Sunny's Vegetarian Foodhunt

China Delights

2012-01-29T07:09:00.000-08:00

At China Hefei where we visited the temple at their suburb, 开福禅寺 Kai Fu Chan Si, they have simple RMB5 lunch provided where there is strict adherence to traditional practice of eating at specific timing (around 11am) silently and ensuring each grain to be finished.
After paying RMB5 at the entrance of the canteen, one is given a card which serves as a ticket for one to be entitled to a big bowl of white rice and they serve a few variety of vegetables/dishes in a single bowl. At end of meal, they will pass the traditional hugh hot water container for one to pour into the bowls as after meal soup as well as to clean up the bowls simultaneously. Everyone is very disciplined to follow their rules and eat silently and contentedly, an experience.

Located at the busy walking street of Hefei town, there exists a historical temple 明教寺 MingJiaoShi at Hefei town where it is believed that the famous historical figure, CaoCao, used to inspect his troops there. According to our local friends, the small restaurant situated just beside the entrance of the temple is the town's only vegetarian restaurant.

The standard of the restaurant is quite good and tasty and quite a number of patrons when we visited for dining so I am puzzled why a town has only 1 vegetarian restaurant that I am almost tempted to do a survey on the investment of vegetarian eatery in Hefei.:P Among the dishes we tried included Japanese style of fresh salad with light sauce. Light and fresh.

The refreshing mushroom lotus soup with the dried rice crackers (Woba) are must try together dishes, dipping the rice crackers into the soup creates an unique taste. It is light with generous portion of shitake mushroom slices and I recall lotus is part of the name of the soup which the green vegetables may be part of the lotus plant. Nice light taste is just what I could recall.

The rice crackers were freshly made and not those off-shelve products as I had tried to replicate with the instant brown rice crackers found in Singapore Vegetarian stores but it just don't taste as nice and fresh.
When dipped into the soup, it creates a sizzling sensation and tasted great.

Vegetarian Roast Chicken, I was amazed with the crispiness of the vegetarian exterior skin, better than those I had tried in Singapore.

The popular Mock Dongpo meat that really tasted like the real. The fatty oily center pieces replicated by the Yuju jelly tasted real alike.

Similarly, their mock fatty three-layered meat was also delicious and a good replica.

I didnt know that Wild Yam Huai Shan (淮山) can be used other than in soup until I tried this stir-fried version, very crunchy instead of mushy compared to being used in soup.

Another surprise is the stir-fry green pepper becoming a main dish instead of as a complement ingredient. The locally produced smaller green pepper has a slight spicy taste compared to the plainer taste bigger version found in Singapore markets and instead of slices, were cooked as a whole. The tasty dark-sauce (similar to black-bean sauce taste) with slight sweetness complimented the spiciness of the vege well. Really miss the dish!

Overall, the dishes are nice and I learnt new way of cooking Wild Yam and Green Peppers. Missing above recommended dishes already :P

Local China Delights

2012-01-24T07:32:00.000-08:00

Looking thru my past photos, I realised that I had not posted my earlier China Delights from my last Nov China trip to Jiuhuashan.

Saw the big pot of reddish Pumpkin Soup? Real rich stuff for a cool weather. Love their cucumber cubes, crunchy. Nice pot of green bean porridge. Their rice grains are those of short sticky grains like the Japanese rice that we all enjoyed. The fresh vegetables, the pickled ginger slices, stir-fry peeled edamame beans (very common there as main dish unlike in Singapore we usually find it in only Japanese restaurants), the buns, the purplish sweet potatoes. Was told by the volunteers that usually if not with guests, the temple Venerables will only have rice with simple dishes like pickles or their local wild vegetables.

We were really fortunate and grateful to be welcomed by having the sumptuous meals with the Venerables in a table and a long forgotten tradition whereby we help serve each other dishes that is a quick and good ice-breaking practice when dining with strangers (something that not often practised in Singapore anymore) and public hygiene of using separate chopsticks & spoons for the dishes is practised there. How I miss those warm-heartening days of dining.

Warm heartening home-cooked vegetarian dishes by a sister from Hefei. It is hard to find vegetarian food in Hefei, in fact there is only 1 vegetarian restaurant in the town so she kindly prepared vegetarian breakfast & dinner for us: Pumpkin porridge, fresh vegetables, pickled young ginger slices, fresh fruits; Stir-fry walnuts, bean curb skin slices with green pepper slices, French bean alike wild vegetables with mock meat, fresh broccoli and edamame beans with mushroom & black fungus, etc.

This pickled young ginger is a must have local dish for the locals to cater for the coming winter that they would buy fresh younger gingers and marinate for weeks themselves. One of my favourite.:-)
Greatly appreciate all volunteer friends for the warmth in making our stay in your country an enjoyable one. Gan En, Thank you!

Loving Heart Cafe

2012-01-09T06:44:00.000-08:00

I was feeling low energy and had orginally wanted to visit Kwan Inn Vegetarian Food 观音斋 to take some tonic soup to perk up some energy level but unfortunately it was crowded and tonic soup were sold out for the day. I moved to Loving Heart Cafe, a few doors away to try my luck but they did not serve tonic soup but instead I found on its menu : Indian traditional Soup! It is actually stewed mutton soup and has much similar effect as the Chinese tonic soup. As I had not touched this non vegetarian version of soup for ages, I was curious to try. It was served immediately, with strong herbal smell and coarser than the slight clear soup version that I thought it was to be. It came with sesame bread pieces which tasted just okay but the mock mutton pieces fully absorbed the essence of the soup. Sprinkled with parsley & mock fried onion slices, it is considered quite a nice "curried" soup. Within minutes of taking, I could feel blood circulating...
On the menu are other interesting dishes like steamed dumplings, Hainan noodles, Roti Prata with banana slices, etc, which I will likely return to try.:-)

Located at Blk134, Geylang East Ave1, #01-219, same HDB block as Kwan inn Vegetarian Food.

Vegetarian Stall at Singtel Comcentre Cafeteria

2012-01-05T07:26:00.000-08:00

Ever since change of chef/owner? my past favourite daily special of Wantoon noodles and Spaghettis were no longer available. Although the economical rice dishes variety increased and improved, I do miss the old Daily Special. After stabilising their rice business, they started to have their Daily special as well. Their Laksa was not bad and this round tried their Kwap Chap which was done quite similar as previous chef to have the ingredients separate from the rice roll pieces. A big bowl at only $2.50, taste else reasonable, value for $ compared to its economical rice dishes which is getting more expensive.

The stall is located at Basement 1 of cafeteria of Singtel Comcentre at Somerset. No name (just known as stall m) but easily located when you visit the cafeteria, entering from door leading to car-park.

Sheng Ji Vegetarian

2012-01-04T07:08:00.000-08:00

The Curry noodles looked spicy but does not taste as hot.

Located at Bt Ho Swee Estate, a mature estate, the patrons are mostly residents around the area.

Managed by an elderly couple, the Sheng Ji Vegetarian stall sells standard fried meehoon package as well as simple cooked dishes such as curry noodles & Lor-mee. At $2.50, the serving is generous.

Sheng Ji Vegetarian is located at coffeeshop left of lift lobby of Blk 40, Havelock Road, which is just beside the market.

Vegetarian Pancake at Bt Ho Swee Estate

2012-01-03T08:42:00.000-08:00

Explored the Bt Ho Swee Estate (about 2 streets away from Tiong Bahru MRT) and found at least 3 vegetarian stalls. 1 located at the market (Mei Jing Vegetarian Food) sells economical dishes as well as stir-fry dishes while two at 2 coffeeshops of Blk40 Havelock Road (just beside the market).
One known as Sheng Ji Vegetarian sells Curry & Lor mee as well as standard fried mee hoon while the other known as Ba Le (86) Havelock Vegetarian sells economical rice dishes and is located at same coffeeshop with this snack of Vegetarian Pancake .:-)
And at same stretch of shops nearer to Sheng Ji, I saw two shops selling healthy, pro-vegetarian alike products. What a blessing for the vegetarian residents!
Okay, Back to the Vegetarian Pancake stall, it sells a variety including traditional peanut, red bean, green bean paste, and unconventional black sesame, cheese and chocolate flavour! It also has the crispy version of pan-cake with peanut fillings. Quite a popular stall amongst the residents around the area.

Vegetarian Pancake is located at coffeeshop right of lift lobby of Blk 40, Havelock Road, which is just beside the market.

Classic Lao Di Fang Vegetarian Restaurant PL

2012-01-01T21:59:00.000-08:00

My Favourite gathering place now with hearty appetite non-vegetarians would be Classic Lao Di Fang at Park Mall, B1-12.
It passed QC of my friend, B who has high expectations of food and service, especially on Vegetarian places as she is kind of anti-vegetarian.:P
We visited Classic Lao Di Fang recently, and ordered their buffet which has a good variety of Dim Sum and vegetables. Their Dumpling standard is back and praised by All to meet standard and perhaps surpasses some of non-vegetarian version. We ordered a variety of their mushroom and vegetables posted at earlier posts and were impressed with the freshness and the culinary skills. Overall, an enjoyable meal and value for $ at $15.90 per pax. (May have surcharge of $2 during Public holidays)

Their Lunar New Year (CNY) menu is out, and they are open on CNY eve and 1st day of CNY which is a blessings as it is difficult in the past to find vegetarian restaurants open on those days.

It is located at 9 Penang Rd, Park Mall, Basement 1, #B1-12, just turn left from the down escalator.
Tel: 6533 8959
http://www.classicldf.sg/

Miao Yin Vegetarian

2011-12-16T08:02:00.000-08:00

Malay Food: Mee Rebus & Satay! Authentic gravy, not too starchy, love green chilli slices in Mee Rebus gravy. Had always thought Mee Rebus was quite vegetarian-friendly until I read from a recipe that non-vegetarian Mee Rebus may contain beef ingredients...so good to have a hearty meal of mee rebus without worries.:-)
The satay of mock meat served warm does have some fatty resemblance:P The satay sauce quite nice but as warned by my physician to avoid peanuts which I forgot was part of ingredients of a good gravy when I ordered, I daren't take much...

Address: Blk 1, Rocher Rd, #01-506 Kopitiam (Rocher centre corner coffeeshop, 2 doors away from the vegetarian cake house, opp Bugis OG, near the famous Simaru Guan Yin Temple)

Ci Hang Western & Chinese Vegetarian Fast Food

2011-12-14T07:35:00.000-08:00

Long time since I tried Western food and I do not like mock meat which usually taste very mock.
However, the picture at Cihang looked attractive that made me ordered their Vegetarian Chicken Cutlet ($9). It is expensive among its other dishes but certainly worth it! It came with its famous Mash Potato that is popular with its patrons. The vegetarian chicken was made of bean products but was well-marinated and well-fried that it does have a close resemblance of chicken chop and went well with the mushroom gravy over it. Worth trying! :-)

It is located at 72 Lorong 25-A Geylang, at stretch of shophouses besides Aljunied MRT.
Tel: 6747 1229. Operates from 10am-9.30pm with last order at 9pm. Closed on Fridays.

Eastern Highland Healthy Cake House (Rocher Centre)

2011-12-11T07:53:00.000-08:00

New Pastry by the bakery: Strudel.
I love the layered crispiness texture and authentic Durian cream filling inside, at only $1.50, it is certainly Fantastic! They also have Apple and Blueberry Strudels at $1.20, but for those who can accept Durian, their Durian Strudel is certainly preferred and recommended.:-)

The cake shop is located at 1 Rocher Rd, #01-510 Rocher Centre (Opposite Bugis OG) Tel: 6294 6932

一心素食 Yi Xin Vegetarian, Chinatown

2011-12-11T07:14:00.000-08:00

This colorful dish is on Yi Xin Vegetarian's top Chef Recommendation dishes: Jiang Bao Toufu which can literally translate as Sauce Explosion Bean curd. And indeed it is a dish that suits its name.

:-) The sauce/gravy is very flavourful, very appetising to go with rice and yet not too saltish. It was served in a steaming hot claypot with silky smooth white tofu with minced mock meat, and generous portion of mushrooms. Very worth the price at $10.

Another popular dish is their stir-fry Putai that is usually available among their daily economical rice dishes. Stir-fried with spicy potato cubes and mock meat, they really do it well. For those who like spiciness and had not tried Putai before, this is a good place to start with as they covered the pungent taste of Putai well with the spiciness. :-)

Located at a coffeeshop at 39 Temple Street, 一心素食 is just near centre of street opp Lucky Chinatown, beside stretch where the corner has many nice stone carving statues. Opening hours: 8am to 10pm Daily.

