Meat the Buddhists.

It's common knowledge that Asians eat everything under the sun. Insects,reptiles,you name it they've digested that. For reasons of simplicity,let's just talk about converted Buddhist monks in Singapore. Yeah,so apparently these people have developed an alternate cuisine to bring about a via-media between their religious and culinary quirks.

What do you get when you mix Buddhist vegetarian regulations and ferocious oriental taste buds ? You get Yuan Xiang non vegetarian vegetarian food,which in layman terms means mock meat.

What these ingenious,almost hypocritical fellas have done is developed chicken satay,sweet and sour chicken and an array of seafood made entirely out of wheat and tofu. Sounds ugly,doesn't it? It tastes uglier.

Being a self imposed vegetarian (at the risk of being called a veggina one-two-many times),I was nervous about how good it'd taste. Not that i haven't eaten chicken before,i used to gorge on it when i was a lot younger apparently,before a hot chick family friend wise crack'ed about how she could hear a "cluck cluck" sound in my tummy and scarred my impressionable mind forever. That and her tank top,I remember vividly.


My digressions aside,as far as this case goes,if a spoilt appetite and an aftertaste of cold feet are anything to go by,the food sucked. Miserably.What's funnier is how a Malay couple in the next table were smacking their lips after a meal of sweet and sour chicken(that tasted like a refined version of apsara's non dust eraser cooked in a gravy that'd put MTR's ready made subzis to shame) which i tried later on and regretted.If you've switched over to Buddhsim,bloody well eat what the usual Buddhists eat.Why would anybody want to subject themselves to this kind of torture and pretend to like it ? My intention was pure curiosity which loop the loop'ed into subsequent disgust,partly because it wasn't edible and partly because I wasn't allowed beer as i was underage.Don't let the banners mislead you,while although they make the food look good i'd reckon these buggers had better give up pseudo vegetarianism and leave beauty to be skin deep only(pun intended).


Anywho if you're a fan of seafood,I'd suggest you head straight to the seafood counter and give this category a skip,maybe a hop and jump too.And while you're at it,Don't miss out Singapore's interpretation of a tandoori roti and their ice creams,those are brilliant !In all fairness,it's a lovely country and makes for an awesome holiday destination.But the next time I'm there,I'mma stick to pizza,french fries and ice cream.

Tout Ensemble,It's only us Indians who can misinterpret world cuisine and still make it taste fantastic ! ;)