Buddha Bodai
Nora, Alan, Henry and I went to Buddha Bodai (42-96 Main Street, Flushing)for some dim sum. It is all vegetarian food. Their food is made up of 85% soy and 15% vegetable root. Alan and Henry didn’t understand why we were eating vegetarian, they’d rather eat the real meat and not fake stuff, but Nora and I have been there before and we’ve enjoyed the food. Keep in mind they serve dim sum through 3pm.
We got the
- pan fried turnip cake
- dumpling Cantonese style
- fried taro custard
- roast pork rice roll
- vegetarian rice roll
- pan fried dumplings
- gluten and vegetable pan fried noodles
The food was really good. The rice rolls have about 5-6 rolls instead of the normal 3. Henry and Alan were both surprised that everything was all vegetarian. Some things really did taste like meat. If you go, you can also try the congee, it’s pretty good there. Nora says she’s also seen a fish dish, where they make the whole fish (including the fin) out of vegetarian ingredients. Maybe I’ll try that next time, if we are there for a dinner.