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After gorging on mountains of food during the Spring Festival it’s time to eat light. Hangzhou boasts numerous vegetarian restaurants with lovely scenery in green areas that are excellent for a leisurely stroll after the meal. This week’s recommendations are in the hills among trees and near water.
Yun Lin Vegetarian
The most expensive vegetarian restaurant in Hangzhou has an ancient Chinese design with upturned eaves, slate paths and plenty of bamboo around.
Yun Lin is at Aman Fayun Resort, which is nestled in Fayun Village.
The restaurant’s tables and chairs are made of bamboo and natural light dominates the interior.
The fusion set menu costs a minimum of 500 yuan (US$80) per person and includes grilled tomato, cheese and peas, as well as a soup made with boiled vegetables and Chinese noodles. Jack fruit is served for dessert.
Address: No. 22, Fayun Lane
Tel: (0571) 8799-7220
Average cost: 500 yuan per person
Roots Resort
The resort at Jiuxi, or nine streams, is more like a Xanadu than a hotel with cascading water, gardens, fields of vegetables and villas, as well as rabbits, horses and alpacas.
Diners enjoy the chance to pet the animals or take photos of the numerous flowers often in bloom.
The resort is designed to be a healthy getaway from the normal routine with tai chi courses and a vegetarian restaurant serving everything from Chinese fried dishes and Vietnamese spring rolls to Mexican tapas and Italian pizzas.
The restaurant’s guideline is “less salt, oil and sugar and no MSG.”
Chefs seldom fry leafy vegetables, preferring to serve them raw or lightly boiled with olive oil drizzled on top.
Address: No. 47, Xu Village, Jiuxi
Tel: (0571) 8659-9399
Average price per person: 300 yuan
Fu Xing Guan Restaurant
Fu Xing Guan Restaurant is at the top of Yuhuang Hill and is the highest eatery in the city. Views of West Lake, Hangzhou and the Qiantang River make for a pleasurable atmosphere during the meal.
The restaurant is affiliated with the Taoist temple Fu Xing Guan.
Vegetarian box lunches cost 10 yuan but there is also an a la carte menu.
Although non-vegetarian food is available, the restaurant is best known for its non-meat dishes.
Chinese vegetarian restaurants serve vegetables as one would expect, but they also make a variety of dishes that look like meat. Often made with tofu, such dishes have been created for meat lovers who need to eat vegetables in certain situations, for example, after worshipping Buddha.
A classic local vegetarian dish is Hangzhou rolled “chicken,” which is actually bamboo shoots rolled in a thin tofu sheet.
Also try the West Lake water shield soup. Water shield is an aquatic plant with coin-sized leaves resembling a lotus and the soup also has amorphophallus, which are crunchy and look like shrimps.
Admission to Yuhuang Hill is 10 yuan and once inside the main gate it’s about a 30-minute walk to the top.
Address: 1 Yuhuangshan Rd (find the entrance at the intersection of Yuhuangshan Road and Nanshan Road)
Tel: (0571) 8707-2030
Average cost per person: 40 yuan
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