Still serious about your New Year diet plans? Here are 10 delicious and gourmet healthy food options in the CBD and around town that are waistline-friendly.
Aloha Poke
Specializing in Hawaiian salad bowls (poke) that typically has chopped raw ahi tuna, this local eatery also offers salmon or vegetarian options, with a choice of white or brown rice and you can also choose to add on toppings like chia seeds, avocado, flying fish roe. Prices range from $11.90 for the Lil’ Swell, $15.90 for the Standard Nalu and $19.90 for the Big Kahuna. Plus, if you really need some lunch-time therapy, they also do Hawaiian craft beers from $13.90 each.
Dosirak
This Korean lunch box-inspired bistro, a heathier rice bowl fixture at China Square Central, now offers an expanded menu with more vegetarian choices like sweet potato & avocado ($9.90), with white radish, bean sprouts, shiitake mushrooms and spinach, and pumpkin & tofu ($8.90), which has enoki mushrooms, spinach, white radish, black beans and purple cabbage. There are also more greens available for serious herbivores—new toppings include cherry tomatoes, edamame, sweet peas, organic peashoots and more.
Fu Lin Yong Tau Foo
This revamped kopitiam had a hipster transformation just last September. So while it’s now a popular lunch time yong tau foo joint, the space transforms into a sleek tapas bar and restaurant by 3pm. You can still load up on self-service, mix-and-match bowls of tofu, meats, dumplings and vegetables, with a choice of having your selections boiled or friend, and served with the eatery’s signature minced chicken gravy—all starting from $5.
Grain Traders
There are plenty of ‘customize your own healthy bowl’ lunch places in the CBD and now the folks behind fusion resto Kilo have hopped on to the DIY bandwagon. Each mix-and-match bowl starts at $16, and you get a complete nutritional package comprising grains like quinoa, brown rice and soba noodles, hot or cold veggies, proteins with meat and fish choices, toppings such as crushed peanuts and furikake and gourmet sauces like coconut curry and salsa verde.
Joe & The Juice
Pasarbella
Not everything’s diet-approved at the food enclave’s new second outlet at Suntec City, but there are still a couple of yummy options for the calorie-counting few. Salad bar Pimp My Salad, Mediterranean-inspired bistro Pita & Olives, gourmet sandwich stop Porsena Deli, fusion sushi stall Rollie Olie and Vietnamese pho outlet An-An may not all be carb-free, but hey, they are still calories away from other artery-choking hawker food choices.
Saint Pierre Market
Shinkansen
Drop by for Japanese-style protein bowls featuring bases like soba noodles or mixed grain sushi rice. There are six signature choices with fancy-sounding ingredients such as the Okayama ($15), maple and genaicha cured salmon, onsen egg and wafu dressing; and the Mie ($15.40), yakiniku steak, toasted walnuts and plum momotaro tomatoes. You can also customize your own from $13.90, with a selection of one base, one protein, three toppings and one sauce.
The Rabbit Hole
This salad and juice bar tosses up a wide and creative variety of greens, like the Summer Rabbit ($8, with strawberries, turkey pastrami, sprouts and sunflower seeds), Taste of Thai ($12, with mangoes, crushed peanuts, chicken and romaine lettuce) and The Apple Pie ($8, with apples, gogi and cranberries, walnuts and cheddar cheese). But if you’re picky about what you eat, there’s also the making your own salad bowl ($10).