Dining Hall of Buddha Tooth Relics Temple

2011-12-04T01:26:00.000-08:00

Revisited the Dining Hall of Buddha Tooth Relics Temple, besides some economical rice dishes, they now have Daily Special and today's (Sunday) special is Mee Siam.
AND guess what! HK style skin rice-roll (Dimsum Changfen which used to be my favourite) with mushroom, crunchy caipo/meicai bits? Nice! How I miss these Dimsum Changfen which are rare to find in vegetarian style and only at $2...

素满园 (Kopitiam at Plaza Singapura)

2011-12-04T01:02:00.000-08:00

Going to Plaza Singapura to run some errands so natural choice there is the Su Man Yuan Vegetarian located at their Kopitiam Foodcourt. Glad that they serve Lor Mee during lunch hours, and right choice, their starchy gluey yet soupy Kwai Chap style of Lor gravy served hot and appetising with the vinegar was perfect for a cold day.

Lin Lin Vegetarian Delights

2011-12-03T01:31:00.000-08:00

At the street across the Bedok Public Library, there exist a Vegetarian stall, Lin Lin Vegetarian Delights in the coffeeshop of Blk 412 Bedok North Ave 2. This stall was strongly recommended by P who lived in the East.

The stall specialises in Stir-fry dishes and its speed in serving is no slower than Rulaizhai at Sin Ming.
The vegetarian Sweet & Sour Pork was sweet with well-fried flour coating but I could not make up what's the ingredients inside. The Claypot Brinjal was spicy & appetising. The stir-fry Luohanzhai was well-done and saw the purple vege? At 1st I thought was brinjal but was surprised when P told me it is purple cabbage. Very crunchy and a plus point to the dish, I didn't know that it could be cooked in such a way other than as a salad vege. Their Wolfberry Soup is highly recommended, very refreshing taste, strongly recommend!
P mentioned that their Hor-fun and Hokkien mee are nice too and the place is crowded during vegetarian days, lunar 1st & 15th of the month.

Love No Limits

2011-11-18T06:29:00.000-08:00

A new vegetarian Fusion Food entry at Fortune Centre introduced by Prefer Vegetarian blog.

Excited to give it a try especially on the Spaghetti recommended~ The American Veggie Bolognese.

Though it may be interesting concept to put the dish on those metal plate but the presentation could be much appetising if placed in Japanese bento set instead. Anyway, back to the dish, the spaghetti was well-cooked with generous tomato gravy which was sour enough to make the dish appetising. Portion wise still ok for me and unique to have 2 Chinese dishes - the stewed carrot tomato pieces and boiled green vege caixin. I wished instead for more of the simple shreds of salad which had a great mayonnaise alike dressing to go with.

Right now they are having a promotion that if you become their members at a price of S$10, they will give you 2 free pizza for redemption anytime and enjoy a discount of 40-70% on their dishes. So,now one only needs to pay $4.40 (instead of $8) for the American Veggie Bolognese and get to enjoy their American Herbal Pizza ($12) for free!

It is pizza with thin crust with strong unique herbal taste which may not be acceptable to some but still worth a try with the crispy crust.

There are also Vietnamese Mee hoon, Malaysia Rojak & Satay Mee Hoon and other Asia delights on the menu, will likely return to try. :P

The eatery is located at #01-06 of Fortune center just next to Gokul.

IMM Kopitiam Vegetarian Food

2011-11-13T02:45:00.000-08:00

Visited IMM recently and at the 2nd level Kopitiam Foodcourt, there is this vegetarian food stall. Tried their Claypot beancurd with brown rice. Instead of serving in claypot, it was served in minipot with mini fire which I am glad as I like sizzling warm food. It was a good size of vege, mushroom with silky beancurd and the gravy was just nice, not saltish and great to eat with the slightly dry brown rice. A friend who frequents the stall too complimented its economical rice dishes served with soup during lunch. Good to know out about the presence of another vegetarian stall.:-)

JIAXIANG VEGETARIAN

2011-10-31T08:25:00.000-07:00

Located at Golden Mile Food Centre (505 Beach Road) level 2, near centre at level 1, glad to find vegetarian food at this famous food centre with many good food. Jiaxiang has so far the most authentic Fried Hokkien Mee that I had tried so far, the stock gravy and the just well stir-fried noodles and nice chilli that goes with it makes it a complimentary dish.

NATURE'S HARVEST CAFE

2011-10-05T07:55:00.000-07:00

Recalling their soupy noodles looked good during last visit, we ordered the recommended Mee Hun Kuay & Red Yeast Mee Sua.
C liked the plainer soup Mee Hun Kuay which unlike conventional Mee Hun Kuay is thicker in texture while taste and color I suspect maybe using brown rice.
However, I prefer their Mee Sua which is smooth like thin noodles with generous portion of black fungus, white mushroom, small corn slice and green vegetables. :-)

They have good variety of vegetarian supplies too.
Located at Fu Lu Shou building #02-08, at a corner amidst the crystal shops.

Gourmet Paradise, Toa Payoh HDB Hub Food Court

2011-10-01T08:14:00.000-07:00

Most of the time when I am at Toa Payoh Central, I will tend to visit the vegetarian stall at Gourmet Paradise. Like its variety and Daily menu :-)

Menu of day recently visited was Prawn noodles, something I had not tried before from the stall. It is defaulted Soup noodles with a beautiful variety mock products. Sweet soup with crunchy Kang Kong , beancurd and even mock fried onion slices and love their generous red chilli slices that added a pinch of spiciness to the soup.:-)

The food court is located at B1 of HDB Hub. You can either enter thru basement car park entrance or from entrance besides McDonald from Bus interchange. It is located at a corner nearer to basement car park entrance.

Rice House 粥大王

2011-09-22T08:46:00.000-07:00

Long long time since to Rice House, they have slight improvement in technology instead of traditional cashier system, but most importantly, variety of dishes increased too.
Wanting to have something hot, decided to try their Herbal Monkey-head Mushroom Vermicelli (Mee sua). The soup tasted much like the Vegetarian Pork Ribs soup, the monkey-head mushroom was well-marinated and tasted close to the texture I was looking for, pity only a few small pieces. Other ingredients included Taupok, button mushroom & wolfberries. Overall, a nice dish on a rainy day.

They are located at Blk 129 Geylang East ave 1, beside Foo Hai Chan Monastery & Opposite Sims Ville Condo. May alight at 2nd bus stop from Aljunied MRT & walk further up & turn left to Monastery direction.
Tel: 6747 3739

Gokul (Fortune Centre)

2011-08-31T07:58:00.001-07:00

Gokul had opened at Fortune Centre #01 and I can't recall if the original outlet at Little India also serves pure vegetarian without onion, garlic, leeks etc or it is only this outlet to attract the greater population of Chinese Buddhist patrons who visit the famous Chinese temple in the area. ButI really like the idea of trying Indian food without the aftertaste of onions.:-)

Had originally wanted to try the naan which I had previously overheard was nice but they had ran out of naan on the day I visit with my Indian food expert, M.
We ordered Paper dosa ( top pict) which was my 1st attempt and according to M was to be crispy but it was abit soft when served to us. Tasted abit like crepe to me and the sauces to dip with was non spicy and I could only remember the last pale green sauce was peppermint and to me the 3 sauces are just passable.

We preferred the gravy of the Paneer tikka masala (mid pict) which we used it to dip instead. I really missed paneer & masala ever since my last India trip more than 1 year ago!
The gravy is tasty but the paneer tasted more like beancurd instead of the paneer which I recall should be of more chewy & cheesy taste.

Next was Sardine Murtabha which was also my 1st attempt on Murtabha as non vegetarian version usually comes with meat & onions which I avoid...
I had always thought Murtabha was something like the thicker version of egg prata with filling and I was abit disappointed with the size when it came. Its sardine filling was more like curry flavoured cabbages and the Murtabha softened with the heat of the ingredients tasted like softened popiah skin, a great variation from my imagination.
Not in picture but saved the day was their Lime Lassi, the sweet yoghurt drink which I grew to love:-) Their Masala tea was complimented by my friend as well.

I think I will return to try their naan and some other more spicy dishes and other lassi drinks. :-)
But I guess I have to increase my exercise time too to burn all the calories...:P

Long Ji Soya Bean Drink Stall

2011-08-20T09:21:00.001-07:00

Known as Black White, I have grown to love this combination of Chin Chow & Soya Bean Drink which the two drinks are usually sold together in traditionally Soya Bean drink stalls.
Somehow, the adding of Chin Chow further enhanced the smoothness and taste of the soya bean drink, making it a even more adorable drink than drinking them separately.
And I think Long Ji really make a good drink out of it (I love their warm version) which is seeing more patrons ordering Black White. Do Try it! :-)

Located at 2nd level food centre, Far right Corner from direction of escalator of Tiong Bahru Market (30 Seng Poh Road), about 2 bus-stop away from Tiong Bahru MRT. Bus: 5, 16, 33, 63, 195, 851

Fo Lai Ping (Popular) Vegetarian

2011-08-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

Decided to try something healthier, I was glad to find Pumpkin Porridge at Fo Lai Ping. Big bowl of nice brown rice porridge with sweet pumpkin pieces at $2.50 ~ tasty & yet healthy, kept warm from the slow-cooker. You could add their economical rice dishes at $1 to go with the porridge. Simple & yet enjoyable. :-)

It is quite easily accessible, being located near the lift lobby of Blk109, Lor 1 Toa Payoh, (same stretch as POSB & McDonald), HDB flat from Exit A of Braddell MRT.

Bishan Vegetarian

2011-08-16T09:20:00.000-07:00

Visited Bishan Vegetarian again & found their Ala Carte dishes reduced back to their 3 main stars: the Lor mee, Curry noodles and Dry noodles.
One attraction back to the stall is the auntie is willing to let me exchange the accompanying gluten mock meat with their economical rice dishes with a smile and at no extra cost.
So, I managed to enjoy a bowl of unique Dry noodles of my style. With the changes in the ingredients, its rating as a delicious bowl of noodles is certainly much enhanced. :-)

Located just above the food centre above the Bus Interchange, Up from the colorful stairs near the traffic light, you can see it just beside a fishball noodles stall.

Nature Vegetarian (Sin Ming Ave)

2011-08-16T09:00:00.000-07:00

The once vegetarian coffee-shop had changed owner and it is no longer a full pledged vegetarian eatery. Now, Nature Vegetarian still retains a stall which is the vegetarian economical rice stall. It had just reopened on my day of visit, apart from the economical rice dishes, it also offers simple stir-fry dishes like Fried Rice, Hor-Fun and Lamian.
I decided to try if it is the same Lamian from their old Ngian Tofu stall which is gone & which I will miss terribly. Served in a Jap theme bowl, it has reasonable portion of ingredients as shown in picture but the taste seems to differ. I sure miss the old stall's daily menu as well.

The coffee shop is located at 409 Sin Ming Ave, #02-01 (Opp Bright Hill temple)

素食林 (Su Shi Lin) Happy Realm

2011-08-09T07:09:00.000-07:00

In a recent visit to 素食林 Happy Realm, I finally found one of the better filling vegetarian dumplings in Singapore!

To me, a good Dumpling must be of good size filling and with use of water chestnut to increase the crunchiness. Yummy!!! Their Vinegar Dumplings being cooked in vinegar gravy saves one the trouble to request for a plate of vinegar for dipping.
A recommended try for your next visit. :-)

A traditional vegetarian restaurant, located at:
100 Eu Tong Sen Street, #03-16 Pearls Centre, Spore 059812
(The building near Outram MRT) Tel: 6222 6141

Vege Sense

2011-08-09T03:00:00.000-07:00

This cafe at Fortune Centre had opened for quite some time with main theme on western fast food. There is a variety of sandwiches, burgers and western style own cooked mushroom and pumpkin soup. Tried their mushroom soup recently, quite reasonably priced at $3 which came steaming hot with good portion of mushroom variety.
They recommended their Portobello mushroom burger at $3.90 with marinated black pepper sauced mushroom was hot & I thought I could get a sore throat from eating it.
I think they have the non spicy version as well. Recommend their own brewed Lemongrass ginger tea to make it a complete set.

Vege Sense is located at #01, diagonally opposite Xing Hua Vegetarian at Fortune Centre.

ZiFuLing Vegetarian Stall

2011-08-09T02:16:00.001-07:00

Passing by Geylang Lorong 25A on way to the Singapore Buddhist Federation ( one street away at Lor 24A) for a retreat, I was initially attracted by the name of the corner coffee shop: LaoDiFang in Chinese. Was glad to find breakfast at this vegetarian stall: ZiFuLing Vegetarian which just opened in Jul 2011 and operating 24hours!

