Vegan-friendly
Chinese
Fast food
Take-out
Singaporean

Quick service vegetarian food cafe in the mall, by the operators of Bishan Vegetarian. Open Mon-Sun 11:00am-9:00pm. Last order 8:50pm.


Venue map for Vegetarian Express Cafe
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15 Reviews

First Review by Peace ...

nelyanne

Points +44

Vegetarian
23 Nov 2023

The best vegetarian option in Kovan

I eat here practically every week and never get bored. I especially recommend curry mutton rice, burgers, japanese dishes, and chwee kueh.

karzazen

Points +467

Vegan
19 Feb 2023

Terrible siew mai

I never had a worst siew mai experience. The herbal noodle soup and tom yum is pretty good.

Updated from previous review on 2023-02-19

WongSiowWai

Points +1745

Vegetarian
11 Jun 2022

Pricey food

Minced mock meat tofu & tom yum soup was good.

Sambal sweet potato leaves not nice and small portion.

Fried mock prawn with mayo so so .. and small portion too.

Pros: Lots of vegan option

Cons: On the pricey side, Limited seating

evatan

Points +157

Vegetarian
12 Feb 2022

Express cafe

Good for quick food, lots of zi zar options.
However the food taste tasted ‘instant food’ to me

Pros: Zhizar options

jeffreyning

Points +14

Vegetarian
05 Jan 2022

Close to perfection!

Excellent food portion and quality with exciting flavour. Authentic taste. Will come back for others. #Veganuary

Pros: Good quality ingredients., Variety of items to choose., Nostalgia of home-cooked food and drinks.

Cons: Expensive than usual., Limited space for dine-in., Self order at cashier counter.

duckchocolate

Points +2025

Vegan
02 Feb 2020

mediocre 3.5 stars

a little outlet serving a wide range of dishes, sells vegetarian products too. service is slow esp during peak periods and taste is mediocre

we ordered:

N02 sliced fish bee hoon soup (add milk) $6.80 [contains dairy, non dairy option available]

**N04 herbal kuey teow soup $7

P01 mixed vegetables rice $6.80

**P04 roast chicken rice $6.80

S02 seaweed soup (add kwey teow) $7

S5 claypot bak kut teh (small) $6.50

W5 unagi bento set with jap rice $12

**: not bad, enjoyed it

to sum up, the dishes are not very spectacular, the flavours can be replicated at home. portions are reasonable. a good spot if you want more “home-cooked” flavours... not worth the price point in my opinion.

Pros: extensive menu , okay portions

Cons: pricey for mediocre taste, long waiting time, no clearly marked vegan options

Satrai

Points +264

Vegetarian
17 Nov 2019

Small place but extensive menu!

Small place on #2 of the Heartland Mall just next to Kovan MRT. Located next to customer service desk. Tofu, vegs, mockmeats, burgers and others. Took the "crispy fish in pineapple sauce and steamed rice". $11

Pros: Many options, Located next to Kovan MRT

Cons: Relatively small place

Olive_Twist

Points +336

Vegetarian
06 Aug 2019

Not bad

This was my second attempt at going here. The first was thwarted by them not allowing nets for orders under 15 dollars.

I got the clay pot chicken and the carrot cake. Everything was lacking salt. Other than that the spices were ok and the portion size was good. Dishes are 10 - 16 sgd.

Miette

Points +157

Vegetarian
06 Aug 2019

Okay but not great

I got the fried kuay teow. It was okay. Not great. Not much flavour. Good sized menu though.

Zehbeehoon

Points +1122

Vegetarian
02 Jul 2019

Sweet and sour pork rice

I love all the dishes here, flavourful, huge portion and value for money!

Pros: friendly staff, air-conditioned

veggiexplorer

Points +4795

Vegetarian
16 Jun 2019

Butter sauce frog leg is gooooood

Tried the foodie there for the first time. Ordered butter sauce frog leg, sweet potato leaves (never ordered sambal version cause mom don’t like spicy😭), kung pow yamabushitake, & fried fish w sliced ginger. Super in love with the fried dish🥰 - butter sauce frog leg is highly recommended! It’s made of mushroom!😋

Pros: A lot of options!

aleksandranna

Points +168

Vegetarian
18 Feb 2019

Fresh and tasty!

The menu is diverse, singaporean, japanese, chinese, western food and more. They claim not to use MSG and cook freshly. We ordered burger with fries and Sweet and sour beef. Everything was super tasty and fresh. Will come back again to try other things from the menu. The prices are around 10$ per meal.

Pros: fresh, tasty

SKNg

Points +2040

Vegetarian
29 Dec 2018

Vegetarian Food

Located in Heartland mall at Kovan. Selling variety of rice, noodles, snacks, soup..
Reasonable price.

Pros: Healthy ingredients used , Servings quite large portion

Cons: Not too spacious

BeatriceRockslikealot

Points +31

Vegan
09 Oct 2017

Kovan outlet review

Had the mee goreng and Thai style tofu
Mee goreng too sweet, tofu can be more spicy

Pros: Lots of food choices, Clean and comfortable environment Great tea select

Cons: Average price of each dish 8$ for normal portion.

Peace ...

Points +3152

Vegetarian
04 Feb 2013

A simple breakfast @ Vegetarian Express Cafe Kova

Get to know about this new eatery while having dinner at Bishan Bus Interchange Vegetarian Stall some time ago. A little note was pasted at the store indicating that there is a new outlet at Kovan Heartland Mall.

There isn't any decent vegetarian eatery very near Kovan MRT, except for a traditional vegetarian stall at the Kovan Hougang Market & Food Centre that sells very limited varieties and it closed in the afternoon. I guess, although the price of vegetarian food in this new cafe cost a bit more that then usual hawker's fair, it could be a piece of good news to vegetarian living around this area.

This new cafe opened at 10.30am on weekday and 10am on weekend. We were there at around 9.50am and have to loiter around the mall to wait for the opening time. It would be nice, if the serving staff could allow customers to have a seat to wait and at the mean time browse through their menu.

I wanted to order the dumping soup @ S$4.80, but it wasn't ready yet and therefore I ended up having Rice Flour Rolls (Chee Cheong Fun ) at S$2.40 and a plate of Xiang Chuan Fried rice @ S$5.80. Both items were flavourful.

What do they have on their menu, check it out at their website : http://www.vegetarianexpress.com.sg/




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