Veggie Appeal

Kit's cousin, Lisa, is someone whom I am quizzically very fond of. She's possible one of the most in-your-face women, and she certainly does not care whom she tells off, but there is a core of such kindness, and such sincere honesty in her, that I cannot help numbering her among my inner circle of extended family pals, along with belly dancing vegan cousin Judy Lim, and my loving and lovely sister-in-law Jessie Teo.

When Kit posted on his Facebook account about Erin not liking meat, Lisa was the first to suggest that mushrooms were very high in protein. She followed the post with a call to my cell (people who know Kit know he does not do phone conversations well), inviting Kit, Erin and I out to lunch at her favourite vegetarian restaurant, Yishensu.

Although Lisa, by her own admission, is far better with animals than kids, bar the nephew she loves to bits, she enjoyed Erin's company, and watched with approving pleasure at her three-year-old relative shoving mushrooms into her for-once-very-hungry maw.

Vegetarian places are getting more stylish, as Yishensu proves.

Vegetarian buns which Erin really enjoyed.

The potato salad has large, crumbly raisins as topping.

Oat and cereal covered mushrooms.

Noodles with seaweed, wolf berries and veggies.

Pineapple fried rice.

Silken tofu with shimeiji mushrooms.

Lisa's favourite 'meat' dish! Looks like bacon, dunnit? I call it 'fakon' (fake bacon).

With approval like that, it's pointless that I go into the details. Suffice to say that the food is great, there is not much use of fake goose or chicken or whatnot, and there are true vegetables aplenty on the menu.

Yishensu: Lot G207, opposite TGIF in the old wing of One Utama Shopping Centre. 
Tel: 03 7729 4313.