01/12/2012: Ten Ren has been permanently closed now.
Cindy in addition to I brought inwards the twelvemonth of the grunter amongst an aimless wander nigh Chinatown on Sat night. By the fourth dimension nosotros managed to move out the house, filled amongst visions of delicious roadside stalls selling dumplings in addition to boundary rolls, it was approaching 9pm in addition to nosotros were starting to instruct real hungry. Alas, the alone stalls nosotros constitute sold meaty satay sticks or pork jerky. Poor present Melbourne's Chinese community. Giving upwards on nutrient for a while, nosotros followed the audio of beating drums to a dragon trip the lite fantastic toe in addition to were briefly deafened yesteryear the firing off of a string of fireworks. It seemed that every eating theater on Little Bourke Street was chock-full of people in addition to I was starting to instruct mightily hungry, thus I dragged Cindy away from the audio in addition to fury of the festivities in addition to nosotros headed along Bourke Street proper to endeavour to notice closed to dinner.
We eventually stumbled onto Ten Ren's Tea Time - a Taiwanese tea identify in addition to cafe that had a reasonably sized vegetarian carte in addition to enough of spare tables. The tea carte is in all likelihood 5 times equally long equally the nutrient menu, amongst hot tea, H2O ice tea, fruity tea, milky tea in addition to icees (which, it turns out, are basically tea slurpees). Both Cindy in addition to I doubled upwards on our Gelobar choices, amongst a lemon green-tea icee served amongst orangish ice-cubes for Cindy, in addition to a green-tea plum icee for me. I spent the 10 minutes earlier the drinks arrived paranoid that the potable would hold upwards to a greater extent than terrifying salty plum in addition to less sweet, tangy in addition to delicious plum. Luckily, my paranoia was unfounded in addition to both of our drinks were sweetness in addition to refreshing.
The nutrient options were by in addition to large faux-meet: vegetarian 'fish', 'lamb' etc. Cindy tried to instruct the fish choice, but it was unavailable, leaving her amongst no alternative but to companionship the plate of 10 vegetarian dumplings. The dumplings were sum of marinated mushrooms in addition to were fried upwards nicely. Probably non quite equally crisp equally the best I've had (from Kuan-Yin Vegetarian Tea House inwards Brisbane), but pretty enjoyable nonetheless.
I was upwards for closed to faux meat in addition to opted for the 'vegetarian curry flavoured rendang meat'. The curry turned upwards amongst a trio of accompaniments, whose components I tin can alone estimate at: salty eggs, sour cabbage in addition to weird mushroom things. The curry itself was the perfect replica of beef rendang. Almost likewise perfect - afterward a pair of mouthfuls of soft 'beef' curry, amongst the occasional slice of gristle, I took a closer await at my faux-beef. And it looked an awful lot similar existent beef - correct downwardly to the stringy texture. It was actually startlingly genuine, thus I quizzed the waiter to brand certain it wasn't existent beef yesteryear mistake. Without actually looking, he assured me it wasn't, thus I pushed on in addition to ate the rest, telling myself that fifty-fifty if it was existent beef, it wouldn't produce anyone whatever skillful to throw it inwards the bin. But I constitute it real hard to believe it wasn't actual beef. Fake meats are a weird nutrient genre - you lot desire them to produce a skillful labor of mimicking the meat they're imitating, but you lot don't desire them to produce likewise skillful a job. It was all real distracting. By the terminate of the meal, the lack of existent beef rendang on the carte convinced me that it was in all likelihood non beef from a cow, but yesteryear thus it was likewise piece of cake in addition to I'd spent to a greater extent than fourth dimension trying to create upwards one's hear what I was eating thus but enjoying my dinner. I intend if I'd been confident that I was eating a vego repast I'd cause got been pretty thrilled amongst the inexpensive curry amongst strange accompaniments, thus it was a fleck disappointing.
