Piore

Had long heard about Piore, a new healthy vegetarian place that I finally touch base with & I was surprised to see such a nice Vegetarian supply cum eatery shop in a HDB block.
As it was near closing time, their Daily specials were sold out and a couple of attractive dishes such as the Baked Cheese Pasta & Pizza were not available. Only Tom Yum Fried Noodles/Mee hoon & Miso Soup noodles were left. The Tom Yum Fried Noodles was a good choice. It looked yummy & tasty with Taiwanese Lamian used as the noodles and it tasted good with well cooked texture. The Tom Yum paste was not spicy but appetising and a good portion of ingredients such as caixin, tomatoes and slices of monkey-head mushrooms with other mock products made it into an attractive dish.
And they have good service including serving free refillable drinking water which may be vinegar water or lemongrass drinks depending on supply.
Certainly will return to try other dishes such as its Daily special of Wonton noodles, Laksa, etc. which a regular there recommended. :-)

Located at Blk3, Queens's Road, #02-163, Spore 260003 near the Farrer MRT & food market.
Tel: 64744047. Opens ard 11am-7.30pm. Closes on Sunday.

Discounts!

A newspaper notice by Spore Buddhist Lodge on the Celebration Day of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (Dizang Pusa) on 4 Sep 2013 and advocates Vegetarian.

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It welcomes all Buddhist & non Buddhists to visit its temple premise for free vegetarian food.
And from 4 Sep - 22 Oct 2013, 10% discount will be provided to patrons with the attached notice coupons at following Vegetarian Restaurants .

Graces Court Cuisine 鸿阁素食馆
Hotel Royals@Queens
12 Queen Street, #02-03
Spore 188553
Tel: 8238 5085

Miao Yi 妙益素食楼
587 Bukit Timah Rd Coronation Shopping Plaza
#03-01/02 Spore 269707
Tel: 6467 1331

Ci Yan Xuan 慈缘轩
8 Smith Street Spore 058917 (shop house near end of Food Street)
Tel: 6225 9026

Happy Realm Vegetarian Restaurant 素食林
100 Eu Tong Sen Street,
#03-16 Pearls Centre, Spore 059812
(The building near Outram MRT)
Tel: 6222 6141

Fo You Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant 佛有缘素食馆
20 Geylang Lorong 1, Spore 388712
Tel: 6744 8009


So lets make them your venue for next gathering!
(you may click on the restaurant name links on posts of them)

Spore Buddhist Lodge is also encouraging other interested vegetarian restaurants to join in this discount drive for future Celebration Days by contacting them at tel: 6737 2630. Do join in to encourage vegetarian patrons... ;-)

素满园 (Kopitiam at Plaza Singapura)

A patron eating the Vegetarian Hor Fun caught my attention and I decided to order the same. Quite a good choice with flavourful gravy & well-cooked with variety of ingredients. And while eating, it attracted attention of another patron to ask which stall I ordered for. Certainly a dish that I will return for.

Vegetarian at Northpoint Kopitiam Foodcourt

Seeing more vegetarian at food court simply named as "Vegetarian Food" without brand name.
Likewise for this stall at Kopitiam food court of Northpoint shopping mall, opposite Yishun MRT.
On right of its list of Stir-fry dishes' menu, the big picture of Western food - Fish & Chips did catch my attention, It doesn't look like traditional Fish & Chips but more like vegetarian pork chop. Curious, I ordered but what came out looks like traditional vegetarian mock fish and indeed the instant frozen soybean based type found in most stalls. Nevertheless. quite worth the money of $5.50, being 2 big pieces well fried fish and generous serving of fries and coleslaw & beans. I do like its coleslaw, refreshing & crunchy to curd the guiltiness of the fried food. :-)

Gokul (Fortune Centre)

It's always a blessing to be able to enjoy Indian food at Gokul (Fortune Centre #01) without worries of 5 pungent plant consumption (such as onion & garlic). Besides Indian food, Gokul has extended menu to Chinese & Malay food as well as Western Food (burger).
I had long missed Meehoon/Mee Soto Soup and was glad to find Gokul at Fortune Centre offers the dish. It was cooked on spot with thick gravy which I suspect may be same stock base as their Indian mutton soup but it did have that spark of traditional Mee Soto Soup base though thicker version. A big bowl with generous serving with  bean curd, taupok & variety of mock ingredients.
Recommend their thick ginger tea too :-)

Vegetarian at Blk 73 Toa Payoh Lor 4 Corner Coffeeshop

Finally had a chance to explore out of Toa Payoh (TP) central, a street across the TP library/ Shop&Save which T had been recommending the Vegetarian stall's Fried Hokkien Mee, saying it is a favourite with the non-vegetarians.  Perhaps it was quite crowded that day or expectation raised too high, the plate with request without egg, though overall considered nice, did not meet my high expectation as it lacked a "wok-feel".
Their Tom-Yam Soup Bee-hoon came in strong Tom Yam paste, though neither too spicy or sour did somehow revive my spicy appetite as I had not tasted spicy soup for months. It seems to be a stall popular with a lot of old patrons from the neighbourhood and closes early after lunch-hours. May explore their other dishes again when around the area...


Without a name, it is a corner stall hidden at the right of the right corner coffeeshop of Blk 73, TP Lor 4, facing the main road.  

Divine Realm Vegetarian

A new friend, also a vegetarian food lover brought us to his favourite vegetarian eatery ~ Divine Realm Vegetarian at Blk 501, Hougang Ave 8.
It is indeed a good discovery to me! It has a good variety of choices, Indian & Traditional Rojak, Ngian Toufu, Stir-fry dishes, Soup Noodles and their Roti Prata which my friend strongly recommended but we did not order this round.
Although I had wanted to cut down on fried food, I couldn't resist ordering their attractive vegetable fritters & beancurd once I saw them. Good crispiness and their Indian Rojak gravy tasted light & flavourful that goes well with it, no regrets ordering.
Then seeing many order their Mushroom soup noodles which looked good, we followed suit. Good choice, well cooked la-mian type of noodles with oyster-sauced flavour soup, my friend was in praise of it.
Seeing their Chinese flour-cake looked authentic, just like the ones at Ermeishan, glutton me ordered again for tea-break snack. The external texture was chewy with good portion of vegetable ingredients (even much better than what I had in China!), exceeded my expectations, Should Try!