Click on the date for events. Find Orange County restaurants. The crowds attracted to Orange County Vietnamese vegetarian restaurants are a curious mix.
Vegetarian diets are generally lower in fat, sodium and cholesterol than the average diet.
Au Lac Restaurant in Fountain Valley have helped in the evolution of vegetarian cuisine from its days of bland blocks of tofu. She and a partner opened the restaurant in 1996. People were misled to believe that just eating tofu for protein instead of meat was not enough to provide them with energy for a busy daily life. Opened in 1990 as the first venue in Orange County to offer an entirely Vietnamese vegetarian cuisine, the business has grown and another location was added last year in Huntington Beach. Pham's mother, Kim Oanh Huynh, is the master chef who invents dishes and makes sauces.