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iVegan—The First Vegan Market In Taiwan!

2014-09-26T11:01:00.001+08:00

At the end of 2013, the first vegan market, iVegan – Vegan Supermarket, opened in Taipei near the Wanlong (萬隆) MRT station.

In addition to a wide range of specialty products, iVegan offers cheap and fresh vegetables and fruits, vegan bread, cruelty-free cleaning supplies, and pet food. You can find everything in one place. The most amazing thing is that most commodities offered only in Taiwan can only be found here.

Instead of in a bustling shopping district, this market is located in an alley—not very obvious, but quiet and comfortable. If you come here by MRT, you can see iVegan’s sign in the alley on the left side after walking out of exit 1 of Wanlong (萬隆) station. Follow that and you’ll get to the store in 5 minutes.

There’s a great selection of fruits and vegetables that are delivered directly from their place of production everyday…and the prices are quite cheap.

The prices and place of origin are clearly labeled and can be seen instantly.

Here’s the pets area, with many types of pet food and even snacks—all vegan!

So many great frozen provisions—everything from hot pot ingredients to vegan battercake, a Hong Kong style dessert.

You can also get many types of drinks like soy milk, rice milk, coconut milk, and rye juice.

Vegan bread!!

There are some imported provisions as well—quite a few products from India are available.

It’s rare to find imported provisions in Taiwan. However, vegan cheese and butter from the famous vegan brands Earth Balance and Daiya are offered here at iVegan. What a surprise!

Frankly speaking, this is a store that really makes vegans jump for joy! In my opinion, iVegan is somewhat like a vegan version of PXmart (PXmart is a local supermarket chain in Taiwan that offers cheap commodities). If you happen to be Taipei, you’ve definitely got to stop by iVegan! :D

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http://www.happycow.net/blog/ivegan-first-vegan-market-in-taiwan/

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Ooh cha cha自然食 @Taipei

2014-04-29T13:24:00.000+08:00

In Taiwan, we got few chance to taste raw-food, because even the diet style “Vegan” appeared just theses years. To our big joy, here in Taipei opened a light raw-food restaurant “Ooh cha cha 自然食” which provided a new splendid choice for vegans.

The principle of Ooh cha cha is healthy and tasty food made by fresh, nutritious and energy-rich materials to simple but not casual dishes, with somehow the style of a literary youth in New York. It provides light-food only with 6 kinds of sandwich, many vigor vegetable and fruit drinks, and hand-made raw desert, all vegan without milk and egg. Some dishes with 5-spicy can be eliminated if need.

Ooh cha cha is near MRT Guting station with 5 minutes walking from exit 2.

The store in the corner is triangle, looks small but with penetrating glass wall plus high roof, simple and clear decorating, making people feel spacious. Visiting there when darkness falling, from a far eye one can feel warmth in heart.

Around3 tables there and a bar in the corner, looks comfortable also.

Wifi password showed by this, how cute! XD

Here is the menu, for this kind of golden places in Guting, the price is quite reasonable. The meal marked leaves means can be made without 5-spicy.

The quantity for girls can get full, for boys around 70% full. And because the meals mainly made by nuts and vegetables, one should have a feeling of satisfaction after meal.

全麥野菇青醬三明治, Mushroom Sandwich (NT.140)

This one taste good! Full-bodied pesto smells great, mushroom is fried at scene, taste savory, combing with alfalfa sprouts and fresh tomato is yummy.

Cha Cha 全麥蔬菜堡, Cha cha Salad sandwich (NT.140)

This burger looks normal, but the point is the sauce which I don’t know how it made, smells so good. Overall speaking it is salubrious but not very light taste. And the fresh quality of the lettuce needs to be praised also, the more you bite, the tastier you feel. This one is my favorite.

番茄鷹嘴豆泥三明治, Roasted Garlic Hummus Sandwich (NT.140)

Chickpea is the kind of food of high nutrition. The common cuisine method is mixed with white sesame for example middle-east white sesame puree which has charming sharp aroma. But in Ooh cha cha the hummus is light with almost no seasoning and few oil. For normal taste ones may feel it tastes quite dry.

By the way, in Beitou there’s a restaurant “Yummy Vegan House(芽米屋)” whose Egypt pocket biscuit is made by hummus also, which is the best hummus cuisine I ever had in Taiwan.

