This is the last restaurant in Melbourne and like the most! 

Thanks to Sharon, who lives in Melbourne and has been vegetarian for eight years recommend this restaurant. Her most favourite vegetarian is ” Young green food ” on Brunswick st but I simply didn’t have time to go that far. I will go next time I am in Melbourne. 

Gopals- seves Hare Krishna meals  NO ONION, GARLIC !!!

Even though it is in the middle of CBD, it has peaceful atmosphere. 

Love the ” green view” 

Indian paintings…

Hare Krishna meal doesn’t mean it is all Indian. You can have vegetarian lasagna!

there are a few ” meal deal ”  

• $8.5- Kofta ball, rice and salad
• $9.9- Lasagna and green salad
• $10.9- 2 kind of veggie dish, salad, rice or nan, juice and desert
• $11.9- soup, 2 kind of veggie dish, salad, rice or nan, juice and desert

6 veggie dishes to choose from 

4 kinds of salads 

I choose  ” full course”  the $11.9 one !

It is serious amount of food! 

start from sweet corn soup 

Broccoli, carrot, pea, red capsicum, snow pea, cabbage and of course, sweet corn

Varieties of veggies!  YUM 

main veggie dishes 

Kofta ball 

Balls are made from shredded veggies - zucchini, carrot and cabbage and fry with chickpea flour and made ball with self raising flour. Lovely! 

Satay curry 

potato, carrot, cauliflower, pea cooked with peanuts sauce 

Green salad and beetroot salad with kofta ball with tahini dressing.

Juices to choose from 

lemon and mint sounds good and also I love lassi but it contains dairy so….

I choose ” apple and wheatgrass juice” , sounds healthy, isn’t it? 

sago

Sago with coconuts milk, soy milk, dates, apple and walnuts. Most ingredients are naturally sweet so I bet small amount of refined sugar is used, I think 

When I go to vegetarian restaurant, I can’t get plenty of vegetable. more noodles or rice but here, I seriously think that I ate a lots of veggies and they are fresh! 

No processed food like fake meat but all fresh veggies! I had totally vegan without garlic and onion. It was healthy and yummy! Generous serving as well. How can’t I love this place? 

Sorry that I haven’t written so long! while I wasn’t writing, I went to many exiting restaurants..so would like to share about them with you :)

I wanted to go to this restaurant for a while but it took a long time to go because this restaurant closes every Sunday. Finally we managed to go there on weekday!

Harvest vegetarian restaurant in Rozelle,  is running for 35 years! 

must be one of the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Sydney. This restaurant has been loved by not only vegetarian but also non- vegetarian people. The owner told me that nearly half of his customers are non- vegetarian. Isn’t it interesting?

The menu was mix of Western and Asian cuisine. 

Risotto, gnocchi, lasagna…then curry, spring roll…..but more Western food than Asian

We ordered three entree, two mains and one desert

Green split pea soup ( vegan ) $11.5 

Coconut milk, turmeric, coriander and black cumin seed confined with green split pea

I am not big fan of pea but this soup wasn’t so ” pea” and not so thick. perfect for me

Roasted vegetable patties $11.5

Roasted vegetables combined with sweet chilli, shaped then pan fried. Serve with salad and hommus

Isn’t it cute that pita bread standing tall on hommus? 

Tapas plate ( share for 2 ) $22  - Vegan by request

• lentil mint and lemon dip
• mushroom and zucchini ragout
• Greek feta, blue vein, oregano, olive oil
• Guacamole

serve with pita bread  

I liked lentil mint and lemon dip the most. Isn’t it interesting combination? 

Then main

Harvest mediterranean aubergine tower $23

Oven- baked eggplant filled with goat cheese, roasted red capsicum and sweet potato divided by English spinach, tomato and basil served with an Illawara plum and tomato graze

you can’t tell much from photo but it was huge! beautiful green sauce

Harvest curry ( Vegan by request ) $23.5

A vegetable curry combined cauliflower, potatos, onions, green beans, lemon rind, curry leaves, coconut milk served with rice, pappadams, yoghurt and fruit chutney. 

It’s a little sweet for me but my boy friend who loves sweet liked it. 

We were absolutely full but still ordered desert with Japanese tea…

Apple berry and nut crumble ( vegan ) $12.5 

Harvest vegetarian restaurant

71 Evens street Rozelle

9818 4201

Vegan restaurant with passion and pride

I was in Gold Coast for a week for a seminar. I didn’t have time to look around vegetarian restaurant for 6 days, finally I got an opportunity to go just before my flight. 

