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From: bhaskar@fluke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.veg
Subject: Re: Veggie Restaurants
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Date: Tue, 14-Feb-84 20:26:50 EST
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I have rarely had problems finding ovo-lacto vegetarian food anywhere in the
US (only in Minneapolis have I encounter a place where they would not even
give me a salad or an omelette).  I am not implying that I am satisfied by a
leaf of lettuce or a fried yolk -- only that I have gone hungry only once in
four years of strict vegetarianism.

But starvation aside, I rarely have problems finding a reasonable selection of
food even though I eat out every day.  I eat mostly at hole-in-the-wall ethnic
restaurants, and can always ask for something vegetarian not on the menu -- I
know enough about different cuisines to suggest things they can fix me that
are not on the menu.  Of course, there are some cuisines to avoid: the (North
& South) American and West European ones being the primary culprits -- even
Mexican is occasionally a tough one, since lard is popular.

Perhaps I have been spoiled by living in Seattle!!!  Anyway, rather than list
the good restaurants here, I hereby offer to make recommendations to anyone
who plans to visit our backwaters...  (I wish we had a seattle.restaurants
newsgroup.)

A noteworthy place:  Lotus Garden in San Francisco Chinatown.  It is a 100%
vegetarian Chinese restaurant (they're Taoists) with a multi-page menu of
delicious food.

--  Bhaskar
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