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Like a Monk: Veggie Xp

I am never a true gourmet though I claimed once or twice here about those occasional charming dinners. My appetite for delicious or special dishes rarely overrides the need, even before I became a vegetarian some three years ago. However, it is indeed so difficult in Hong Kong to have more choices than "Rice with fried tomato and egg" or "stewed noodle with mushroom" in "cha can ting" (like I do always) that I started cooking for myself. With a few new recipes on my shelf, I feel a little more familiar to the culinary art and care more, apparently, about choices.

It was during an unusually "luxurious" lunch last weekend when I decided to introduce places for vegetarian meals in Hong Kong, hoping it would be helpful for other herbivorous comrades to live a slightly more colourful vegi-life.

This is the first entry for "Like a Monk":
Veggie Xp on Wanchai Road, Wanchai.

Probably because more younger people are into vegetarian food in the health-alarmed city, this kind of modernized vegetarian restaurants have succeeded in finding a niche in a couple of years. They've change people's impression not just by their brighter interior design and packaging, but also the fact that it needs not to be greasy for veggie dishes to be tasty. Also introduced is a good variety of invented dishes beside "taro fish (again...)"

The cozy first-floor restaurant is good for around 1-6 people, I think. Their menu include dishes in the styles of various Chinese local cushions, and other lunch sets perfect for single entries. I had a nice Japanese lunch set, with rice green tea and soup (see pic), in only HK$32 (service charge included). I went there two times and it was not very busy. No reservation seems necessary. The only thing I would protest is the paper table-cloth... very unfriendly to trees.


A last reminder: almost all my friends and myself entered the rejuvenated fast-food chain store just facing the staircase opposite Veggie Xp's door by mistake before turning our faces. You know, from the menu, you may not discover the difference.

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