Don't do it!
Do it!
Hi!
What's your current diet like now?
Wah, my diet is damn bad.
I have very sporadic dance practices at night, right?
So, I'm always constantly eating food at random hours.
I try to eat clean for lunches but on weekends and for dinners, I just eat whatever I want.
Basically, I am trying to lose a little bit of weight.
So, I try to consume as much proteins as I can and cut down on the carbs.
Anything I like, I just eat.
Do you know what vegan is?
Vegan means you only eat vegetables.
Soy products like tofu and all this non-exciting things.
No milk.
No honey.
No cheese.
Basically, no products that have been created with the assistance of animals.
Haha!
On this episode of Singaporeans Try, we'll be going Vegan for an entire week.
Okay.
I am ready but like I feel stressed about it.
I feel that Vegan food is not readily available in Singapore or this is just my perception of Vegan food in Singapore.
*cries in agony*
I quit my job!
I have tried a Vegan diet before.
The only reason I would possibly do it for right,
is just for overall health and like smoother bowel movements.
It's really damn smooth.
Like the frog.
Ewww!
How confident are you for this challenge?
I think quite easy.
My motivation for joining this episode is so I can have free food for the week.
I just very stressed.
I don't want tot do this challenge badly.
I definitely think that I will do well.
I don't think I will cheat.
I really want to explore what this whole diet is about and see if it's actually sustainable.
I'm actually super not confident.
I have friends who are just like "Haha why you? Haha sure fail!"
I'm going to prove them wrong.
I hope.
I bring food to work everyday and today, I actually brought rice.
But I managed to find seaweed to make my sushi so I'm guessing that's my lunch today.
Doesn't look too bad.
It's pretty good.
I ordered an Acai bowl because my Popiah wasn't filling enough.
And this is how small it is.
This was about $7.
Okay, I don't think I can stick within a $100 budget which is why I won't deliver anymore food to myself.
So, I think I have to go grocery shopping already.
Chris, you're not going to eat broccoli?
No! What?
Yes, he is!
Later, he's going to pay me to go Food Republic and eat.
He's been saying he's not going to eat broccoli for the past 5 minutes.
Now, he's just whimpering.
So, we are currently at Giant.
This is like the legit Vegan shopping list.
And then meanwhile, Chris...
Wang Wang! Oreos!
It's very possible to be a Vegan but still extremely unhealthy
if you just follow Chris' shopping list.
Chris, what is the point of going on a Vegan diet where everything you have bought so far id pantry material?
Actually, isn't this sugar?
Ya sia!
How is this healthy?
Casually walking to the banana section.
Suddenly, we like "Oh!"
Yeah
And it smells so good.
This feels like bumping into your ex.
Oh no!
Don't look at the enemy.
Okay, now we are at the self-checkout.
How much?
Okay, so your total is $64.24, Chris.
QR payment!
Okay, you can scan to pay.
Nice!
Success! Let me take a look at that.
So, is the app great?
Yeah, it's fun, it's good!
You don't have to be like ...
Jeslene, all 3 of us are incorporating the ingredient into our meal.
Yeah, we are eating one bite of broccoli.
Eat it, Chris!
I don't want to eat it.
I'll have a small piece.
Oh, it's going to fall.
He's going to eat like...
That's okay, what! At least you ate it.
Eh, don't throw it back in your soup!
I will eat the rest.
He's going to spit it out.
Don't swallow it.
Swallow.
I'm so proud of you.
Good job, Chris!
I just finished my first dinner so what I did was I went to have Aglio Olio.
And when I went to have Aglio Olio, I told them I don't want any cheese or anything like that.
So, I liked it so much that I tapao-ed for tomorrow's lunch.
And I'll likely do this for every single lunch.
Okay, so, I'm a genius!
And we have this list of ingredients that we're supposed to check off. Thanks a lot, Jeslene.
So, for Wednesday to Saturday, there's Sweet Potato, Tofu, Corn, Mushroom.
And I have found this genius hack which is every single day, I'm just going to eat the McDonald's Red Rice Porridge.
So, I'm having Subway Vegetable burger.
It's my first time having a vegetable burger in Subway.
And it's really sad because it looks really depressing.
I couldn't put any cheese on it.
I couldn't put eggs.
I cannot put mustard sauce.
It's my birthday!
I have a vegan cake.
There's a very soy taste.
Soil?
No. S-o-y.
The taste is very guilt-free.
Oh, it's damn nice.
It doesn't feel like it's saturated with a butter and milkiness.
Okay so, I was almost not able to get my sweet potato ingredient for today but Joyce managed to remind me that there Don Donki here and there's sweet potato!
It's great.
I got this.
Good morning, it is day 3 of the vegan challenge.
And I came to my table in the morning to this.
It is a soy milk from Kaitlyn.
Oh, I am so jealous of him right now.
He's literally pouring milk right in front of me.
Full cream milk.
So good!
Yesterday, I cheated big time.
Haha!
It was my birthday so I had Chili Crabs, Steamed Crabs, Cereal Prawn. Hor Fun with Pork.
So today, I'm going to be very well-behaved.
This item is tofu right, so I've got this 3-in-1 rice balls bean curd.
We are Novena and the rest are surprising Ali(son) with the Jollibee and I found this place.
Where they serve salad bowl and I'm just going to get myself a salad bowl.
To be honest, I actually feel great that I did not succumb to peer pressure and I bought my salad instead of having Jollibee.
I did feel a bit sad during the whole birthday celebration thing when everyone was eating like meat, right?
I kind of felt left out.