傳家越式豆腐堡, Tofu Bonh Mi (NT.150)

I've never think tofu combine with bread will be a good idea, but this one makes me think again. To my surprise that cashew sauce can mix tofu and bread perfectly, impressive taste and mouth feeling, really special!

I've been to Ooh cha cha for two times, usually one upgraded to 90 dollars combo, another upgraded to 150 combo and shared together, then almost can taste every meal and too great full. One point is that I think the vice-meal is the marvelous part of Ooh cha cha, no matter raw-food desert or exclamatory vegetable-fruit drinks are true unique only belong to them.

Soup everyday: Onion pumpkin soup (150 dollar combo)

The pumpkin soup is aromatic, 100% only pumpkin, onion, and potatoes, pure pumpkin flavor, sweet and smooth, making one’s heart warm and content. Super like it ! (The soup with or without 5-spicy please consult owner)

Raw Desserts: Dancing Banana Pie (150 dollar combo)

This dessert is made by banana, cashew, candied jujube, oats, and raw-cocoa without baking, 100 % no additions. The best time to taste it is when it recovers from icy. Intense banana and chocolate flavor, smooth mouth feelings and makes full without over sweet or fat. I like it very much.

Raw Desserts: Chocolate Walnut ball (150 dollar combo)

People who are not that familiar with raw-food can be not very like it, overall it’s raw, can not be that the normal chocolate smooth, but I feel it has another unique flavor: between chocolate and chocolate cookie, full with coconut aroma, for a dessert It makes one really full.(because the ingredients are more just than chocolate XD )

Raw Desserts: Perfect Chocolate mousse (150 dollar combo)

This one I not that like, taste like milk-shake or jelly, flavor is not bad but far from my idea of mousse.

Green Drinks: Orange sweet milk (90 dollar combo)

I really recommendtheir vigor drinks, like it most from drink, light food, and raw-dessert.

Not only fruits but vegetables also, make you feel somehow light aroma from whatever vegetables, really different from traditional juice! This one looks a little like papaya soy-bean milk.

Green Drinks: Fresh Fruit Punch (90 dollar combo)

Seems like common pineapple and apple juice, never thought it is green! It turns out that the ingredients are orange, mango, strawberry and fresh vegetables. Just one taste you can feel plentiful , much more beyond just fruit’s sour and sweet, incredible!

For my big surprise is the straw made by paper! Although used longer it become soft, but the function still works. I’m really curious how this come from.

Although without emphasizing, one can find that Ooh cha cha has environment conscious. In addition to straw, the menu printed by recycled paper with nice feelings and warmth.

Some people might think, just bread plus lettuce, anything special?

Well, I’ll say, the light food looks simple, but needs combine with many kinds of suitable materials and sauce indeed, and the picking of the ingredients is also important. The less seasoning cuisine, the harder to conceal the shortcomings. For customers taste comfortable and relaxed, nature and delicious, all the details should be noticed, and that’s why I fall in love with light food. Plus prominent and remarkable vegetable-fruit juice, nature hand-made dessert, it’s why Ooh cha cha becomes Ooh cha cha, authentically stands head and shoulders above other light food restaurants.

Ooh cha cha /★★★★ / http://www.facebook.com/OohChaCha

台北市南昌路二段207號 / 02-23677133 / Mon-Fri 10:00~21:00, Sat-Sun 10:00~18:00

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VEGE CREEK @ Taipei

2014-03-18T13:49:00.001+08:00

How can you miss soya-mixed meat if visiting Taiwan !

Soya-mixed meat is one unique snack food in Taiwan used the method 滷(Lu, a little like stew in brine but somehow different). You can have many ingredients with Asia flavor cooking liquor, which is special and often coin cat in Taiwan.

Well, although you could find many soya-mixed meat vendors in many places or night markets, most of them are meat dishes. Don’t get disappointed, this article is going to introduce you a veggie soya-mixed meat restaurant in Taipei, where you can go just by MRT, and it’s a vegan one! (Many soya-meat or veggie materials in Taiwan contain egg or milk, if you’re a vegan person please take notice for that)

There’s a marvelous vegan soya-mixed meat restaurant "VEGE CREEK" in Daan(大安) area in Taipei.

In Taiwan, most of soya-mixed meat sellers are vendors, and usual veggie soya-mixed meat stores contain materials made by milk and egg, and cooked in the same one pot, which is not very suitable for strict vegan ones. But VEGE CREEK is different, all food materials including soup origin, veggie meat and so on, ALL VEGAN!

