumplings still intact in their plastic packaging. 🙄 I have reservations about eating food prepared this way and surely boycott them.
how about the 'green princess cake' maybe that's got to get permission/partnership with Miss Maud's but that was a sweet childhood memory now in my 30's? It's amazing how a mini meatball can almost take over buying furniture worldwide...I came for the furniture and left reminiscencing some meatballs.
Chicken Wings and chocolate cake are yummy! Great that they vary the menu to local taste.
I've enjoyed food from IKEA for many years! My only gripe is , the servers at JEM. Always grumpy and rude. Doesn't matter if it's peak or off peak timings.
Recommend to go other outlets except JEM
Tried their pork cutlet today. HUGE portion, a little gamey, overall pretty decent.
Love those round chicken wings!
🤣🤣🤣 1:16 - 1:29
I thought IKEA themselves came out to say it's pronounced "ee-kay-ya"?
Yes, I just commented:
Please learn the proper pronunciation of “Ikea” before making the video. It’s “ee-keh-uh”. That’s the common way most Singaporeans say it anyway & it’s the correct Swedish pronunciation. You’re introducing a Swedish brand, obviously you need to pronounce it the Swedish way. Who says “Eye-keh-uh” 🙄🙄. Yes, the British say it but that’s not correct Swedish pronunciation.
“Eye-kay-uh” sounds so wannabe and grating.
@@ABC-ed8cg ya... Though I think it's the Americans who pronounces it Aye-kee-uh.
Really love the variety of dishes available but just hope for the veggie sides to be cooked more thoroughly or just change out the water more often, every time it tastes so much like there are chemical residues... Maybe not everyone cares but I really don't like wasting food!
What happened to the princess cake?
bruh this IKEA in Singapore makes more money on the food then furniture and all the other items they sale he said 10 million Swedish meatballs and 175x customers pet hour: that's $250k per day feel free to check my math!!!
👨🍳 💡 💸 💰 🤑
my dream job af
same 😅
Love the moderator. She did her study, and knowledgeable!
Why IKEA Singapore no rice dishes!
Because u never send email to ikea hq.
Chicken wing magic literally when its round!
I love their Swedish meatballs even though I don't shop there too much.
how one says ikea doesn't matter yall it's not that deep🙏
In my country ikea food are considered luxury. You can buy 3 normal meal for 1 ikea meal
The way they warm up the sauce🧐
Fried mushroom, fried meatballs and curry chicken look good
I see it, I love it and I grab it
I love dipping the fries into meatball sauce.
175 workers for 3 outlets??? So much?
You also have to consider how many shifts they're working, if they're full time or part time, and how many positions in the kitchen you don't see.
If there's a minimum 2 shifts for each day at each outlets, there will be an estimated maximum number of 30 workers at one shift per outlet which sounds fair
IKEA food is bang for your buck.
JEM outlet has food servers who are on another level of service.
Rolled eyes.. “speak up! I can’t hear you!” are just a few amazing experiences you can expect.
Have fun! 🙂↕️
$90 for 3 people(1 main course, 1 drink and 1 small soup each) is considered bang of your buck?
So, that falukor is not how real falukorv really looks like. But I bet it is still yummy.
mmmm...not just the meatballs but the freshly cooked chicken wings :) Now, if only people can get a seat when they go there to eat.
The hot dog, chicken,and desserts look good 👍
texture-wise is flavorful
Is this a paid or sponsored episode?
Personally, this feature does not dive deep enough to be informative. Seems more like a publicity stunt
Ikea says, "It's Ee-kay-uh, not Ai-kay-uh."
I don't understand how a relatively senior member of their staff can repeatedly say Ai-kay-uh!
4:09 “I THINK it’s a traditional Swedish..” Aeson Ong, the food manager at IKEA Singapore, is Malaysian or China. Because he can't communicate adequately in English. ❤
“Aeson Ong […] is China” LMAO glass houses bro, don’t be saying his English is crap when yours clearly is as well
The food quality at IKEA cafe is terrible now. I cannot understand the continued popularity. Coffee is just plain bad, shame to call it coffee. The salmon is less than half the size it used to be. Everything tastes artificial and highly processed. A shadow of what it used to be.
