Healthy Food Options

Mushroom udon ($6.90)
⭐️ 4/5 ⭐️
🍴Comforting and healthy udon that’s not like any other with its chunky mushroom soup. Despite being vegan and allium-free, the soup was still enjoyably rich, flavourful, and earthy. Served with 2 chunky and juicy mock meatballs that were a mushroom-soy mix, broccoli, tomato, and mushrooms which left us sufficiently satisfied.

Besides selling fresh fruits and produce, Sun Moon Fresh has a salad bar. Each salad comes with a choice of 5 ingredients at $4.90 and sauce, with meat at an added $2. For the current price point and generous portion, it’s a healthy and affordable option we keep coming back for. The huge range of ingredient options also means we never get bored even if having it every other day.

Ingredients are loaded on a bed of crunchy fresh Romaine lettuce. Personal favourites are the naturally sweet sweet potato, creamy avocado, tangy mango, and juicy sweet-sour berries. Also love the addition of mixed nuts for a crunchy balance.

The pesto sauce is a classic while the Thai chilli is a refreshing sweet-sour-mildly spicy addition. Lesser fan of the Japanese sesame that’s on the oiler side.

📍Sun Moon Fresh, 01-24, Tanjong Pagar Plaza, Singapore 082001

Our favourite dish! The broth was flavourful and punchy even though no meat was involved (!) Pretty impressive! We appreciated the ingredients - fried tofu skins, mushrooms, and herbs, although admittedly nothing quite compares to meat 😂.

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Light but umami laden soup served with silky flat rice noodles and topped with shredded marinated “no chicken “ seitan, frizzled grilled oyster mushrooms, sprouts, fresh herbs, and lime. Our one feedback is that the lighter broth tasted a little salty and could use slightly more depth.

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Super refreshing and brimming with strips of seasoned soy-based seitan and tofu, fresh pickles, and an exciting mix of herbs. Clean and healthy; would recommend as an appetiser!

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Journeyed to the West to give this thunder tea rice a try after seeing a 4.8 review on google. A wholesome bowl that prides in “less oil, less salt and no MSG” (as displayed on their storefront). Topped up 50c for brown rice and it was a healthy yet enjoyable mix with its array of vegetables, crunchy peanuts (provided nice textural contrast), chye poh, and fragrant tea base.

The soup was a tad diluted and leaned towards the nuttier than herbaceous side. That said, it remained satisfying with the herbs, nuts, and sesame flavour all coming through.

Each poke set included choose of rice, poke, 6 sides (corn, pineapple, carrot, cucumber, tomato salsa, pickled watermelon), 1 add-on, and a drink. Tried both the original shoyu and spicy salmon and found them overly seasoned and not the freshest with a slight but discernible fishy flavour.

The trio rice mix (sushi, red, brown rice) had clumpy sushi rice that could probably do with some soy/vinegar flavour. The red/brown rice mix might have been a better choice. Enjoyed the refreshing pops of tobiko and their various sides, but did feel that the pickled watermelon, while refreshing, didn’t pair well with the other components. Couldnt taste the yuzu in their homemade yuzu tea ($1.50)- mostly tasted like astringent black tea.

Overall, not the best, but can’t quite complain at the $7 price point after discount.

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🍴Who’s a fan of Lei Cha? 🙋🏻‍♀️ Using mostly organic ingredients, this vegan bowl included a mix of braised peanuts, tofu, preserved radish, and vegetables atop brown rice. Although the sauce was herbaceous, it was less robust than we like. Additionally, we felt that the components were all varying levels of “soft”, and some fried ikan billis or crunchy peanuts would have been better for textural contrast.

Tanglin Halt’s lei cha remains unbeatable, but this rendition adequately satisfied our clean and healthy food cravings.

📍@thundertree_leicha, B1-06, People’s Park Centre, 101 Upper Cross Street (other outlet at Bugis)/ check out their website for delivery options

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Found the teriyaki sauce to lean towards the sweeter side but the sweetness was tamed when eating the chicken together with the boiled vegetables (cucumber, broccoli, cauliflower, edamame) and brown rice.

Banana toastie (4 ⭐️; $14) - Breakfast toast with housemade peanut butter, hazelnut cocoa spread, and soft bananas in country classic bread. We appreciated how this was warm, toasty and way less sweet & buttery/oily compared to most places. If nitpicking, we found that the banana and peanut flavours dominated over the hazelnut.

Mumbai sandwich (4.5 ⭐️; $15) - Definitely recommend their best seller! Two well-toasted gluten-free country 7-seeded slices held together a mix of coriander chutney, chaat masala, cucumber, tomatoes and cheese. The combination was spot on. We especially loved it with their tomato kasundi sauce made from various Indian herbs and fresh tomatoes for extra flavour punch. Shoutout to their bread btw! We usually find gluten free breads too dense and tasteless, but this was unexpectedly nutty and pleasantly QQ in texture.

Large Açaí ($14.90)
⭐️ 4.5/5 ⭐️
🍴An açai affair offers consistently reliable tasty açai, made affordable by their burpple 1-1 deals! We got the 2 large Triple As, which was a smooth blend of sweet açai crowned by a plethora of jewels - bananas, blueberries, strawberries, dragonfruit, kiwi, goji berries, and your choice of drizzle! Have to say that this smooth, intensely fruity version could sneak in as one of our favourite açai renditions in Singapore. With burpple 1-1, we would definitely purchase again!
📍@anacaiaffair, B3-48, 313 Somserset, Singapore (various outlets across SG)