tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30438966232701354412012-02-13T19:03:46.454+08:00On the prowl for delicious vegetarian food in a meat city.adalinenoreply@blogger.comBlogger421100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3043896623270135441.post-54742976172306706402009-11-18T20:57:00.002+08:002009-11-18T21:01:43.408+08:00

Hi Veggie Lovers! My food blog has moved to a new site called Veggie Foodie Sorry for the inconvenience caused but it's definitely worth your click - enhanced and powered just for you!

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After a hectic morning at work, if you head on to the World Peace Cafe for lunch at Wanchai, you'll be surrounded by a sense of calm. Not that this place is quiet, you usually have to book in advance to secure seats, but the environment has a positive energy around it. Perhaps it has to do with the waiters and waitresses who are all volunteers, despite being busy shuttling around tables to take

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I was told that the Cafe O on Queens Rd Central is a good place to conduct your meetings since it has 2 levels and obviously quieter upstairs. Cafe O has a wide range of European food from your usual sandwiches, salads to metre long pizzas. What I like about this place is it has a good range of vegetarian options particularly for pizzas or even the set meal offers. I've yet to try its lasagne but

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It's not a myth that breakfast is an important meal of the day and there have been many studies to prove this, some even claiming that kids who eat their breakfasts perform better in school. But what we eat for breakfast is interesting too and varies in different places. In Hong Kong, local cha chaan tengs usually serve up chow mien, cheong fun (flat rice sheets), congee or instant noodles.

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Salads can be eaten as a meal on its own and it's becoming popular to create your own salads by choosing the ingredients you like than be forced to choose from the limited salad varieties i.e. ceasar salad. If you like to pamper yourself with a good salad meal, you could go to JW Marriott for its salad lunch buffet. The hotel also offers noodle and dessert buffet and if you are feeling famished,

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It's Sunday and you want to chill out somewhere for brunch. Running out of ideas? Head to Festival Walk @ Kowloon Bay and check out the brunch menus at Simply Life Bakery Cafe. I ordered a brunch set that includes mushroom soup and egg florentine. The portion is relatively big but not too much that you can't finish when you are combining two meals. The food is fresh and tasty but the only gripe I

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If you want a vegetarian version of the likes of local fast food chains such as Fairwood or Cafe De Coral, there's just one such restaurant located near Kowloon Bay MTR station called Buddha Hut.I decided to make my way there one afternoon and took my friend, Jessie along. We ordered cold buckwheat noodles sprinkled with sesame seeds on top and gravy that comes separately, when added gives the

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Paramita vegetarian restaurant offers fushion food that looks and taste a little too much like real meat and is definitely for the more adventourous food lover. Some carnivores don't understand why vegetarians want to eat veggie meats but these are designed to lure new converts who have decided to go vegetarian for merciful reasons yet still crave for 'meat' without having to kill animals.For

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A cafe named after its sports brand. Lafuma Cafe positions itself as offering traditional alpine food from France.When you enter the premises on the 3rd floor, the cafe transports you to a wooden cottage lodge where the walls are filled with pictures of famous mountain climbers. It gives a cozy feeling and makes you forget you just trudged out from the hustle and bustle of Mongkok.There are many

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Since Cart noodles or 车仔面 has the create your own noodles concept, it's seldom you end up with food you don't like.However, I was being a little adventourous and ticked the vegetarian curry squid which I didn't end up liking its rubbery texture.On the return visit, I ordered the mini sausage with cheese again. You could taste the cheese when you bite into it but it's not too much to ooze out of

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There's just so many burger restaurants in Hong Kong, you are not short of choice! But I'm still hunting for that perfect veggie burger in town! I know meat eaters are going to roll their eyes but the good thing about hunting for veggie burgers is you become very focused on tracking down the only option available at the various burger restaurants. David recommended me to try Burger Republic and I

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There are 3 Al Dente restaurants in Hong Kong. I've tried it during lunch but enjoyed my experience better during dinner when I get to choose from the menu. This is my first time at the Al Dente at Sun Hung Kai, which is more spacious than the one I usually frequent on Jaffe Street in Wanchai. This restaurant is dog-friendly too so Pamela and Charlotte brought Bailey along to have dinner with me.

