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How much calories does a bowl of the Daily Cut have?

Petite bowl with peri peri sauce from the Daily Cut

Everytime there’s a long queue upon one particular restaurant, my curiosity is piqued. I wonder if this is the trait that I develop after residing in Singapore for many years or human is just a curious creature. But without a fail, a long and snaking Q is always formed at the Daily Cut around lunch time and even late after 8PM. Despite many other F&B sell similar concept of healthy bowl, the Daily Cut seems to be the champion that trump them all, at least it terms of queue line.

Since they look so healthy and popular, I bought them on a few occasion and I think these healthy bowls turn out to be delicious. And that’s probably the reason of the long Q. So since I’m no longer curious on how does the healthy bowl from the Daily Cut taste, my curiosity is now focused on how much calories contained in one healthy bowl of the Daily Cut?

But then again, the concept of healthy bowl in the Daily Cut is pick and mix, so I suppose the calorie content will really depend on the choice made by each customer. Right, so let’s see what did I pick from the latest summer menu from the Daily Cut: A petite bowl consisting of purple sweet potatoes (base), orange chicken breast (protein), broccoli and tahini peanut eggplant (supplements), parmesan breadcrumbs (toppings) and peri peri dressings (which is provided in separate container, thankfully).

With the help of kitchen scale which I bought from Daiso at 2SGD + myfitnesspal app, I tried to find the closest equivalent to items which I pick for my bowl above. Here goes the calorie:

120 grams of purple sweet potatoes: 103 cal
80 grams (2.8 oz) of grilled eggplant: 77 cal
100 grams of grilled chicken breast: 131 cal
180 grams of fresh steamed broccoli: 51 cal

I did not bother to check the calorie from the parmesan breadcrumbs and peri peri sauce though because I find it a bit of a hassle and I figure the calorie from these two items won’t be substantial since the Daily Cut does not give a lot of crumbs and sauce. But if you’d like to include them in measurement, maybe it’s gonna be another 50 cal, tops?

With that taken into consideration, total calorie from my order will come at 412 cal.

To be honest with you, I’m kinda surprised with this calculation because I expect my order to reach 500 cal. I wonder if we can treat the petite bowl of the Daily Cut to be around 500 cal max. Maybe I should measure it again when I order brown rice or whole wheat pasta as base.

After one of our colleagues fell into serious illness, my colleague and I started to...ahem, relook at what we usually eat for lunch. The number of mala hot pot that we used to eat a lot suddenly does not look so interesting anymore. Especially when you imagine the amount of oils floating around at the bottom of the bowl. So on the day where the moon is blue, we decided to try out this vegetarian lifestyle. Hence, the chosen venue for the lunch for that day, Elemen at Millenia Walk.

Singapore Eats: Vegetarian Set Lunch at Elemen, Millenia Walk

Not like other vegetarian restaurants, Elemen does not offer ala carte menu. Instead, it offers two kind of set meal, a 5-course set at SGD 26.80 per person and 8-course set at SGD 32.80 per person. Both sets start with the same appetiser from Elemen. While it looks simple, the taste of the tomato and the cucumbers are so fresh and sweet. Kinda makes me wonder why I used to hate veggies when I was little.

Next, since I chose for a 5-course set lunch, I had to chose between salad and soup. I am always a fan of mushroom soup so I was so delightful when I saw wild mushroom cream soup as one of the choices available for the soup.

Wild mushroom cream soup with truffle oil from Elemen at Millenia Walk

It got pretty difficult to choose once you are deciding for the mains because all the dishes look so good. After a moment of deliberation, my colleague decided to go for mushroom risotto with black truffle which to me looks a tad too dry for risotto. But other than the texture, the risotto taste quite good but it's probably not suitable for you if you don't really like the strong smell of the mushroom.

Mushroom risotto with black truffle from Elemen at Millenia Walk

However, I had to give more thumbs up to the main dish that I ordered, quinoa brown rice sizzlling inside a hot stone bowl. I just become a fan of quinoa because my tummy can withstand hunger better after I consume quinoa. I think my stomach is confused on what is this new type of diet that I eat and since quinoa is supposedly a complex carb (not like white rice), stomach needs more time to digest while suffering confusion. The thing is, quinoa is still considered pretty rare (you will not see them as part of mixed rice menu yet, I suppose) and kinda pricey in Singapore. I suppose I had to find alternatives somehow.

