Vegie Mum

November 5, 2012

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.

Vegie Mum

July 4, 2018

Note: nosotros arranged this dinner intending to pay our neb inward full. We received 1 entree together with a bottle of non-alcoholic sparkling vino without accuse during our visit.

We were both excited together with wary when Vegie Mum Doncaster restaurant, but tin flaming the Brunswick St eatery strip actually back upward some other veg restaurant, allow solitary more Buddhist-style mock meat? I swung dorsum solely to excitement when Steph spontaneously invited me together with Danni to part equally many dishes equally possible amongst her during their opening week.

The atmosphere was real celebratory, amongst the eatery possessor owning the flooring all night, red-ribboned good-luck bouquets spilling out of the foyer, together with many customers recognised equally family, friends, together with customers of the Doncaster restaurant. We were treated to a twain of costless items, together with it's unclear whether they were extended to all diners that night, or a piffling something extra because Danni allow sideslip that in that place was a blogger at our table.

The Pei King duck ( $9) was all our idea, though. This wasn't the dense, 5-spice-flavoured duck I'm most accustomed to, but a lighter layered yuba amongst a frail crispy skin.

Soon after, the possessor cheerfully pressed a bottle of Mango Tango sparkling potable on us together with urged us to sample a Chinese salami that the chef has been playing around with. It had the dots of fatty that evoke smallgoods, together with to a greater extent than of that crispy yuba peel I was cracking on, non to advert an impressive carved carrot garnish.

The balance of the repast was our choice. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bowl of Mapo Tofu ($18) was only mildly spicy, amongst veges rather than a mock mince. By comparison, the Char Kuay Teow ($13) was studded amongst at to the lowest degree ii kinds of mock meat, together with the best variety of slippery-smoky noodles.

The eatery possessor together with Steph exclaimed together over the Nyonya Fish ($15), together with they were justified inward doing so. I think, though, that Danni together with I were ultimately to a greater extent than excited yesteryear the Shanghai sugariness together with sour pork ribs ($19), picking them off their wooden 'bones' together with dragging them through equally much sauce equally nosotros could.

We'd strategically over-ordered to have got leftovers home, together with had only plenty room to part dessert. The banana fritter ($8) does the job, together with is served amongst dairy-based icecream (though Steph duly informed them near the tardily vegan alternatives available only downwards the street at the Cruelty Free Shop).

And that's the 1 fry warning: although most of the bill of fare is vegan (and I suspect that it is all vegan adaptable), it's non clearly labelled. Speak upward when they're taking your gild together with there's a expert lead chances all volition endure well. Coeliacs volition likely have got a tougher fourth dimension of it.

We, at least, had a terrific fourth dimension of it. While I'm certain that first-opening exuberance volition calm downwards over the coming weeks, I'm hopeful that Vegie Mum volition found itself equally a welcoming together with well-attended veg*n eatery inward this competitive neighbourhood.

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You tin flaming besides read near our first together with second visits to the master Vegie Mum in  Doncaster.

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Vegie Mum
72 Johnston St, Fitzroy
9417 6688
entrees, soups & 'seafood'; other mains & dessert; banquet menu; drinks
https://www.vegiemum.com.au/fitzroy

Accessibility: There's a stride upward on entry. The interior is apartment amongst moderately crowded furniture. We ordered at our tabular array together with paid at a high counter. We didn't watch the toilets.

A Few Spider Web Log Statistics

Our 2000th post has been the prompt for a flake of navel-gazing hither at where's the beef?. We've updated our blueprint together with our where's the best? list, given our 12 hr tour a make-over together with added a linked suburb index to our restaurant list. We've likewise done some poking around inwards our stats together with come upwardly up amongst a few observations.

Cindy continues to shoulder the heaviest load, writing virtually 60% of our posts (not to nurture diligently editing the rubbish I attain together with doing all the tidying upwardly of our photos).

We've straightaway posted reviews of 745 dissimilar restaurants, including at to the lowest degree 110 places that convey after unopen down, giving us a closure charge per unit of measurement of 15%. Which seems high to me, but I gauge we've been doing this for to a greater extent than than 8 years, together with so there's jump to convey been some turnover. 

Our most pop shipping service is yet (and volition ever be) the vegan sausage curl recipe (it's had to a greater extent than than 5 times the issue of visits of its nearest rival). Despite beingness published inwards 2008, it's the most visited page on our weblog almost every week. Other pop posts are to a greater extent than frequently than non eating theater reviews - the Smith & Daughters launch, Supermaxi, Gujju's together with Vegie Mum circular out the exceed 5 (at to the lowest degree according to Blogger's stats).

Our posting charge per unit of measurement has slowed steadily since our initial outburst of enthusiasm (where nosotros were occasionally posting to a greater extent than than in 1 lawsuit a day!). June together with July are our to the lowest degree productive months, piece Jan is our peak. If the tendency over the rootage 8 together with a flake years continue, we'll convey dry reason to a consummate stop halfway through 2024.