VEGE CREEK locates an alley in Yanji street(延吉街) in Daan area. Low key without a marked signboard but with a white concise sign flat you can recognize at one glance.

The storefront is not large with around ten seats, where all the customers need to share one big table having meal. Although just a small place, it makes one feel spacious with its simple and well-executed decorating. Quite gray concrete wall with compatible wood color, kind of fashion!

Both sides of the meal table are materials picking area, one side are vegetables, another are others food ingredients. I think the route quiet nice which solves the crowds in traditional soya-mixed meat vendors. In VEGE CREEK, you could be more gentle and elegant like shopping in the supermarket. Pick whatever you like, give them to the chef, and just wait a delicate to come~ I really enjoy the way.

Because it was quite late after the rush time when I went there for lunch, the vegetables on the shelves almost left nothing (they run their business well). The special vegetable shelf makes the green look pretty.

The owners the shelves were special designed, just draw what you want with the vegetable cup, the one upon will fall down automatically. Wow! like a vending machine! The design not only beautiful but also make a distance from vegetables avoiding crushing.

Some vegetables here is “Directly sending from place of origin” by owner’s grandmother! Organic farming instead of pesticide.

This ingredients area in the other side uses steel basin as containers, with two or three condiments every basin, really abundant.

Every material is wrapped with small bug, kind of clean.

Here is noodle selecting area, 5 wood-bar with different colors mean different kinds of noodles. It’s really a smart way, sparing the space for stacking noodles.

How lucky I am! just met the time for business lunch discount! I have to say that this discount is really making sense, one noodle plus two kinds of vegetable with 3 condiments (A,B,C meal with mushroom and veggie soya-mixed meat materials) only 99 NTD in total!

The normal price is like the picture, not so cheap (Because in the Taipei downtown Daan area), in a comparison business lunch is really valuable.

Take the materials to the counter, and the owner will give you a number plate, handmade also, so cute!

Friends and me individually ordered a full bowl as picture! We both chose the 99 dollars business lunch plush two or three condiments, 200 more in total, for the lunch in Taipei is quite economic and valuable.

For who became vegetarian for longer time may feel the soup a little salty, but for is very nice. The soup seems to mix some Chinese medicine, tasted dense. The best is every food material tasty by the marinade without overcook, every taste you can taste the yummy marinade.

At last I cannot but follow conventional practice to take a picture with owners, two of whom are handsome boys.

The owner said, the original intention for they ran a vegan soya-mixed meat is everybody can enjoy nutritious and delicious vegetables.

VEGE CREEK /★★★★ / http://www.facebook.com/VEGECREEK

大安區延吉街129巷2號 / 02-27781967 / 12:00~14:00 17:00~21:00

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Joy Bar 喜悅吧 @ Taipei

2014-03-03T20:47:00.000+08:00

In National Taipei College of Business around Shandao temple MRT station , there is a small but complete vegan café----JOY BAR.

Joy Bar is a small café shop provides quality products with low prices. Although dishes there are not quite exquisite, but can feel owner’s enthusiasm and sincerity. With high quantity and low price, which is really popular around students.

The café is next to library in the corner site with suitable space, providing 7,8 tables for customers.

Here comes the menu, Chinese only, but don’t worry, the owner can speak English.

They provide many kinds of meals like Hamburger, Bagel, Special thick toast…for light food, and formal meal as Chinese rice and noodles.

Here sharing the meal I’ve had as below~

香菇羹湯 Mushroom thick soup (small $30、Big $40)

Thick shop with a lot of materials, many vegetables inside, cooked tasty. For girls just this soup combining a bowl of rice can get quite full !

乾麵 Dry noodles (small $35、Big $45)

Dry noodles in Taiwan are usually just noodles with vegetables(the green leaves), with such many materials is really rare! ! With colorful looking, of course the quantity is big also!

照燒排貝果堡 Veggie Pork Chop Bagel Burger ($50)

The handmade bagel with veggie pork chop and vegetables is the popular bagel burger in Joy Bar! The handmade bagel is fresh and chewy, bravo! This is one of my favorite dishes.

鄉村厚片披薩 Countryside thick toast pizza ($35)

Actually it’s a thick toast for luxury version~ But the special sauce made by the owner is really dense and tasty like a real pizza. The most ingredients for this are tomatoes and lettuce, tasted fresh and nice.

