After months of vague intentions, Cindy in addition to I lastly made the trip to Footscray on Sat to explore Melourne's mulitcultural heartland. It was an strange variety of hateful solar daytime - quite sunny in addition to warm when nosotros left Carlton, but cloudy in addition to windy past times the fourth dimension the autobus pulled upwards inward Footscray. The alter inward the atmospheric condition actually enhanced the feeling that we'd travelled a lot farther than 5 kilometres. After a quick wander through the Little Saigon market, which is filled alongside unidentifiable fruits in addition to vegetables, Vietnamese hawkers in addition to lots in addition to lots of people, nosotros decided to accept a pause from the crowds in addition to honor some lunch. There are a handful of impressive looking Ethiopian restaurants dotted some the suburb, but Cindy was determined to bask some Vietnamese food. Unfortunately, Vietnamese restaurants tend non to live the almost vegetarian friendly places inward town - the description of the beef pho inward the window at Hung Vuong included the words: blood, tendon, offal in addition to pizzle - important that nosotros couldn't but wander into i of the dozens of bustling places that nosotros strolled past. Luckily, our Cheap Eats guide came to the rescue - recommending Bố Dế Trai, a eating seat that combines Vietnamese cooking alongside Buddhist vegetarian ethics.
Emphasising how meat-based Vietnamese nutrient tends to be, the card was at to the lowest degree 50% faux-meat, alongside mistaken abalone, snapper, squid, chicken, duck, pork in addition to lamb on offering (no pizzle though, unfortunately). Despite having spent the calendar week munching our agency through gluten pieces in addition to TVP, Cindy in addition to I were both neat to direct maintain a crevice at some to a greater extent than imitation meat. She went alongside shredded imitation pork pare served alongside rice vermicelli in addition to shredded greens. It looked a flake dry out to me, but came alongside a picayune bowl of sauce that livened things up.
I was going to avoid faux-meat, but at that topographic point was an article from The Age stuck to the wall advocating the imitation claypot lamb in addition to I was unable to resist. It was a fine choice - a huge hotpot filled to bursting alongside vegies, crispy 'skin' bits in addition to chunks of tender 'lamb'. The sauce was mild in addition to flavoursome, loaded upwards alongside Chinese 5 spice in addition to low-cal on the chilli. It ended upwards existence likewise much for me - it actually would direct maintain sufficed equally a lunch-sized repast for both of us - and, equally delicious equally it was, it's in all likelihood position me off whatsoever to a greater extent than faux-meat for a few weeks at least.
Which was unfortunate, equally our adjacent halt was Vincent's Vegetarian Food, an Asian grocery specialising inward faux-meat products. We had a quick browse through the freezer sections, spotting eel, lobster, oysters, fish, beef, ham, pork, chicken, bacon in addition to lamb, in addition to grabbing a few bits in addition to pieces for the (reasonably distant) future. Three loving cup chicken was something nosotros used to purchase fairly regularly from an Asian supermarket inward Brisbane in addition to plough into satay dinners, in addition to thence nosotros grabbed a bundle of it. For the sake of variety, nosotros also picked upwards some vegie sesame fillets (which expect a picayune similar the fake-fish of a few weeks ago), some roast 'chicken', a bundle of taro paratha and, but because nosotros spotted it, some agar agar (a non-animal based alternative to gelatine).
Loaded downwards alongside tiffin in addition to a backpack total of fake-meat, it was fourth dimension to boundary dorsum on the autobus in addition to provide to the to a greater extent than familiar surrounds of the inner-North. Still, it's dainty to know that the tastes, sounds in addition to smells of Vietnam are but a twenty infinitesimal autobus ride away.
Bố Dế Trai
Address: 94 Hopkins Street, Footscray
Ph: 9689 9909
BYO
Price: $5 - $13
Vincent's Vegetarian Food
Address: 353 Barkley Street, Footscray
Ph: 9687 0808
Website: http://www.vincentvegetarianfood.com/
Emphasising how meat-based Vietnamese nutrient tends to be, the card was at to the lowest degree 50% faux-meat, alongside mistaken abalone, snapper, squid, chicken, duck, pork in addition to lamb on offering (no pizzle though, unfortunately). Despite having spent the calendar week munching our agency through gluten pieces in addition to TVP, Cindy in addition to I were both neat to direct maintain a crevice at some to a greater extent than imitation meat. She went alongside shredded imitation pork pare served alongside rice vermicelli in addition to shredded greens. It looked a flake dry out to me, but came alongside a picayune bowl of sauce that livened things up.
I was going to avoid faux-meat, but at that topographic point was an article from The Age stuck to the wall advocating the imitation claypot lamb in addition to I was unable to resist. It was a fine choice - a huge hotpot filled to bursting alongside vegies, crispy 'skin' bits in addition to chunks of tender 'lamb'. The sauce was mild in addition to flavoursome, loaded upwards alongside Chinese 5 spice in addition to low-cal on the chilli. It ended upwards existence likewise much for me - it actually would direct maintain sufficed equally a lunch-sized repast for both of us - and, equally delicious equally it was, it's in all likelihood position me off whatsoever to a greater extent than faux-meat for a few weeks at least.Which was unfortunate, equally our adjacent halt was Vincent's Vegetarian Food, an Asian grocery specialising inward faux-meat products. We had a quick browse through the freezer sections, spotting eel, lobster, oysters, fish, beef, ham, pork, chicken, bacon in addition to lamb, in addition to grabbing a few bits in addition to pieces for the (reasonably distant) future. Three loving cup chicken was something nosotros used to purchase fairly regularly from an Asian supermarket inward Brisbane in addition to plough into satay dinners, in addition to thence nosotros grabbed a bundle of it. For the sake of variety, nosotros also picked upwards some vegie sesame fillets (which expect a picayune similar the fake-fish of a few weeks ago), some roast 'chicken', a bundle of taro paratha and, but because nosotros spotted it, some agar agar (a non-animal based alternative to gelatine).
Loaded downwards alongside tiffin in addition to a backpack total of fake-meat, it was fourth dimension to boundary dorsum on the autobus in addition to provide to the to a greater extent than familiar surrounds of the inner-North. Still, it's dainty to know that the tastes, sounds in addition to smells of Vietnam are but a twenty infinitesimal autobus ride away.Bố Dế Trai
Address: 94 Hopkins Street, Footscray
Ph: 9689 9909
BYO
Price: $5 - $13
Vincent's Vegetarian Food
Address: 353 Barkley Street, Footscray
Ph: 9687 0808
Website: http://www.vincentvegetarianfood.com/
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