Good food elegantly prepared. About $12 us dollars with soup and olive oil bread and drink…read moreincluded. Use gluten.

Food sucks! Lacking character and flavor. Most dishes are covered in some cornstarch slurry.read more

Went here for a quick bit to eat for lunch with some work colleagues and was pleasantly surprised…read moreby the taste and quality. This is a Chinese style vegetarian food where they use meat substitutes to look and taste like real meat. Normally I am not a fan of this, I love vegetables but if i want some cha siu pork, I'll buy the real thing.... In saying this, the food was delicious. We ordered five dishes to share between the four of us. Their fried rice was delicious, it was an interesting mix of asparagus, egg and avocado. We also ordered a plate of cha siu "pork", Peking style sweet and sour "steak", taro "fish" cakes and and an egg, broccoli and "crab meat" dish. All came out hot, in the Chinese style of when they were ready and not all together. All the fake meats resembled the look and taste and texture of their meat equivalent except for the taro cakes. They just tasted and felt like taro, not fish like at all. This was fin as they tasted delicious as taro cakes. I would recommend coming here with a group as it will be hard to order a variety of dishes if you have no one to share them with.

TLDR: A hole in the wall serving great Indian/Pakistani food…read more The dish I usually would use to gauge an Indian restaurant is the lamb or mutton biryani. This usually takes hours to cook and can make or break a meal. The rice needs to be deeply fragranced from being slowly cooked, and the texture needs to be perfect. In this case, the rice was near perfect. Very, very long-grained, intensely flavorful and spicy. It was spicy like a Hyderabadi biryani but the flavor of the lamb did not infuse into the rice. so I was a little confused if it was a dum cooked biryani. Perhaps being a small place, and offering vegetarian, chicken and lamb biryani, the meat was cooked separately and mixed in. Nevertheless, a place I would be back to should I be craving Indian food again while in Hong Kong. Service was good, with the masala chai being hot and in a proper tin cup! As a hole in the wall, it was tiny - seating for 12 would be tight, and most patrons I found to be taking out during the time I was there. Not a place I would bring a group to, but may be better as a take-out.

I was really impressed with how creative they got with their dishes. At one point, everyone at our…read moretable was asking each other, "Are you sure this isn't meat?!" The sweet and sour "pork" was a hit for my group. So was the vegetarian sashimi platter, where we all tried to figure out what the mock meat was made of. The "jellyfish" was also really good, and it was interesting that it was in a peanut-flavored sauce. I can't really comment on service other than it seemed quick. There was never a long waiting period in between dishes. I was on vacation with my boyfriend's family, and I don't speak any Cantonese, so they took care of the communication part. I did see an Indian family while we were there, so I'm sure communication should be fine if you don't speak Cantonese. This meal was towards the end of our stay in HK and it's a good meal to cleanse your body. Afterwards, you can walk the strip on Nathan Road and go shopping - walk off your meal!

If you think Hong Kong is a good vegetarian city because it's so diverse -- not completely true if…read moreyou want to get non-Western food. I think the trap is that dishes can *sound* vegetarian, but almost all common broths and sauces contains non-vegetarian items in it. Whenever I go vegetarian, I have a hard time finding more than one item on the menu at any cha chaan teng, because I know what actually goes in it. Which is what makes these sorts of vegetarian restaurants popular. Chinese vegetarian is not just "no killing of animals". They adhere to buddhist vegetarian habits, and don't use certain pungent vegetables like onions, garlic or chives in their cooking. That said, they are also somehow ok with making vegetables look and taste like meat. Gluten puffs that is chewy like a piece of stewed chicken? Sure! Soy protein packed together and sliced like ham? Why not. That is the sort of food you will get here -- vegetarian versions of popular pan-Chinese dishes, with the protein replaced by various plant-items ranging from the innocuous (tofu) to the there's-no-way-this-is-organic. Every bite brought me such surprise, because they do resemble the original dishes -- but it also makes me think, why? Are we not worthy to have vegetarian dishes that celebrate the vegetables on their own merit? That said, if you want some Chinese dishes but don't eat meat, this isn't bad and have a lot more variety of vegetarian dishes than other Chinese places. It also isn't bad for a good karma meal on Buddha's birthday. It just isn't something I actively look forward to.