Macau - Shanghai Yuen Vegetarian (上海缘素菜馆)

Another of my Macau update is this place - my favourite out of all those I've gone to! Thanks to gaga again for introducing this place. We went there for dinner just before we fly back to Home.
We ordered the set meal as it was much cheaper in comparison. The set meal comprises of 5 dishes.

Sweet & Sour Pork

Quite a common dish that we can find at home as well.

Kofu & Fish combi - Cold Dish

These 2 are cold dishes (冷菜) whereby it is very common for most shanghai dishes to have. We chose fish & kofu. Kofu (烤麸) is a very common dish in Shanghai. It is basically made from gluten and marinated in soy sauce. Quite chewy but it goes get jerlak if you eat too much of it. I only got to know this dish when I was working in Shanghai previously. Anyway most people may not be used to cold dishes but it wasn't too bad to try authentic shanghai dishes once in a while.

Bak Choy with Bacon

Really well cooked bak choy that it was really soft even the stem portion!

Lemon Chicken

Chicken cutlets dipped in batter and deep fried, then served with honey lemon sauce. Tasted crispy and the sauce was good.

Corn Sauce Prawns

I can't remember the taste of this, but the corn sauce certainly tasted like corn soup which I adore!~

Other than the set meal, we also ordered 2 more dishes.

Xiao long Soup Dumpling

I've always been looking for a vegetarian version of the Shanghai dumpling (小龙汤包) and was happy to be able to finally sample one from this place. In SG, most people would eat at Ding Tai Fung or other chinese dim sum places. Sadly lingzhi doesnt serve this. The skin thin, but chewy. One bite into the dumpling whizzes out the soup. It is mainly made of mock meat, but totally blown me away!

Wanton Soup

Normal dumpling soup with some veg inside.

Diet: Lacto-ovo, some dishes contain milk,egg

Location: Rua de Marques de Oliveir 66 G/F 柯利維喇街66號 (at 近渡船街美心餅點)

Tel: 853-28358338

Do note that they are closed before 6 with the shutters down, hence if you are heading over for dinner, do not go before 6, as you may think its closed!

Macau - Vegetarian Farm (田耕阁素食馆)

Ahoy folks! Happy Chinese New Year! My apologies for the lack of posts as I do have a lot of backlog on hand. Just got back from my Biz trip in china and finally had the chance to sit down and blog on food overseas. For the next few posts, I will blog on places in Macau (continued from my Macau Trip previously) and also places in Beijing and Shanghai.
A pity that I've yet gone to other new food outlets in Singapore since I was out of town. Anyway, thank you for your support and I wish everyone a very happy new year and a wonderful year ahead!
Back to this restaurant, it is located opposite one of the old guan yin temple in Macau.
Decor is pretty simple and follows that of a traditional one. We had a heavy lunch before heading to Macau for shopping.

Wantons MOP 16

As sunnietart was in a wanton mode, we wanted to try if there were any better wantons available. This wasnt too bad, but too much skin. Hence I coudnt remember how the ingredients tasted like. One thing interesting was that the skin was quite special as it was very crispy and not the normal wanton skin that we get from markets here.

Green Veg

Cant see the leaf here, but tastes really fresh!

Braised Tofu

Comprises of Tofu Skin, green peas and Lotus nuts. Gravy was good with rice.

Dongpo Meat With Yam

This dish is made with konnyaku and yam in a special homemade sauce. I love the yam!

Location: Avenida Coronel Mesquita No. 11 M Ka Wa Kok, Macau

Tel: 2875 2824/ 2875 3011/ 2835 3816

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Macau - Feng Cheng Xuan Vegetarian Restaurant (凤城轩素食)

I went to Macau for a really short getaway last christmas. It has been more than 15 years since I last went to Macau and I was really surprised how much transformation this island has gone through. It has totally becomed an Asian Las Vegas! The best thing about this place is there are loads of vegetarian outlets available. I was there for 3 days, and we went to 6 different places for each of our meals. Nonetheless, thanks gaga for bringing us around! Anyway, this restaurant is located very near the Ruins of St. Paul's (大三巴). It is really packed even on weekdays, hence it is recommended to call and reserve seats before you go.