Although currently selling mainly more local delights like Wanton noodles and hand-made Popiah, the lady boss proudly proclaims her plans to introduce more western cuisine like monkey-head mushroom burgers and baked potato wedges when the business stabilises.

Their morning breakfast includes simple fried Meehoon and fried mock meat stuff that she proudly claims is not oily at all. Well, the white meehoon is certainly light and good for those on diet. Just nice for a light breakfast but slightly more portion will be better for big-eaters like me.:P

I think the stall's theme is to discourage overeating as their hand-made popiah ($1.30) was healthily slim too compared to conventional. The vegetables included crunchy cucumber slices and sesame seeds and the sauce is slightly different more to the light rojak taste. The lady boss proudly proclaims the popiah and her well marinated fried stuff are favourites for non-vegetarian nite patrons.

Good to know another new vegetarian stall & 24 hours! :-)

Lovingwell Vegetarian

2011-07-13T07:46:00.000-07:00

Was dinner time at aljunied mrt area, so decided to have dinner there.
Heard about the new opening of vege stall, Lovingwell Vegetarian, at the new corner coffee-shop near the main road and decided to visit it.
They sell the usual stirfry dishes like Hor Fun, Mee Goreng etc as well as rice sets.
The vendor recommended their vegetarian fish soup meehoon which I readily agreed to try.
It took a while to be served as they took time to cook every order with love...
My friends complimented their stir-fry Mixed Vege Meehoon were cooked with standard and with the wok-hei taste. My soup mee hoon too was the non-milk & wok stir-fry type. The big pieces of beancurd skin fish were well-fried with good portion of tomato slices and vegetables.
Overall, a good bowl of vegetarian fish soup too!

The stall is located at Lor 25A Geylang, corner coffee-shop near main road, 1st stretch of shop-houses from Aljunied MRT.

Miao Yin Vegetarian

2011-07-02T05:25:00.000-07:00

A visit to Bugis on the lunar 1st of the month, one of the Vegetarian days for most people who make it a point to go vegetarian on the New Moon Day.
It is generally long queue at most vegetarian stalls on that day and Miao Yin is no exception.
The best and quickest dish to order on such busy days other than the economical rices would be Hor Fun.
It is a good choice made as their Hor Fun is instantly prepared upon ordering, hence is hot when served unlike some stalls which had prepared in advance and just pour the gravy over to serve to customers on such busy days.
In addition, we were impressed by the generosity of the ingredients, vast quantity of caixin, cabbage, carrot and mushroom slices and at least 2 types of mock meat that i recall.
Look and taste equally appetising! We were certainly impressed that Quality and Quantity is there on that day which we had already mentally prepared a drop in our requirements on the busy days. :-)

Address: Blk 1, Rocher Rd, #01-506 Kopitiam (Rocher centre corner coffeeshop, 2 doors away from the vegetarian cake house, opp Bugis OG, near the famous Simaru Guan Yin Temple)

一心素食, Chinatown

2011-06-26T05:23:00.001-07:00

A visit again to my favourite Soup Noodle stall at Yi Xin Vegetarian at Chinatown.

This round tried their Vegetarian Pork Ribs Soup with Lamian (my favourite Bai-yu noodles alike).

Strong Herbal soup taste with a good bowl of ingredients of mushrooms, red-dates, wolfberries, mock mutton, corn , taupok and lettuce. Good choice for a cold weather.

素满园 (Kopitiam at Plaza Singapura)

2011-06-20T05:16:00.000-07:00

Located at the Kopitiam Food court at Plaza Singapura, this is another outlet of Su Man Yuan.
Looking for something soupy to warm the stomach, decided to try their Vegetarian Fish Soup Mee Hoon. Soup and Mee Hoon taste okay, the few mock fish pieces with seaweed were quite well marinated & fried that has the coarse texture of the actual fried pieces.
The accompanying fried beancurd pieces were quite smooth & soft, the right texture that I liked. :-)

Oh, saw the well -coated fried fish fillet alike side dish and decided to try, it was actually beancurd skin coated with bread/biscuit crumbs. Quite nice if it had been eaten while hot.:-)

Healthy Vegetarian

2011-06-11T20:05:00.000-07:00

This is what I had tried at the Food & Fun Fair on 29th May held besides the Eunos MRT.
The Vegetarian food fair was an opportunity for old/new vegetarian vendors to introduce themselves to the public. One such vendor was Healthy Vegetarian Hand-made Mee Hoon Kuey & Rojak (printed on a name-card) which I presume their name is Healthy Vegetarian and Hand-made Mee Hoon Kuey & Rojak are their specialties.
They were promoting their prepacked Dry Hand-made noodles at the fair and this is something different as usually hand-made noodles are cooked and served in soup noodles style.
M had always liked hand-made noodles but prefers it to be cooked in dry noodles style so this is a stall that I would certainly recommend to her.
Although pre-packed, the noodles and the accompanying soup were still warm when I had them. The noodles were quite well mixed in dark sauce to give it a flavour and still Q when I had them. The soup came with some seaweed and vegetables and fried beancurb skin.
Overall quite a nice dish but I wonder if it is because it is a charity fair that it is charging $5 or it is really priced as much at their own stall...

Their stall address reflected on their namecard:
166 Jalan Besar, #02-35 Berseh Food Centre, S'pore 208877 (beside New World Ctr)
Opening hours: 11am-8pm, Closed on Saturdays

New Fut Kai Vegetarian Restaurant

2011-05-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

This is really a difficult place to find for one unfamilar with the area, it is in fact near neither the Lavender MRT & Farrer Park Mrt that one can see on the map if you are thinking of travelling by mrt. We had a hard time searching for the place.
The Icon is it is located at the shophouse just beside Cityhub hotel. So, after knowing this green modern building is Cityhub hotel, and for those who frequent the nearby Foochow building for cultural or religious events, or the Jalan Besar Swimming Complex which is diagonally behind, hopefully all these Icons can aid more people to find the place.

Well, what made me go through all the trouble to want to find the New Fut Kai Vegetarian Restaurant are the 2 dishes at the centre, the Steamed Vegetarian Cod Fish and Herbal Chicken that I had tried at a catered vegetarian dinner by the restaurant.

The flavour of the Steamed Vegetarian Cod Fish was very much like the Teochew style steamed fish method with slices of tomato, mushroom, pickled vegetables, carrots, lettuce and the coriander leaves (Chinese parsley) that greatly enhanced the flavour of the dish. The steamed cod fish texture was of the compressed soft beancurd skin type and the dish was so well cooked that made one really felt like one is tasting the authentic Teochew dish.

The Herbal Chicken, a common dish now easily available even in food court was a dish that I greatly missed, not for its meat but for its herbal gravy/soup and accompanying ingredients.
I was rejoiced to finally find this vegetarian style which was also authentically cooked too.
Strong herbal aroma arises as soon as the aluminium foiled dish unfolds. The well-stewed mushroom, carrot, walnuts and especially the crunchy water chestnut became the main stars and won praises by all and the dish was quickly finished within minutes. :P
This dish is not available at the restaurant daily and has to be pre-ordered if you really want to try it. It is available only at 1 size and cost $25 each if I had not recalled wrongly.

OK, back to the restaurant, it is a small shop with traditional setting and one is welcomed by their appetizers, the Chinese pickles - A-zhar and crispy fried seaweed stripes. We tried their Cream Corn soup with Spinach. It is an unique combination and served with pieces of nourishing Baihe. The others would had liked it to be more creamy as the name had reflected on the menu but I am okay with the texture.

Next, the Stir-fry Vegetarian Delight in Pumpkin and Tapioca Ring is recommended for those who like pumpkin. Instead of the traditional Yam ring of Chinese dishes, this is the enhanced flavour with fragrances and flavour of pumpkin.

Then another of my favourite dish, Deep fried Vegetarian Prawn with Crispy Cereal, the well fried cereal, curry leaves and I wonder how they marinated the vegetarian prawn to make it taste so much like the real... :P

Actually, I was also amazed how they maintain the "freshness" of the vegetables, such as the Stir-fry Vegetarian Abalone with Broccoli at a catered dinner. Well, this is really a caterer that I will seriously consider and recommend if there are any Vegetarian events.

I would think New Fut Kai is really a good venue for just turned vegetarian who used to enjoy non-vegetarian cuisines to visit to remind themselves that it is the cooking style and not the meat that they used to like and also a place that non-vegetarians can try to accept vegetarian cuisines.

Located at 282 Jalan Besar , Spore 208945
(Diagonally left front stretch of shop houses from Jalan Besar Swimming Complex, next to Cityhub Hotel.)
Buses stopping just in front of Cityhub Hotel: SBS 23,64,65,66,130,139,147, SMRT 67,857
Opening hours: 10am-2.45pm; 5pm-9.30pm
Tel: 6398 0836

Bishan Vegetarian

2011-05-17T07:27:00.000-07:00

Was a hot day that I didn't feel like having a heavy meal, decided to have a quick snack at Bishan Vegetarian instead.

Realised that they had increased their menu to include Vegetarian Hor Fun, Bitter Gourd Fish soup, etc. but still decided to have something light, their "Shui Kway" became my choice.

It is difficult to find this traditional snack to be pure vegetarian as the toppings of carrot pickles is usually stir-fried with pork lard/onion oil if purchased from non vegetarian vendors. Hence, I had not had this dish for a long time. Well, the toppings turned out to be oily which I can happily taste without a sense of guilt/hate the aftertaste of onion and the pickles quite crunchy with the white rice cake flavour enhanced with dipping of their chilli sauce. An nice light meal that I will return again for.

Located just above the food centre above the Bus Interchange, Up from the colorful stairs near the traffic light, you can see it just beside a fishball noodles stall.

Fo Lai Ping (Popular) Vegetarian

2011-05-17T06:56:00.000-07:00

Revisited Fo Lai Ping for its vegetarian Sweet & Sour Pork but this round, the cooking style differs slightly from previous trial though both presentation looked similar from picture.

The previous visit's tasted more like fatty version of "Gu Lu York" while this round's trial varies abit to be dryer exterior & tasted more to another version of sweet & sour pork ribs? One can taste that the filling inside is different too and is more likely a type of mushrooms being used. But taste as superb! The culinary skill is as good. Will definitely return for this Sweet & Sour dish again.

We also ordered Claypot beancurb which contains a good portion of braised beancurb, vegetables, black fungus and button & straw mushrooms. Value for money but perhaps I was too overwhelmed by their Sweet & Sour dish that I did not pay enough attention to the claypot dish.
This is certainly a value for money vegetarian outlet for quality & quantity. :-)

It is quite easily accessible, being located near the lift lobby of Blk109, Lor 1 Toa Payoh, (same stretch as POSB & McDonald), HDB flat from Exit A of Braddell MRT.

Ci Hang Western & Chinese Vegetarian Fast Food

2011-05-15T07:49:00.000-07:00

Arrived at Ci Hang for a late dinner with its last order at 9pm, we managed to have a quick nice dinner. Recommended friend to try their Braised Mushroom Noodles and she enjoyed it while I ordered something new, their home-made Dumpling noodles. The accompanying noodles is yes, the white jade noodles. The soup is simple with tomato quarters and Caixin and the fillings of the dumpling is good mixture of shredded vegetables. However, the skin of the dumpling which the lady boss proudly claimed was made from organic wheat flour? is abit coarse. Maybe it would be softer and tasted better if cooked a bit longer.
The delight of the night is the Fried Mushroom which does not appear appetising but while served hot, softness of the mushroom inside the crispy exterior coat of flour melts in the mouth.

It is located at 72 Lorong 25-A Geylang, at stretch of shophouses besides Aljunied MRT.
Tel: 6747 1229. Operates from 10am-9.30pm with last order at 9pm. Closed on Fridays.

Dining Hall of Buddha Tooth Relics Temple

2011-05-15T02:17:00.000-07:00

Visited Buddha Tooth Relics Temple recently and saw near its entrance that its Dining Hall at Basement One now sells Vegetarian Delights and Beverages to the public from 9am-3pm.

Decided to pay a visit & was enticed by its colorful air-conditioned Dining Hall that welcomes one for lunch.

The theme is local delights at very reasonable price of $3 for its main dishes such as Wanton Noodles, Hor Fun, Yee Mee, Char Siew Noodles & rice, and Mushroom With Shredded Chicken slices Hor Fun.

