The first 30 days after delivery, also known as the confinement period, is a time for your body to rest and recuperate from childbirth. A balanced diet during confinement is the key to replenishing your body’s stores, especially if you are breastfeeding. Confinement meals are specially crafted to ensure that your body receives enough nutrients to recalibrate your body. These foods are usually rich in protein and iron, include ‘warm’ herbs like old ginger that promote blood circulation and contain lactation-boosting ingredients like papaya to boost breast milk supply.

All mummies would know about popular confinement dishes like black vinegar pig trotters to purge ‘wind’ from the body or comforting favourites like green papaya fish soup to boost milk production. But confinement meals don’t have to be limited to just these staples. At Tian Wei Signature, delight your tastebuds with Chinese-Japanese or even Chinese-Mediterranean cuisines that retain the use of traditional confinement ingredients.

No More Boring Confinement Meals

Tian Wei Signature offers a wide array of appetising confinement meals crafted by an award-winning chef, and their menu comprises of the usual traditional dishes to innovative fusion pairings. Here’s a peek at some of their appetizing signature dishes that you can look forward to.

Traditional confinement foods

Featuring some of their signature dishes that are well-loved by mummies, these favourites are warm, MSG-free and nutritionally delicious.

Braised Pork Trotter in Black Vinegar

Health benefits: This dish uses a lot of old ginger which contains herbal properties to dispel ‘wind’ and regulate blood circulation. Black vinegar can also purify the blood and cleanse the arteries.

Sesame Braised Chicken

Health benefits: Sesame oil is a classic confinement dish as it is ‘warming’ and helps dispel ‘wind’ from the body. This nourishing dish can improve blood circulation and builds up strength and vitality.

Steamed Threadfin Fillet with Ginger Broth and Black Fungus

Health benefits: Threadfin helps to boost breast milk supply and this nourishing dish also incorporates ingredients like ginger (dispel ‘wind’) and black fungus (nourishes stomach, lungs and liver).

Fusion confinement foods

Be delighted by a tasty surprise in every bite as Tian Wei Signature’s award-winning head chef, Chef Eugene takes your palate on a culinary journey with Japanese, Taiwanese and Mediterranean-inspired dishes in the third and fourth weeks’ menu. Tian Wei Signature is reinventing classic confinement meals using traditional confinement ingredients with these signature dishes.

Tian Wei Signature Coq Au Vin

Health benefits: Braised in a red wine sauce, this ingredient raises the levels of ‘good’ HDL cholesterol and it is rich in antioxidants that may help prevent heart disease and inflammation.

Seared Salmon with Cauliflower Cream and Tri-Coloured Grains

Health benefits: Salmon is rich in fatty acids like Omega-3 and essential minerals, making it a choice confinement food for mothers. If you are breastfeeding, consuming more salmon increases the concentration of essential minerals (EPA and DHA) in your breast milk.

Kurobuta Pork Loin with Apple Mirin Sauce and Spaghetti

Health benefits: Pork Loin is naturally rich in “Conjugated Linolic Acid” (CLA) which can improve heart health and prevent cancer and is a preferred choice of protein for confinement meals.

Confinement Herbal Soup

Their menu features over 44 unique nourishing soups from classic favourites to modern variations. These herbal soups are brewed from recipes originating from

Traditional Chinese Medicinal theories on Yin Yang (阴阳) and the balance of ‘Qi’(气) to help mummies nourish the blood, enhance breast milk supply and increase vitality. 

Fenugreek Green Papaya Fish Soup (青木瓜鱼汤)

Health benefits: Green papaya is a key ingredient in boosting breast milk supply, and also reduces inflammation and improves your digestive health.

Ginseng Nourishing Soup (人参大补炖汤)

Health benefits: Strengthens the body’s immunity and promotes digestion.

Recommended for physically weak mothers who also experience loss of appetite.

Refreshing Desserts

End your meal with a satisfyingly nutritious dessert with over 17 unique choices!

Snow Fungus Peach Resin Hashima Dessert

Health benefits: Peach resin is rich in collagen to recover the loss of essential nutrients during childbirth and promotes beautiful skin.

Papaya White Fungus Dessert

Health benefits: White fungus accelerates wound healing and aids in collagen production for plump and beautiful skin.

Increase Breast Milk Supply Naturally

Did you know that breast milk supply can be improved by consuming these lactation-boosting ingredients? Tian Wei Signature has a range of dishes that contains these beneficial ingredients to aid in increasing breast-milk production. Be sure to include these lactogenic ingredients in your next confinement meals:

100% Natural Flavour In Every Bite

Each dish at Tian Wei Signature is prepared with zero MSG and what you’re tasting is 100% natural flavours from the ingredients. This is only possible with the long hours of preparation for every dish to boost its flavours without additives or artificial flavouring.

Tian Wei Signature also incorporates many traditional Chinese confinement ingredients that can help speed up the recuperating process. Read on to discover the health benefits of these ingredients and how they can be incorporated into your confinement meals. 

Health benefits:

• Dissipates cold
• Protects the body from rheumatism and body aches
• Anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial

Included in Tian Wei Signature’s:

• Braised Pork Trotter in Black Vinegar ● Red Fermented Wine Chicken

Health benefits:

• Replenishes blood
• Boost immune system

Included in every meal ordered from any Tian Wei Signature package:

Each meal comes with 1 litre of Red Date tea delivered in a thermal flask that stays warm for up to 6 hours.

Health benefits:

• Improves blood circulation
• Suppresses wind in the body
• Rich in Tyrosine (an amino acid with mood-lifting benefits)

Included in Tian Wei Signature’s: Sesame Braised Chicken

Health benefits:

• Improves blood circulation
• Suppresses wind in the body
• Rich in Tyrosine (an amino acid with mood-lifting benefits)

Include in Tian Wei Signature’s:

• Dispel Blood Tonic Herbal Soup
• Ginseng Nourishing Soup
• Blood Nourishing Soup

Tian Wei Signature: Hassle-Free Confinement Meals 

Instead of having to trouble a loved one or hire a confinement nanny to spend hours in the kitchen preparing your confinement meals, consider going with a confinement caterer to get nutritious and warm meals delivered straight to your doorstep.

With over 100 nutritious and lactation-friendly dishes, Tian Wei Signature‘s menu is specially curated by their in-house dietitian who carefully reviews every meal to ensure that they are well-balanced and nutritious to support a mother’s recovery and lactation.

Tian Wei Signature also packs every meal in biodegradable containers that are chemical-free and environmental-friendly, along with thermal flasks to keep your soups and drinks warm for up to 6 hours.

Can’t have ginger or vinegar in your food? Tian Wei Signature has you covered. Every meal from Tian Wei Signature can be customised to meet your dietary concerns and preferences. Their ‘Special request’ list even allows you to opt-out of staples such as Pork Trotters Vinegar (猪脚醋) or Hong Zhao chicken (红糟鸡) so that you can save your stomach for other interesting items on their menu.