I went to Easy House. I didn’t have much expectation. I choose here cos it was close and Asian

But it turned out to be such a fabulous restaurant!!!

When I arrived, yum cya was happening. yay! I love yum cya. I choose yum cha without  hesitation 

Radish ball

I have never seen or had this at vegetarian yum cya place! exiting! 

Flaky pastry with radish and fake meat.  Pasty was slightly sweet, it goes with radish mixture

 Steamed bean curd sheet with veggies

Cabbage, carrot, celery, coriander and fake pork were wrapped with bean curd sheet, seasoned with slightly sweet soy taste.  The fake pork ( I think ) was really really like pork. I loved it!!!! 

Pan- fried radish cake 

I love radish cake! I could see lots of actual radish in the cake which is fantastic  :)))) also seasoning was just right 

The dish I really really was brown away was dumpling! 

This place serves more than 10 kinds of dumplings! 

I choose snow pea leaf dumpling because I have never had

Stuffings were snow pea leaf, carrot, cabbage, chinese cabbage and some fake chicken

I was just amazed how FRESH and VOLUME of the veggies. I have never had such a generous amount of veggies in the dumplings and they are sooo fresh. Also veggies were so chunky so I can actually feel that I am eating vegetable 

I could not help giving the complements to the owner Mary. She said ALL PREPS ARE DONE IN THE MORNING. 

Wow, no wonder, only fine dining do such thing! Normally prep is done day before or even longer or made hand made with fresh veggies but freeze straight away. Or prep is done then use until running out cos it is very easy to run the restaurant and cost effective.  I really felt the pride and passion from this restaurant cos doing this way at yum ya really really need a lots of work! 

Also I need to mention Killer chilli sauce. 

Hope I have better picture. this chilli is just amazing! sooo tasty. 

Again, I couldn’t help asking what the hell is this fantastic chilli !

This chilli sauce is home made which I noticed straight away. This chilli sauce is made of ORGANIC chilli and shitake mushroom 

I wish I was with somebody then  I could have ordered more. 

There were so many varieties. buns, many kinds of deep fried things such as spring rolls, veggie dishes…

Seriously I highly recommend this place.  This place does not only yum cya but also 75 kinds of dishes, deserts and banquet menu

No MSG is used. All vegan. Lots of gluten free dishes. 

No garlic or onion. 

I wish I could go there every week…..

Easy House

Yum cya all day from Tue to Sun

Lunch 10 am to 3pm 

Dinner 5pm to 9:30pm 

ADDRESS: Shop 8, 90 Markeri st Marmaid Waters, QLD 4218  ( Cnr Markeri St and Sunshine Blvd)

PH: 07 5572 8808 

When I started to suffer ” craving for rice “, I went to vegetarian buffet that I checked before. 

It was so easy to find. thanks to this sigh!

It is in a health food shop near Prado museum and where I stayed,

Lots of selections! 

Asian, western and Middle Eastern dishes. 

I especially enjoyed rice dishes :) 

There were plain brown rice and also 

mushroom rice

sushi!!!!!! 

with organic soy sauce 

Basically, you get charged how much you put on your plate. 

100g for 2.10 euro 

This is my plate.

It was 14.5 euro.

I ordered gazpacho for extra 3 euro

I was starving and put lots of rice dishes so if you are normal person, I am sure the plate will be less or around 10 euro. 

There were two tea selection

one was dairy free chai and this 

lime tea with bancha and sencya? 

bancya is roasted green tea and sencya is green tea in Japanese.

Taste? very interesting and healthy…you know what I mean???

There were also wide varieties of cakes

Everything was bit too salty which is quite common in Spain anyway. 

When you would like to enjoy variety of food, it is fantastic place to go. 

Viva la vida 

Address : c/ Huertas 57 Madrid

Also there are another Viva la vida 

Address : Costanilla de San Andrés (Plaza de la Paja), 16, 28005, Madrid.

Everybody says being vegetarian is crazy and hard to do. What I and everybody around me didn’t know is that Barcelona is actually vegetarian friendly city.

Barcelona is the city that banned bull fighting in 2008 and have over 20 vegetarian restaurants! 

I have been exited to visit some of them.