It also has Dim Sum of any 3 pieces at $2. Among their Dim Sum, I would recommend their Char Siew Su (pastry with mock barbecue pork as filling) and Strongly recommend their home-made brewed Herbal Tea at $1. It was serving Chrysanthemum with Luo Han Guo on my day of visit and it is real good cup of tea that certainly worth more than the price. :-)
Overall, the environment is very welcoming with bright colours theme and would be a good place for relaxing and have a tea-break with friends.

It is located at Basement 1 of Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum which is located at Chinatown: 288 South Bridge Rd, off Sago street or opposite the famous Maxwell food centre, nearest MRT: Outram/Chinatown MRT. It is open from 9am-3pm.

Vesak@Orchard Vegetarian Food Fair

2011-04-29T23:37:00.000-07:00

Some snapshots of food we had this afternoon.
Yes, my favourite Vegetarian Food Fair is back at Ngee Ann City this weekend again!
Still alot of prior year stall-holders but it seems this year there are more stalls and more selling at reasonable food court prices for quality food.

Vege burger for only $2 and water-mouthing Nonya pastries...
And striongly recommending the stall (can't remember if it is stall of kmspks) selling hand-made vegetarian Sambal/Belacan chilli that even has slices of mushroom and mock ikan bilis & the chilli tastes superb! Spicy with a lime taste, fantastically good to go with noodles & rice!!!!

The Almond noodles from Yes Natural and the Premium hand-made ice-cream are strongly recommended! The sushi stall is still there but sushi running out fast that I didn't manage to get my favourite fruit sushi :-(

The Dumplings, handmade by Venerable from Fo Yuan Lin, good vegetables filling in not too thick skin that goes well with the vinegar & chilli, and best taken hot on spot. (For those who missed it, they will be participating in another Vegetarian Food Fair on 29 May at Eunos MRT open field)

Don't wait, Hurry down to The Vegetarian Food Fair which is located just outside Ngee Ann City, Orchard Rd as part of Vesak@Orchard celebration from 30 Apr (Sat) 9am-9.30pm, 1 May (Sun) 9am-5pm.

Y.F. (Yuan Fen) Vegetarian Food

2011-04-25T08:37:00.000-07:00

What's that? Green Tea Fried Rice and Watercess Pork Ribs Soup.
Can't really detect the Green Tea flavour which could had been covered by the strong Green Pea taste. It should had been called Green Pea Fried Rice instead, soft and fragrant with "mositure felt" fried rice. Nice! Especially for Green Pea lovers, must try!
Can't recall any mock pock ribs found but a small stalk of corn instead, nice bowl of soup which I would say "with substance".:-)

It's a small vegetarian shop on People's Park Centre 2nd level, just opposite the Chinatown Point, facing the overhead bridge linking the 2 building. Besides a tour agency...

Fo You Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant

2011-03-28T07:38:00.000-07:00

Located along the stretch of shop houses just directly opposite City Square Residences, S recommended to try this vegetarian restaurant which she recently visited.

We tried their Longevity's Noodles - quite nice:-) Soft & Smooth.
Claypot Brinjal with Petai - the dish's sauce is usually saltish in other outlets but here they do it with a plum sauce, unique taste. The dish should be more sparingly cooked with Petai to justify the name of the dish.

Vietnamese Prawn roll - may not look as presentable but quite nice, it's actually mashed potato fried with centre edible sugarcane stick that you could chew on.

Lastly, we end the feast with their ice-cream dessert: Fruit Gelato : Peach Fantasy and Lemon Limet.
At the size of the clenched fist, most of the Fruit Gelato were beautifully moulded into their representing fruits, especially the peach alike gelato that we originally could not bring the heart to eat it.
The refreshing Lemon Limet (refreshing mild sourness after a heavy meal) is strongly recommended.:-)

Located at 155 Kitchener Road, Spore 208527
Contact: 67448009
Opens daily from 10am-2.30pm, 5.30pm-10pm
On Lunar 1st & 15th: 10am-10pm
http://www.foyouyuan.com.sg/

慈缘轩 (Ci Yan Xuan) Chinatown

2011-03-12T07:38:00.000-08:00

Visited Ci Yan Xuan and noticed some new dishes that I had never tried before on its Today's Menu ~ Claypot Noodles & Steam Tonic Soup.
There are 5 types of Tonic soup to choose from at $6.80 each. I believe they will be of quality ingredients for the price. However, craving for soup noodles, I decided to try their Claypot noodles.

Though it came in a small pot than expected, it was quite filling. It was served with Yi-mee and usual vegetables as per normal Tze Char stall and tasted as authentic. I like their gravy that I ended up almost finishing the whole pot of gravy as well. :P Having Hot steaming noodles in an air-conditioned environment is really an enjoyable experience.:-) The boss said they will be adding more dishes such as Claypot Beancurd and Fried noodles in the evening menu too.

And on enquiry on when they are serving the Bibimbup, the boss revealed that they had just ordered vegetarian ingredients to prepare Bibimbup from their Korean supplier. They could only arrive in 1-2 weeks' time, so to call daily then to find out when we could savour that again. Sure looking forward to try it again!

Address: 8 Smith Street (shophouse near end of Food Street)
Tel: 6225 9026 (If you want to confirm menu of the day:P)
Usual Opening Hours: 12pm-10pm

NATURE'S HARVEST CAFE

2011-03-06T01:55:00.000-08:00

Saw the signboard near the window while crossing the street, realised that YOGI House at #02 corner of Fu Lu Shou Building changed owners. However, its interior design remained pretty much the same and still an organic cafe.

We tried their Thai Tofu which had thoughtfully separated its hazelnuts powder at a side. The beancurd was of nice texture with a nice sauce and initially we thought the powder was minced of peanuts & cashew nuts but clarified that it was hazelnuts!:-)

Next Organic cafe's favourite: Salad Sushi. No aloud ingredients, just mainly fresh and crunchy turnip and red carrots sprinkled with mock floss. Remains my favourite.:-)

Their dry noodles came with an appetising look and taste, accompanied with nice winter-melon taste alike soup. Nice bowl of noodles with black fungus, seaweed, carrot slices, red pepper slices, mushrooms, bean sprouts and mini corn.
I saw another table ordered their soup noodles which looked appetising too.
Will keep that in mind for next visit!:-)

Located at Fu Lu Shou building #02-08, at a corner amidst the crystal shops.

Bishan Vegetarian

2011-02-22T07:49:00.000-08:00

Revisited Bishan Central and glad to find Bishan Vegetarian still operational.
Ordered their Lor Mee which the pot of Lor gravy looked kind of unappetising. However, surprisingly it was the famous Tiong Bahru thick gluey type which with appropriate vinegar tasted quite authentic. Forgoing the mock char siew & duck pieces, I was given a big mock fishball which was quite chewy and another time their vege dishes.
Generally, quite enjoyable as dish came hot & steamy.:-)

Located just above the food centre above the Bus Interchange, Up from the colorful stairs near the traffic light, you can see it just beside a fishball noodles stall.

Just Green Vegetarian Food (Tampines)

2011-02-20T04:22:00.001-08:00

Went to Tampines again and the nearest vegetarian stall within Tampines Central seems to be only "Just Green" at Eastlink Food court. It does have a great variety of dishes to choose from, especially on bean curd dishes that I always couldn't resist ordering. Their next speciality is their 3 sticks of satay at $1.50. I would think their satay mock meat texture is well-marinated & has great resemblance in chewiness and taste to the real stuff. Worth trying especially for those who used to love satay.
It's good that they also serve free soup during lunch as that really warms one dining at the unusually strong air-conditioned food court that chills.:-P

Ru Lai Zhai Vegetarian Food

2011-02-13T06:09:00.001-08:00

Thinking our blue-chaser class started last week, we arrived there to discover we had both made a mistake, H & I proceeded to Ru Lai Zhai for a relaxing dinner instead. Ordered their Mee Hoon Goreng & Claypot Bean curd. Well, they miraculously served both dishes just after we had placed order for drink again. Speed must be their motto. :P

The Mee Hoon Goreng tasted more like Fried Tom Yam Mee Hoon to me instead as the spicy chilli was more to the Tom Yam chilli sourness taste. The Claypot bean curd was superb, the type of braised smooth bean curd that I adore, and that brown gravy was appetising that we used to lower the Tom Yam-ness of the mee hoon. :-)

Ru Lai Zhai is located at Blk 24 Sin Ming Road corner Coffee-shop #01-51 (near multi-storey car-park).
Opens daily 8am-9pm except day after 1st & 15th of Lunar month.

Create Healthy Lifestyle

2011-02-13T00:46:00.000-08:00

Visited "Create Healthy Lifestyle" at Fortune centre as we decided to have a tasty healthy lunch. We ordered our favourite refreshing salad sushi usually available at organic outlets and their menu of the day of Spaghetti (Angel's hair) with Black Pepper Pork chop and their Ipoh Hor Fun with home-made wanton. Both were accompanied with a free bowl of healthy soup with ingredients of white fungus, hugh bean sprouts, carrots, red dates boiled with mushroom stalk.

The Spaghetti's' pork chop was the type of soy-made mock meat that I like and was well fried that went well with the mild flavoured black -pepper sauce that was not too over-whelming. Apity the gravy was not well absorbed by the Angel's hair which could have added points to it.

The Ipoh Hor Fun came with a generous portion of vege and dark-sauce which needs good mixing to let the plain white Hor Fun absorb the salty sauce. But abit disappointed with the home-made wantons which were abit mushy when served. Oh, I miss good wantons....

Our favorite is still the salad sushi which was crunchy and refreshing. :-) Overall, a enjoyable healthy meal. :-)

Address: 190 Middle Road, Fortune Centre, #02-04, S(188979). It is located at Fortune Centre which is just a few minutes walk from the famous Kwan Im Temple at Waterloo street

My Vegetarian Way

2011-02-03T04:53:00.000-08:00

It sure is a stress to lunch at Raffles Place but fortunately, one can still get seats at the Golden Shoe Carpark Food Centre. Glad to find this stall named "My Vegetarian Way" at #03-24, somewhere at the centre of the food centre which serves healthy organic food at a reasonable price. It serves daily menu of the day & had tried their yam noodles ($3.50) and curry pumpkin rice ($4). Taste really healthy and can see regular customers patronising the stall. :-)

It is located at 50 Market Street, #03-24 of Golden Shoe Carpark Food Centre, just about a street away from the Raffles Place MRT.

Miao Yin Vegetarian

2011-01-17T06:52:00.000-08:00

Decided to pack dinner from Miao Yin Vegetarian, since it is located just 2 doors away from Eastern Highland Healthy Cake House where I picked up the eggless vegetarian cake.
On their menu of the day, Vegetarian Fish & Chips and Black Pepper Pork Chop were recommended.
Since I had tried the F&C before, I decided to order the Black Pepper Pork Chop.
It is a good choice as the "pork chop" was of a nice soya-based texture and the accompanying strong & spicy black pepper sauce was superb. :-)
The salad cream to dip the fries & vegetables was great too.
One could imagined the crispiness of the fries if not packed home, which had became abit soft by time I reached home.
Overall a satisfying western meal at $5 which I feel value for money for the quality and quantity. :-)

Address: Blk 1, Rocher Rd, #01-506 Kopitiam (Rocher centre corner coffeeshop, 2 doors away from the vegetarian cake house, opp Bugis OG, near the famous Simaru Guan Yin Temple)

Eastern Highland Healthy Cake House (Rocher Centre)

2011-01-17T06:36:00.001-08:00

Yes, it's just barely a month's gap that we patronised my favourite vegetarian cake shop again.
It's D's birthday & recalling the previous cake box which featured a delicious mango cake, we decided to order one and *****a beautiful mango cake***** with vanilla filling appeared us.
Though not a cake-lover, D was impressed with the cake and really beamed with smile when he saw the beautifully decorated cake with his favourite fruit.:-)
At $32 for half a kg, its price is comparable to non-vegetarian cake-shops' and would think it is definitely value for money$$$$$. :-)

The cake shop is located at 1 Rocher Rd, #01-510 Rocher Centre (Opposite Bugis OG)
Tel: 6294 6932

Eastern Highland Healthy Cake House (Rocher Centre)

2010-12-29T07:16:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

YES, TIME OF THE YEAR to enjoy my favourite Blue-berry cake from my favourite shop again.
They changed to a beautiful sweet box and haha, the cake is same design as last year except the halved strawberries faced up. :P
And this year the sweetness is perfect (used to think it's nice but could be abit less sweet in past years) and the lump of fresh cream below the strawberries which I usually don't fancy tasted so fresh & smooth! An improvement from already nice thumbs-up for eggless Birthday cakes.
Yes, it remains my favourite Vegetarian Eggless cake shop. :-)

The cake shop is located at 1 Rocher Rd, #01-510 Rocher Centre (Opposite Bugis OG) Tel: 6294 6932

Kwan Inn Vegetarian Food 观音斋

2010-12-20T07:33:00.000-08:00

Where to get nice Vegetarian herbal/tonic double-boiled soup?