Sizzling quinoa brown rice from Elemen at Millenia Walk

The beverages section from Elemen is actually quite fancy with many beautiful drinks. I am such a weakling against gimmicky drinks and since I don't drink this kind of drink on daily basis anyway, I suppose it's fine to drink these weirdly colored drink once in a while? My colleague did give me a look when I ordered this Iced Coconut Mint. The blue color "supposedly" come out from the butterfly pea flower but to be honest with you I am pretty skeptical about the uhh, supposedly natural coloring used to create this beautiful drink. Taste good by the way, so you probably won't lose anything. LOL.

Iced coconut mint with butterfly pea flower from Elemen at Millenia Walk

Desserts section is composed of both heavy and light kind of desserts. If you still have some space left in your belly, you may want to order the heavy dessert, sticky date pudding with vanilla ice cream on top of it. It tastes like what sticky date pudding is expected to taste which is sweeeeeettttt. I don't think this is the kind of dessert that you would like to finish by yourself.

Sticky date pudding with gelato from Elemen at Millenia Walk

If you, like me, are already full from the greedy order of previous courses, you may want to opt for lighter dessert such as snow chrysanthemum with grass jelly. Definitely taste lighter compared to the sticky date pudding. If I eat the sticky date pudding first before this, I would probably feel that this dessert is bland. Hahaha.

Snow chrysanthemum with grass jelly from Elemen at Millenia Walk

Elemen is located at:

9 Raffles Boulevard,

#01-75A/76 Millenia Walk

Opening hours:

Daily 11.30AM - 4PM, 5.30 - 10PM

Eating alone may used to be unthinkable in the past but as we are living in the modern society, it has been somewhat more accepted nowadays. Some articles from Huffington Post and Elite Daily have even encouraged the perks of dining solo without any other human being to accompany you. Being an occasional practitioner of eating alone, I know that sometimes the key to eat alone comfortably is to dine in when most people are bounded to their desk (i.e. Off peak hours) but obviously that may not be an easy feat to perform if you are also part of the corporate slaves with similar working and lunch hour.

If you happen to work in the vicinity of Millenia Walk and you are in a lookout for a nice place to eat and chill alone around noon, you may want to consider the Green Bar.

Singapore Eats: Eating Alone at the Green Bar, Millenia Walk

I actually had no plan to visit the Green Bar at all but as far as I remember Millenia Walk tend to have lesser crowd in busy lunch hour so here I am. Anyway, I am also in urgent need to shed some fats, so why not feed myself some salad. I opted for the 4+1 carbo salad which consist of 1 carbo selection (mine is fusilli with pesto) and 4 toppings as you can see from my receipts below. Anything below SGD 10 for a salad bowl served by restaurant which has air-conditioner is considered pretty good so I suppose I had to accept this high cost of living in the country.

4+1 carbo salad from the Green Bar at Millenia Walk

The will call your number (the table number reflected on your receipt) once your order is ready for collection. The Green Bar is not really big and it has pretty limited seats however, there are a lot of two seater table which makes it suitable for solo dining. People will not look at you weirdly since you don't hog the table for 4 or 6 after all. In addition, as the seating area is designed in the shape of a reversed L, the Green Bar actually has some seats at the corner section. When I dined here, the whole seats at this particular corner are occupied by fellow solo diners.

Eating alone at the Green Bar at Millenia Walk

Most of the solo diners are busy with their phones as there are nothing much to people watch if you sit at the corner section to be honest with you. Oh right, how about the food? I chose Japanese sesame sauce to go with my salad and the whole combination taste so good as I believe that sesame goes well with any kind of salad toppings. There were nobody who force me to eat fast (plus there's not much queue) so I could leisurely enjoy my meal bit by bit. Do note that the staff will clear your empty bowl if you eat too fast and you self-conscientiously will decide to go out once that happen unless you're eating during non busy hours.

Mix your own salad at the Green Bar Millenia Walk

Overall, I really enjoy my solo dining experience at the Green Bar and would like to do that again in future. Hence, the Green Bar is approved for eating alone. Woots!

The Green Bar is located at:

9 Raffles Boulevard

#01-91 Millenia Walk

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday 11AM - 8PM

Closed on weekends

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How much calories does a bowl of the Daily Cut have? - part 2

How much calories does a bowl of the Daily Cut have?

Singapore Eats: Vegetarian Set Lunch at Elemen, Millenia Walk

Singapore Eats: Eating Alone at the Green Bar, Millenia Walk