So, it does feel a bit lonely.
So, while everyone is having Jollibee for lunch, I'm having tofu salad.
I don't feel left out at all.
I cannot. I don't think I can do it anymore.
Chlo, give me a chicken skin. Damn it.
Don't do it!
Excuse me ah!
Sorry ah, I was pretending, okay?
You don't actually grab my chicken skin.
Ugh!
Chris has never eaten a soy patty before.
I think when you restrict your dietary choices, oyu actually go out and explore more things.
Are you excited?
I hope it tastes like chicken.
Oh, it looks like chicken.
Maybe it's real chicken and they bluff us.
No, it's soy.
Eh, not bad.
What's the flavour like?
Okay, it's a bit soft and you can tell it's not real chicken.
But tastes like real chicken.
Thumbs up!
So, I went out for dinner with my friends.
One plate of pasta was $29.
So, I ordered a pasta with vegan options.
So, my food is here and this is the vegan option for the pasta.
I'm going to try it.
Taste whether it's nice or not.
It just looks like a regular tomato pasta.
Mmm! Oh my God.
And the food was really good like believe me, the place was on point like ten ten!
But if I want to pay for $29 for a meal, I would not go for a vegan option because to me, that's not making my money's worth.
Okay, so I've just gotten my food and this is how it looks like.
It's like a bowl of Ban Mian with soy and mushrooms and I think even a bit of mock meat and spinach.
And though, while I really was not expecting to like it because I could smell the soyness of it,
but it actually tastes pretty nice.
It's very savoury but I think for $6.50, it's a little bit expensive.
I would say like, out of convenience, it's pretty good.
Is it worth it? I don't really know about that.
It is about 8pm and I finally got hungry.
I'm actually having my oats again.
Like I started to feel a little bit sad for myself because I feel like I am not exactly eating properly.
Yaaasss!
So annoying!
All the fricken' chicken.
I want to eat, oh my God!
I want to eat the sotong!
You know it's like you cannot buy snacks anymore because like everything is not vegan.
Okay so, due to poor and the lack of strategic planning,
I am back at Soup Spoon, having the Meatless Minestrone soup for the third time this week because it's got the beans which I have to check off today.
Someone once told me that if you stick to a vegan diet, because you don't consume animals and their blood and the DNA,
you are going to have a more zen mindset and your moods will be more relaxed.
But whenever I walk past KOI or Old Chang Kee, I feel super triggered and personally attacked.
And honestly right, I'm just really looking forward to ripping open the skin of fried chicken.
Guys, so, this is our plan, okay?
This is not going to really be a meal.
We are just going to get Seitan out of the way.
We will just order 4 mock nuggets and then after that, go and eat KFC.
Yes!
I'm ready. This challenge is going to end now.
Can pay by NETSPay?
Can!
But it's okay.
Okay, can!
Thank you. Yes, done!
Fast game!
Teriyaki
Fish but it's fake fish. It's bean curd skin.
It looks damn -
It's like wah!
To meat!
Cheers!
This is not bad.
No, but at least the seasoning is there and the texture is kind of like meat.
Okay so, how was the challenge?
It was easier than expected actually.
I was telling Chris that I would consider being vegan like 1 out of 4 weeks in a month.
Just as a cleanse.
I feel that the vegan diet made me more conscious about what I'm consuming.
As I'm reading the ingredients, it made me realise that "Oh my God, this contains a high amount of cholesterol or fats."
And I feel a little bit more healthier.
Because you know when you eat all the meats and stuff, sometimes it can be really oily.
It is a struggle, eh.
Towards the end, I really wondered how my friends who are vegan can survive a normal day or a normal week in Singapore.
What I learned about myself is that I can do vegetarian, maybe not vegan.
Dairy is something that I -
Oh my God.
I need milk. I need cheese.
How was the whole NETSPay experience?
The whole NETSPay experience?
Actually, it was a lot easier.
Technology is great.
When we went to get the groceries and all this stuff right, we just had to use our phones, you know.
We didn't have to take out anything else.
It's very convenient now.
You just have to scan and then it transfers.
It's very fast.
Confess?
Why you make us do it in front of everybody?
Why you so bad?
Did ya'll cheat?
No, Chris out!
I had my very first meal right after we shot the intro.
Haha!
I had McDonald's fries.
Wah, I see ya'll eat chicken and burgers.
This is a very bad picture of me. I'm in the background.
I mean I think I already told ya'll that I ate chicken on like the third or fourth day.
One by one, they fell while I remained strong.
The day that I fell was the day that he was strong.
It was Alison's birthday so they surprised her with this nugget tower cake.
How dare they?
Zhin is here! Zhin!
No!
Zhin, nuggets!
Chris!
I'm protecting my mouth.
Zhin, you eat!
Zhin, just do it.
Chew and then -
Ahhh!
Your tongue touch it and you inserted it.
Yeah but I never eat!
I'm really sorry but nugget is something that I really cannot.
Ali, this is for you.
Oh my God, he really ate!
Oh my God.
There's a punishment.
Got live chicken!
Okay, ready?
3, 2, 1!
Urgh!
*groans in disgust*
Wah, do we have to go eat the broccoli?
Are we going to die?
Got no pesticides meh?
Yeah lorh
"I wash already." Confident.
Terrible.
When Satan meets Satan.
Ya sia.
Just imagine it's chicken.
Mmm!
I can also!
The smell, oh my God!
Eat the whole thing!
Put the whole thing in your mouth.
Aiya, cheaters cheat. I admit.
Wah, Zhin!
He's the MVP.
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