veggie
A few of my friends are vegetarians. In Hong Kong, I believe vegetarians do not have many choices when they are dining out.
Though I am not a vegetarian, I do not like meat very much.
Vegetable used to be cheap dishes while meat was valuable. (we do say 大魚大肉 but won’t say 大瓜大菜) I think it’s true in most of the time but not always.
I work in a deserted area. If we girls want to have a bowl of green salad.
Sorry. If we are on diet and want a dish of boiled veggie. Sorry. The
salad that a local fast food shop offers is usually potatoes plus lots of mayonnaise. No green leaves.
If we go to McDonalds, green salad is the very expensive one on the menu as
compared to other items. If we buy a decent salad take away, it is usually
twice as expensive as BBQ Pork with rice.
We can keep some vegetables in our fridge. But it perishes easily and can
usually be kept for a few days. If I do not go to supermarket everyday, vegetables would become something luxurious.
If you go to the supermarket, you will find that the organic salad is
sometimes as expensive as a whole chicken.
It is, really luxurious. Especially the fresh ones.
August 10th, 2005 at 5:55 pm
Even you are willing to pay , it does not mean that you can get veggie in good quality.
The Kosmo restaurant under my office is supposed to offer healthy food (you know, lots of veggie, meat with almost no fat), but the taste is so bad that, I’d rather have those on the plane!!!!
August 14th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
Yes… I’d always like to try the salad when I visit a restaurant the first time. Good veggie seems very cherish~