蘑菇厚片披薩 Mushroom thick toast pizza ($35)

This one is really heavy, in addition to pizza sauce, there’re vegan mayonnaise and mushroom red sauce as well. Occasionally I like heavy taste like this, feel good. (But I shared it with friends so I don’t know if finished by one person could be too greasy or not)

All meals there can be taken out. If someone’s afraid that the sauce makes the bag a mess, can also choice bagel or sandwich as so on. The bagels in the transparent windows are handmade every day. Due to the space of the bar courter, the bagels can’t go through the formal procedure heating before toasting, chewy feeling a little less, like bread more, but still taste good and very nature.

Moreover, there are unique rainbow sandwich and rice roll, made by owner himself also, cheap and yummy! (The rainbow sandwich just NT 17 dollars for one!)

I’m really lucky, got time that the bagel just done. The boss is so kind that treat me one of cranberry, delicioooooooooooous!

金桔檸檬 Oval kumquatand lemon juice (Big $35)、純素奶茶 Vegan milk tea ($25)

The drinks are made by the owner also, very honestly and valuable, not the one that adding a lot of water.

Because religion activities are in fashion in Taiwan, we have a lot of veggie store.

However, the vegan diet just got attention these years, many veggie restaurants with milk and egg. Like vegan chocolate sauce, vegan garlic sauce, and vegan butter biscuit sauce are quite hard to get. To our surprise, the owner of Joy Bar himself is vegan, so many materials and sauce he used are made by himself with the ingredients he bought. Vegan people can relax and just enJOY!

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Bluesomeone’s Vegan Restaurant Selections of 2013 in Taiwan

2014-02-14T09:31:00.000+08:00

Wow~ time flies, it is 2014 now. The fan numbers of my FB fan page and blog had a big growth during last year. Thank everyone for support! Every message is important for me. Sometimes I am too exciting to sleep after reading your messages. So grateful.

In order to make it easier to search the restaurant I wrote, I decide to write the restaurant selections of last year and also including my life. Which in brief are my favorite memories of 2013.

January: Sophie’s Garden(蘇菲花園), Loving hut X Soul.R.Cafe(愛家忠孝店)

An afternoon tea at Sophie’s Garden with my sister who skip her work :P.

It’s all worthy for the delicacies. The vegan sandwich, vegan waffle and garden soy-milk tea are fabulous! However, it's a pity that they cut off the afternoon tea supply because short of hands. Please call them to ask for the afternoon tea in advance. I strongly recommend these meals to whomever visit Sophie’s Garden.

Sophie’s Garden：台北市民生東路四段75巷5-1號 (Taipei)

I made a Vegan tiramisu for my BFF’s birthday party at Loving hut X Soul.R.Cafe. They almost split their sides when seeing the broken cake…orz

The snacks and meals in Loving hut X Soul.R.Cafe have a cute decoration on them. The restaurant had a redecoration at the end of last year. The menu was changed, too. I’ll share the change after I got the chance to visit.

Loving hut X Soul.R.Cafe：台北市大安區忠孝東路三段217巷1弄6號 (Taipei)

February: loving chocolate(戀巧克手工黑巧克力專賣店), Pizza dall' orto(歐透手工鮮蔬披薩)

戀巧克手工黑巧克力專賣店 is near the MRT Fuzhong Station in Banqiao district. The products are almost all vegan and no alcohol ingredient except the tiramisu which contains milk in the bottom cookies. Hopes one day they could make it vegan.

Be honest, I don’t have that much interest about black chocolate. But I can find pancake, chocolate brownie (please order in advance or have to wait for 40 minutes) and hot chocolate drink…etc here. What a good place for vegan afternoon tea. : D

戀巧克手工黑巧克力專賣店：新北市板橋區府後街4號 (Banqiao)

I visited Pizza dall' orto in Taichung at the vacation of Chinese New Year. How amazing! Each flavor of pizza could change to be vegan (if you don’t ask, it will has cheese on it).

The special thing about this restaurant is they putting in time and effort on their sauce. Taste delicious even without cheese. All I can say is a heart touched deliciousness!!

Pizza dall' orto：台中市東興路三段81號 (Taichung)

March: Vegan trip to Wakayama, VEGE CREEK (蔬河), FU-SHI-WU vegetarian raman (釜喜屋拉麵店), Caruna (卡如那泰式素食), Joy Kitchen (喜悅健康廚房)

My sister and I had a trip to Wakayama in the early March. The girl-only trip is a different experience for us and it wasreally relaxed. Even some place is boring, we could still laugh crazily.

