This is a rich, filling dessert, suitable for sharing.
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It features chunky crumbly sticky smooth layers of mashed yam / taro, mashed purple sweet potato, coconut cream, vegan whipped cream, oat streusel, and cake crumbs, garnished with juicy cranberries and yam / taro cream.
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With bold earthy floral fruity grainy sweet flavour, this was nicely addictive. We kept reaching for more.
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Green Dot
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This features a base of chewy hand pulled wheat noodles with mild grainy sweet notes, and a deep herbal broth scratch made from shiitake mushrooms, angelica root, and cordyceps. Carries soulful savoury salty herbal bitter earthy sweet flavour.
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Garnished with tender flower tea braised shiitake mushrooms with vegetal earthy sweet flavour, bouncy konnyaku fish balls with sweet savoury notes.
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Also spongy tau pok / dried tofu bean curd puffs with grainy sweet flavour, soft carrots with vegetal sweet flavour, and crisp long leaf lettuce with vegetal bitter sweet flavour.
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Rounded off with chewy vegan soya mutton cubes with savoury salty flavour.
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Beautiful, especially on cool days.
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Green Dot
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This is a hearty comforting bowl, more wholesome than the regular version, just as tasty if not more so, but less cloying on the palate.
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Filled with a base of silky smooth long rice vermicelli noodles with mild grainy sweet notes, and a robust laksa broth scratch made from blue ginger, yellow ginger, chillies, and laksa leaves. Carries lovely savoury spice herbal sweet salty flavour.
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Garnished with tender bai ling mushroom with vegetal earthy sweet flavour, bouncy konnyaku prawn and springy konnyaku fish balls with satisfying texture and sweet savoury notes.
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Also spongy tau pok / dried tofu bean curd puffs with grainy sweet flavour, crisp bean sprouts and crunchy broccoli with vegetal sweet flavour, and crunchy fried tofu bean curd skin with grainy savoury salty flavour.
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Loved this wholesome vegetarian Peranakan Laksa.
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Green Dot
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Surprised by how substantial this was.
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Over a base of chewy mee pok / wide flat egg noodles with grainy sweet savoury flavour, is stacked garnishes of fresh crisp lettuce and bean sprouts with vegetal sweet flavour.
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Also tender braised shimeiji mushrooms with vegetal earthy salty flavour, soft braised minced soya with savoury salty flavour, and springy konnyaku fish balls with sweet savoury notes.
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Rounded off with crisp crunchy mixed vegetable gyoza with vegetal sweet savoury flavour.
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On the side is a large bowl of vegetable soup, with tender carrots and crisp bok choy / Chinese cabbage with vegetal sweet flavour, completed with soft goji berries / wolfberries that lend a herbal sweet flavour.
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Reminiscent of a classic Chinese Bak Chor Mee dish, nicely filling and wholesome, albeit vegetarian.
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Green Dot
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This is a luscious, filling dessert, suitable for sharing.
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It features chunky crumbly tender creamy layers of vegan mascarpone, oat streusel, brown sugar, coffee powder, crushed cashew nuts, banana slices, and oat milk.
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With bold grainy fruity earthy sweet nutty milky flavour, this feels like a tropical holiday.
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Certainly recalls a classic banoffee pie dessert in taste.
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Green Dot
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This is their house vegetarian version of Chinese Sweet And Sour Pork.
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The base is a heaping mound of fragrant soft Brown Rice, which holds light grainy earthy sweet flavour.
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Florets of crunchy broccoli lend vegetal sweet flavour, while soft fried tofu bean curd cubes topped with sweet chili lend an earthy grainy spice sweet savoury flavour.
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The chunks of stir-fried sweet and sour soya pieces are tender with a light chew, the chunky crunchy bell peppers / capsicum lend vegetal bitter sweet notes, the sticky gravy robust with sweet sour salty flavour.
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On the side is a bowl of vegetable soup, with tender carrots and dang gui / angelica root that results in vegetal herbal sweet flavour.
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Green Dot
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This is their house vegetarian version of Indian Biryani.
