NOTE: This is a vegetarian Chinese restaurant that uses meat substitutes. Part of my positive tilt on how I rate them is in the quality of the fakeness of the meat.
B14 Assorted Vegetables and Wonton in Soup ($12.95)
- Overall pretty ordinary tasting. In fact, I'm a bit inclined to give it bonus points for tasting just like my mom's home cooking.
- Not exactly thick with wontons since this is mixed wontons and vegetables (and it says so right in the menu name), so if you're looking for tons of wontons and just token veggies, you might want to check with the server for something else to order.
- The wontons are themselves quite interesting from a fake-meat point of view. They actually taste fairly close to pork. But more than that, they actually make an effort to have it look like pork-and-shrimp wontons: If you cut open one, you'll likely see a fat chunk of (fake) prawn. It doesn't taste like prawn (tastes more like bland nothing if you isolate it and taste it) but the appearance is comforting for omnivores that might be missing meat.
C27 Veggie Balls and Mushrooms with Black Pepper Sauce ($13.95)
- Pretty simple and tasty. Sauce not too strong though, so if you're worried about that, or looking forward to a very strong pepperiness, check with your server.
- Except for the shape, the "veggie balls" are pretty good at passing for tender chunks of (fake) chicken. And camouflaged amongst the comparably sized mushrooms, you might not even notice the odd shapes. If you're looking for fake chicken, this is probably better than the overtly fake-looking chicken options.
- NOT swimming in oily sauce. This is good.
G10 Baked Fried Rice with Pumpkin and Cheese ($16.95)
- Weird to see cheese and pumpkin in a Chinese restaurant, much less in the same dish. I recommend you try it! It's not only novel but the sauce makes it pretty tasty.
- It's also a LOT of rice -- the server rated a single order as being enough rice for five persons! Certainly on it's own it's a meal for two.
- It does NOT taste like Kraft cheddar mac 'n cheese. Nor does it taste like someone melted an awful lot of cheddar on top. In fact, it doesn't taste like cheese so much. The sauce (that doesn't harden up like cheese when it cools) kind of tasted to me like a sweet, not-spicy-hot, curry.
- The pumpkin comes in small wedges with some of the green skin on, but baked enough to be tender and sweet. Make sure you scoop up some.
Service very friendly and helpful to non-Chinese speakers!
Not a lot of small tables for 2-4 so if you're a duo you might get stuck with a small table basically at the kitchen exit and the only other option is only a bit farther away.
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