Meet Shiokee
Our smallest team member. Our most important one.
Every business has someone who does the heavy lifting.
Ours has four wheels and fits in a standard parking space.
Shiokee is our Kei food truck — bright red, hand-built in Auckland, and the reason we can bring proper Singaporean makan to a market near you instead of asking you to come to us.
She's the first of her kind in New Zealand.
Why "Little Red Dot"?
Her Chinese name 小红点 (pinyin: xiǎo hóng diǎn) means little red dot — which is what Singaporeans call Singapore.
It started as an insult. In 1998, a neighbouring country's president pointed at a map and dismissed Singapore as nothing more than a little red dot. Singaporeans took the phrase, kept it, and made it a point of pride.
It fit her perfectly. She's red. She carries the colours of the Singapore flag. And she's very, very small.
But, as Singaporeans know, small has never been the same thing as insignificant.
Tiny but mighty
Shiokee is a Kei truck — a Japanese class of vehicle built to strict size limits. She's shorter than most SUVs and lighter than a family car.
Inside, she's a working kitchen with a serving window that opens onto whatever street or field we've parked in that day.
She'll fit where a trailer can't. And she can turn a car park into a hawker stall in fifteen minutes. She's a "she" because she carries everything — including our hopes and dreams.
And like the country she's named for: not big, but punching well above her weight.
What she carries
Hawker food in Singapore is cooked in tiny stalls by people who've made the same dish for decades. It's not fine dining. It's better than that — it's the food a whole country grew up on.
That tradition doesn't transplant easily. There are no hawker centres in Auckland. So we built the closest thing we could: one stall, on wheels, doing them dishes properly.
Shiokee is how we carry that here. Same food, same care, different country.
Who built her
Shiokee was designed and built right here in Auckland by Ohkeidokie —because we couldn't find anyone in New Zealand who'd done this before, so we worked it out ourselves. Now we build them for other people too.
Follow @ohkei_dokie on Instagram to learn more.
See where Shiokee will be next
Come say hello.
Find us.
Want her at your event? She travels. Email hello@supershiokeats to enquire.