Bio centre is one of the oldest vegetarian restaurant in Barcelona.  It is over 20 years old! 

I see lots of ” bio food” in Spain and wondering what it is..I found out that it means

” organic” 

I came here with Adam, nephew of my friend who lives in Barcelona at the moment.

We ordered three meal course 

Entree is choice of  mixed salad with mustard vinaigrette dressing or soup

We both ordered salad 

It is quite big portion for entree. 

mix lettuce with alfalfa, sesame, sunflower seeds, radish, cucumber, arame (seaweed), carrot, rocket, mix leaves, tofu, tomato, beet root….so much variety! 

Main: choice of 

• Gnocchi with basil and leek sauce
• Seitan picatta with spinach cream
• Soy bean burger with soy mayo
• sauteed vegetable with coconuts sauce

Adam’s choice is Gnocchi

Gnocchi is definitely home made and great! 

My choice is seitan picatta with spinach cream

It is really really nice. Seitan is cooked crispy outside and moist inside.  Sauce is really nice. slightly sweet and tangy. YUM! 

What is seitan? it is made from the gluten of wheat

If you want to know more, please click below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_gluten_(food)

I knew what seitan is but what I didn’t know was  actually it is ” fu” in Japanese. we eat ” fu” a lot in Japan. We have both fresh and dry ” fu” but seitan is fresh fu….

Our ” fu” is always very small maybe that is why I didn’t notice until know..

Desert 

Choice of 

• Almond sponge cake
• Apple pear cake
• Soy and seasonal fruit shake ( vegan ) 
• Apple compote ( vegan ) 
• creme caramel 
• kefir yogurt 

Adam’s choice is apple pear cake 

I am sorry to say, it was dry…I think it was baked more than week ago or frozen one. 

sauce below is actually apple compote so I pour my compote to make it soft

Yes, this is my choice, apple compote 

I behave… not to have too much dairy. I had already cream in the main dish and it is night so better have light desert. 

well, compote to me is not puree but some chunky part is remain..but Spanish compote seems to be puree. 

Anyway, it is great! I feel not so naughty to have desert :) 

Dinner is 14.95 euro

Lunch is 9.9 euro and salad is buffet.

so lunch is more value :)

Bio centre 

Pintor Fortuny 25 (at off of La Rambla, 3 blocks south of Placa Catalunya)
Barcelona Spain 08001
933014583

Website: www.restaurantebiocenter.es       

I wanted to go to Bentley to have vegetarian tasting menu for a while, so I am glad that I finally did 

Bentley was voted to ” best vegetarian ” in Sydney Morning Herald. 

Start from bread with olive oil..

Only this photo was taken good camera..rest of food, I just could not take photo with good camera. Hard to use! so I apologise for bad photo again in advance :( 

It is real pity since all dishes are like art, so pretty 

Clear cucumber broth with salsify and black olive

The waiter poured the broth into beautifully presented veggies. 

 but cucumber broth was bit too sour…

If you are not familiar with salsify, please check out the page below. 

file:///Users/takeuchiyoshiko/Desktop/blog%20photo/bentley/Salsify%20-%20Glossary%20-%20How%20to%20cook%20-%20BBC%20Good%20Food.webarchive

salsify  ( photo from BBC ) 

when you peel….

photo from google 

Khol rabi and pickled celery with quinoa and broccolni 

This is underneath of pickles …

This is my favourite dish of all ! BEST dish! in the menu !!!! Again very pretty and elegant presentation. 

I  loved the quinoa with deep-fried crunchy brobbolini floret that has subtle flavour with lemon and garlic that is served with creamy fennel sauce. fennel is not my most favourite vegetable but fennel cream was awesome! sauce was really really rich, you know, creamy sauce with deep-fried floret but pickles compensate the richness. 

Beetroot with red chard, horseradish and soy beans

Beetroot was really really really soft. I don’t how the chef pick up the beetroot without breaking them! I admire the chef who picked up! 

Sauce was nice but everything was too salty and sour, also cumin was overpowering. It was quite unpleasant taste…unfortunately. 

Roast heiloom carrot and fennel

Vegetables are sautéed with lime, olive oil and garlic. very beautiful presentation again.

creamy sauce is very similar sauce to Khol rabbi dish above. Creamy fennel sauce. 

Wattle seed is edible seeds from Australian Acacia. Traditionally aborigines used as a source of food. It is great to have such traditional Australian seeds! 

