Chinatown Food Complex - Dessert Station

I believe that our food is medicine. Given that our cells die and renew within every few months, the food we eat, the air we breathe and water we drink, thoughts we think affect how the next generation of cells, how they are formed and their inherent DNA. In lesser words, our DNA is changeable and we actions and choices impact our DNA.

Thus the rationale for my picky food choices. I'm trying to steer clear of processed food, cooking oils, MSG, any form of chemicals in our food. Trying to cut down on sugar too, wish me luck on that. But still, I do eat junk food. Just that with all this new gained knowledge, I enjoy them less.

Right. But in every case, it has become a habit to selective choose healthier versions, including desserts. I love desserts, all the hot desserts, especially bean soups, sesame pastes, peanut pastes, yam pastes, gingko nut and beancurd, etc. I think you get the idea. But they usually contain too much sugar for my preference. So I prefer to cook my own sometimes. Except for Sesame paste. Far too much work.

And today a dessert stall in particular really won my heart.

 Dessert Station is at the red zone in Chinatown Complex and by 2pm, their yam paste was sold out. That was probably my first clue.

So I ordered my favourite Sesame paste instead.

Most sesame paste are made using pre-made black sesame flour, some starch and water. The black sesame flour might have had sugar already added. Thus they taste pretty much the same everywhere.

Except for this one.

Black Sesame paste - $1.80

 One the first try I found it grittier and stronger tasting than most black sesame paste. And on closer look, I can see oil from the black sesame coating spoon.

This is probably one of the rare stalls which grind and mill their own sesame flour, from roasted black sesame seeds. Thus their black sesame taste far less of sugar and starch but very much of the real stuff.

Oh my................it's really really good!  I'll definitely try to have some whenever I'm in the area. If I'm lucky, perhaps I'll get to try the yam paste next time!

Updated - Apparently, they have branches. One of which is located at Albert Centre Food market at bugis!


Dessert Station

Chinatown Food Complex - 2nd Floor Red zone #02-132
Opening hours - 10plus am till 8plus pm

Chinatown Food Complex - Thousand Vegie

 Chinatown complex is one of the favourite haunts of many a foodie. Gems of good creations are buried within this myriad of a food centre and once upon a time during my meat eating days, I can be found here with best bud, sharing a grilled or steamed fish among other dishes.

But that was the past. So with my non meat agenda, I ventured this place again.

 The layout of this food centre can be daunting. Divided into red, yellow, blue and green zones, each with its maze of hawkers, it simply felt like walking into rubric cube, especially when I'm simply exploring and have little idea where I'm heading.

When I'm almost but give up after 2 rounds, I finally see a vegetarian stall. Having never saw it before, I assume it's new.

Spinach Noodles - $4

BBQ 'Fis' - $7

There's  two aunties manning the stall. The variety was pretty interesting but most of which involves mock meat in fried or grilled form. Despite my love for chlorophyll in my food, I gave it a try in the name of vegan spirit.

Waiting time was a bit long, around 15 minutes. From my observation, the aunties seems abit new at hawkering, thus they are climbing the steep learning hawker curve of multi-tasking.

The spinach noodle are alright. It tasted home cooked which is nice and in its favour, I don't taste much MSG. What I do lament is the lack of ingredients. Which were capsicums, carrots, mushrooms and strips of mock chicken. With some spinach and stewed mushroom, it might live up to its cost.

The BBQ 'Fis' arrived when I'm almost done with the noodles. I was slightly taken back by its appearance. But that aside, the sizing was a reasonably satisfying chunk. It was grilled in chili oil and sambal chili. Very much resembling the sambal stingray. It's quite spicy which I very much enjoyed.

It could been better if served sizzling hot in a hotplate instead.

Thousand Vegie would be where I might headed when I'm in the area and the mood for some vegan junk food (fried chiken, fis etc). I found it a little pricy for its standard though.

A sidenote, I found all 3 vegetarian stalls in Chinatown complex in the red zone.They are laid out in a triangle with the stairs in the centre.




Thousand Vegie
Chinatown Food Complex 2nd level #02-122
Opening hours: Everyday 11am - 930pm