Cindy in addition to I brought inwards the twelvemonth of the grunter amongst an aimless wander nigh Chinatown on Sat night. By the fourth dimension nosotros managed to move out the house, filled amongst visions of delicious roadside stalls selling dumplings in addition to boundary rolls, it was approaching 9pm in addition to nosotros were starting to instruct real hungry. Alas, the alone stalls nosotros constitute sold meaty satay sticks or pork jerky. Poor present Melbourne's Chinese community. Giving upwards on nutrient for a while, nosotros followed the audio of beating drums to a dragon trip the lite fantastic toe in addition to were briefly deafened yesteryear the firing off of a string of fireworks. It seemed that every eating theater on Little Bourke Street was chock-full of people in addition to I was starting to instruct mightily hungry, thus I dragged Cindy away from the audio in addition to fury of the festivities in addition to nosotros headed along Bourke Street proper to endeavour to notice closed to dinner.
We eventually stumbled onto Ten Ren's Tea Time - a Taiwanese tea identify in addition to cafe that had a reasonably sized vegetarian carte in addition to enough of spare tables. The tea carte is in all likelihood 5 times equally long equally the nutrient menu, amongst hot tea, H2O ice tea, fruity tea, milky tea in addition to icees (which, it turns out, are basically tea slurpees). Both Cindy in addition to I doubled upwards on our Gelobar choices, amongst a lemon green-tea icee served amongst orangish ice-cubes for Cindy, in addition to a green-tea plum icee for me. I spent the 10 minutes earlier the drinks arrived paranoid that the potable would hold upwards to a greater extent than terrifying salty plum in addition to less sweet, tangy in addition to delicious plum. Luckily, my paranoia was unfounded in addition to both of our drinks were sweetness in addition to refreshing.
The nutrient options were by in addition to large faux-meet: vegetarian 'fish', 'lamb' etc. Cindy tried to instruct the fish choice, but it was unavailable, leaving her amongst no alternative but to companionship the plate of 10 vegetarian dumplings. The dumplings were sum of marinated mushrooms in addition to were fried upwards nicely. Probably non quite equally crisp equally the best I've had (from Kuan-Yin Vegetarian Tea House inwards Brisbane), but pretty enjoyable nonetheless.I was upwards for closed to faux meat in addition to opted for the 'vegetarian curry flavoured rendang meat'. The curry turned upwards amongst a trio of accompaniments, whose components I tin can alone estimate at: salty eggs, sour cabbage in addition to weird mushroom things. The curry itself was the perfect replica of beef rendang. Almost likewise perfect - afterward a pair of mouthfuls of soft 'beef' curry, amongst the occasional slice of gristle, I took a closer await at my faux-beef. And it looked an awful lot similar existent beef - correct downwardly to the stringy texture. It was actually startlingly genuine, thus I quizzed the waiter to brand certain it wasn't existent beef yesteryear mistake. Without actually looking, he assured me it wasn't, thus I pushed on in addition to ate the rest, telling myself that fifty-fifty if it was existent beef, it wouldn't produce anyone whatever skillful to throw it inwards the bin. But I constitute it real hard to believe it wasn't actual beef. Fake meats are a weird nutrient genre - you lot desire them to produce a skillful labor of mimicking the meat they're imitating, but you lot don't desire them to produce likewise skillful a job. It was all real distracting. By the terminate of the meal, the lack of existent beef rendang on the carte convinced me that it was in all likelihood non beef from a cow, but yesteryear thus it was likewise piece of cake in addition to I'd spent to a greater extent than fourth dimension trying to create upwards one's hear what I was eating thus but enjoying my dinner. I intend if I'd been confident that I was eating a vego repast I'd cause got been pretty thrilled amongst the inexpensive curry amongst strange accompaniments, thus it was a fleck disappointing.Address: 146 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Ph: 9654 3268
Price: Vege mains: $6-$8, tea: $4.50-$6.50
Website: http://www.tenrentea.com.au
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