One recommendation is Kwan Inn Vegetarian Food 观音斋 :-)
Yes, not just its laksa, the soup is recommendable too at economical price of $3.50.

List includes ABC soup, old cucumber soup, Six Senses Soup and Wild Ginseng Soup, etc.

Tried its Six Senses/Tastes Soup which the medical effect is said to enhance circulation of Qi.

It has a mild bitter herbal taste but reasonable portion of herbal ingredients, value for money.

:-)

It is located at corner coffee shop at Blk134 Geylang East Ave1, 2nd bus stop from Aljunied Mrt. Opposite Tan Swie Hian Museum.

7 Sensations

2010-12-20T07:00:00.000-08:00

It's a long while since last visit to 7 Sensations, and this time I remembered to leave some stomach space for their yummy eggless cake.:-)
Before that, greatly recommend their Hot Soba, surprisingly smooth organic soba with a simple dark-sauced soup warms the hungry stomach. Unlike usual coarse texture of soba sampled, theirs tasted much like smooth vermicelli (mee sua). Will return to try their other noodles dishes. :-)

Eggless Chocolate Raspberry cake, rich but not sinful.

Nice place with good ambience and service with conscientious staff always refilling water. Also a recommended place for gathering, and would be a great place for high-tea if they are open from 3-6pm. :P

The restaurant is located at 16 Madras street, (just along a stretch of shop houses behind the Verge which hosts VegeSenz)
Tel: 6298 8198
Opens daily: 11am-3pm, 6pm-10pm ; PH: 11am-5pm
www.7-sensations.com
Map: http://www.7-sensations.com/CONTACT_US1.html

Su Yuan Vegetarian

2010-12-04T04:24:00.000-08:00

Learning from previous experience that we need to have a hearty meal before embarking on the Alexandra Arch Forest Walk, we had our breakfast at the nearby Telok Blangah Way Market Food Centre.

I am glad to find 2 Vegetarian stalls in the food centre. One is more the traditional standard meehoon/noodles stall and another has the Ala Carte dishes of Vegetarian Fish Soup, etc. Somehow, attracted that day to try the Su Yuan Vegetarian stall manned by an elderly man who looked very serious in serving the standard meehoon/noodles and which had a queue forming.
Well, the meehoon with the saltish gravy earned demerit points but the accompanying generous variety of ingredients of cabbage, french beans, black fungus, mock barbacue pork, compressed beancurb skin slices and crispy fried goose pieces at $2.50 made it worth a try. (but recommend to not ask for too much gravy) And yes, I would recommend their cripsy fried spring rolls! :-)

Located at Telok Blangah Way Blk 11 Market Food Centre, near road Diagonally Opposite Telok Blangah Hill Park entrance, towards Bt Merah central direction, opposite Safra Clubhouse.

House of Vegetarian

2010-12-04T04:00:00.000-08:00

House of Vegetarian is the Asian Vegetarian stall at Clifford Centre's Basement Banquet Food Court located near to the escalator. So sad to find out Taste of Natural located at corner had ceased operation.
Wanting to try something soupy, I accepted the friendly cook's recommendation of Mee Hoon Mee Soup. Its mee/noodles turned up to be the flat thick yellow mee usually used in Lor Mee which its texture added flavour to the soup without much seasoning required. Nice, warm bowl of mee hoon and noodles with good portion of bean sprouts, mushrooms, carrot & vegetables. :-)

Classic Lao Di Fang Vegetarian Restaurant PL

2010-12-04T03:18:00.000-08:00

Yes, returned to Classic Lao Di Fang again but this time for dinner (no buffet:P).

This round, Strongly recommend their Herbal Mushroom Soup, which had a nice herbal fragrance, with plenty of variety of mushrooms and wolf berries to warm the stomach.

Next was their Mango Pork Chop served on a hot-plate. The mango sauce was mild & I would think the hot-plate was more for presentation purpose without much of sizzling effect but I love their well-coated bread-crumb fried pork chop. Nicely fried bread-crumb skin and my friend complimented that the mock pork tasted like ham. The accompanying vegetables of broccoli, asparagus, bell peppers made it a beautiful & nutritious dish.

It is located at 9 Penang Rd, Park Mall, Basement 1, #B1-12, just turn left from the down escalator.
Tel: 6533 8959 Opens daily: 11.30am-3pm, 5pm-10pm
http://www.classicldf.sg/

Classic Lao Di Fang Vegetarian Restaurant PL

2010-11-23T07:41:00.000-08:00

Been long long time to have an enjoyable lunch at Classic Lao Di Fang, and finally had a chance to try their lunch buffet that is really Value for $$$ @ $12.80 (weekday) per pax.

Beware when you order, if you go in group of 4, if you choose many dishes at a go, they do not proportionately reduce the size of each main dish, but serve 4 person's share per dish or perhaps it could already be small size on their standard menu :P.

I would recommend to start with their herbal mushroom soup (*NIP), have a try on their authentic fried carrot cake under dim sum section (*NIP), Bailing Mushroom with Vegetables, Fried Spicy Mushrooms with Oats, and try to leave some capacity to end the meal with their delicious desserts which I would recommend their Sweet Corn with Water Chestnut.

We wish we had more time and capacity to try more dishes.

It's really Value for $ as for the same price, we could not had enjoyed as much dishes on Ala carte basis and for the buffet meal, there wasn't reduction in quality and quantity in my opinion.

We wish that the lunch buffet promotion could continue so that we could return to try more dishes.

*NIP: Not in picture

One could imagine what a wonderful spread we had with a number of other dishes not in picture & not mentioned above:P

It is located at 9 Penang Rd, Park Mall, Basement 1, #B1-12, just turn left from the down escalator.
Tel: 6533 8959
http://www.classicldf.sg/

Vegsenz

2010-11-23T05:58:00.000-08:00

Returning to Vegsenz, this time round, I would recommend their Mango Salad, which with good mixture of fresh vege such as Alfalfa, bell peppers, with black & white sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds & the mango cubes with nice sauce won my friends' praises. (one of the better salads that as a non-salad lover, also thumbs up for it :-) )

Next to recommend is their Tahu Goreng with Pumpkin sauce. Just simple steamed/boiled beancurb with thick satay tasted pumpkin sauce, simple & nutritious.
Vegsenz is certainly another great place for gathering where the staff is always ready to refill your water, and will provide you with convenience of sharing the food with friends. My high service standard demanding friend was very satisfied with their service and we enjoyed a good time. :-)

Vegsenz is located at The Verge, 2 Serangoon Road , #01-24/25/26 S(218227), Tel: 63920369
It is actually quite easy to find as once you are out from exit B/C? of Little India MRT station (the exit to Tekka Centre), it is not difficult to find the big words of "The Verge" on a modern building. However, Vegsenz is not on this tower nearer to MRT, it is actually located on another tower behind the 1st building.
It is actually quite near to Bugis too, just diagonally behind Sim Lim Square.

Happy Life Vegetarian

2010-11-10T03:35:00.000-08:00

Rejoice, another new vegetarian stall opened at Geylang, located at the same coffee-shop as Kwan Inn Vegetarian Food.

This new stall is called Happy Life Vegetarian which sells Special menu of the day like Nasi Lemak, and Tze Char. Strongly recommend what they called as Indian Rojak but was actually the most healthiest fried food that I had taken. Instead of just flour, it was more like the Japanese version of tempura of ladyfingers, brinjal, potato, tempeh & mixed vege slices. It came surprising without dripping oil and tasted very healthy and crispy, with a light peanut sauce that was fragrant with fine peanut pieces that one won't feel heatiness unlike conventional Indian Rojak sauce. I would definitely return again for this Indian Rojak!
We also tried their Stir-fry Vermicelli and Crispy Duck. (picture taken with some Noel effect from iphone:P) The Crispy Duck had top-skin well-fried and coated just like Miao Yi Vegetarian Restaurant's Vegetarian Suckling Pig except the down point was the 'meat' portion was actually gluten/soya based mock meat which I would prefer to be bean-curb skin based. I like their Vermicelli, with dark sauce gravy which was well-done.
This is really a healthy non-fusion stall that I would strongly recommend. :-)
There is also a new vegetarian tenant: Loving Heart which had just taken over the Chinn Seng Restaurant on the other side of the same HDB block. Looks like it is tough competition but real blessings for vegetarian patrons around the area...
It is located at corner coffee shop at Blk134 Geylang East Ave1, #01-229, 2nd bus stop from Aljunied Mrt. Opposite Tan Swie Hian Museum. Happy Life Vegetarian is located at the left corner, inside same coffee-shop which hosted Kwan Inn Vegetarian (KIV) for those who knew KIV better. It operates from 9am-9.30pm, rests on Wednesday.

Ming De Vegetarian

2010-10-24T06:02:00.000-07:00

A friend informed me of a new Vegetarian eatery shop near Lavender MRT, actually not new, was informed later that it is 1 year old already.

It has rice set menu ($3.50-$4) such as Tofu Braised in Soy Sauce which we ordered, Gong Bao Soy Chicken, Sweet & Sour Soy Pork etc. It also has a variety of Ala Carte Dishes of Vegetarian fish, meat, seafood and tofu at quite reasonable prices of $6 (S) - $14 (L).
The Braised Tofu tasted okay, not saltish but a pity the rice was not served steaming hot. The Vegetarian Sharks Fin Soup was quite nice and costed $5 for a big bowl that could serve 4-5. Very worth the price for the standard.:-)

Finally can have a quick dinner if going for Dharma Talk at the Tai Pei Buddhist Centre nearby during weekdays as it opens daily from 9.30am - 9.30pm.
However, pls note that they also serve eggs and hence important to inform them if you do not take eggs as they do not usually clarify and would serve the dishes with eggs by default. :-(

Ming De Vegetarian is located at Blk 808, French Road, #01-1171 S(200808)
(located at Kitchener Complex just behind Construction above Lavender MRT facing side road opposite Citylights)
It also does catering and can be contacted at 94551829/91074245.
Opens daily 9.30am-9.30pm

Taste of Natural

2010-10-23T06:21:00.000-07:00

It's a beautiful error, got lost in transit from NS line to EW MRT line and was considering having a quick dinner before attending a talk near Lavender MRT where there wasn't any vegetarian food nearby that I could recall, I decided to visit the Clifford Centre's Basement Banquet Foodcourt.

It was a vast difference from the day lunch crowd! In the evening, it was a peaceful sight. And if you reach before 7pm, you still have a variety to choose from. (most stalls' lights off after 7.15pm)

Menu of "Taste of Natural" seems to have increased from last visit and was recommended the Malay Gado Gado set (S$6) which the gravy was Cashew nut & Almond based verus normal peanut gravy.

Ingredients include some slices of baked beancurb, tempeh, brinjal, bean sprouts, boiled potato wedges, long bean & shreds of cucumber, carrot & lettuce. A very filling plate of fibre.

And the greeny soup as part of the set was Green Pea Soup! Nice & sweet , very green pea taste! :-)

Located at Basement 1 of Banquet Food Court, walk straight from escalator & you will see it at a far corner.
The Food Court is at 24 Raffles Place, #B1-08 Clifford Centre, Singapore 048621
Operating Hours: Monday to Friday : 8am to 7.30pm
Saturday : 8am to 4.30pm. Closed on Sundays as it is a location more catered for working crowds.

Bishan Vegetarian

2010-10-17T08:21:00.000-07:00

Yes, the latest Vegetarian stall that just opened in Bishan and its name is Bishan Vegetarian. Located just above the food centre above the Bus Interchange, Up from the colorful stairs near the traffic light, you can see it just beside a fishball noodles stall. It sells economical rice dishes as well as Lor Mee & Curry Noodles and some snacks. I tried their Curry Noodles ($3) which the diluted gavy is more of the Malay Lontong version, came with generous portion of mock char siew & duck pieces & fried goose pieces and the cabbage & long beans made it really "Lontong". :-)

Onn Vegetarian

2010-10-17T07:27:00.000-07:00

Craving for noodles, decided to visit this new vegetarian place that I read about nice noodles on this sunny weekend.
We tried their Vegetarian minced meat noodles ($3), it is the dark-sauced type rather than traditional Teochew vinegar type that i prefered but the noodles were Q. It came with beancurb alike pieces that tasted with fish cake texture, the marinated mushroom and the fried mock meat pieces which I suppose is their minced meat and their home-made green chilli made it a tryable dish.

