[ Food Review — Vegetarian Food mini feature: D’Life ] For those unaware, it’s Earth Day yesteday! It has been ongoing since 20th of Apr, but dw if you missed it: All the cool talks on tech, climate literacy etc are still viewable on the official site!

Since this is predominantly my food dairy, I’ll spare you my droning — instead, we’re gonna look at one (of many!) way to help mitigate climate change through our love for food: Eating more vegetables.

Yeap. That’s it. Swap out some of the meat (especially beef; yes, I know it’s hard fellow steak lovers) and replace it with greens, and bam! Lower carbon footprint AND lower calorie count. Amazing right?

Even tho I’m still not the biggest fan of greens, my mum changed that by doing this one thing: She brought me to vegetarian restaurants that mimicked things I love to eat. While the flavours aren’t quite the same, the elaborate myriad of textures and tastes did wonders to abate my apathy! (Ofc the caveat here is don’t eat items that are solely flour! Go get some of those unprocessed greens for that good ol’ fibre action!)

Since my grandpa is vegetarian, one of the places we tend to go is D’Life. They’ve multiple branches; the closest for me is at Beauty World, right outside exit B. Two reasons to eat here: Huge menu + affordable prices (think zichar w/o seafood). For ref, our entire spread here was ~$50, and I was stuffed!

You know how I said try not to have too much flour if you go for vegetarian food? Well, tha doesn’t mean you’ve to avoid mock meats; it just means you need to find places that has a high enough skill floor to incorporate goodies like tofu and ‘shrooms into their “meats”.

Don’t know what to order here? Simple: Replicate our order here (CW from top: Curry mutton, satay, broc + monkey head shrooms, nonya fish, soy nuggets)

If there’s ONE dish you need to get tho, it’s this: Nonya Fish

For me this dish was love at first taste! The sauce is tangy and much richer than most veg replicates; but even if you want something non-spicy, just get their fish dishes. Trust me. The way they fold the tofu into a dense mille feuille does a brilliant job of mimicking actual fish texture — no other place comes close!