Keyword: “impulse buying” 😂
Ikea guy: "You can taste & give me feedback of how food taste..."
Then totally start & dominate all the comments = not a fair review...
I love ikea Malaysia food
When someone's accent is different than yours, it's a charactertic trait of that person, not a flaw. Wherever you are from, your English will be DIFFERENT than another person from you country, that does not mean their English is bad or worst. Think about it again, if his English IS BAD, then most likely, he speaks another language BETTER than you.
It’s funny most Singaporeans pronounce ikea starting with an E which is what Swedish people do while he did the American and English way of starting with an I….
Fläskpannkaka next? 😋
The standard of IKEA food is deteoriating in comparison to the past. The cleanliness is also quite disappointing these days.
They are all process food from a box
Uhhh, why is the manager even pronouncing his own company wrong? Isn't ee-kay-uh instead of iKea like iPhone?
wah syiok, got foot long sausage coming soon!
ooo they have fried mushrooms now!
The god dxxn meatball looks the same here in US
the manager sound vaguely similar to steven he 😅
Its Poison?
The Msia Ikea meatballs in Penang are terrible, totally different taste vs KL and Thailand
probably cos it's halal, & it's made with pure beef.
Leaving out the pork eliminates the tenderness
Atas review for ikea food
Can IKEA bring back the delicious chicken cutlet with salted egg sauce??? If today is my last day on earth, this will be my final meal ❤
Not so affordable
Decades old machine still say state of the art..wow
Maybe there is no other models and those machines are proven to be the latest even though it might be 20+ years old
We use the same equipment in most corporate kitchen cafes, they're work horses. New tech is nice but they need to be reliable for on time service.
ikea needs to do more to expand on its food offerings. we understand u use food as a marketing tool to attract people to come to ikea, we are not dumb. make everything more inclusive, make it all halal. larger variety of products for singaporeans. currently who tf cares about swedish mayo in a frickin toothpaste tube in the grocery store. do your part to help more singaporeans to accessible and affordable food. do more, do local.
This interview was so painful to watch and not because of Aeson but rather because of May. She could not hold a conversation or interview for dear life! English might not be Aeson’s first language, but he was trying very hard to share more about IKEA’s offerings. Meanwhile May was just giving statements rather than questions to ask him more about his role, and being so awkward with her body language and facial expressions. CNA, you can do better.
Interesting topic but prosaic female presenter with poor gastronomic knowledge was a major letdown.
Tried IKEA meatballs. IMO it sucks. Just like western food in general. For someone who are accustomed to herbs and spices, the meatballs are very bland. Meatball themselves tasted fine but put everything together, they're pretty lackluster. They have something, a dollop of raspberry sauce(?) added which is akin to acar buah which is fine if you think of it that way but the gravy itself is already sweet so it became sickly sweet. Maybe iuf you're younger and/or dont care too much about sugar/diabetes then its fine.
The karipap / curry puff on the other hand is great. Big portion, definitely worth the money (if you buy in set).
Best Chicken Wings in town. Never fails
Decent video but I think Aeson wasn't well prepared?
4:06 I THINK its a traditional swedish sausage - Really shouldn't be using THINK here when you're presenting the dishes. Makes you seem that you aren't knowledgeable about your own product
5:08 crunchy skin? Haven't tried it but I think you meant snappy/snap?
Ikea has food?? Who knew?!
Good healthy food for diet...
Not though… they’re all fried stuff 😅
@@GerakanLelakiSejati wrong
I hope I am not the only one to comment that some of the counter serving crew at all the three outlets and are impatient, loud, rude and as though they own IKEA cafeteria.
MUSHROOMMMM!!!!
6:42
i pronounce it as "ee · kay · uh" all my life.
Having seen what was offered at IKEA HK, have to say the SG current offerings are boring. Even the famous chicken wings are no longer great. Hopefully your new menu will improve the offerings.
Frankly the choice of dessert is less and the standard of the muslim food has drop tremendously at the tampines outlet😅
Price increase but foods standard drop.
I'm not a fan of their food except for the smoked salmon appetiser and dill mustard sauce