As the picture on the stall made the Soup dumplings ($4) look so palatable like the home-made kind I was looking for, we ordered but was disappointed to find them to be those instant frozen type from suppliers. However, the soup was tasty that reduced the disappointment.

We also tried their Mee Rebus ($3) recommended, but the gravy was more like one of the Chinese gluey type of Lor Mee gravy verus traditional Malay Mee Rebus we usually associate the name with. Instead of having potato incorporated in the gravy, fried potato pieces (quite nice) was added to it, a unique variation. I do like their soup & may return for their Ban Mian which I think will come with their tasty soup base as the Soup Dumpling.

Stall is located at Corner Coffee-shop besides NTUC at Blk 5 Upper Boon Keng Road, just across the traffic light from Kallang MRT. Opens from 7am-8.30pm & closes on Sunday.

Ru Lai Zhai Vegetarian Food

2010-10-17T06:27:00.000-07:00

Decided to explore the Thomson/Shunfu estate after a visit to the area in the morning and recalled that there is this old Vegetarian stall: Ru Lai Zhai Vegetarian Food located at Blk 24 Sin Ming Road corner Coffee-shop (near multi-storey car-park) that my family used to visit often sometimes after temple visit at kmspks.

It is one of the pioneer Vegetarian stalls that sells Ala Carte Dishes.
My favourite dish then was their special "Fried Golden Dragon Fish" (sorry, may not be right name) which is Mashed potato in shape of fish fried until golden brown, very yummy, a dish which they usually prepare only on special days like the 1st & 15th of the Lunar month ...:-)

I am glad to find it still in operation in that coffee-shop but as being alone, I couldn't enjoy the popular ala carte dishes, hence I decided to order their Fried Hokkien Noddles ($3) . (Oh yes, again :P as I was looking for a good one :P )
Well, was quite surprised with their quick service which the noodles was served within 5 minutes? maybe because there wasn't a crowd then. Personally, i felt that the stock of the Hokkien noodles was good but the problem was it was not well absorbed by the noodles to make it authentic enough. But I think I will be back to try its other dishes again.
And guess what! On my way, I chanced upon a modern Vegetarian instant supply cum bookshop which sells a couple of my favourite vegetarian snacks. at the adjacent block 23A. So, you may do some shopping before or after your meal. :-)

Ru Lai Zhai is located at Blk 24 Sin Ming Road corner Coffee-shop #01-51 (near multi-storey car-park).
Opens daily 8am-9pm except day after 1st & 15th of Lunar month.

VeganBurg

2010-10-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

Heard much about the newly opened VeganBurg, Vegan Burger outlet, we finally made a trip to visit it, however out of the current 5 types of burgers featured on the menu, the only non-fried patty and non onion and non garlic version, the Hawaiian Pineapple burger that I had wanted to try was still not available.
Hence, we tried the fried patty version - Tangy Tartar & Cracked Pepper Mayo ($5.85/set $9.85 each).

The Tangy Tartar had a great resemblance to the Fish burger at McDonald, though the wholemeal bun was different, thanks to its Tartar sauce, you really felt like you are having McDonald Fish burger. :P

We prefered the Cracked Pepper Mayo for the patty texture & its marination of black pepper. The yummy healthy combination of Organic ciabatta with sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and walnuts also added points to it. The set includes fries and drinks. Fries were well-fried & of right thickness & we love it. However, the Juice drinks were considered expensive ($3.50 if separate order) that tasted like too much water added to syrup :P that one could hardly associate the fanciful fruit/vege with.

The minestrone soup (sorry, no picture posted as did not take a good picture of it) with discounted price at $2.50 with set meal purchase ($3.80 if not purchased with a set) is worth getting with the discount as it was thick & came with generous ingredients. The set plus a soup could be very filling even for a big-eater like myself and one could skip a meal after that.:P

Veganburg is located at 44 Jalan Eunos Singapore 419502 (http://www.veganburg.com/ for delivery info) Opening hours: Daily 11am-10pm Tel: 68446868.
From Eunos MRT, move all the way to end of MRT stretch of shops towards food centre/market & at the HDB with rows of coffeeshop, move towards right end to where the main road bus stop is, you can see opposite street, a row of shophouses beside a hugh temple, Fa Lun She. There it is Veganburg, a corner unit of the shophouse.

Dessert

2010-10-10T07:24:00.000-07:00

Four Season Ice - One of my favourite desserts ($2.50) whenever I have a crave for dessert during lunch hours. Contains my favourite Corn & Red Ruby at same time!
Amazed that with the great variety served by the dessert stall, how the owner can remember what ingredients to put.;-)

1st stall from main entrance of Food Court at Old Meridian Hotel or currently known as Concorde Hotel, 3 streets away from Centrepoint.

Vegsenz

2010-10-03T03:55:00.000-07:00

Finally managed to meet my Little India expert friend and Yes, off to explore Little India again.

This round, we decided to try Vegsenz which is located at The Verge. It is actually quite easy to find as once you are out from exit B/C? of Little India MRT station (the exit to Tekka Centre), it is not difficult to find the big words of "The Verge" on a modern building. However, Vegsenz is not on this tower nearer to MRT, it is actually located on another tower behind the 1st building.

Walking along to find the shop, suddenly a different picture appeared before one, and there it is, a very Green & Refreshing looking cafe, its shop-front is a great contrast before the Sungei road which has construction going on. It is actually quite near to Bugis, just diagonally behind Sim Lim Square.

Stepping into the shop, a bright & cheerful environment welcomes one and we are immediately served with glasses of water and colorful menu.:-)

The theme is Organic Fusion food, so organic brown rice set, noodles & burgers are on their menu. Decided to have a try at their Mixed Vegetable Soup ($3.50) which tasted like combo non-sour Sichuan soup of starchy version with ingredients of wolfberries, strips of beancurb, black fungus & mushroom slices. The soup already has a strong sensation taste so there was no need to add the black vinegar provided which actually spoilts the taste when added.

We had a try of their Organic Baked Burger ($7) which is quite unique as the filling is actually folds of fried beancurb sheets together with usual ingredients of tomatoes & cucumber slices. However, the slices could not cover the saltishness of the beancurb sheets which was saved by eating the palatable and refreshing side salad of alfafa, carrot and beetroot. The creativity of the burger verus traditional fried potato or mock meat platter is actually quite recommendable.

Next, we had the Five Colorful Appetising Noodles ($8.50) which was served to us like an errupting volcano shape. We thought it might be like the Salad Soba served at New Green Pastures Cafe where the earlier burger's similar refreshing salad was put on top of the noodles but it was more interesting as when we mix the noodles, we discovered there were at least 3 types of colour noodles in the dish: white, green & black. It is actually a cold noodle dish and would had been more appetising for me if the sauce to mix the salad & noodles could be abit less sweet and less overwhelming to overide the refreshing taste of the salad and the cold noodles.

This is certainly another great place to recommend for gathering as it opens daily from 10am-10pm and has great relaxing atmosphere with quite good service. :-)

Vegsenz is located at The Verge, 2 Serangoon Road , #01-24/25/26 S(218227), Tel: 63920369

Hokkien Vegetarian food

2010-09-19T07:43:00.000-07:00

Always on the look out for any new vegetarian food stalls in new eatery places that I passby. Was just curious as usual that day to take a quick look at the new renovated coffee-shop near the traffic light before crossing over to Chinatown at the corner of Pearls Centre & there it is, a new stall named Hokkien Vegetarian.

Okay, so it must be a stall good at Hokkien dishes so I decided to try its Fried Hokkien Noodles ($3.50) . Well, it is a good big plate which taste wise okay lah but abit too dry in my opinion without the right portion of gravy stock. Its picture of Mee Goreng on the poster looks much interesting, maybe I will try that next round. :P

Located inside coffeeshop near traffic light to cross to Chinatown,

100 Eu Tong Sen Street, Pearls Centre, Spore 059812
(The building nearest to Outram MRT)

素满园 Su Man Yuan Vegetarian

2010-09-19T07:15:00.000-07:00

Sinfully oily but tasty & spicy:P No fancy ingredients but Nice hot taupok that greatly absorbed the laksa gravy with some sprinkle of the laksa leaves is just what is required to make a delicious bowl of good laksa. :-)

Located at the corner Food Court at Basement 1 of People's Park Centre (Opp Chinatown Point), towards near left corner of the food court.

Ci Hang Western & Chinese Vegetarian Fast Food

2010-08-24T08:31:00.000-07:00

That's a sunny day & the nearest air-conditioned vegetarian place to have our "hi-tea" would be Ci Hang which is air-conditioned. However, was tempted to have an early dinner instead & I managed to try two of my favourite dishes there - Tom Yam Fried Rice & Fried Bean curb skin rolls. Ok, sorry, they don't look nice in presentation but tasted certainly better than the look.:P

It's pity the Tom Yam flavour of the Fried rice this round was not as strong a flavour as it used to be or I could had better enjoyed the meal. The bean curb skin roll tasted still as good & the centre plate of chilli had the most authentic resemblance of a good chicken rice chilli that we requested for a second plate for dip. :-)

But what made the food more palatable is the great company, a good reunion session.:-)

It is located at Lorong 25-A Geylang, along 1st stretch of shop-houses besides Aljunied MRT.
Tel: 6747 1229. Closed on Fridays.

Yuan Yuan Vegetarian (缘缘素食斋)

2010-08-24T08:10:00.001-07:00

Oh Yes, finally Yuan Yuan Vegetarian reopened after its renovation from a coffee shop to an air-conditioned place. Visited it for lunch & again ordered our all time favourite Green curry. Though color not as green as last seen, taste still authentic & ingredients much increased with more bean curb pieces being added to the mushroom, cauliflowers and baby corns.
Another new dish we tried is their Spicy Chilli Brinjal dish which I would strongly recommend for spicy lovers. The brinjals smooth & soft & the spicy sauce was simply superb to complement their brown rice. Yummy!

It is located at a competitive place, #45 Geylang Lor 27, at a corner coffeeshop on 2nd stretch of shophouses from Aljunied MRT, beside the HeJi Bao coffeshop or bus stop of Aljunied MRT. Same stretch as Yes Natural but nearer to main road. Including it, there are 2 vegetarian cafe & 3 vegetarian stalls just along 2 stretch of shophouses from Aljunied MRT.
It rests on Monday, opens fr 10.30am to 10pm.

NutriHub the organic fusion cafe

2010-08-17T08:09:00.000-07:00

Oh Yes, Long time not been to Nutrihub & signal received for the day that I need some healthy food so here I am to try the long absented healthy brown rice set of Nutrihub.
Yummy Buckwheat brown rice with pumpkin (abit cold which could had tasted better if warm), fresh caixin & carrot salad with unique tasty sauce.:-) And the weird taste 5/7 bean/grain soup which supposedly should be very nutritious.:P

Feel very healthy but still hungry after the meal. :P

Good for those on diet which I suppose I should be going on one soon , sob:-}, longtime no see friend commented that I look more "prosperous" again.;-PP

So sad Nutrihub moved away from Orchard to new address at 46 Temple street near Chinatown MRT from mid Jun 2011....

Xiu Yuan Good Food Cafe

2010-08-07T06:34:00.000-07:00

Visited Bugis area & S has craving for Dry noodles and in good mood to try vegetarian version as well. So I brought her to Fortune Centre & we found Vegetarian Mushroom Minced Meat Noodles and Zha Jiang Noodles on the new vendor, Xiu Yuan' s menu.

The red bowl contained the Vegetarian Mushroom Minced Meat Noodles, noodles well cooked, smooth & gravy nice with fragrant slices of mushroom, phew, passed the test of S who is a dry noodles lover.

The Zha Jiang Noodles' gravy and mock ingredients was saltish as required & went well with the Lamian, but in comparison, we prefer the slim noodles used in the Vegetarian Mushroom Minced Meat to the Lamian used in the Zha Jiang Mian. This shop does also sell a great variety of dishes just like its neighbor, Pine Tree Cafe.

(I was told Xiu Yuan had just replaced Piao Xiang Vegetarian Food about a month plus while Piao Xiang had moved to level1, #01-01, near the entrance. As it maintained similar old setting & has similar menu as Piao Xiang, one could hardly notice the change of owners.)

