Purple Lotus at Goulburn Street

Few weeks ago me and about 20 of my friends went down to this vegetarian restaurant, that is right strictly vegetarian no egg, no products from animal, friendly to the vegan and those who is kosher.

That's the address

Shop 2, 15 Goulburn St
Haymarket NSW 2000

Phone (02) 9211 1668



My friend Renny is going back for good this august. I dedicate this post for her. She is the chef in our buddhist group association. She cooks really well, well mannered, does not speak much, she is talented in cooking, her special power is to whip up something really nice without much ingredient.

We went down with the rest of group from 6:30 pm * well suppose to be * as proud Indonesian we don't care about punctuallity, in the back of our mind we will always hope that other people will be late too because we are Indonesian.



The entrance to the restaurant is small, filled with small cake, dim sum, snack all vegetarian



Each of them is about $ 4 - 6, for five or six red bean pastry .. yum yum ..





The restaurant itself is small and can only occupy about 60 people max.






Some chinese writing on the wall >.< I wish I can read them .... somebody enlighten me!




Fresh fruit on the cabinet, nice nice nice !



Buddha statue on the wall with 3 poses facing the restaurant



The restaurant also has an option for customer's who wish to buy some books on buddha's teaching and I presume there is some sutras there too * somebody enlighten me *

I wish I can read chinese character.



As a traditional chinese meal, we usually start off the course with a bowl of soup. This time we had lychee based soup. It's weird to start off this way because lychee is usually made for dessert but the combination of lychee with the soup is perfect and it doesn't taste weird, it's also made off seaweed with pieces of tofu skin.



This dish is a redention of high class chinese meal where usually you would have a range of seaweed with " yu sheng ". This dish would be very common with Singaporean. However it's made of seaweed * a real raw one *, tofu, mixed carrot with cabbage, tofu skin, bbq vegetarian meat. Vegetarian meat is usually made of flour flavoured and cooked to same texture as the real meat but they are not real * interesting *



This a redention of fried chicken or pork topped with shreded pork with sweet and sour sauce. However, they used friend tofu skin to make the pork along with sweet and sour sauce, absolutely marvellous and taste so good.



This is friend chicken that is made of eggplant instead .. ??????? Eggplant lightly coated with flour and deep fried for few minutes. Taste so crunchy and the eggplant absolutely melted inside your mouth



This is deep friend eggplant topped with peanut sauce, the eggplant blended perfectly with peanut sauce. When you take one bite the peanut sauce automatically blend with the eggplant. This is a beauty



This is the chef redention of traditional abalone meal with bok choy. However he used abalone mushroom steamed along with bokchoy while topped with a hint of mushroom sauce. It's not very special though in my opinion



Your odrinary kailan stir fried with sesame sauce maybe ? can't remember about it



Bean sprout, carrot, tofu stir fried



Fruits to taste as part of the course. A perfecto combination





One of my favourite way to end a big course meal like this. Black sesame glutinious soup, it's hot, sweet, smells great.

Considering the limitation of ingredients the chef can use ( Vegetarian don't use any meat, egg, milk, onions or shallots ). He/She must have been really creative, I have to take my hat off.

The dining exprience is beautiful fullfilling, however they are just a little bit slow when serving the dishes .



Total damage = $ 25

Enjoy the post and keep on drolling !