From: richwing@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rich Wingerter)
Subject: Re: VEGETARIAN SINGLES
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 05:57:18 GMT

In article <1421.524.uupcb@spacebbs.com>, mike.mcaulay@spacebbs.com (Mike Mcaulay)  writes:
|> alerman@terapin.com (Alexander Lerman) writes:
|> 
|> -> Any other confounded vegan/vegetarian singles out there? How do you
|> -> find others who share your values and diet?
|> 
|> I've wondered about this myself.  The most obvious answer is: you loiter
|> at your friendly neighborhood veggie restaurant/health food store.

I've been a vegetarian for about six years, but I've never tried to select out
vegetarians for friends.  It would make living with someone a whole lot easier,
but I don't consider it a prerequisite for falling in love.  When I was married,
my wife was not a pure vegetarian.  It made meals a little awkward, especially
holiday meals with her family (or mine, for that matter).

There is a vegetarian dinner club in Palo Alto, which I went to about two years
ago.  They had a singles special interest group, which did day trips and stuff.
There is also a place that serves vegetarian dinners, also in Palo Alto.  I have
their phone number, if anyone is interested, but it is rather a long time since
I got it and I don't know for sure it is still good.

My favorite vegetarian restaurant is the Lotus Garden in San Francisco on Grant
Street between Pine and California Avenues.  You have to look for the entrance
carefully, because the restaurant is upstairs and all you see is the stairs. 
The food is good, plentiful and cheap.  Six dollars there will buy you a great
meal.  There is a full (like about 100) item chinese menu which is _completely_
vegetarian.  They use various kinds of bean curd, especially baked-pressed tofu
and tofu skins.  (Bet you didn't know they skinned tofu!)  They also use many
kinds of mushrooms and similar vegetables to simulate the texture of meat.
If you have had any kind of chinese food you like, you can bet they have it on
their menu, a la veggie.  This is the only place I know to get vegetarian pot
stickers, and, as near as I can remember, they taste just as tasty as the fleshy
variety.

There is another Lotus mumble restaurant in San Jose (on Market, just north of
Santa Clara Avenue), which is Vietnamese and has a very wide selection of
vegetarian foods.  If you like Vietnamese cuisine, you'd love this place.

If you are going to Santa Cruz, check out Omei, a chinese restaurant on the east
side of highway 1, just going out of Santa Cruz.  It is not a vegetarian
restaurant, but they have a wide selection of appetizers, all vegetarian.  There
is a particularly good one (IMHO) that is spicy and made with lima beans and
wheat gluten cuts.  (Sounds gross, doesn't it?  but try it if you like hot stuff,
cause it's "hot"!)

None of these places require you to be a vegetarian to enjoy them.  There just
good eating places.  Anyone interested in vegetarian food can contact me at
415-326-2435.  You can e-mail, but I'm having trouble responding to certain
sites, so I may not be able to respond.  (If you sent me e-mail, and I didn't
respond, that's likely the problem.)


--Rich Wingerter
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