It is located at 190 Middle Road, #03-03 (Fortune Centre), Singapore 188979
Opening Hours: Mon - Sun: 8.30am - 8.30pm, last order

Shun Fu Vegetarian

2010-07-30T08:55:00.000-07:00

Revisited the stall for lunch. Much convenient now to visit via the new Circle line station: Marymount & good job by HDB on the upgrading of facilities to have sheltered linkage all the way to Shunfu Market via the HDB blocks.

For 3 dishes with brown rice, it costed $3. I like their mock cuttlefish slices which were well-cooked with dark sauce with the right texture. The fried cauliflower pieces were crispy, but one could hardly taste the cauliflower inside, the green vege, kailan, was fresh & well-cooked.

And near the lift area, there is a drink-stall that sells home-made barley drink at only $0.50. Where to find now?:P

The Vegetarian stall is located near the main entrance of the food centre facing the road/carpark at level 2 of Shunfu Market.

Ru Yi Yuan Vegetarian

2010-07-23T22:13:00.000-07:00

Whenever I visit Redhill MRT market, I would passby this coffeeshop located opposite the Redhill Market. It is always crowded & especially this Ru Yi Yuan Vegetarian stall that attracts long queue even on non-vegetarian days of 1st & 15th day of lunar month.

Finally, decided to spend time to queue for it. It's quite a good portion at $2/2.50 & it has many interesting looking mock products which I added my favourite compressed beancurb skin dish which just costed a dollar more. :-) The meehoon is still okay but the variety of standard side dishes which is quite tasty is their sellng point.

It is located at Blk 80 Redhill Lane Coffeeshop, opposite the Market, about 5 mins walk from Redhill MRT.

素满园 Su Man Yuan Vegetarian

2010-07-17T06:59:00.000-07:00

Visited People's Park centre again & this round tried another Vegetarian Stall at the B1 corner Food Court instead of the Center one. It has a interesting caption on its stall :
素满人间食满楼
They don't serve stir-fry dishes when I visited today so no choice but to have its economical rice.
What a good variety of dishes they have to choose from & I ordered brown rice with curry cabbage, brinjal & braised bean curb and requested for their Assam fish gravy. Their curry was very fragrant (Indian style) & strongly recommend their brinjal stir-fried & cooked with sesame and red barbecue sauce (tasted like char siew alike sauce) and their Assam gravy very appetising with the rice. Their free bowl of warm soup of white & red carrot cubes & soy bean added points to make it a very satisfying meal at only $3! Brown rice with 3 dishes and soup, very reasonable with great variety of appetising dishes to choose from! Will surely return again.:-)

Located at the corner Food Court at Basement 1 of People's Park Centre (Opp Chinatown Point), towards near left corner of the food court.

Just Green Vegetarian Food (Tampines)

2010-07-14T07:04:00.000-07:00

This is the expensive stall that Missveg recommended at 8 Tampines Central Eastlink Foodcourt.

Yes, 1 whole piece beancurb (with gravy) & 2 vege with brown rice costed $5! I must had got the same bean curb dish that she ordered.

Well, although the fried bean curb (tou gan) was quite tasty, it definitely is expensive! The stall does have a good variety of dishes, so unless you want to pamper yourself, if you don't order the brown rice & have those mapo toufu pieces in place of the whole piece bean curb, it will cost around $3.50.

And the pictures on the stall reminded me of the Just Green Vegetarian Food stall at Takashimaya that closed! Okay, I will try their stirfry dishes if I have the chance to visit Tampines again.

Chuan Ren Vegetarian Food at Bt Merah Central

2010-07-11T03:46:00.000-07:00

There had been alot of changes in the old Bt Merah Central that I used to frequent years ago, especially on the Vegetarian stalls, they had all ceased operation. :-(
This is a new stall that I noticed at the coffee shop opposite the Hawker centre.
When I saw the name, I thought this may be run by a fan of Ven. Chuan Ren:-)
Friend ordered their economical rice & regreted as the dishes were cold while I was glad I ordered their Menu of the day: Lor Mee, which came hot, tastewise okay, can try.:-]

Located at Coffeeshop at Blk 165, Bt Merah central, just opposite the Hawker center.

Ci Neng Vegn Food at People's Park Centre B1 Center Food Court

2010-07-10T06:13:00.000-07:00

Visited People's Park Centre a couple of weeks ago & glad to find the stall still in operation.:-)

Decided to try their Vegetarian Pork Ribs (肉骨) or mutton soup noodles (sorry, too long ago that I forgot is which:P). But I do recall the mock meat as per picture look & tasted very much like those mock mutton pieces, soup wise, I recall was quite nice with wolf berries and bean sprouts & lettuce.

Attracted by the display of their Vegetarian Roasted Chicken Rice, so glutton me decided to pack that for dinner. Looks very real, right? Aiyo, I was having much expectation only to discover it's those small vegetarian fried drumstick made of beancurb skin, but the presentation was good & the rice was quite nice, with great resemblance, and it comes with a good portion of cabbage. Overall, worth a try. :-)

Located at the center Food Court at Basement 1 of People's Park Centre (Opp Chinatown Point), amidst the many tour agencies.

Gourmet Paradise, Toa Payoh HDB Hub Food Court

2010-07-10T04:59:00.000-07:00

Bak Choy (minced meat) Mee Tai Mak or Mee Hoon is one of their later addition as special menu on Saturday. Nice portion of vinegar which is a must for nice Bak Choy noodles, with minced meat which tasted like otak with abit of spiciness (which I wonder if has egg ingredients inside as the stall does sell eggs as well ) , some mushroom slices and their ever crispy vegetarian fried "goose pieces".

On the menu of the day also, is vegetarian porridge which I noticed is actually congee style of porridge which looked good & finished fast just after lunch hours. (Greedy me with soft spot for congee had wanted to pack it home to try but was disappointed to find it fully sold. Next time perhaps...:P )

The food court is located at B1 of HDB Hub. You can either enter thru basement car park entrance or from entrance besides McDonald from Bus interchange. It is located at a corner nearer to basement car park entrance.

Taste of Natural

2010-06-26T01:37:00.000-07:00

The Clifford Centre's Basement Banquet Food Court is a rare! With not only 1 but 3 vegetarian stalls in it!
The House of Vegetarian (Asian) , Komala's Deli (Indian) near the escalator, and at the other corner, Taste of Natural (Organic Fusion).

Decided to have a trial on Taste of Natural's Shepherd's Pie set which comes with salad & a bowl of soup at S$6. There's choice of pumpkin or potato & yes, I chose pumpkin.
The Tomato Soup tasted ok, may be because I already had too much instant tomato soup past few weeks, salad ave but the Shepherd's Pie was nice, the mashed pumpkin on top of the minced vegetarian meat which had a spark of spiciness. Quite filling & worth the price as a set.

Located at Basement 1 of Banquet Food Court, walk straight from escalator & you will see it at a far corner.
The Food Court is at 24 Raffles Place, #B1-08 Clifford Centre, Singapore 048621
Operating Hours: Monday to Friday : 8am to 7.30pm
Saturday : 8am to 4.30pm. Closed on Sundays as it is a location more catered for working crowds.

一心素食, Chinatown

2010-05-30T09:04:00.000-07:00

To-date, in my opinion, Best replica of mock products would be the vegetarian prawn or sotong balls. This could be because the actual product also added in the flour component.
Luring non-vegetarians to agree vegetarian food taste as good & alike, one could consider the fried prawn balls, coated with breadcrumbs, well fried, without disclosing it as the non-vegetarian version, one can hardly tell the difference. The crispy fried vermicelli besides the balls as garnish played also a part in enhancing the flavour of the dish.

Another dish being recommended by the staff, the fried abalone mushroom with lemon sauce.
The lemon sauce on top reduces the oiliness taste of the fried mushrooms, also a dish easily accepted by all. If an additional saucer of lemon sauce made available to dip separately for those who love it, it would had added more points.

ZEN Japanese Vegetarian Restaurant

2010-05-22T05:19:00.000-07:00

Much had been talked about the new ZEN Japanese Vegetarian Restaurant among the Vegetarian bloggers. Finally, visited it this weekend with non-vegetarian folks.

The vegetarian Salmon Sashimi! What a look alike & what a taste alike! Had not touched it for years but with testimonial from non-vegetarian Japanese food lover folks, they too were surprised with the taste. Still defrosting when served to us, the coolness & freshness with the bite & taste of salmon slowly savouring in one's mouth. Even without the wasabi & soy sauce, it already tasted like the real version & was told it was made from beancurb, which one couldn't guess from the taste. (However, request from them to serve you in half derfrost stage as if they are being served to you in complete defrost mode, they won't taste as nice & you could easily guess the ingredients, best eaten when still in process of defrosting :P) Next, the vegetarian Unagi Don set. The refreshing salad and pickles with non-saltish soup and the vegetarian Unagi which also made of beancurb were complimented by the non-vegetarians. So, it is the sweet sauce that made the dish, not the poor eel~, leave it alone from now on...

For me, I preferred the vegetarian Katsu Curry Udon set. Finally, I could eat heartily the Japanese style Curry as the non-vegetarian version usually contains onion & beef extract. Well cooked udon goes well with more liquid style of curry with good portion of carrots, vege & mushroom. The Katsu or deep-fried pork cutlet well coated & fried had the right thickness of "meat" texture tasted so far of mock meat. The pickles and the small portion of strawberries, water-melon & honey-dew made the sets a complete satisfying meal, value for money with prices comparable to non-vegetarian Japanese restaurants.
Their alacarte side dishes, however, may be slightly more expensive in comparison but some specialty like the salmon sashimi is worth trying.

It is a small shop, so on a weekend, calling in advance for reservation is recommended.

Address: 122 Middle Road, #02-02, Midlink Plaza, S'pore 188973 (Opp Fortune Centre, towards Bugis direction)
Opening hours: 11.30am-10pm.

Tel: 6883 1586

Yi Xing Cuisine

2010-05-21T08:31:00.001-07:00

I saw some patrons ordered their Hor Fun which looked reasonable well-fried and yet wanted something other than plain Hor-Fun. Recalling that there had been a few online comments that some of Yi Xing Cuisine's dishes were saltish. Deciding that since it is famous in that aspect, I should try something that needs a spark of saltiness for flavour. Hence I ordered and glad that they have it: Black bean sauced Hor Fun!

The Black beans (Dou Si) are not always available in some stalls so I was quite happy when they are available. For the plate that I had, the fried Hor-fun was quite fragrantly fried & soft & chewy, standard exceeding my expectations, and well-absorbing the black bean gravy which was well cooked. It was a good match! :-) And adding some of their in-house chilli paste & chilli slices, yummy!

It is located at HDB behind Bishan CPF building & Library, steps away from S11 coffee shop: 505A Bishan Street 11 #01-440 Singapore 570505.

Pine Tree Cafe (Fortune Centre)

2010-05-21T08:11:00.000-07:00

I guess now when I visit the Bugis area on Sunday & want a quick lunch in an air-conditioned area, Pine Tree Cafe would be a good choice. Its immediate neighbors, the other vegetarian shops on 2nd level of Fortune Centre, are closed on Sundays, and hence the "packedness" feeling on other days will not be there.

We had a good try on the vegetarian curry fish-head and chicken-chop noodles.
The curry gravy was quite thick with my favourite vegetables: the brinjals & lady-fingers & the "fish-head" are those compressed beancurd skin slices. Very appetising to go with the rice.
The noodles were quite "Q" (springy) and the taste of the vegetarian chicken chops were quite nice.

It is located at 190 Middle Rd, #02-13 (Fortune centre)
Opening hours: 10am-9pm

Vesak@Orchard Vegetarian Food fair

2010-05-07T22:31:00.000-07:00

This is my favourite Vegetarian Food Fair where many nice International Vegetarian food can be tasted!

Popular brands such as Yes Natural's Pocket Salad, KwanYin Zhai Vegetarian 's Laksa, Vegetarian Ice-cream, and my most missed premium Japanese vegetarian fruit sushi that melts in one's mouth, vegetarian hand-roll, 1 mouth's bite fried mantou with vegetarian ham, the mini tomato and vegetarian hot-dog stick with its unique sweet & sour sauce, Vegetarian Rojak, Nasi Byrani, etc. !!!

The Avocado & Dragon fruit sushi is a must Try! Though the price is abit steep but certainly worth it! How I miss sushi handroll & this is certainly the place where I can satisfy my crave for vegetarian sushi!

Be There Early before they are sold off!

Oh, there are a number of booth selling Vegetarian supplies and snacks too!

