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| Diners enjoy fresh vegetarian food at Hoan Hy Chay Restaurant in HCMC’s District 3 - Photo: Kieu Giang |
The quiet alley off Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, Hoan Hy Chay is an ideal place for diners to escape the noise and find some refreshing quiet in a space of lotus leaf light shades, aloe wood furniture and instrumental music.
The vegetarian restaurant has two floors to serve up to 100 customers. Its menu features 70 vegetarian dishes ranging from the simple to the sophisticated including banh uot cuon (steam thin rice pancake roll), cuon diep (vegetable rolls), dau hu com (fried tofu with green rice), bong bi chien xu, com xu xi (rice with dried seaweed) and lau kho qua (bitter melon hot pot) among others. While waiting for your meal to cooked by the talented vegetarian cooks, diners can try the tea made from fresh tea leaves or nuoc sam made from herbs.
The vegetarian dishes are priced at between VND6,000 and VND150,000.
Cung Hong Kim Thoa, owner of the vegetarian restaurant, said, “A highlight of Hoan Hy Chay is all the food is made from fresh homemade ingredients. None of the ingredients are frozen –everything is fresh for the true flavor. The restaurant doesn’t try to present faux-meat in the shape of shrimps and chickens like other vegetarian restaurants do. To us, eating vegetarian food also means Zen.”
Hoan Hy Chay is home to tens of orphans who serve as cooks and waiters. For its grand opening, Hoan Hy Chay vegetarian restaurant offers 10% discount until November 31.
Hoan Hy Chay, 290/23 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street in HCMC’s District 3 opens from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tel: 3526 8528.