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I love hanging out @ Elements on weekends since it's just 10 minutes walk from home. And whenever I pass by Petits by Deschamps, I can't help to check out its wide array of cupcakes. Many flavours to choose from - chocolate, bailey's, lemon and tiramisu. But my all time favourite is the cheesecake flavoured cupcake. The cream cheese on top is decadent, you can't help digging in for more. Size is

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It was Sunday and we were hanging out at Harbour City again. After shopping at Muji, we decided to give Spasso, a nifty Italian restaurant with a beautiful seaview atop the shopping mall a try. Our starter was the tempura egg, rocket lettuce and sundried tomato salad. As it was International Women's Day, 8th March, we were each given a bouquet of dried flowers. Nice!The pizza was huge but yummy

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Grabbed an assortment of veggies for appetizers - beetroot, tomatoes, roasted potatoes and salad plus crackers and different types of cheese.The dessert section caught my attention most. This is a mini oven that contains apple crumble and creme brulee in traditional chinese cups.A wide angle view of the dessert selection. Instead of serving the usual chocolate fondue, W Hotel serves up strawberry

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You usually get salad or soup for appetizers and the fruit platter usually comes last but in this case, my starter at JW Marriott is a plate of fruits - watermelon and honey dew with pine nuts and basil splashed in olive oil.The main course is a plate of penne with tomato sauce and parmesan cheese. Not bad.Dessert is the best! A mango tart, berries and rasperry sorbet. Yummy!

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This is the black pepper fish dish that has a strong beancurd taste. I've eaten many different types of mock fish and this is by far I would say the more 'vegetable-like' one compared to the ones I always eat. The portion is big and comes with a few stalks of kai lan and light gravy sauce. Hong Kong people don't like to season their food too strongly. The dish you see below is the beef patty and

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For the Lunar New Year, I was invited to attend 千人宴, which is loosely translated as "Feast for a Thousand" at a restaurant with a sea view in Causeway Bay. However, I was not seated near the windows, so I missed out on the spectacular seaview. The dinner was like a typical full-course meal at a Chinese restaurant for important occasions such as at a wedding. This is interesting because it's got a

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I was invited to lunch at The Mistral, an Italian restaurant at the Intercontinental Grand Standford Hotel a second time and it never fail to disappoint. I started with the antipasto buffet and had my favourite selections of grilled vegetables, fresh tomatoes and cheese. For the main course, I tried the asparagus rissotto. Even though there wasn't much ingredients in the rissotto, the thick

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Greenfeel Vegetarian located in Mongkok has a wide variety of noodles. It offers an attractive set dinner, which we saw many customers have came here for. However, we opted for some thai noodle dishes. We narrowed our choices to the Thai style fried noodle in XO sauce (above) and Thai style hot and sour pork soup noodles (below). I like the fresh ingredients in the hot and sour soup noodles and

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Another set lunch at Life Organic Cafe at SOHO. I heart the spanish fritatta. Finished off the yummy lunch with a chocolate cookie and coffee. Thanks Sarah!

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I love set lunches. This time it was at Munch located at Knutsford Terrace. The decor of the restaurant is minimalist, has an Ikea feel about it. It has a few vegetarian options and I had the mushroom soup for appetizer. The soup is yummy, has a very rich and fresh mushroom taste, unlike the Campbell soup msg laden sort. The risotto might not look too attractive but it does taste good. Has a

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I discovered that SOGO actually has a lot of yummy goodies on the basement levels. This is a Japanese Sweets Deli and it's called Mochi Cream.It's website is currently under construction. The Mochi Cream has many different flavours. The more interesting ones are apple pie, chocolate banana, cafe au lait and sakura. Serain is holding the Sakura, pink coloured Mochi. I bought the rum raisin flavour

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This is the curry pork cutlet noodles from Gaia vegetarian restaurant @ Causeway Bay. The crispy pork cutlet has a layer of japanese curry on top. I have not tried the authentic Japanese Tonkatsu dish before but I think the pork cutlet looks like the real thing.However, I like the sushi better. Out of the three different types of sushi, I prefer the eel avocado roll the best! Perhaps I personally

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Fancy building your own burger? Well, they didn't really allow me to change around the ingredients, so they shouldn't claim themselves as the DIY restaurant. However, they did allow me to switch the bread to a honey wheat one which tasted better than the norm. What I like about Gourmet Burger Union is that it has a special vegetarian soy patty which is like its signature vegetarian 'meat' in the

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Always passed by UCC Cafe but have not patronised it before. I think it's famous for its coffee but I decided to bring my friend Mark from Beijing (originally from Singapore) to try some dessert there. We ordered a strawberry french toast and a mixed berry waffle. I personally prefer the french toast better although the strawberry was sour. Nice waffle have to be served hot and spread some ice

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Once you step into the restaurant, you feel like you have entered a karoke establishment. There were some disco lights at the front and I was greeted by a staff who brought me to an empty table and left me to create my own dish. The order form was all in Chinese so I took a while to figure out the ingredients before ticking my selection of vegetables, seaweed and tofu puffs. I opted for the extra

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Presenting my Xmas set lunch present from my sister. This is quite an authentic Japanese restaurant at Knutsford Terrace and usually if a Japanese restaurant is 'authentic' it will be tough for me to find any food inside. But, this restaurant actually offers a vegetarian set meal! And it's very well decorated and presented. The food is freshly made, right down to the ginger and wasabi.Another

