More Veggie Food!

More postings from Hong Kong. This is our favorite vegetarian joint in Hong Kong. Everything tastes like real meat and it's absolutely delicious! I have a lot of friends that are vegetarians and their everyday meals are so boring that I feel bad for them. Too bad they don't realize there are so many choices available. If I ate fusion vegetarian food like this all the time, I could do it on a daily basis!

Delicious! I've blogged about this place before so I'll spare the details but it never gets old. I also love how the food always changes and you never eat the same thing twice!

Happy Eatings!

Go Big or Go Home! Last Day in Hong Kong!

It's my last meal in Hong Kong. I am very sad to leave since I am going to spend 2 months in Beijing tomorrow. Wish me luck and let's all hope that I don't have to have an encounter with a squat toilet! I wanted to try donkey in Beijing, but as usual my mom won't let me. We'll see what happens.

Stop 1: 大少爺 in Happy Valley.

Pepper and salted beef cubes and my tasty pineapple lime drink with honey!

Grilled pork's neck. Thai style!

Baked ox tongue with cheese, mushroom in white sauce over rice.

Here is their signature Thai Chicken Rice dish! Was muy bueno!

Gaia Vegetarian Restaurant aka 大自然 in Causeway Bay is an all vegetarian place! It has the best food. They also have vegan items as well. Everything tastes just like real meat and is super good! Go at 3 PM, everything is half off! We ate everything below for $230ish dollars HK. So cheap!

Sprouts fruit salad, abalone, & salmon hand rolls. Tasted like real meat! Loved it! I got 2 just for me!

Fruit salad wrapped in rice paper.

Cold Chicken salad.

Fried eggplant with fried garlic and chili sauce. This is spicy but it's amazing!

Cold tofu in spicy sauce.

Baked garlic and avocado bread with melted cheese. *drool*

"suckling pig" along with the bread on the side.

Radish and oyster omelet.

Dessert: Tang Bai Fu

Mango shaved ice. Yes, there's rainbow sprinkles on top.

Bye Bye Hong Kong. See you in December!

Vietnamese Food For Your Everyday Needs

Do you ever find yourself wanting some homey Vietnamese comfort food? Just the basics? Well that's what you can get at Pho Ly Thuong Kiet at 303 East Garvey Ave. Monterey Park, 91755. The food is good and cheap. Just make sure to bring a trash bag with you to sit on cause this place can get dirty! Gross I know, but anything for some good legit Viet food right? Uh... yeah by the way they have another location in Rosemead that I think is cleaner but that's not saying much. The trick to eating is to have no standards because then you will never be disappointed if you don't expect too much!

Comfort Vietnamese Food:

Pho Ly Thuong Kiet's menu only has a few items but that just means that each item is amazingly good. Here's their Pho Ga (Chicken Noodle) speciality. Their broth is awesome, but what makes it really good is the garlic sauce concoction on the left that you dip the chicken in! They also give you mini quail eggs inside and other chicken "insides" if you please. Their other speciality chicken rice also has that amazing garlic sauce of theirs. Even though their chicken rice is good, I personally prefer Singaporean Chicken Rice or Chinese Hainan Chicken Rice. There's a difference in the way Vietnamese people make their chicken rice. By the way if you are wondering why this place has such an ugly name, it's cause the owners got really uncreative or just plain conceited and just used their name following the word Pho. They seriously should have stuck with Pho 999, 99999999 or something. (FYI, Vietnamese people love the #9, it's the equivalent of the Chinese obsession with the #8.)

My favorite thing to order at this messy, dirty restaurant is their Bahn Cuon, which is basically like a crepe with mushrooms and pork inside. The bean sprouts, cucumbers, and pork on the side can wrapped with the bahn cuon and then dipped into their fish sauce. This place is awesome! Go, go, go! It can get pretty dirty throughout the day though so you have been warned!

Well twice a month, my mom is vegetarian for the entire day so most of the time I just join her not because of gaining good karma points, but just because it's easier to buy food when both people are eating the same thing. I'm sure I do appreciate the bonus good karma points those 2 days come with though! I just make up my meat with 24 hour McDonalds later in the night. The solution to spicing up our vegetarian days especially when we don't go out to Asian central in the San Gabriel Valley is driving 15 mins away for Vegan Vietnamese food at 18625 Sherman Way Reseda, 91335 from Vinh Loi Tofu.

Vegetarian/Vegan Food:

This is vegetarian Bun bo Hue. It is beef & pig's knuckle vermicelli. Usually they toss in some pig's blood, etc which is totally not vegetarian. But- at Vin Loi, everything tastes just like it's supposed to except it's all vegetarian! It's delicious.

This is their House Special Fried Rice. It looks kind of blah, but it's really good.

Happy Vietnamese Eatings!