Japanese Dining but in Vegetarian Style? Does it ring the bell? Teng Bespoke Japanese Vegetarian Dining gives us a different take on Japanese food in a healthier way serving quality and refreshing food.If you look around, Teng Bespoke Japanese Vegetarian Dining occupies more than 1 unit space. Besides the main dining area, just look opposite of the unit and you will get to see a classy upscale dining area which is the overflow room of Teng's.Kai Lan was blanched, cut and served in a stack. They were drench with roasted sesame sauce with a handful of sesame on its top to elevate the plain healthy vegetables. Simply love its crunchy and succulency in this starter!Teriyaki Chicken on stick looked appetizing indeed served with english parsley and pinkish ginger strips. If you asked me about its taste, well, it takes abit to be greasy and glossy to convince me.The Unagi Maki was something I had never expected and right at that moment, I had issues convincing myself I'm actually having vegetarian dishes. Mock Unagi tasted as though they were the actual with sweet black sauce lying on top of the little rice rice with cucumbers and avocados.Even at a closer look, they look as good as those in the real Japanese Restaurant.Dishes were getting more interesting in this case with 3 kinds of Sashimi, mock tuna, salmon and sword fish. The presentation and food art was stunning, how did they make the "veins" on the fish look so real? Arrangement of food with wasabi on the bed of ice made no different as what we have someone where!Texture was smooth and these mocked sashimi did give fellow vegetarians a very good indication of how actual sashimi taste like, lessing the natural "fishy" taste.The crispy and uniform cuts of the piece of deep fried meat looks none other than a slab of delicious Pork Tonkatsu pairing up with garden salad and its dressing. The texture and bite may resemble an actual pork fillet but the taste still could not hide the fact that its a piece of vegetarian product with hints of mushrooms and yam.Buckwheat Noodle with toufu skin and mushroom broth is delighting. Beside the smooth buckwheat noodle, fried tempura bits had given the dishes another level of texture in the dish.Last but not least, the grains! Fried Rice was unexpectedly scrumptious and every mouth came with a whiff of wok fire taste! Incredible! Grains were topped with brown sea vegetables (hijiki) and these vegetables are part of Japanese diet for centuries as they are rich in dietary fibre and minerals such as calcium, iron and magnesium. Who says only red meats give iron?Special thanks to my pal who insisted that I should give Teng Bespoke a try and it gave me another view point of having Japanese dining in a vegetarian way. One of the servers did mentioned that they have more than 1 overflow room and in fact Teng Bespoke is also serving Thai Vegetarian Food and perhaps this is why we see Lemon Grass Drink available in its menu.…Read More
I tried some other Japanese vegetarian restaurants and it seems that many of them are just serving noodles and vegetarian sushi. Sometimes vegetarian sashimi are just too artificial.Here in Teng they have more variety like paper hot pot, soba, tempura and desserts. They tried to make the taste as close as it is to the real ones and this effort is highly appreciated.The decoration is decent as a Japanese restaurant. It's a place to come again.
. Usually tag will put the name of the tea, this Japanese tea bag has a quite an unusual name.Next came our Buckwheat noodle soup. The noodle has the QQ kind of textures with a clear soup that is rich in flavor. Floating on top of the soup is those fried tempura kinds of bits, which looks like an egg to me. Well, not to worries Vegan, Bespoke Vegetarian Dining do not serve egg, onion and garlic. However they do serve cheese, you just have to look out for this.Coming up is Shitake Mushroom with Cheese. This is one of the recommended dishes from the menu. Personally I do not fancy mushroom because of its strong smell. However the cheese in this dish covered up the smell of the mushroom so well, there were only mayonnaise and cheese taste lingering in the mouth.Our last dish was Teriyaki ''Chicken''. It came with just 2 sticks on a small plate. It definitely tastes like a real one as my meat-eater daughter find it licking good :)As the bistro was having some promotion going on, we only paid about $29++ after discount for the whole meal. Looking at the receipt, it actually cost about $40++ before discount. Well, I must say it was worth it. With the nice ambience of the bistro serving Japanese vegetarian cuisine, this is definitely a place for vegetarian to go to satisfy their craving for Japanese food.
