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VEGAN FEAST SUBSCRIBERS' COOKING AND RECIPE FORUM>
Val, Tangra Bistro!
Debbie
607 posts
Mar 21, 2005
8:08 AM
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I was recommended by a friend to try this restaurant called Tangra Bistro in Cerritos. It is directly across from Vegi Wokery (you tried Vegi Wokery and like it). This restaurant is in the same shopping mall.
The cuisine is Asian Fusion, actually, it is Indianized Chinese cuisine. Isn't that unique? The Indians likes Chinese food with curry powder added to the dishes so the Indianized Chinese cuisine is so common in India.
I thought you might like it if you like curried dishes. The restaurant is not a vegetarian restaurant but has about 10 vegetarian dishes (since some Indians are vegetarians). I picked the vegan dishes: Tofu lettuce wrap, Manchurian Vegetable Pakora, Manchurian mixed vegetable, and Ma Po Tofu.
When the vegetable pakora came out we were so surprised that it is nothing like original Indian pakoras. Instead, they are like seitan balls with vegetable mixed in it and served with gravy like sauce on it.
The dishes are all spicy and hot (curried hot). The Ma Po Tofu's sauce has curry powder, cinnamon, and other spices in it.
They are delicious to us since we like spicy food. I especially like the Tofu Lettuce Wrap. My husband likes the pakoras.
Two doors from Vegi Wokery, I saw a sign 'Coming Soon South Indian Vegetarian Restaurant'. Yay! I will check that out in the near future.
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Debbie
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne
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Val
30 posts
Mar 21, 2005
1:33 PM
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Hi Debbie! Yes I did see the Tangra Bistro and wondered if it was worth trying out sometime!! :) This was about a month ago. I also saw the sign for the Indian vegetarian restaurant. The vegetable pakoras you had sound yummy! I'll try that when we go there.
John and I were planning to go to Native Foods on Saturday, but he ended up having to work, so he got take-out for us, it was Mediterranean food and was really good (although the falafel I had was a little salty). He got me a gyro with vegetables and falafel filling. On Sunday, I told him that I would be cooking some mee-hoon (noodles) and he actually asked me if I could use some veggie ground meat in it!! wow!! I couldn't believe it! I was expecting him to say, "Nah, I'll cook something for myself" (which means he wants to eat meat).
It was my first time trying falafel (I don't even know if I'm spelling it right!) and it was made to resemble fried fish, and then used as a filling in the gyro. Do you know if that's what it usually looks like ?
Has Bryanna posted any falafel recipes in the past ? I'd love to make some for sandwich fillings, and maybe try to see if I could get that fried fish "look".
Val
Last Edited Val on 21-Mar-2005 1:34 PM
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Debbie
610 posts
Mar 21, 2005
1:58 PM
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Hi Val,
Yes, that's great that John suggested veggie ground meat. That's a step. Like I said slowly the spouses will like the cooking and won't miss meat at all. Congrats! Yes, I know mee-hun. I posted a recipe called Singapore Rice Sticks in one of Bryanna's newsletters. It has curry powder in it. Tangra Bistro also has Singapore Rice Sticks in their menu but it was not vegetarian. Maybe it is possible to make it vegetarian.
Yes, I know Falafels. They are made of chickpeas or garbanzo beans and herbs (mints, parsley, etc). You ground it in the food processor, shape them like balls and then pan fried, oven fried, or deep fried. You can go to Daphne Greek Cafe or any Greek restaurant to buy these. I make them at home too. You need to make the Tahini sauce and buy Greek pita bread (better than the American pita bread), add tomatoes and lettuce. They are good.
I think Bryanna has the recipe of falafel and tahini sauce but I think the falafel are oven fried. I will look for it.
We went to Native Foods yesterday and had the Native Nachos. Yummy, I highly recommend it!
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Debbie
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~ Harriet Van Horne
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