Wakayama is not popular as Osaka or Kyoto. You can count the vegan restaurants there in one hand, but the foods are much delicious than what I expected.

The series articles of 和歌山 (in Chinese)↓↓

和歌山吃素：鄉郊僻壤處居然有這等美味！野菜料理師開的Vegan餐廳，カルバの月

和歌山吃素：好想再吃一次，美味度滿分的精進cafeふぉい

I heard good news after I went back to Taiwan! The VEGE CREEK (蔬河) was not friendly for strict vegans because some foods containing milk ingredient and they are all cooked in the same pot. As soon as the owner realized this problem, he changed all foods there to be vegan, including veg meat. So how could I miss this one?

Although some friends think their price isn’t low, in my opinion, it’s reasonable for its location, flavor and the decoration. In addition, the owner is pretty handsome (←Heh!). Recommend you to try, especially the business launch is very worthy!

VEGE CREEK：大安區延吉街129巷2號 (Taipei)

I couldn't help to go to the one of vegan land in Taiwan-Taichung again for the delicacies. There has a famous veg-raman restaurant- FU-SHI-WU(釜喜屋). I was wondering how special is the soup flavor. However, after I tried, it was sooooo gooooood!! How would I survived if I can’t have it someday after~~~!

All foods there are vegan! So cool isn’t it? The veg meat and veg meat balls are handmade. You can also choose the soup without garlic or onion, which is continent for Taiwan vegetarians and both kinds are delicious.

(BTW, the man looked young in the left photo is Mr. Shih, my lovely husband >\\\<)

FU-SHI-WU (釜喜屋, Ramen restaurant)：台中市西區中美街447號 (Taichung)

After the incredible ramen launch, my friend took us to the Thai style restaurant (I think it’s Thai flavor with a little Taiwan style): Caruna (卡如那泰式素食).

The most special and delicious one for me is flax oil noodles! I never thought aboutthis kind of combination. Tastes light and smells good. (I immediately buy a bottle of flax oil after I got home!)

Caruna (卡如那泰式素食)：台中市南區國光路216-1號 (Taichung)

Joy Kitchen(喜悅健康廚房) is a hot pot restaurant in uptown of Keelung. The name didn't interest me but it does have its specialty.

Probably relative to where the owner came from – Guizhou, China, the soup of the hot pot is made from sugar canes and apples. Taste a little sweet and really good. There are five options for the soup, the Tibet flavor won my heart and which is also the popular pot in the restaurant.

The snacks are vegan but the veg meat for hot pot is not confirmed if it has milk ingredient. I have to make a compliment to their snacks. The red bean pancake, Chinese toona roll, green bean cake, steamed dumplings, Xiaolongbao...are all made by hands and really fascinate!

Joy Kitchen (喜悅健康廚房)：基隆市安樂區基金三路82號 (Keelung. easy to park there)

April：FRESH Bakery、Vegan Baking Class in Angel vegan bakery

See~Vegan dessert bakery! For enjoying the vegan afternoon tea, I tempted my BFFs again to play hooky from work.

This restaurant has opened since the beginning of 2013, but only until April did I get the chance to taste it. Although the atmosphere there I thought it’s not that perfect, but whatever dessert, bread, any kind of meal is incredible!

Also introduced by the healthy video show :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co9gXkynG6U (Fresh is in the 1^stpart, and the interview of me 2^nd and 3^rd part (Shy…)

FRESH Bakery: 台北市南港區忠孝東路六段466號 (Taipei)

I was born in April, the day before I got 25, there was an impulse came from nowhere drove me cut a bob, never short like this after my junior high period. The fresh feeling makes me want to fool around on the street. I fed up of keep holding the hair dryer so long ! The picture on the right side was the vegan cake made by Veganheaven, the pattern on which was designed by Mr. Shi, Wow~~

April I started my vegan baking courses also in Ms. Hu’s Angel vegan bakery, who has many years of vegan baking (She is also a baker from milk-veg to vegan)! I took the courses for several times , the course contents are quite piratical, and the teacher answered almost any questions you asked.

Nowadays courses offered every month, one interesting in that could visit her FB fans’ club. (She’s cooperating with Zoe’s House for vegan baking courses, which seems really professional by browsing their website…XD)

Angel vegan bakery : www.facebook.com/angelveganbakery

May: Shuiwen Veggie Sushi Train(水問蔬食迴轉壽司), Travelling in Kyoto for 6 days

Here in Taipei opened a novel restaurant in May : Shuiwen Veggie Sushi(水問蔬食迴轉壽司). It's a veggie Sushi train restaurant!

