Yi Xin Vegetarian Food - Clementi

I return to Clementi to review another delightful little vegetarian stall.  Yet again, this is another vegetarian stall named 'Yi Xin', which (along with 'Nature') is the most common name for vegetarian stalls in Singapore.  This stall should not be confused with the Yi Xin that is located at Clementi Avenue 4.  I really enjoyed eating in this particular coffee shop.  So often in Singapore, we associate our eating areas with hustle and bustle, rushing our food, and noise coming from all directions.  This coffee shop is the exact opposite to that.  A quiet, small, and, dare I say, tranquil eating house that is mainly filled with laid-back uncles and foreign workers.


Yi Xin Vegetarian Food
Location: Blk 328 Clementi Avenue 2
Contact: Unknown
Opening Hours: Closed on Thursday

It had been a while since I indulged in vegetarian Bak Kut Teh, so this was the dish I chose.  Contrary to the name, there is no actual tea in this dish.  Instead, the soup base consists of a variety of spices that are all subtly married together over a long boiling period.  I found the flavour in the soup of this dish to be a little weak.  What did impress me was the variety of ingredients used, with a myriad of vegetables, mushroom, beancurd and mushroom stem mock meat floating inside.  Thick yellow noodles are used by default in this dish, but customers can feel free to change to a different variety of noodle.  Overall a pleasing dish, I just wish the soup base had a stronger flavour packed into it.

Price: $3.00.     7/10


Conclusion - One of the nicest coffee shops I have been to in Singapore, and certainly one I would return to, simply for the peaceful ambiance.  Food wise, although I would have preferred to have sampled more dishes, the bak kut teh was definitely decent.

Overall Rating
Food - 7/10
Ambiance- 9/10
Service - 6/10
Value - 6/10