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Is it true there's an Irish proverb that there are two things that can't be joked: 1. marriage 2. potato? Anyway, that's how Ireland's potato is selling its goods. It seems they take their potatoes very seriously. I was trying to do some research about Irish potato and found a bleak history of the Irish potato famine. Well, back to the potatoes, I was walking in Mongkok when I saw random people

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I've always loved the croquette burger at MOS and there's usually two flavours I can choose from. The curry or original one. I wonder why it's only exclusive to Singapore though? When I'm at MOS in Hong Kong, I can only order the Kimpiri burger, which I've learnt that it's an acquired taste. But beggars can't be choosers, better than no option at all! But I guess when you head to MOS Burger, it's

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Wish I had more time in Singapore so I could hunt down the best Mee Siam in town. But I liked the one I had at Bendemeer with my Aunt and her daughter, cousin Huiling, who coincidentally blogged about our meal in her blog. I'm not sure these were the authentic ingredients but it sure tastes good and I chomped down the dish in minutes. I've yet to find a similar variant of the vegetarian version

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What is a good ol' breakfast for you? Since coming to Hong Kong, I've been eating chee cheong fun and recently started to take my cereals with brown rice milk again. But I will never pass up the chance to grab a full breakfast at my favourite YaKun store, which I did, when I caught up with Shehli, who is pregnant with her second kid and Cherisse who brought a surprise friend, Rayana along!How I

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Just before leaving for Kuala Lumpur for a Buddhist Seminar, my sister has suggested that we 'celebrate' my departure at her favourite restaurant Jaspas in SOHO. The first time I came to Hong Kong, she brought me to the one in Sai Kung but ever since, we usually come to the one in SOHO instead. I like the variety of dishes that the restaurant offers from Mexican, Arabic to Western. This time I

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I love laksa. According to the Wikipedia, laksa is a popular spicy noodle soup from Peranakan culture. However , it seems that some Thai restaurants also serve this dish. I went to Namh @ Elements for Rachael's farewell and we ordered the vegetarian laksa. It contains fresh bean sprouts, corn and thick vermicelli and the curry gravy tastes delicious. Sometimes, my dad makes laksa at home too but

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Met up with Cactus who has relocated to Shenzhen to work. She suggested we go to Kung Tak Lam for yum cha at the Tsim Sha Tsui branch that has a nice view of the Hong Kong harbour. I ordered my favourite dan dan noodles, which is a little spicy but very flavoursome. It's my all time favourite, I could have the whole bowl to myself and never fail to order whenever I come here. I also requested for

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Where do you usually go for pasta? What do you look for in a pasta? Do you prefer more ingredients less pasta or more pasta and few ingredients? How about the sauce? How do you prefer it to be done?My sister's colleague introduced her to a restaurant called Pasta de Waraku after reading someone's blog, so we decided to travel all the way to Tsuen Wan to check out the new shopping mall called

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My big fat juicy "zha leong". I wonder what's the English name of this local food call? Flour stick wrapped in rice noodle skin? But that's basically what this is, it's the "you cha kwei" that deep fried flour stick that is wrapped with a layer of the "chee cheong fun". I love it when you have the whole shabang -sweet paste, peanut sauce and sesame seeds - it just makes the whole dish so

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My favourite "tong shui" place is Honeymoon Dessert. I particularly love the durian pancake there. It's so delicious and if you love the aroma of durian you will understand what I mean if not, then you will think it smells of 'gas' which my Australian boss keeps complaining because I bought it back to office after lunch once and he thought the whole office was going to explode because he kept

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I love to have dim sum at the Three Virtues restaurant. Whenever my Singaporean friends come to Hong Kong or if my friends want to have dim sum with me, I would recommend them to try the dim sum here. Although it only serves vegetarian food, my friends who are mostly 'carnivores' did not mind. They actually find the food here delicious! There's two of these restaurants in Hong Kong, one in North

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When I used to work at Wanchai, I would go to World Peace Cafe at least once a month. The buddhist inspired cafe serves healthy organic vegetarian options. It's only open in the afternoons and you have to book in advance as the place fills up quickly. The cupuccino has a chinese character "tian" to mean sky or heaven. Very pretty I thought and I used this picture for my mobile's wallpaper for a

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Let's talk about my favourite subject - FOOD. Despite being a vegetarian, I have not abandoned my love of food. And because it's such a challenge for me when I eat out, it has since become an adventure to hunt for good food. I like to check out random restaurants and pore through the menus and point out the vegetarian options inside.

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I'm a closet blogger, a closet blogger. How does one become a closet blogger? You can't be one because when you blog, You are exposed to everyone in cyberspace, in cyberspace. So there's no privacy, no way to be low profile, low profile. Isn't a blog all about letting your friends know more about you, more about you, Be it the real you or the fake you?

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