The owner imported rice cooker and sushi machine from Japan to keep the quality. The sushi rice is special also, quite sweet-scented and flexible. The ratio of vinegar and rice is studied also, coming a nice taste. What’s the best? The sushi here more than 80% is whole vegan! They distinguished vegan, milk veg, and egg veg by the color of the plate, very clear.

Shuiwen Veggie Sushi(水問蔬食迴轉壽司): 台北市中山區松江路275號B1 (Taipei)

In the end of May, I headed for Kyoto! (Hooray)

If someone asked to recommend the place in Japan for first visiting, for sure Kyoto is the answer, where many veggie restaurants, many viewpoints, and the bus transportation is convenient – wonderful place!

Mr. Shih knew well that I clung to my memories for Japan, sending me the flight ticket go and return japan as birthday gift ! XD

The joy shared is more than enjoying alone, so I invited mother-in-law and the aunt who always give me care go together, and had an awesome time. Mentioned my mother-in-law, Mr. Shih complained all the time that she spoiled me a lot. Well, how a bad boy can compare to the well-behaved daughter-in-law?

Beginning of summer in 2013, travelling in Kyoto (backpacker experience for 6 days. Sorry, it's Chinese version.) → chankue-bluesomeone.blogspot.tw/2013/06/2013.html

June: YANGSHIN Veggie Dim Sum House(養心茶樓蔬食飲茶) , Loving Hut-Xinyue(愛家新月店)

The top news of veggie group in June must be that One royal veggie dim sum restaurant set up here in Taipei, YANGSHIN Veggie Dim Sum House. Before its grand opening day, many friends had made appointments to go together. Count me in!

To my personal opinion that the veggie HongKong dessert is nothing but awesome! Even though the vegan ones are less than half, but every dish surprised me for its deliciousness, and the price was OK also. However, the formal dishes were not that suitable for my taste, and the price got a little high, NT 250~ 350 as average.

The manager said that, their cooking instruments divided as 3 sets for egg-veg, milk-veg, and vegan, and imported professional washing machines for the tools, so that the vegan customers no need to worry about having something with egg or milk. Which made me feel nice and relieved. (What’s more? Their waiters and waitress there are whole veggie people also, and the service persons downstairs from another non-veg restaurant of the same owner are not allowed to go up. Amazing!)

Maybe because was too high that day (Despite the high price that I didn’t get full at all), in front of the restaurant door we took some unique couple photos. In deed that’s what our real lives going on, that’s all Mr. Shi’s fault……(Crying)

Got a chance to go Yilan and visited the Loving Hut Xinyue. I almost visit them every time I went Yilan and almost order the same dishes. I think it’s the best Chinese style restaurant in Taiwan loving huts. Strongly recommended the pineapple shrimp balls &exploding rolls with souse!

Loving Hut Xinyue：宜蘭縣宜蘭市泰山路14號 (Yilan)

June、August: Rome Tomato Pasta(羅馬番茄義大利麵)

July and August is the time of summer vacation, hot and crowded everywhere.Usually during these two months I keep staying home rather than out, so the times for having meals in restaurants are less. The only one that worthy to mention is the Rome Tomato Pasta(Vegan, milk-veg).

Their spaghetti is somehow Taiwan style but taste great! The owner combine special vegetables in Taiwan with pasta sauce into a distinct flavor. I like the creative very much. And the price is super low, lowest price there is just 99 NT dollars. Vegan dishes there are more than half and one can demand no 5-species if needed.

Rome Tomato Pasta(羅馬番茄義大利麵蔬食)：台北市文山區木新路三段139號 (Taipei)　

September: Chenshi(澄石), Miracle Green House(綠舍奇蹟), Suxinqing Healthy Vegetarian Cuisine(愫心情養身蔬食料理 , 5-day family travel in Tokyo

Taichung! Here I came again! Sometimes I just have no idea it’s lucky or pity not living here, cheap and yummy veggie restaurants everywhere. Kill me~

People seems go to Chengshi Dongxin more often, but I think Shishangxintianmu(Jingcheng Rd.)is not bad also, with more vegan choices. In Taichung people’s mind maybe the price is not that cheap, but it’s cost-effective for north people.

