Walking down King Street in Newtown, one of Sydney's oldest suburbs, one's senses can become completely overwhelmed. Despite its colourful boutiques and a seemingly endless array of second-hand book stores, it's the tastebuds that really get the work-out with the strip's vast line of culinary delights. I've walked King Street many times and have counted over 140 pubs, restuarants and cafes along it.

These never stay static either. Constantly changing, upgrading, renaming and expanding one can always expect a new gastronomic adventure to greet them when visiting King Street.

Well, I'm determined to end that and achieve the near impossible: to feast from every restaurant/cafe/bar on King Street and live to tell the tale.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Green Gourmet

@ 113-117 King Street

Chinese vegan. There are many vegetable dishes at Green Gourmet and then, and this won't come as a surprise if you're a vegan yourself, there are many tofu dishes dressed as meat. Now, I've tasted a fair few tofu-meat dishes in my time and I have to admit, this wasn't the best. The food tasted neither like the meat nor the tofu, which I believe it should taste like one or the other. The atmosphere is brilliant however. Large wooden tables, bright open space and friendly staff. On certain days and time they even have an all-you-can-eat-vegan special.

The one thing I would return to Green Gourmet for is its tofu ice cream. Based around typical Asian ice cream flavours like Black Seasame, these have a creamy texture and it was only after I'd over indulged in my dessert that it struck me that it was tofu-based. What's more, attached to this restaurant is a vegan grocery, where you can purchase much of the food bases ... including their tofu ice cream.

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