Which won't thing at all, because yesteryear early on 2017 our visitors volition convey completely dried out. At to the lowest degree if you lot assume a quadratic formula is the best check to the information - I'm optimistic virtually the 6th guild polynomial I've fitted below. We'll survive hitting novel heights of popularity inwards no time!

Thanks for sticking amongst us through our rootage 2000 posts - the spend upwardly inwards our posting charge per unit of measurement suggests that nosotros may non arrive to a 3000th shipping service (predicted final post: 2513), but we'll come across the handful of you lot who'll yet survive visiting inwards August 2016 when nosotros score a total decade of blogging.

Where's The Best Inwards 2013?

Another yr has passed, which agency it's fourth dimension for us to update our where's the best? page 1 time again. It's been a big yr - Cindy sampled all the Auckland had to offer, I binged on Glasgow's vegan pubs and enjoyed roughly to a greater extent than of Brisbane's veggie options. We've too moved house, as well as thence await a few to a greater extent than Brunswick posts as well as a few less Carlton posts inwards the years ahead.

can't-stop choc chip cookies as well as rosemary choc chip cookies), along amongst a suite of choc-peanut delights (peanut butter caramel slice, Reese's pretzels and sniggers bars). She too made a vegan version of an former solid unit of measurement favourite, bienenstich.

bacon 'n' egg muffins as well as tested out our novel oven amongst delicious walnut crusted tofu cutlets. We discovered that ribbons are the best way to bask zucchini amongst this pad Thai salad as well as zucchini ribbons inwards almond pesto. We impressed a potluck crew amongst pumpkin as well as kale harissa polenta patties, recipe-tested as well as roughshod inwards honey amongst pâté en croûte as well as warmed ourselves amongst chilli lime tamarind tofu as well as chipotle mac 'n' cheese amongst roasted brussel sprouts. Our crowning achievement? Probably the ridiculously skillful bbq pork bao.

  BBQ pork bao

In price of eating out, nosotros lost 2 of Melbourne's classic vegan-friendly eateries. The Gasometer (which we've reviewed one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten times) sadly unopen its doors, spell South's run at The People's Market was cutting short. Thankfully, the brains behind the menus at both these places helped brand The Sweetwater Inn an exciting Southside pub for vegans (also maintain an optic out for Smith & Daughters inwards Fitzroy inwards 2014).

 The pie floater at The Sweetwater Inn, South Yarra

A couplet of other former favourites accept morphed - Coco Loco is immediately the Mexican-themed very vegan friendly), spell L'atelier Monsieur Truffe has perish East Elevation, maintaining its past times breakfast excellence as well as provided us amongst a real fine dinner.

Fina's Vegetarian Cafe, A Caterpillar's Dream as well as Vegie Mum all serve fantabulous mock-meat dishes, spell Munsterhaus volition charge y'all upward amongst fresh as well as salubrious delights as well as Mister Nice Guy's Bakeshop volition ply y'all amongst vegan pastries.

Stovetop as well as Code Black every bit good every bit longer term success stories Small Victories, Acustico as well as Beatrix.

 Acustico, Brunswick

The Reverence Hotel, The Sporting Club as well as The Spotted Mallard accept joined our ever-growing listing of veg-friendly Melbourne pubs, spell Bayte as well as UAE both offering high lineament Middle Eastern meals amongst plenty of meat-free options.

Shu (twice) has in all likelihood been our almost exciting regain this yr - I can't recommend their Midweek black vegan nights highly enough. Shandong Mama as well as Dainty Sichuan render top notch Chinese eating theater experiences that are a fleck to a greater extent than conventional (if quite dissimilar to each other).

Wednesday black vegan degustation at Shu, Collingwood

We're behind the eight-ball dessert-wise (no visits to Helados Jauja as well as Berrissimo (two, three) accept impressed us amongst their vegan-friendly summery sweets.

Berrissimo, Fitzroy

  

Blog-wise nosotros had a busy year, amongst 207 posts including 132 reviews of restaurants, pubs as well as cafes (for those keeping rail - Cindy wrote 124, or 60% of our posts in conclusion year). Our top 10 almost pop posts published this yr are...

1. Yong Green Food #5
2. Thick golden dahl
3. Lemon & sage white edible bean burgers
4. Carnival cookies
5. East Elevation
6. Hello Aubergine (sadly closed, but replaced past times the fantabulous Good Freakin' Food)
7. Spoon's Vegetarian Butcher (also closed unfortunately)
8. Gong de Lin
9. Tofu-ricotta cheesecake
10. Fina's Vegetarian Cafe

Our 2008 vegan sausage rolls post remains the almost visited page on our spider web log every week.

We've too finally joined everyone else on Facebook - caput over as well as similar us at that topographic point if you're afterward a slightly to a greater extent than interactive where's the beef? experience. We perish on to encounter lovely people as well as brand neat novel friends via blogging - Melbourne has a wonderful veg*n blogging scene, as well as much of it is compiled on Planet VegMel. Thanks for hanging out amongst us inwards 2013 - we're looking forrard to roughly other big yr of eating inwards 2014.