Sweet corn polenta with pistachio an asparagus

Beautiful presentation again. The white thin crisp on top is made from rice flour. Nice and crisp. Pistachio got hint of lime, they are cooked with lime rind.  Polenta can be too rich but this wasn’t. Even though, my tummy was getting heavy around here since all dishes are rich. 

Jurusalem artichoke tart with nettle sauce, pine mushroom and artichokes

Little leaves are Nastersion. I see them a lot in Coogee beach! I am thinking to pick some and put some into my green smoothie…and this leaf was used at Tetsuya’s as well. I have noticed that many little leaves and flowers  is a key for vegetarian in fine dining style. 

I love Jerusalem artichoke. When I first used this, it was the time to make Jerusalem artichoke soup at restaurant. I thought this is originally from Jerusalem but it isn’t. very confusing name! 

Anyway, this dish cook Jerusalem artichoke in two ways. Tart which was nice and blackened with soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. I loved the texture of it but taste was again, too salty and sour! 

Nettle sauce was great though. I thought it was parsley but not  or maybe mixed with parsley. Nettle was carefully seamed and processed until very fine…nice! Yellow sauce behind the tart is onion sauce. 

Beer sorbet with caramelised pineapple and barley malt crumb 

Sorry, it didn’t look like that. I actually forgot to take photo..I guess I was too exited?! 

Very nice. I could tell the alcohol but could not tell what soon. then found out it was made from beer! I had Champaign sorbet before but beer one is first time. I loved the combination of crumb and pineapples, GORGEOUS! 

Milk cake with magnolia ice cream and white chocolate

Sorry for my horrible photo but this desert was all white and elegant. Taste? FABULOUS!  

LOVED so much magnolia ice cream!!!!!

Well, I must say deserts are perfect. loved very much!

But, we both felt like to rush to Indian restaurant. I don’t know. I love fine dining so it is not about disliking fine dining. 

I think I felt all food were beautiful, enjoy the look too much and taste didn’t follow? 

Also three dishes are too salty and sour which was a big disappointment.  I guess one of the chef got stuffed nose or something.. 

I go out and eat food that I can’t cook at home, yes, in this matter, my god, I definitely can’t cook like this at home! Needs many ingredients ! and also loads of prep was done to create these dish!  

I thought I would not go back but I think I will. Maybe when winter comes. different veggie would be used, and also my new skill of taking photo with good camera : ) 

Bentley

320 Crown st Surry Hills

Sydney 2010

ph: 9332 2344 

I went to Thai vegetarian restaurant with Sherly. I checked the reviews and seems to be great so I successfully convince non vegetarian Sherly to go to vegetarian restaurant again. 

She hates my awful food photo so she kindly  brought her camera..so all great photos here are taken by Sherly the photographer.

This is Sherly’s website

www.sherlysusanphotography.com

For entree, we ordered

veggie prawn roll (4pcs) $6.00

Carrot, mushroom and radish wrapped in beancurd sheet, deep fried, served with sweet chilli sauce.

nn…I am not sure it tastes like prawn but  tofu skin helps the texture for sure…

 cute prawn shape..

Main 

We ordered from chef’s special 

Herbal caribbean $15

Fried whole veggie fish with Tom Yum and Krati sauce, lemongrass. lime leave and coriander

Very cute fish shape and nice sauce. 

but not as good as Bodhi’s fish….

http://healthysoycooking.tumblr.com/post/721402624/asian-vegetarian-restaurant-in-the-city

Stir fry

Quick Meal (served with rice) $9.50

Main Dish (rice not included) $13.50

Peanut Sauce

Veggie meat, tofu and vegetables stir fried with peanut sauce.

We ordered main not quick one then order rice separately. 

It was toooooo sweet for me. 

Desert

Khao tom mud $3.5

Steamed-glutious rice with banana wrapped in banana leaves

We wanted to order two deserts but black sticky rice  wasn’t available. then ask for gelato then not available, either. so we simply share this…it was nice :)

I will definitely come back to try different one. 

There is also Peace harmony take away shop. You can also dine here even though it is quite small but almost the same menu as restaurant but it is actually much cheaper so I will go and try soon :)

Asian vegetarian restaurant can be too oily so I will select the menu more carefully…maybe soup for entree, cos except soup, all the entrees are deep-fried!

