Classic Lao Di Fang

Lynn asked me out for an impromptu dinner one day, and my hubby was supposed to pick me up from work that day. So she suggested that the three of us could go for a vegetarian dinner together at Classic Lao Di Fang at Park Mall. Having hubby there was good, because it meant that we could order more stuff.

The menu was mind-boggling, and it was hard to decide what to eat given the variety. After much discussion, we finalized to the following:

Dou Miao in Pumpkin sauce. Chosen because I wanted some greens. Couldn't really taste the pumpkin despite the brilliant yellow color. It was probably the most passable item we ordered. Hubby's choice - Spicy and Sour soup. It looked deceivingly harmless, but was really quite spicy when we started on it. With all the other spicy stuff we ordered, it got quite difficult to handle towards the end. And the serving was quite big too. We had two small bowls each.

Dou Miao in Pumpkin Sauce

Spicy and Sour soup

Lynn's fave - Crispy Yam Duck. She liked this from her previous visit. It's exactly as the name implies. Crispy layer on top of soft fluffy yam, served with a strawberry sauce on the side. It sounds weird, but it's a good weird. The Szechuan Spicy Chicken was interesting. Cold 'chicken' shreds served on a bed of cold vermicelli. The spicy sauce, and the accompaniment of cucumber strips and enoki mushrooms made this a refreshing dish, in a fiery way.

Crispy Yam Duck

Szechuan Spicy Chicken

Zoom in on the very cute 'drumstick'

All the dishes were eaten together with their fragrant brown rice. I loved it. It was a mixture of white and brown rice, but tasted so fragrant and wholesome.

Brown rice

We actually had another dish, some mango roll, which the camera missed. Hubby had a very fulfilling meal, just as we did. He did find it expensive, but that was comparing to Zi Zai, which is a coffeeshop, not a restaurant. Ignoring his comments about the price, this is actually an interesting place to try out a good variety of Chinese vegetarian food minus the frills.