Chengshi(澄石)：西區精誠二十二街29號 (Taichung)

On the way home from Taichung, everybody was chattering about delicious restaurants(Hah? Our topics just can’t leave away food),and then we decided to have a great meal in Miracle Green House. XD

Maybe due to the location, Miracle Green House is not well-known to the public, but actually it’s a wonderful vegan restaurant! The environment is In a courtly manner with delicious and stylish meal. At first glance the price is a little high, but I think the quality is good enough for that. The delicacy is exquisite and tasty with nice service persons, where it’s one of my top choice in north for dining together.

by the way, the pictures in the left side is the new dishes of Miracle Sreen House these days.

Squid noodle(Vegan): taste slightly, but with intense aroma. Although I like the pasta with heavy taste more,Squid noodle is not bad also.

Mushroom pizza(5-spicy):Taste good! The vegan cheese seems to be invented by the restaurant themselves, tasting a little sweet with sauce, special! I like it very much~ One for 6-inches, must reserve if you want it.

Eel rice(Vegan):Which outmatched totally the one in Loving Hut Tokyo, awesome! The vegetable fried rice in the same plate is with high quality also. Yummy!!

Miracle Green House(綠舍奇蹟)：新竹市武陵路30號 (Hsinchu)

In the middle period of this month was mother-in-law’s birthday, so our whole family had a meal together in SuxinqingHealthy Vegetarian Cuisine which was named Pingshen Healthy Veg before,famous with its Chinese cuisine. Actually it tasted quite good and looks really nice. Especially “Fresh Veg Bacon with Preserved Cabbage”(in Chinese: Meigankoro 梅干扣肉) is my favorite . The veggie meat theyused for dishes is not directly from ready-made one but seems like dealing with gluten and bean, taste good~

But I think the quantity of any dish is a little few. Like us with six persons, every dish for one is just two or three bite, and the average price for each one is near NT:3~400, 80% full after finishing, a little expensive for its portion.

Suxinqing Healthy Vegetarian Cuisine(愫心情養身蔬食料理)：台北市中山區南京東路二段95號B1 (Taipei) (Milk-veg with many vegan options)

In the end of September, for catching the tail of summer vacation, father suggested a family trip with my guiding without thinking twice, we whole Bluesomeone family with 6 persons went to Tokyo together.

If you ask me, in fact I like Kansai more. I don’t know if this time I’m not that lucky, my delicacy trip in Tokyo didn't fix the anticipation completely, somehow there are still a few nice restaurants could be shared~ but…My Tokyo series was just began and on the way, please have a look of the article below first!

October: The V:F(舞蔬弄果), Brother Su(布拉德施)

In the End of October is Mr. Shih’ s birthday, in the same time our wedding anniversary also (I feel stupid myself, why did I choose this time for wedding? Then every year I need two send him two presents but he sends me only one!), we celebrated it in The V:F.

The restaurant really applied their mind, even though they can’t make vegan birthday cake, but still managed to make birthday jelly for us! XD

The way the food put on dishes is delightful, but the taste is insipid. However the quality of food is nice and taste comfortable. Although the vegan meal is not that much, it’s a enjoyable restaurant.

The V:F (舞蔬弄果)：信義路三段7號2F (Taipei)

Comparing the two former, Brothersu in Zhonghe offers a much cheaper price~~Although the meal looks like home-made ones, tastes awesome! The owner always used the organic vegetables and fruits with high quality, no mono-sodium glutamate at all! To avoid the ready-made materials are not that pure, they make many meal materials themselves, really diligent and caring.

I’m loving in their dumplings, spicy tofu and all kinds of noodles with wonderful soup-stock! The portion is enough also, a man just need one bowl of noodles can get full, the CP value is quite high (CP value: the price VS the quality, the higher the better) !

The vegan dessert there is worthy trying also. Every time I go there, just two persons we can order until 200～300 NT dollars, where it’s really a fairy land for me.

Brother SU(布拉德施)：新北市中和區南華路29號 (Zhonghe)

November:MIMI BEAN、Miss veggie(荷悅蔬食坊)、Ooh cha cha

Though many people call me veggie expert, I think I’m far from that, because I had no idea that there’s a branch of Mini bean in Taipei until these months.

Mini bean is famous for its original and organic soybean, The soybean ice-cream made by such healthy and organic soybean is yummy~~ smooth and slight plus nice soy smell, with many flavors also! But one should remind store that the cracks upon it to be vegan, or they usually put cracks with milk. I recommend colorful soybean milk, also the price is not that friendly, but characteristic and taste nice. I like it very much!

