Chinatown

Lunch today was at Chinatown, the long-standing Chinese restaurant off Mopac between Anderson Mill and Far West. Their lunch menu has a number of vegetarian options: Chinatown vegetables ($6.25), Tangy Spicy Green Beans ($6.25), Bean Curd with Vegetables ($6.50), Snow Peas and Portobello Mushrooms ($7.50), Chinatown fried rice ($6.25), Singapore Noodle ($6.95), and Shitake Bokchoi ($6.95). I didn't ask about all of these, so please confirm before ordering.

The lunch specials come with soup, rice, and egg roll, but there are no vegetarian soups, and you'll need to ask for a veggie egg roll specifically, with a fifty-cent upcharge. I had the bean curd and veggies dish, and while it was cooked nicely, I'd probably order something different on my next visit. It was in a fairly standard brown sauce, with thinly sliced carrots and Chinese mushrooms.

This place gets raves from many online reviewers, so I hope that some of the other vegetarian dishes might be more interesting. The dinner menu features a vegetarian clay pot on the Chef's Specialties list that looks interesting, and the Yu-Hsiang Eggplant may be worth a try. I like their description of the Snow Peas and Portobello Mushrooms dish: "a sinful vegetarian delight."