The Vegetarian Food Fair is located just outside Ngee Ann City, Orchard Rd as part of Vesak@Orchard celebration from 8-9 May 2010. (Sun's event officially ends at 5pm but based on past years' experiences, the food was usually gone before then!)

One good effort by the organiser this year in their effort to save the Earth is commendable! They have volunteers stationed near the disposal bins to help segregate the waste and Sadhu x3 to all the volunteers!

Having enjoyed your meals that satisfy your physical body, pls don't forget to visit the Free Book Distribution booth located beside the Leshan Buddha this year that has numerous priceless gems that satisfies your spiritual mind too! :-) And do bring along your own recycled bag to carry the gems back!:-)

Gourmet Paradise, Toa Payoh HDB Hub Food Court

2010-05-01T01:53:00.000-07:00

Had earlier mistaken that after Gourmet Paradise's recent renovation, the old stall was replaced as the menu seemed to have changed with big posters of their new menu of Black Pepper Vegetarian Chicken set and Vegetarian Sweet & Sour Pork Brown Rice set.

Their menu of the day stills retains but now at a higher price of $3 instead of before renovation of $2.50. Their Economical rice had also inceased to ave of $3.30.

Decided to try their new Vegetarian pork brown rice set (at $4.30!) that comes with small bowl of soup, brown rice, cabbage & a small plate of sweet & sour vegetarian pork which tasted like well-fried flour coated button mushrooms and mock meat. Nice but will be more value for money if the portion is more. :P

The food court is located at B1 of HDB Hub. You can either enter thru basement car park entrance or from entrance besides McDonald from Bus interchange.

Piao Xiang Vegetarian Food

2010-05-01T01:31:00.000-07:00

Another Vegetarian Coffee-shop located at #02 (moved to #01-01) of Fortune Centre, Piao Xiang Vegetarian Food, is also another popular Tze Char stall for Vegetarians who visit the Bugis area.Tried their Pineapple Fried Rice the other day which was quite nice with vegetarian meat-floss sprinkled on top of the fried rice. :-)

It had moved from level2 to level1, #01-01 of Fortune Centre, S188979
Opening Hours: Mon - Sun: 8.30am - 7.30pm

Fu Yuan Vegetarian Food

2010-04-24T22:03:00.000-07:00

Visited ABC Brickworks Food Centre, located at 6 Jalan Bukit Merah, located between Bt Merah Central & old Safra for breakfast. There are 2 stalls of vegetarian stalls in this popular food centre. Craving for something spicy, I decided to patronise this centre stall that has Mee Siam on its Special menu of the day. The gravy is very authentic with just nice sourness & sweetness required of a good Mee Siam. A pity they did not cover their mee hoon with enough gravy. Or else if well soaked with the gravy, it would had won more points.

Nature Vegetarian (Sin Ming Ave)

2010-04-10T06:41:00.001-07:00

Met up with a few friends and that's good opportunity to try Nature Vegetarian's Ala Carte menu again. Ordered their Vegetarian Cereal Prawn and their prawns were those instant frozen floury prawns instead of beancurb skin type, despite that, the oats & curry leaves were well cooked & overall quite an enjoyable dish.

Their Hot-plate Beancurb looked not as interesting but it was those braised or "Hong Shao" style of beancurb that added points to the dish, and would be excellent if they had added more pieces of it. :-P
Their spicy Sambal Sweet-potato Leaves though not really of sambal taste was really spicy that would cause one to take more rice.... :-)

The coffee shop is located at 409 Sin Ming Ave, #02-01 (Opp Bright Hill temple)
Opening hrs: 7am to 9.30pm

Fancy Vegetarian Food stall at Lucky Plaza

2010-04-10T06:25:00.000-07:00

Been ages since last tried Fancy Vegetarian as my lunchmates do not really like to walk this far.

Great variety of dishes they have and on the day of visit, besides the normal fried noodles, they also had this Fried Hokkien Noodles & Mee Hoon as well as Fried rice. I thought they would charge more for the Hokkien noodles but still $2.80 with 3 dishes & nice curry gravy that they had that went well with the Hokkien noodles.:-) Long queue develops during lunch hours so it is recommended either be there early or late to avoid the crowd in the coffee shop.

This "coffee shop" is located to the further right of Asian Food Mall, just walk further right from the Food Mall and you will find this shop towards direction of the right entrance of Lucky Plaza.

Luo Han Vegetarian Health Food

2010-04-04T03:45:00.000-07:00

Located near the escalator of #01 of Fortune Centre, this shop sells a great variety of vegetarian dishes, even with a specialised counter selling La Mian. However, was more in a rice mood for dinner today & scanning through their menu, noticed this interesting Curry Leaves Fried Rice. I love dishes with curry leaves, hence immediately ordered a packet of it.

It turned out to be a curry flavoured fried rice that each grain of rice is well immersed with curry flavour. Very appetising with the curry taste which is non-spicy at all to me. There are a few curry leaves but does not taste as good as when with the vegetarian oats prawns but overall the fried rice tasted soft and good and recommendable to try.:-)

It is located at 190 Middle Road, #01-13/14 (Fortune Centre), Singapore 188979
Tel: 63331612
Opening Hours: Mon - Sun: 8am - 8.30pm

Pine Tree Cafe (Fortune Centre)

2010-04-04T03:20:00.000-07:00

Visited Fortune Centre again and found that all food places at #2 were closed except for Pine Tree Cafe. Decided to try their vegetarian Bak Kut Teh soup and Fried Wonton.

From picture, the soup looked meaty but was mainly dried beancurb skins cooked and a few pieces of mock mutton, 2 slices of chopped corn and good portion of lettuce. The soup is with very mild herbal taste and you can see wolfberries also added from the picture.
The fried wontons were crispy with main focus on the well-fried crispiness of the skin rather than their fillings which tasted liked smashed beancurb filling. Worth trying at $3 per plate.:-)

It is located at 190 Middle Rd, #02-13 (Fortune centre)

慈缘轩 (Ci Yan Xuan) Chinatown

2010-04-03T01:30:00.001-07:00

Longing for an air-conditioned place to have a less perspiring and quick dinner, Ci Yan Xuan is my top-choice around Chinatown area. Their menu for the day had Corn & Carrot Soup Noodles and I ordered that. A full bowl of white & red carrot, 2 slices of chopped corn, some mock meat and hidden below the ingredients were the similar type of flat "white jade" noodles used for their cold noodles.
It was very satisifying!:-)

Their delicious looking fruit & vegetable salad from next table attracted my attention & I went back with my friend for supper. :P
Generous plate with vegetables and fruits included cubes of mango, pears, Fuji-apple?
Very crunchy, and with the fresh vegetables was one of the more satisfying salad that I had tried so far. The dressing very similar taste as the Thousand Island if less diluted and stronger in taste would have added more points.

Address: 8 Smith Street (shophouse near end of Food Street)
Tel: 6225 9026 (If you want to confirm menu of the day:P)
Usual Opening Hours: 12pm-10pm

佳明素食 (Concorde Hotel Food Court)

2010-04-03T01:10:00.000-07:00

I start to love their brown rice which is soft and their wide variety of dishes to choose from. Generally, the brown rice with any 3 vegetables cost around $3.50 and with a bowl of soup. Can also see increasing Indian patrons visiting the stall.
Ordered their Fried Hokkien noodles for dinner the other day, the lady cook being less stressed compared to lunch hours could cook up more delicious meal. It did tasted like Fried Hokkien noodles & tempted by the tempeh and bean curb from their economical rice dishes, I ordered that too.:-)

Forest Dew Vegetarian Restaurant

2010-03-13T03:58:00.000-08:00

Although the degree of fieriness of Forest Dew's vegetarian Fried Kway Teow had decreased from my 1st trial, the standard is still better than alot of vegetarian and non-vegetarian stalls. :-)

Try it! :-)

Forest Dew is located at Blk 23, #01-523 Bendemeer Rd, beside Kallang community centre & nearest MRT is Boon Keng MRT, open daily to 10pm.

园香素食 Yuan Xiang Vegetarian

2010-03-13T03:36:00.001-08:00

The best place to have vegetarian supper if you are at Bugis area will be this food court located opposite Bras Basah complex. Shared this vegetarian satay dish with a friend who did not even realise that what we were eating was vegetarian. Look & taste wise is so far the best replica I had for vegetarian satay!:-)

The stall is located at the food centre just opposite Bras Basah Complex.

Fo Lai Ping (Popular) Vegetarian

2010-03-06T04:48:00.000-08:00

I had seen patrons ordered this dish & giving their thumbs up when they sampled. So, in my next visit, I ordered this vegetarian Sweet & Sour Pork (S$6) which really also let me put a thumb up and hmmm....very good culinary skill that captured the essence of the dish.
The only tiny setback that could also happened to the meat version is that they should had used the "less meaty but fatty" ingredient. :P But still a dish strongly recommended to try as the exterior is really very well-cooked.:-)

I usually only order this Luohanzhai (Mixed Vegetables) in a non-vegetarian eatery place but not knowing what to order, my friend ordered this. At $4, this was also surprisingly authentically cooked with generous portion of abalone mushroom, black fungus and green vegetables. Nice!:-)

Located near the lift lobby of Blk109, Lor 1 Toa Payoh, (same stretch as POSB & McDonald), HDB flat from Exit A of Braddell MRT.

LivinGreens Cafe

2010-02-27T22:33:00.000-08:00

I have a non-vegetarian friend who has the opinion that nice vegetarian food are nice but oily or must be plain and tasteless so in order to correct her perception, I have to be careful in my choice to recommend her a good vegetarian place to correct her misconception.
I have heard much about LivinGreens and a quick search on their menu on their web : http://www.livingreens.com.sg/ , it seems to be the ideal place that could help me.
We met at Bugis MRT & took a 15min stroll (2 bus-stop from Bugis Junction) along Beach Road. It's located along a stretch of shop houses opposite The Concourse, being 2nd shop house beside the famous Bah Kut Teh corner coffee-shop.

They have a variety of salad that sounds interesting but on a safe side, as not a salad lover myself, we decided on the popular Sushi Roll found in most Fusion vegetarian cafe. It is a good starter choice as my friend enjoyed the freshness & crunchiness of the vegetables rolled in the Nori-seaweed.

Xiao Long Bao! Strongly recommended by the lady boss to try. The skin was thin and the mashed bean curb with some vegetables & their secret recipe of yogurt to create a meat resemblence won all praises from my friend. I guess one important ingredient was finely chopped water-chestnut that helps to make a good dumpling for a meat or vegetarian version. The only regret is that Xiao Long Bao is to contain some soup which the version they had was without/little to further close the gap of resemblance.

Still I miss the authentic Lasagna which in most western food restaurant doesn't have the vegetarian version. LivinGreen's come in a shape with an otah-like top with very soft filling of green and red pepper, mushroom and what we thought looked and tasted like brinjal though not listed in the ingredients on their menu. Quite nice with a good portion of salad.

Fried Green Curry Spaghetti, very strong Red curry flavour instead of Green curry taste in my opinion but the Sembolina spaghetti was well-cooked.

My non-vegetarian friend was overall very satisfied with the dishes and commented that this is the best vegetarian meal she had ever tried so far. So, mission accomplished! :-)
We felt that the only setback is their location, it would be more popular if located at more town or accessible area and will be a hit to the growing population of vegetarians and non-vegetarians looking for palatable, healthy food.
It's a great place for gathering too but may not be so not for a weekday nite as it closes around 8.30pm so one has to move to another place for dessert or drink if rushing down from work.

The Cafe is located at 325 Beach Road (Opposite the Concourse).
Open Mon-Sat 11am-8.30pm. Near 2nd bus-stop (bus 100, 107) from Bugis Junction towards Beach Road. Contact: 63965523; web: http://www.livingreens.com.sg/

Miao Yin Vegetarian

2010-02-21T07:03:00.000-08:00

Was craving for Western Food, hence was grateful to S who was at Bugis to help pack their Vegetarian Fish & Chips for dinner.
It came with generous portion of fries, with 2 deeply fried breaded mock fish which the mock fish was most likely a soy product. If not overly fried that had caused it to be too dry & chewy, the texture of the mock meat could be comparable to the McDonald's Mac-Chicken taste that is fading from my memory. Worth a try but must remind them not to overfry the vegetarian fish should you order next round.

Address: Blk 1, Rocher Rd, #01-506 Kopitiam (Rocher centre corner coffeeshop, 2 doors away from the vegetarian cake house, opp Bugis OG, near the famous Simaru Guan Yin Temple)