Tao Palate

J0518 wrote: [quote=alafairnadia][quote=Whatchuwant]Southern. Fried. Not-Chicken. Nuggets.

Like sex on a Tuesday. Awesome when you least expect it.

is that what you get at veg palate? I've had the fried chicken and that place by the west fourth street courts (next to the belgian beer bar where I usually cure my vegetarian dinner failure with a brat and/or fries) and it's probably the best faux meat I've ever eaten that isn't the morningstar farms sausage patties.

Red Bamboo is pretty friggin ridiculous, although nothing beats the seitan at Blossom in Chelsea to me.

My wife and I learned how to make our own seitan last year. While it both tastes amazing and offers you a lot more versatility when you make your own, my lord, what a pain in the ass seitan is to make. You're basically making a dough and kneading the living hell out of it for an hour, then boiling it for two more hours. Wow.

yick! but I have yet to have an awesome seitan dish but have major addiction to tofu. it's very tragic. someone, I'm sure, will tell me where to have something that will make me happy. but I have to say, my comfort foods tend toward the latin and then ... I just want soon doo bu (I can live with or without the seafood addition - just spicy broth with silken tofu is amazing. oh, and we can't forget the egg).

as long as you leave out the raisins, I'm in.

for some reason I want the crispy watercress and soy cheese wontons. minus the mango whatsit.

so far, so good. thanks, Carnivore.

alarainadia doesn't like raisins in her picadillo? paging the Cuban police....

Same owners as Wild Ginger in Soho.

Are they open yet?

I ate there last night and it was really good- nice atmosphere. At least for the moment it is BYOB. The orange seitan was especially tasty.

We went for lunch yesterday. I had the sweet and sour soy protein, and my wife had an eggplant dish. We had the scallion pancake as a starter, and i had a nice pineapple orange ginger juice to try to fight the cold that has now taken me over.

It doesn't redefine vegan cooking or anything but, if you're one of those that was looking for something along the lines of Zen Palate in this hood, or a more streamlined Vegetarian Palate that's meant for more than take-out, you're not going to be dissapointed. It's solid, tasty stuff. They also did an amazing job with the interior.

The mango salsa on the scallion pancake was especially tasty.

I think it's an incredibly solid addition to this end of the hood.

I tried the pad thai last night and it was pretty bland but the pepper seitan was quite good. Take out was very quick. The place was pretty full for sit down diners. Looks like a good addition to the neighborhood.

First time ordering yesterday. I got two apps: crispy skin tofu and the indian pancake, and the seitan orange as a main.

Everything was good (didn't love the curry sauce for the indian pancake), but I got a really small round container of rice - not at all enough for my main. Is this the normal takeout portion?