Combination with Vegetables & Noodles
It’s been an unusually challenging time this past week so I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front…but now it’s catch up time.
Too tired to cook after a somewhat physical day at work (moving office furniture), we headed off to Bonsai Bali in Tecoma. The menu was laid out in two sections; one featuring Indonesian dishes, the other Chinese dishes. I ordered the hot and sour soup (vegetarian) for my entrée followed by the combination with vegetables and noodles in a Mongolian sauce. The soup was quite pleasant but had a chickeny taste to it – when I queried the staff as to what the stock was made from, the owner came out and assured me that 20% of their customers are vegetarian so they set up a separate wok in the kitchen just for preparing vegetarian meals and yes, the stock is vegetable based. I accepted this but passed my soup onto Jayson who devoured it for me as my taste buds were not in agreeance. The noodles dish was very tasty and full of goodness but I was surprised to find the meat/chicken versions of the same dish were actually a few dollars cheaper than the vegetarian. I guess that separate wok in the kitchen comes with a price tag…
Overall the service, atmosphere and food quality were good but I found the choices quite limiting considering the owner’s claims. Would I return? Probably not.
The quest for kinder cuisine 