Peace Harmony Vegetarian Thai Restaurant

44 Erskine St, Sydney NSW 2000

 (02) 9262 2247‎

Peace Harmony Vegetarian Thai Take Away Shop

 29 King Street

http://www.peaceharmony.com.au/Restaurants.htm

This is a memorable visit to a vegetarian restaurant because this is the first time I asked my non- vegetarian friend to go to vegetarian restaurant. 

I wasn’t sure if she’s gonna say yes, but I tried anyway …then she said yes!

Last year, I said” I am vegetarian this month for trial ” to my friends at party, then all of my friends looked confused or even little upset and told me that how I am going to get all nutrition or we need meet etc…I was kind of shocked that all my friends reacted  that way. She was one of them so it is a big deal for me that she said ” yes” .

Entree

Spring roll  $7.5

Very plain. I would not order again. The stuffing is carrot, cabbage and rice thin noodle. bit too oily. One good thing is that chilli sauce wasn’t sweet!

Mein

Stir fry green bean, shredded tofu pickled radish, lime wedges with spicy black bean sauce  $15

Very nice!Beans are crunchy ( I HATE over cooked veggies !! ) and beautiful flavour. Nice tangy taste goes with salty black beans. not so spicy though. 

It is hard to see from pic but it was a big portion. Loads of beans! I normally don’t like too much beans but I really enjoyed this dish.

Bodhi deep-fried whole crispy faux ‘fish’, baby Singapore bok choy with an apple chilli chutney 
$19

Fantastic!! It was seriously like fish. I presume that the fish was made from tofu and some flour such as rice flour and tapioca flour to get nice texture then wrapped with nori. 

texture was great, taste great. If I can eat this kind of dish, I don’t need real fish! bok choy was almost raw which was great. 

Sauce is beautiful but bit too strong, I can eat more veggie or rice with this sauce.

Again, my photo is not so great, it is big portion, too. 

White rice or brown rice $2.5

Normally brown rice is more expensive but the same price. Good for me cos I  order brown rice!

my friend had home made soy milk ( forgot to ask if it was good ) and I had de-caf coffee. 

Great restaurant I am happy to go back to the restaurant!

Bodhi Restaurant/Bar 
Lower Mezzanine

Level of Cook and Philip Park 
2 College St Sydney 
Between St Mary’s Cathedral and the Aquatic Centre

T 9360 2523

Yum Cha 10am-4pm 7 days

Dinner 4:30pm-10pm Tue-Sun
Functions till 1am

This restaurant is very close from St Mary Cathedral so I could enjoy ” vivit Sydney ” the light ups!

This is my photo… 

Actually my friend Sherly is a photographer. I was actually hoping that she’s gonna bring her camera but she didn’t then I complain then….

She gave me these after …

Very bright, colourful!!!! yes, that is the difference from me and pro.

It is Hyde park. BEEEAUTIFUL!!!!!! It is my favourite!!!

Thank you Sherly for having vegetarian with me and great wonderful photos!!!!!

This is Sherly’s website

www.sherlysusanphotography.com

It is very new for me to go to vegetarian restaurants. I hate to go to a normal restaurant to order vegetarian dish which has so little choice or boring dishes that I can cook so easily…so I used to eat whatever I feel like when I eat out but now I am more advanced? wanna be vegetarian, so I start to explore vegetarian restaurants.

I went to Vina vegetarian ( vegan ) restaurant in Newtown

Entree

*Green salad with sesame oil dressing  $6

I liked mushroom froth on top. 

*Crispy vegetables and fresh mushrooms $6

They are like tempura. Difference is served with sweet sauce

Main

Spicy Vietnamese style rice noodle soup $12

Very nice! I love lots of herbs. great soup. 

Mock pork with ginger, shallots and soy sauce $15

I know mock food is not so good cos it is processed food after all… many ” professional” vegetarian says that it is for beginners. Well, I am a beginner so I enjoyed….. 

 lots of mock food like beef, fish, chicken, pork available.

you can choose sauce from

sweet sour sauce, mushroom sauce, curry, lemon grass …

This is vietnamese restaurant but you can still find Thai and Indian dishes as well.

I bought vegetarian oyster sauce here! $4.5

Taste? well, this is less saltier than normal oyster sauce but I think it is pretty good.

I need to try my favourite Thai dish with this sauce soon. hope works well…..

VINA

open 7days

395 King st Newtown 2042 NSW 

9557 0456