Cindy as well as I decided to brand the most of our lazy long-weekend inwards Melbourne yesteryear hitting upward some of the to a greater extent than far-flung vego restaurants inwards town. Having ticked off Aum Shanti on Saturday, nosotros made plans for an early on sun dinner at Vegie Mum inwards Doncaster. Nestled inwards a pretty unappealing looking strip-mall, Vegie Mum isn't trying really difficult to win way points. The basic tables as well as chairs as well as sparsely decorated walls gives this house an nigh food-court ambience. Still, the card looked promising - pages as well as pages of Chinese as well as Malaysian-style mock-meat dishes, roofing the regular chicken as well as pork dishes but also incorporating a few wackier options similar kokosnoot prawns, kung-po squid as well as furry mushroom hotpot.
It's a pretty overwhelming menu, as well as it would travel wonderful to come upward inwards a bigger grouping as well as simply instruct for i of the many banquets they offering ($20-$30 per head, for groups of iv or more). We ended upward simply ordering from the specials page, splitting ii mains, a serve of rice ($2) as well as a roti ($4) betwixt us.
First upward was the Malaysian-style dried veggie beef rendang ($17).
The combo of mock-beef as well as large chunks of zucchini worked surprisingly good inwards this curry. The sauce was sweet, spicy as well as fragrant but roughshod a chip curt of the standards develop yesteryear Loving Hut. By the fourth dimension nosotros got through this, I'd decided the occupation was as good much saccharide - it wasn't bad yesteryear whatever means, but didn't quite hitting the heights I was hoping for.
In contrast, the Soy Fish with Nyonya Sauce ($18) was a consummate winner.
The sauce was spicy as well as tangy, with a citrussy season shining through amongst a decent chilli kick. The combo of light-green beans, okra as well as splendid soy fish slices worked perfectly - this is perhaps a competitor for White Lotus' famous tamarind fish.
We were pretty stuffed afterwards getting through those ii dishes, then the lack of a dessert card wasn't as good upsetting. Our waitress did driblet off these weird trivial jelly palate cleansers to air current things up, paired with a twosome of slices of orange. It was as much as I could crush in.
Vegie Mum is an splendid mock-meat option, specially if y'all uncovering yourselves inwards the eastern suburbs for some reason. I'm non certain we'll board the 908 autobus over again inwards the close hereafter - we've got a bunch of equally good (or better) options to a greater extent than locally - but I'm glad nosotros checked it out. There's clearly a marketplace for mock-meat inwards Doncaster though - they were doing a roaring merchandise at 6pm on a sun as well as accept been roughly for nearly 10 years. Long may they continue.
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Surprisingly few bloggers accept made the trip out to Doncaster. There are positive reviews from The Journal of the Whills weren't actually excited yesteryear the mock meat experience.
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Vegie Mum
27 Village Avenue, Doncaster
9816 322
entrees $3-12, mains $9.50-25
Accessibility: There are a twosome of steps upward at the entry, but things are apartment as well as relatively spread out inside. We ordered at the tabular array as well as paid at a depression counter. We didn't depository fiscal establishment tally out the toilets.
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