Heh, some gourmet burger places throw so many toppings on the burger, you wouldn’t notice if they substituted the burger with a sock.
Loving Hut’s yam-based shrimp is good! It’s close to surimi. I worked at a kosher caterer in the 90s that served a fake-shrimp that was like a bunch of mealry, dry beads pressed together. So glad we’ve made progress.
I wish I could say the same for the “roast beef” at the Butcher’s Son, the “vegan butcher”, in Berkeley. It tasted like spaghetti sauce (Italian seasoning?). Their pulled pork is a dead ringer for baked beans, which are of course cheaper. They have great chocolate chip cookies though.
