Veggiebun’s Food Trail

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Southern Place Vegetarian

Claypot tofu
Honey baked “ham”

These dishes are from the Southern Place Vegetarian restaurant (same as the one for Indian rojak).

The tofu is quite good, with various types of vegetables like the snow peas, cauliflower and button mushrooms.

The honey baked (mock) ham looks very good but I’ll rate it only a 6 out of 10. The “meat” is made from mushroom stems. I am not sure what the skin is made of but it is quite similar to roasted duck skin. It even have some slightly crunchy and chewy texture. However, the gravy for this honey baked “ham” is disappointing. It tasted exactly like the gravy from the claypot tofu. Obviously, the cook had used the same gravy and didn’t bother to make a gravy that could complement the honey baked “ham”. Since the “ham” is already slightly salty, and the gravy is also salty type, the gravy failed to bring out the flavour of the “ham”. A honey-like, sweet sauce would have been more suitable.

4 Comments »

  julynne wrote @

I must say that although the honey ham wasn’t rated so well in taste by you, it sure looked gorgeous! Definitely can’t judge food by its appearance then…

  Veggie Bun wrote @

Yeah, looks can be deceiving.. hehe.. :P

  dreamy wrote @

Honey ham is just the name right? It isn’t really honey right? :)

Wow.. you seem to be a fan of mock pork :) Char siew… ham… “suckling pig” (urgh I hate to call it so.. it’s so cruel!).

Mushroom stems is good! Last time use to throw it away, but they are very good in making soup taste better.. my mum also use them to make veg ba kut teh.

  Veggie Bun wrote @

There’s no sweet taste at all, so I think there’s no honey in it.. haha..

Hehe… suckling pig was the name printed on the menu so I couldn’t give it another name… besides, it’s not real pig…


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