More Vegetarian Food

Some of them are quite yummy too!


Vegetarian sheng mian in claypot...or erm...aluminium pot - very nice, but 生面 is not something in my usual diet


Vegetarian Tom Yam beehoon - not hot enough!


Salad with a difference - carrots, red cabbage, beetroot, marng guang, dou miao and alfafa sprouts. Is marng guang called turnip in English? What about in Chinese?

The sweet, lemony mayo salad dressing was superb...so yummy that I drank the whole thing...not good :P


Vegetarian Lor Mee - very nice, as long as the gravy tastes good


Organic nasi bryani - ok lah...no kick one


Vegetarian kueh chap from another stall - didn't like the plate of liao, nor the chilli sauce


Ahh....the intriguing vegetarian pig's stomach soup beehoon (猪肚汤米粉).
The herbal soup is peppery and nice, and the slices of pig's stomach really look so real and had a crunchy taste. Pieces of mock mutton and pork were also added.


Organic tau pok...for my afternoon snack


Closed up of tau pok ingredients, smothered with organic mayo... no wonder it tastes good.


Vegetarian curry mutton noodles.... Eeeee.... it's more starchy than gravy, and it's so steaming hot that it's hard to eat.


Vegetarian prawn noodles, but without prawn, not even the mock prawn. It had pieces of mock mutton (?), pork and sotong (squid) and lots of yummy kang kong and bean sprouts - nice soup wins the day.


The pork ribs rice set - the rice was very fragrant... it's like eating claypot rice flavoured with a hint of 5-spice powder. Yummz! The accompaniments were average.


Vegetarian chye png (vegetable rice) - with mustard leaves (大菜 - one of my favourite), long beans and curry beef! I don't consume beef at all, but vegetarian beef is ok. Heheh! The curry was very fragrant.



Mock fried ikan bilis made from mushrooms


To be consumed in moderation due to the high sodium content



Missing photo: Vegetarian black vinegar mee suah。

More vegetarian food

Other vegetarian food that I had:


Miso Brown Rice Soup from a packet



Vegetarian chye png with brown rice (top and below)




Vegetarian Mee Rebus - too much ground peanuts in the gravy and the fake char siew was just weird!


Vegetarian fish beehoon (鱼片米粉) - something I eat regularly


This is the organic chicken rice with vegetarian 白斩鸡 which my IT colleage had.

He was (unusually) alone as his usual IT lunch kakis aren't into vegetarian food. I still have not tried this, since it's offered on Fridays when my favourite Korean bibimbap is being offered as well.


Vegetarian nasi lemak - with seasoned "scallop wing" (next to cucumber slices) and "pandan chicken".

I think that was meant to be seasoned "scallop wing" which is common at Japanese sushi restaurants, coz it really tastes like the real thing! Everything tasted alright, except that I didn't like the rice (with weird/oily coconut milk taste), nor did I like the "hae bi hiam" (spicy dried prawn paste) on the long beans.

Vegetarian Food

I do like to eat vegetarian food. It's easy to find good vegetarian food nowadays. It also helps that I like to eat most vegetables and I'm not into red meat since I was a kid, so much so that some cooked food sellers had asked if I'm a Chinese Muslim whenever I ask them to omit the pork. In those days, you know, there was no such thing as healthy eating and everybody likes to eat meat. So if you don't like meat, people start to wonder!

Last year, I went totally vegetarian for a short period of 3 weeks. It was supposed to be for a month, but the Spuddies kept on inviting us over for dinner, that it was getting rather pai seh to keep rejecting them, so that ended my 3-week vegetarian stint.


Vegetarian tom yam bee hoon with imitation squid (Blah!)

I'm a sucker for tom yam soup and am willing to accept (very) low standards of tom yam that's sold outside, yet this one still cannot make it to the low standard; won't eat again unless super duper desperate... like if I'm having addiction induced withdrawal symptoms!


Vegetarian tom yam fried bee hoon - quite tasty, with lots of veggies


Vegetarian tauhu goreng (they also sell a new type of rojak popiah!)


Vegetarian laksa, with imitation cockles made of mushrooms; too creamy for my taste


Vegetarian kueh chap with super chewy, bouncy mock fish balls (Weird!)


