First night in Bali and I went to one of the best restaurants in town. My first raw meal or should I say raw feast in Bali?
Clear Cafe
Red Primavera clear linguine
This clear linguine dish is served with sauteed vegetables and marinated mushrooms in marinara sauce.
Other delicious dishes include mushroom taco, living tower of pisa and many other raw cuisines at Sari Organik located in the midst of a padi field, click more now.
Bali’s Ubud is like the veggie mecca of Indonesia. Here recently for a 3 day raw food program, Kate and Becky brought me to a few eateries that offer delicious vegan/veggie and raw friendly food.
Soma
Live pad thai
This entree contains jicama, daikon and carrot noodles, chopped cashews, coriander, thai basil, mint, sprouts and kaffir lime. Sauce is addictive!
Click more to view other delicious raw cuisines from live pizza, sea mineral salad to mochalicious pie I ate at Soma.
curry and vegetables
The Fringe Club offers vegetarian lunch buffets on weekdays but I love to go on Wednesdays as they offer Thai cuisine. From the picture above, you can see I had yellow curry and stir fried long beans with dried bean curd for mains. And I always go for a second helping for their corn fritters and salad. Click more to see how delicious they look.
If you look hard enough, there are many vegetarian restaurants or vegetarian friendly places in Manhattan. Here’s a few I visited and liked:
1. Cafe Blossom
Root vegetable phyllo pastry
I’m a fan of pastry wraps and this is filled with lots of root veggies – carrots, peas, turnips, sweet potato and rutabaga. Gives a rich and sourish but tasty flavor when dipped in white wine mustard cream sauce.
Click more to find out other tasty dishes I ate at Terri Organic Vegetarian and Middle Eastern food at Alfanoose.
Apart from good shopping, Mongkok is home to a number of delicious vegetarian eateries and Greenfeel Vegetarian (素食一家) is one of them. It’s location might be a little out of the way, but it’s definitely worth the trip.
seafood salad
For starters, you could try the seafood salad. Strips of crunchy cucumber and carrot with vegetarian meat topped with sesame seeds and chili in the mix. Refreshing appetizer to wake your taste buds.
Greenfeel offers an eclectic selection of cuisines, from Chinese, Thai to Korean and Asia Western. Click to find out what they are.
Cafe Zen is nestled in the hustle and bustle of Mongkok, located on the 13th floor of Dundas Square.
Spanish tomato pork cutlet linguine
The cafe is owned by Kelvin, a Buddhist who volunteers at the temple cooking vegetarian cuisines before setting up his own eatery five years ago with his parents.
Cafe Zen offers a wide variety of food and the Spanish tomato pork cutlet linguine is an example of its range of fusion dishes available.
If you like Thai food and Indian mutton curry, click more to check out pictures.
If you’re in Bugis, head on to Fortune Centre and you’ll be spoilt for choice.
There are probably 6-8 vegetarian stalls in the building but I selected the Pine Tree Cafe, which was recommended by Jovin.
She knew the owners and told me they are meticulous in choosing the freshest vegetables and ingredients when it comes to preparing the dishes.
I decided to try the vegetarian version of Hakka lei cha rice.
Hakka lei cha rice
Find out the correct way to enjoy this Hakka cuisine and my take on this shop’s nasi lemak as well as Thai Green Curry.
Most meat eaters would smirk if their friend suggests bringing them to a restaurant that serves purely plant based ingredients with no meat, no seafood, no eggs, no onion, no garlic and no MSG.
To my delight, my friends who are not vegetarians have recommended to catch up for lunch at Naive.
Once you step into the clean and cool interiors, you’ll notice that the restaurant is filled with artwork by local artists.
Before we began our meals, we had to take part in a sesame seed blessing ceremony to de-stress so we could experience its food to the fullest.
sesame seed blessing ceremony
The Japanese inspired ‘bloss’ ceremony encourage diners to grind the sesame seeds using the mortar and pestle for a few minutes that can then be sprinkled onto their food.
Naive has some of the most creative names for its dishes, click more to find out what is Cheeky Monkey, Autumn Cloud or Pocket of Treasures.