{"id":502,"date":"2010-06-19T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T19:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:08:10","slug":"zen-vegetarian-cuisine-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/19\/zen-vegetarian-cuisine-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Zen Vegetarian Cuisine Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently went to Zen Vegetarian Cuisine<\/a> (note the menu at the website is not updated, but the items are the same or similar) in Wichita, KS and had a pretty good lunch there.<\/p>\n

The concept behind this restaurant is to provide “Asian” food without meat. So take a traditional meal that you would find at a\u00a0Chinese\/Thai\/Vietnamese\u00a0restaurant and replace the meat with soy protein or tofu. It’s really that simple and I thought it was pretty good.<\/p>\n

I ordered a “bento box” meal. It was the “Love & Compassion” which was fried soy protein (this was really good, it was crunchy, chewy and seemed hollow), pineapples, green and red peppers, mushrooms topped with a sweet and sour sauce. It also included a choice between fried rice and steamed rice. I chose fried rice, but in retrospect, the steamed rice would’ve been better because I just mixed it all with the main course.<\/p>\n

Also, the bento box includes a choice of a couple soups (I went with the vegetable soup since the other was egg drop soup and our waiter wasn’t sure if they really used eggs in it or not), a spring roll, a cream cheese blossom (cream cheese deep fried in a wonton wrapper) and a bunch of tempura (for all the Indians out there, this is Bhajjiya or Pakora).\u00a0It was a lot of food for lunch at a very good price. I was very surprised when it came to the table.<\/p>\n

I also had a mango milk tea which was really good. There were what I thought was some type of black berries in it, but they were actually black tapioca pearls. Finally I had the mango ice cream for dessert. There wasn’t anything particularly noticeable about it that made it better than other mango ice cream I had before.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the food at Zen. If I worked or lived near there, I’d stop in a every week or two. They had a lot of pages in their menu and you could try so many different things they have to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently went to Zen Vegetarian Cuisine (note the menu at the website is not updated, but the items are the same or similar) in Wichita, KS and had a pretty good lunch there. The concept behind this restaurant is to provide “Asian” food without meat. So take a traditional meal that you would find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[74,221,220],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining","category-entertainment","tag-review","tag-wichita","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}