Another version of vegetarian kueh chap which is more substantial - with (clockwise) mei cai, taupok, taugua, mock meat and tau kee.


This vegetarian fan choy was purchased by the SO, coz I simply dislike mock char siew. It tastes blah!


Vegetarian chye png with brown rice, cabbage, 4-wing bean and bitter gourd in black bean sauce (salty)


Vegetarian chye png from another food court - their veggie dishes are remarkably fresh-tasting with minimal sauces and seasoning (but not bland), which is how I like my veggies (must be the Teochew influence from my mother)


Vegetarian ban mian with mock ikan bilis made from mushroom stalks...clever!


Vegetarian bak chang (this one is so-so, but I've tasted very good home-made ones).


Vegetarian herbal (hand-made) noodles with mock mutton (?) ... nice soup.


Organic vegetarian sushi...very pretty but eat liao not filling one


Vegetarian Hakka Lei Cha (green, gooey, herby soup not shown)


Organic vegetarian fried brown rice (the organic shop don't serve white rice)


Organic vegetarian Korean bibimbap...my favourite!


Vegetarian chicken rice with chicken made of tau kee (English name is dried soya bean sticks?)

This version has crispy "chicken skin" so it must be roasted chicken (烧鸡); the organic shop has a version with "white steamed chicken" (白暂鸡), which I have yet to try, because it's served on the same day as the Korean bibimbap, so the irresistible bibimbap wins every time.


Most North Indian food stalls which sells naan would have vegetarian curries and dishes like dahl and cauliflower curries.

Missing: photo of vegetarian mee rebus, and the list of vegetarian food goes on and on...

Vegetarian - Hakka Lei Cha 2

The first attempt at trying Hakka Lei Cha (organic version) didn't turn me into an addict, so I thought I'd give this dish another try, this time from the Pine Tree vegetarian stall. Pine Tree has several branches over the island and has build up a reputation for nice vegetarian food, especially their yong tau foo.

I figured I won't be able to stomach all the rice, veges and that bowl of soup for lunch, so I tar-bao it home.



This version tastes much better and the brown rice has just the right chewy consistency - not too hard, and not too soft.



The soup though, was another matter - it has lots of "meshed-up grass"!


The soup was a bit oily (maybe from sesame oil?) and just a tad salty, which stopped me from drinking more of it.

After finishing the rice (I ate the leftover the next morning), the base of the plastic bowl was quite oily. The oil must have come from the seasoned vegetables. So, while this dish is quite healthy, it does contain quite a bit of oil, and should be eaten with restraint. :)

Vegetarian food

Some of the vegetarian food that I've had recently, besides the brown rice chye png (vegetables & rice) combo every now and then.

Kueh Chap - Interestingly, the fishball was super crunchy/crispy, but too salty.



Herbal noodles - very nice with herbal soup and the ubiquitous mock mutton (made from mushroom stalks)



Laksa with mock cockles, which was wrongly served to me!


I'd ordered yong tau foo items with laksa gravy, including the vegetarian ngoh hiang, and this bowl arrived, also with the ngoh hiang on top, so I thought it was my order. Luckily, the other customer didn't mind having my food instead and paid more for it. I find that the regular customers at vegetarian stalls are quite amiable and willing to accept such minor mistakes without fuss.

The soup accompanying the main course of ...



Vegetarian Korean Bibimbap (organic version with brown rice)...super yum!


Instead of the usual sunny-side-up egg, it has what looked like scrambled egg, which was very cleverly made from toufu and almost tasted like the real thing. The soup has radish, carrots, soya beans and perhaps a piece of yam-cum-sweet-potato thing.

Vegetarian bee hoon

It's the first time we've tried this bee hoon, which the SO tar-bao back from this vegetarian stall.



The cabbage had lots of carrots, the pumpkin looked fresh and bright, and the egg (with mushroom) was yummy.





I still don't know how this kind of egg was cooked, perhaps scrambled?

It's not exactly an egg omelette which is more flat and like, pan-fried.

These are like round bits of cooked egg with bits of other ingredients inside and aren't oily - quite common at chye png stalls.

Maybe someone can shed some light, e.g. cook it over low fire, must add water to the egg mixture, etc. ?