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The base is a heaping mound of fragrant fluffy Turmeric Rice, which holds light grainy sweet spice flavour, studded with chewy dried cranberries for added fruity sour sweet flavour.
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Chunks of large yet tender lion mane mushroom, coated in a thick rich rendang gravy, carry bold savoury salty spice flavour.
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A house achar, comprising crunchy pickled cucumbers, carrots, and pineapple, burst with vegetal sour zesty sweet tangy spicy flavour.
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Accompanied by crisp wafers of papadum, with grainy savoury flavour.
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On the side is a bowl of vegetable soup, with tender carrots and soft winter melon with vegetal sweet flavour.
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Green Dot
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This is their house vegetarian version of Chinese Hainanese Chicken Rice, specifically, the roasted version.
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The base is a heaping mound of fragrant moist Sesame Rice, which holds light grainy nutty savoury flavour. Slices of juicy tomato, crunchy cucumber, and crunchy stir-fried broccoli, lend vegetal sweet savoury flavour.
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The soft braised tofu bean curd cubes carry earthy salty savoury flavour. A house achar, comprising crunchy pickled cucumbers, carrots, and pineapple, burst with vegetal sour zesty sweet tangy spicy flavour.
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Rolls of crisp fried soy bean curd skin, chewy with addictive grainy savoury salty flavour, complete the garnishings for the main dish.
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On the side are a thin gravy and spicy chili sauce, along with a bowl of vegetable soup, with tender carrots and soft winter melon with vegetal sweet flavour.
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Green Dot
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Each is served with 2 standard vegetable sides.
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The first is the crisp crunchy juicy Stir-Fried Beijing Cabbage, which has a combination of chinese cabbage, carrots, black fungus / wood ear fungus, having lovely vegetal earthy sweet savoury flavour.
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The second is the Stir-Fried Broccoli & Black Fungus, with both black fungus / wood ear fungus and broccoli having a juicy crunch and vegetal earthy sweet flavour.
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You'll get a choice of rice and main.
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For rice, there's the sticky Brown Rice, which holds light grainy earthy sweet flavour. There's moist Sesame Rice, which holds light grainy nutty savoury flavour. There's fluffy Turmeric Rice, which holds light grainy sweet spice flavour.
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For main, I like the Sweet & Sour Soya Nuggets, well coated with sweet and sour sauce, each soy nugget having a firm dense chew to texture and grainy sweet sour savoury salty nutty flavour, yum.
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The Signature Lion Mane Mushroom Rendang has large chunky tender pieces of lion mane mushroom, coated in a thick rich rendang gravy, bold with savoury salty spice flavour, delicious.
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The accompanying Mixed Vegetable Soup features tender carrots, juicy corn on the cob, soft cabbage, and crunchy angelica root, resulting in lovely vegetal sweet herbal flavour.
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Green Dot
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This features a thin chewy wheat wrap, filled with a tender konnyaku mock fish fillet, juicy tomato, crisp lettuce, and crunchy cucumber, dressed with a Thai sweet and spicy chili sauce.
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Has lovely vegetal sweet savoury spicy flavour, yum.
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Served with hot crisp fluffy potato fries, lightly salted, carrying addictive starchy salty sweet savoury flavour that entices you to keep reaching for more.
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Green Dot
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Established over 40 years ago, this stall is now in the hands of 2nd-generation hawker Nicholas Neo. My grandparents used to love eating this, bringing me as a child to partake, on the weekends.
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It's the perfect snacking indulgence. Each finger-sized radish stick is freshly fried using a unique metal rack, hot and crisp without being greasy.
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Bite in and you get a light crunch outside, followed by the tender soft inside, carrying addictive starchy savoury sweet earthy flavour.
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Little wonder they sell over a thousand pieces daily.
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Carrot Cake Sticks
Dong Jin Yuan Dian Xin
@ Hougang Hainanese Village Centre, 105 Hougang Avenue 1 02-04

The kushiyaki / skewers here are the saving grace - most, if not all, were pretty good, and I would be glad to order them again.
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Although there is a short waiting time of about 15 minutes or so, the skewers are well executed and delicious.
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Priced slightly higher though, so ordering a few of these will inflate the bill.
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Issho Izakaya
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