Amoy Street Food Centre 1st Floor - Battle of the Salads

Lo and behold, right after my shiok curry puff and not so sexy lor mee, just right in the centre I see a stall serving up salads, ala Saladstop.

Great! The health freak in me got excited.

 It's quite a hit with the local office crowd, given the perpetual queue. And it's prices are fairly modest as well.

The stall carries a nice array and variety of salad ingredients. The salad leaves and ingredients are quite fresh.

The servings are decent and there's sufficient variety to choose from. Although I found the  pickled items quite saltish.

Basic salad on bed of  Lettuce  - $5.00

My choice of ingredients were the pickled beets, olives, semi dried tomatoes, blanched zucchini and portobellos mushrooms with japanese wafu dressing. It's was pretty yum.

Abit heavy handed with the salt for the beets tho.

 For someone who's rarely in the area at lunchtime, I was tickled to see another stall selling salads just right behind Salad Kitchen. Obviously salads are doing well in the CBD. If only the trend cascades to other hawker centres as well.

The Salad Corner, right behind Salad Kitchen. Untried .

Salad Kitchen

Amoy Street Food Centre #01-37

Opening Days and hours: Mon - Fri, 9 plus in the morning till 8pm

Real Food

This is one of the best vegan/vegetarian outlets in Singapore. Being one of my favourite haunts, it has never let me down with its fresh ingredients and lovely presentation of its food. A sidenote, the interior design is pretty nice, feels fresh and roomy. It is also one of the rare places that has a bookshelf filled with self help and health related books. Nourish your soul as well as your stomach!

Its menu is fairly extensive, (http://realfoodgrocer.com/realfood_menu.pdf) and I must say its salads are one of the best in Singapore. Its winning point being freshness and simplicity.

Fresh and Grilled salad $8.80

The Fresh and Grilled Salad. Simple salad, with a nice medley of vegetables; eggplant, tomato, avocado, rockets, radish, capsicum, topped with roasted seeds.

And oh so lovely.

Did I mention its all organic?

Dumpling soup $6.80

The dumpling soup, one of the must-have there. Sadly though, the filling has been greatly reduced since I have first tried it. Hope that they will adjust accordingly.

Still, reduced filling or not, it's awesomely delicious. The dumplings are also available with their ramen noodles in a dry version.

Tauhu Goreng $7.80

The Tauhu Goreng I wasn't so fond of. I usually like rojaks and stuff, but in this case, I found the carrots hurting my teeth too much. (Either I have old lady teeth or those carrots are really hard.) Much finer carrots would be easier to chew.

The sauce is faintly spicy but very sourish. Could it be plum sauce with extra lemon juice? I'm not sure. For those with a preference for sourness, you'll love it.

Egg Sandwich $8.80

I didn't try this, my friend did. According to her, it was nice. Hmmm I agree. Can't go wrong with mashed eggs and mayo. The presentation really gets top marks.











In conclusion, Real Food serves really healthy and beautiful food dressed in simplicity. Just one point of note; their portions tend to be on the moderate side.


Real Food
http://www.realfoodgrocer.com/

Location: The Central, #B1-52/53, 
                110 Kiliney Road
                 

Opening Hours: 11am - 9pm