DJ Strouse

How I Found It:
A friend from work, Alan, took me and two others, Margaret and Delia, here for a quick lunch.

Experience:
Pressed for time, we ordered 4 set lunches and a plate of Ma Pan tofu that came out in under 5 minutes. The variety was amazing! Pumpkin soup, spicy peanuts, brown rice, cucumber salad, a potato and vegetarian meat (read: bean curd) curry, and an eggplant and pepper dish washed down with watermelon. The pumpkin soup was a bit tasteless but it was a good way to balance the flaming spice of the Ma Pan tofu. The “vegetarian meat”, or bean curd, would have satisfied any meat eater. I’m interested to return and see if the set lunch here is consistently this good… especially since all of this set us back only 20 kuai/person.

Recommendation:
If you live or work anywhere near any of Vegetarian Lifestyle’s locations (listed below in pinyin for those who can’t read Chinese), try their set lunch – great variety, great taste, very healthy, less than $3 per person, and all under 45 minutes.

*Branches:
Huaihai
No. 77 Songshan Road
Intersection of Songshan and Middle Huaihai
Gubei
No. 848 Huangjincheng Road
Intersection of Huangjincheng and South Gubei
Jiangning
No. 258 Fengxian Road
Intersection of Fengxian and Nanhui (near West Nanjing metro stop)