Singapore's best vegetarian restaurant

Singapore's best vegetarian restaurant -- Recommended: LingZhi

LingZhi's vegetables taste even better than they look.

Traditional Chinese vegetarian dishes are often more about predictable mock meats and gluten, but LingZhi restaurant turns that around with its haute vegetarian dishes. 

Part of the forward-looking Tung Lok group of restaurants, the culinary brigade at LingZhi expertly combines, contrasts and complements flavors, such as fusing the earthy overtones of mushroom with a tangy twist of fruit and vegetables. 

Signature dishes include monkey head mushrooms with dried chili, a delicious -- and very duck-like -- vegetarian roast duck and a tangy-sweet pineapple fried rice.

There’s also a take-out counter for vegetarian pastries and dim sum and perhaps the best vote of confidence is this -- the restaurant counts many non-vegetarians as regulars.

#05-01 Liat Towers, 541 Orchard Rd., tel + 65 6734 3788, #03-09/10 Velocity @ Novena Square, 238 Thomson Road, tel +65 6538 2992. Open daily 11 a.m.-3 p.m., 6-10 p.m.