Healthy, still tasty

Healthy food · District 1 · 42 Lý Tự Trọng

SOUMAKI calls itself “your healthy food soulmate”. The line sits on the wall itself, in curved black lettering, in the middle of the long sage-green room.

The restaurant sits at 42 Lý Tự Trọng, District 1, in a long shophouse: a glass front, a counter and kitchen visible through glass, tables running the length of the room. Sage-green walls, a vertical-tile facade, wood tables, terracotta and ghost chairs, sage dome pendants and track spotlights.

The main dish is a poke-style build-your-own bowl: a rice or soba base, beef, salmon, chicken or shrimp protein, vegetables and onsen egg, scattered with sesame, with a small black sauce dish. Dine-in comes in matte ceramic bowls on black trays; takeaway comes in kraft bowls printed “BE HEALTHY EAT YUMMY”.

Guests are young adults, solo or in small groups, several working on laptops; Grab drivers also pick up takeaway orders. The room is calm, clean and aesthetic — a light healthy lunch in the middle of District 1.

Toward the glass front — terracotta spindle chairs, curved “healthy food soulmate” lettering, globe pendants

The room

The long sage room

Sage-green walls, vertical tile, wood tables, terracotta and ghost chairs, sage dome pendants; orange, green and grey dot art and red lanterns throughout.

The bowls

Build your own, full of colour

A base of white rice, black rice or soba; medium-rare beef, salmon, chicken or shrimp; broccoli, corn, carrots, edamame, sweet potato; onsen egg and sesame.

Takeaway

The kraft “BE HEALTHY EAT YUMMY” bowl

Takeaway in kraft bowls printed with the house slogan, available on GrabFood — Grab drivers pick orders up at the restaurant.