My Chinese New Year Dinner at Kuan Yin Vegetarian

I am not a fan of vegetarian food. I mean I like to eat vegetables, but I don't like to eat vegetables that pretend to be meat. Do you get what I am trying to say?

Well, last night, I went to a "lou sang" dinner with my family at Kuan Yin Vegetarian Restaurant located at Section 17, Petaling Jaya. Now although it is a vegetarian restaurant, I was looking forward to my dinner as I have been there several times and their food were really quite good!

While waiting for our food to arrive, we were given three different appetizers.


Chips


Chinese Rojak


Dry chilli barbequed bean curds (pretending to be "yuk kon" pork)

I loved the chips and the Chinese rojak, but didn't quite like the barbequed bean curds. Give me real pork meat any time! Haha!



We started dinner with the yee sang. It is a normal practice to start any Chinese New Year dinner with yee sang. Of course before eating it, everyone must toss the yee sang and mix up all the ingredients on the plate. The higher you toss, the more prosperous you will become!



Now this is my plate of yee sang. It was yummylicious!!



As I have mentioned earlier, I do not like ordering "meat" dishes at a vegetarian restaurant. I prefer to eat real meat. But the sweet and sour fragrant meat (ku lou yuk) at this restaurant was delicious!



If you do not know what to order at this restaurant, this dish is a safe bet.

Altogether we ordered 5 dishes (excluding the yee sang). All the dishes came out at the same time, which was good. We had a bowl of brown rice each.



One of the other dishes was the yam basket (fatt put). This is my brother's favourite and he would order this every time he eats here.



We also ordered the sliced beancurds with mushrooms and vegetables. The sauce made this dish very delicious and I even slathered some of the sauce onto my rice for extra flavour!



Whenever I go to a vegetarian restaurant, I usually only order pure vegetable dishes and not vegetables masquerading as meat. And so for this dinner, we had stir-fried vegetables (lai pak) with ginger and nuts.



And kangkung belacan.



This was a bit too salty for me, otherwise it was good.

All in all, it was a pretty satisfying dinner but with quite an expensive price tag. It costs us about RM180 with the most expensive being the yee sang at RM40.

If you are into vegetarian food, this is a good restaurant to go to.

Kuan Yin Vegetarian Restaurant,
No 1084, Jalan 17/29,
46400 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor.
Tel : 03-79574528

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