Lunch later that day was at Quan chay Hoa Từ Tâm vegetarian restaurant.
The restaurant basically served Chinese-style hotpot, with a selection of very fresh local vegetables, mushrooms, tofu and noodles, to be cooked at the table:
Crisp-fried mushroom fritters
Sweet-sour mushroom, tofu and seaweed quenelles
Braised enokitake mushrooms with pineapple and leeks
Honestly, I’m not a big fan of Chinese vegetarian cuisine (whereas Indian vegetarian is top of my list of favorite cuisines), and this Vietnamese one was pretty similar to its Chinese counterpart - probably explained why I’d totally forgotten about this meal until I was browsing the photos I took at the nunnery-run farm, and its orphanage yesterday.
A trio of Buddhist monks at the next table seemed to be enjoying their meal very much, so the food must be good from the local vegetarians’ perspective.
Address
Quan chay Hoa Từ Tâm
90 Minh Mạng, Thủy Xuân,
Thành phố Huế, Thừa Thiên Huế, Vietnam
Tel: +84 93 567 98 22
Open 24 hours, daily.
