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Vegetarian Restaurants in south bay?

2 posts · Mar 14, 1996 to Mar 15, 1996

AnonymousCool Beans! BBS 415-648-PUNKMar 14, 1996
>Can anyone recommend any good vegetarian restaurants in south bay?
>
>Any type of food ethnicity is fine with me!
> [A
>Thanks,
>
[A>       Gomer

To begin with, White Lotus (on Market Street, near 101 in san jose ) serves kick ass veggie food. The entire restaurant is vegetarian, nothing meat at all, but the menu is set up like one from a chinese restaurant, with sections for fish, poultry and whatnot.

Being a vegetarian, I'm not much into actual meat taste, though I do have that occasional craving for lemon chicken. This place, as well as The Supreme Master Ching Hai Meditation Association & Vegetarian Restaurant, both fill that quota. At White Lotus, I recommend the fried rice and the curry soup. At SUMA Ching Hai,(in San Jose on 12th & Santa Clara) I recommend the "lemon gluten nuggets" for the closest representation to lemon chicken I've had since I went veggie a few years back.

SUMA Ching Hai has the added bonus of being not only good, cheap food, but a real live cult! Wow! Impress your friends! White Lotus is trendy and expensive, but still go. Heed the warning though: cults are nicer than yuppies.

Both places also have awesome vegan food, too.
Dana C.Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CAMar 15, 1996
Someone wrote:
>>Can anyone recommend any good vegetarian restaurants in south bay?
>>
>>Any type of food ethnicity is fine with me!
>> [A
>>Thanks,
>>
>[A>       Gomer
>
>To begin with, White Lotus (on Market Street, near 101 in san jose ) serves
>kick ass veggie food. The entire restaurant is vegetarian, nothing meat at
>all, but the menu is set up like one from a chinese restaurant, with
>sections for fish, poultry and whatnot.

Vietnamese, not Chinese.

>Being a vegetarian, I'm not much into actual meat taste, though I do have
>that occasional craving for lemon chicken. This place, as well as The
>Supreme Master Ching Hai Meditation Association & Vegetarian Restaurant,
>both fill that quota. At White Lotus, I recommend the fried rice and the
>curry soup. At SUMA Ching Hai,(in San Jose on 12th & Santa Clara) I

The banana blossom soup at White Lotus is wonderful.   And the eggplant clay pot is worth walking a long way for.

>recommend the "lemon gluten nuggets" for the closest representation to
>lemon chicken I've had since I went veggie a few years back.
>
>SUMA Ching Hai has the added bonus of being not only good, cheap food, but a
>real live cult! Wow! Impress your friends! White Lotus is trendy and
>expensive, but still go. Heed the warning though: cults are nicer than
>yuppies.

Yuppies?  It's slightly upscale, true, it's a pretty casual place, and not terribly trendy.  And not really *that* expensive.
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