Nonetheless frankly speaking(again?), it’s a little low CP value for vegan. Vegan just suggested to have their dessert and soybean milk.

MINI BEAN：台北市大安區忠孝東路三段251巷4弄16號 (Taipei store)

2013 is really a special year, feeling that veggie is in fashion! All these years, Chinese veggie snack is the main restaurant style in Taoyuan county, now opened one like PP99, and cheaper, practical ,with higher CP value ! Which named: Miss veggie. (荷悅蔬食坊)

The owner considers well for vegan, one-third meals without milk and egg, even the buns, salad sauce, and strawberry sauce are confirmed to be vegan, and all kinds of bread are vegan. They even want to use the vegan cheese(but the provider seems to be have none). For a milk-egg-veggie restaurant, this one is the rare one that I’d like to come again.

Miss Veggie (荷悅蔬食坊): 桃園市坤成街92號 (Taoyuan)

Ooh Cha Cha nature meal is a new restaurant located near Taipei Guting MRT station. All meals are vegan there, some with 5-spicy, their main road leading nature and healthy way.

Their meal looks so so, but with first biting you feel the energy and delicious of vegetables and fruits. The sauce of bread is yummy, bread yummy, drinks yummy, and raw food desert also, even better than the one I had in the raw food restaurant in Osaka.

Actually I think their best is not light food, but raw food desert and veg-fruit juice, just one taste you’ll understand. Authentically a special one, I definitely go again!

Ooh Cha Cha：台北市南昌路二段207號 (Taipei)

December: IVegan(愛維根蔬食超市), About Animals(動物誌), Loving Hut-Hankou (愛家漢口店)

In the end of 2013, the first vegan supermarket-IVegan started business!!

Basically the provisions are Taiwan-made. Although I anticipated to see a lot of imported vegan provisions, many cheap and delicious vegetables, fruits, and provisions can be bought at once is really exciting!

IVegan(愛維根蔬食超市)：文山區萬隆街54號 (Taipei)

After IVegan, let’s go to the nearby About Animals for lunch! The decorations of this store is cool,with somehow the feelings of literature and art, and the cat of the store is so cute and friendly.

Though the price got a little high, the hamburger is awesome(5-spicy can be eliminate if need), which aroused me the memory of travelling aboard, quite distinct of the other veggie store’s hamburger in Taiwan! They have cooperation with Vegan Heaven, so one can have delicious cake and dessert there also.

About Animals (動物誌)：台北市文山區景隆街1巷9號 (Taipei)

The last schedule of 2013 is my favorite Taichung again! I hesitated for a long time. Fu-Shi-Wu? Pizza dall' orto? At last setting my teeth decided to go another one which recommend a lot by friends in Taichung: Loving Hut-Hanko.

Loving Hut-Hanko reconstructed two months ago by new runner, the menu changed and more appealing , and whole meal there vegan without 5-spicy! (Seems to be the only one Loving Hut without 5-spicy?) With pretty meal putting, particular food materials, friendly service and price, awesome and yummy meal, high high high CP value!! Only can say that, there is one more that I’d like to go again and again restaurant in Taichung! Ah~~ I have only one stomach, what a vexation!

Loving Hut-Hankou(愛家漢口店)：台中市北區漢口路四段266號 (Taichung)

All as above, is my handpicked restaurants in 2013. Count it myself, I really go to a lot a lot of place to dine, and more only put out on fans club.

Moreover, many veggie friends who are going aboard consulted me by email, but because of work I can’t reply right away, or I’m not that familiar for the places you’re going to, just please have a look of the link International Veggie Information, where many information inside should be helpful the people going aboard. ^__^

Wish myself in 2014 can have a lot of delicacies also! Finish!

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Dozed on sofa

2012-02-24T10:58:00.007+08:00

When taking a rest at living room, we will sleep if we lying on the sofa.

So we always sat on the sofa by crossing our legs to take a break and meditate. Our mind will get clearer after meditation.

There are three cats in my house. Two of them are spoiled by Mr. Shih. If somebody sits on sofa, they will...

They don’t want their bed but human legs! The constant temperature MEAT BED is better to them.

After five minutes, everybody fell asleep... (Pay attention to the cats)

They look like the Chinese door gods from the side view. (HAHA!)

They gave me a face when I taking their photos. It seems like I was bothering their BEING TOGETHER TIME. Hey! I am the one of your food payers. =_=