Restaurant Front

Fried Wantons MOP25 (16 pcs)

Sunnietart was raving about how nice and yummy the wantons were as she went there earlier to recee most of the places. So we really had to order this Best dish in the house! I didn't believe that it would be that good until I realised almost every single table would order this dish. They also serve in soups and there were some patrons who practically ordered the Big (more than 30pcs i guess) serving of wanton soup without rice. Man, this really blew me away as I finally found my match! If you have started reading my blog since the olden days, i've posted my recipe before and I've yet found a close match until this place. What I like about this wanton is the amount of filling in it. In SG, my favourite used to be from Mai Zhi Su but was always disappointed cos' of the miserable amount of filling inside. The wantons served here are MEGA in size and the filling was yummy. Basically comprise of mock meat and veg. What i like is the big serving. For only SGD5, you can get 16 pcs. But in sg, wantons usually costs a lot more for lesser pcs.

Wanton Soup

Sunnietart was telling me that she misses this the most to date. Yet another 16 pcs in the soup form cos gaga wanted some soup. Also tasty and the soup was not too salty. Luckily there were 5 of us to finish up 32 pcs of wantons! So sunnie, are you drooling at the sight of this picture?

Green Veg

Nothing exactly special about this veg, except that it is really fresh. I guess its also due to the fact that it comes direct from China nearby. Hence we can still taste the sweetness and freshness. One thing that was puzzling was that most restaurants in Macau serve the vegetables in such a manner (i.e they do not usually cut off the stems), hence you will have to eat it stalk by stalk. I guess it actually helps in the presentation and retain the entire stalk nutrients without cutting.

Hotplate Braised Tofu

Serve piping hot on the hotplate. This tofu tasted like the usual ones we can get in Singapore too. The gravy was perfect to go with rice.

Black Pepper Chicken

I can't remember the taste of this meat at all, but wasn't too bad as far as i remember. One thing about the mock meat here is you can't easily buyfrom the suppliers, i guess sometimes could be homemade.

All in all, a nice and cosy chinese style dining place. Food is good and prices reasonable too.

Location: 大炮一街2号地下

Tel: 2836 2334

Macau - Pu Shan Vegetarian Restaurant 普善斋素食馆

This is a second post by clare on her recent trip to HK and Macau.

On our first visit to the restaurant, we've decided to take a cab from Beverly Plaza hotel (Near to Hotel Lisboa). Taxi fare is abt : MOP $20
The restaurant is actually easily accessed via buses 3,10 and alight at Chang Ming Hua Yuan (昌明花园). Bus fare only costs MOP $2.50 per trip (regardless of where you board/alight).

We tried the buffet on the first visit.

Lunch buffet: MOP $56, Dinner buffet: MOP $66

The same buffet menu is used for both lunch and dinner. As serving is really huge, we could not try all the dishes from the buffet menu. Some of the dishes we ordered from the buffet menu: Shredded chicken fried noodles, Sweet and sour veg ball, Mixed vegetables and Cod fish, Abalone and lettuce.

Sweet & Sour Veg Ball Shredded Chicken Fried Noodles Stir Fried Vegetables Abalone & Lettuce

On the second visit, we've decided to just order ala-carte, as it is cheaper in comparison to the buffet price.

Deep fried salted golden mushrooms: MOP $35

Superb Dish! It is sprinkled with salt and bits of red chilli. Crispy and tasty!

Claypot pork curry: MOP $42

Not a spicy dish.. and it tasted quite well with steamed rice.

Sweet Potato & White Fungus

The restaurant serves daily desserts and we had sweet potato & white fungus. Sweet potato is very soft and sweet.

Do not worry if you do not have MOP (Macau currency), as they accept HK dollars. Exchange rate is 1:1, even though MOP is currently higher than HKD.

Location: 澳门罗白沙街65号地下

Tel: 2821 0983