Top-rated Salad Bars in Singapore

Singapore cuisine is considered one of the most healthily prepared in the world, with a large number of salads and vegetable-based dishes. It is based on the principle of using ingredients in season, at the height of their freshness and flavor. Singapore’s varied climate, with its four distinct seasons, allows a wide range of seasonal vegetables to be grown and used in a wide variety of mouth-watering salads and side dishes. Salads are a great side dish to traditional dishes such as Popiah, Laksa Lemak and Blacan. There is a very large variety of salads in Singapore. All of the salads are made up of a variety of ingredients, but generally carrots, daikon, cucumber and many other vegetables are added.

But what makes salads so tasty apart from the ingredients they contain? The dressing, of course. The most common and well-liked salad dressings are onion dressing, sesame dressing and yuzu dressing. Onion dressing is based on mashed onions that are stewed over a flame with soy sauce and vinegar. This dressing has a rich flavour of fried onions and a light consistency. Sesame paste is made from a paste of sesame seeds, ground sesame seeds, soy sauce and vinegar. This is one of the best-loved tastes of those who have visited Singapore and Japan. Yuzu is made with a base of, obviously, yuzu. There is also a perilla-based, basic Japanese dressing of soy sauce, vinegar and mirin.

Seaweed is great for decorating salads, a mixture of 3 or 4 kinds is particularly nice, and sometimes pieces of agar-agar are also added to the combination and it all crunches up so pleasantly. The main feature of the salad is that it should be easy to eat with chopsticks, so the ingredients are usually cut into strings rather than just even straws. Every salad has a complete flavour composition: there is something salty, something sweet, and something sour. A balance of tastes has to be present in every dish. It’s not easy to create that, therefore there are special Salad Bars in Singapore where you can get the best salads.