I’ve recently signed up for a 3 day raw program with Kate and Becky at Natural Instinct Healing in Ubud, a beautiful town in Bali, Indonesia.
Below my food diary of the raw experience.
Day 1: Saturday
Kickstarting the morning with a papaya smoothie before yoga.
Breakfast: Heart shaped mango and star shaped papaya plus nut mix in cashew milk. There’s more…
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.
Pleasantly surprised to be invited by Razlan to Ying Vegetarian, who already wrote a fantastic post about this restaurant. Afterall, how can I possibly reject my carnivorous friends that are so enthusiastic to go meatless with me? Here goes:
sushi platter
Want to know how meatball spaghetti veggie-style looks like? Click more.
Stuffed Portobello
Imagine biting into this giant portobello mushroom filled with creamy feta cheese, marinated red peppers and sun-dried tomatoes. I actually savored some at Enoteca on Elgin, Soho with colleagues one afternoon. Sooo delicious I could finish it all by myself. Please note this restaurant is not 100% vegetarian but offers a good selection of meatless tapas, perfect when hanging out with your carnivorous friends.
Click more for other yummy veggie tapas…
Featuring 2 veggie restaurants in New York City and one with Korean veggie options.
Red Bamboo
Butterfly Soy Chops
First encounter with veggie pork chops, basically it’s lightly breaded soy pork chops served with apple-raisin sauce and sauteed collard greens including veggie ham and sweet corn mashed potatoes. Love the combo although the soy chops were a little dry and massive portion too.
Recommended by my colleague Kate, Red Bamboo serves delicious vegetarian meat dishes. Click more to find out about their Buffalo Wings and Almond Coconut Chicken nuggets.
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.
Before I even arrive in New York, my friend Wendy has been raving about this gourmet vegan restaurant – Candle 79. And sure enough, it didn’t disappoint. Here’s what we had the day I hoped off the plane:
chickpea cake
The red pepper coconut curry gives a spicy kick to this Moroccan spiced chickpea cake and goes well with the hint of ginger mango chutney and toasted almonds on top and filled myself silly with lots of healthy sauteed greens. Curious to know what other mouth-watering dishes I had? Click more.
This organic, vegan fast food restaurant is 10 minutes walk from Paya Lebar MRT but it’s worth the trip – especially if you’re a burger lover. And so many flavors to choose from – Hawaiian Pineapple, Smoky BBQ, Chargrilled Satay and Tangy Tartar.
I settled for the Cracked Pepper Mayo Burger served in their signature organic ciabatta bread filled with sunflower, pumpkin seeds and walnuts in rich, creamy mayonnaise. The patty was ok and for the price I had to fork out should have been thicker.
Quite a novel way of serving your burger meal in a camping tin, matches with the wooden benches and furniture in the restaurant. Seaweed fries was delicious although the beetroot carrot juice seems diluted.
The lady taking my orders at the counter wasn’t very helpful or friendly, would have been nice if they could improve their customer service.
But I’ll give VeganBurg a chance and try other flavors next time I’m back.
address: 44 Jalan Eunos Singapore 419502
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.