YAAAS! I've been so excited to make these posts to share the amazing vegan food on offer in Melbs (and there is HEAPS) through this new segment. Prepare for food envy! It all started with my VeganPlaces page which you can check out here which has kinda become a vegan restaurant bucket list for me. Yes. I plan on documenting me visiting them all!
I just want to quickly say, following my Vegan Acne post, that yes, a lot of the foods I will be ordering for these posts will most likely not be oil free. If you want your skin to be as clear as possible, I can only recommend cutting out all added fats and oils. That is what will give you your best results. After much debate over whether or not I would even make these posts I decided I'm going to give myself that leeway with my diet to enjoy something vegan at a restaurant that will probably make me break out again.
I'll definitely be ordering the lowest oil food on the menu, obviously never going to touch fried food or super fatty food again or a dish loaded with avo, but if I'm going to have steamed vegan dumplings that might have oil in them... I'm going to enjoy that! My home life is still going to be my usual strict oil free high carb vegan diet (which I love anyway!) but I'm not going to be as strict when I go out, because it won't be very interesting to see me go to 10 different restaurants and just order rice and salad at every one of them. These posts would get real boring, real quick.
If you have any questions about acne, I'm still more than happy to answer your questions (thanks for all the emails and dms :) ) but that's where I stand on the situation currently.
NOW ONTO THE FUN PART!
So we started out at Green Press Juice Bar where we poured down on with classic Melbourne city rain, and ordered some really awesome cold pressed organic juices. I hadn't been to Green Press in sooo long (since back in the Empower Wellness days when I interviewed James, the owner) but damn I missed you. They have a counter filled with raw treats and also a fridge full of their famous cold pressed juices. You can order smoothies and acai bowls, too.
So, you're probably wondering what the hell I got and why the hell is it blue.
I ordered:
>> Captain Planet Juice with Coconut water, grapefruit and blue-green algae $9.00<<
>> Allo Lovely Aloe Vera Shot $4.50<<
The Captain Planet juice was a shock when you first taste it but I LOVED it. It sounds so damn weird but it kinda tastes like a jaffa. It has this mild orange taste but also kinda chocolatey?? Idk, Gemma agreed. She gets it.
The aloe vera shot was hella gross though. I get that people take it for health benefits but man my throat was BURNING from it. Not exactly something I'll try again. Naturally, I'll go for the Tumeric shot next time ;)
Gemma ordered:
>> Kaling Me Softly Juice $9.00<<
>>Vegan Chocolate Protein Ball<<
RATED: Success
PRICE: Tad pricey
MUST TRY: Captain Planet Juice
NEXT TIME: The Boss Smoothie, Beets by J Juice, Pineapple Express Juice
Our next stop was the much anticipated SUPERCHARGER WHOLEFOOD in Emporium, Melbs. I have been waiting so long to try this place, you don't even know. EVERYONE has been talking about Supercharger, and with good reason. It's fullyvegan, so so healthy and really yummy. It's such a cute set up and I think it's really good value. And I'm on student wages here.
It's a pretty cool system ordering food at Supercharger. So there's a set menu where you get bits and pieces pre-chosen, but you also have the option to grab one of the paper menus and tick off what you want, I think it's 4 items for $13.80 (plus 2 bases such as rice, potatoes, spinach), 5 items for $14.80 and 6 items for $15.80 or something like that. I know, I'm a bad blogger.
Supercharger also have a whole lot of drinks and vegan desserts on offer but we'd already loaded up on juice so I passed.
Pretty much I ordered:
>>Steamed red quinoa and Brown rice<<
>>Shredded beetroot<<
>>Dahl<<
>>Tomato and chili salsa<<
>>Daikon and garlic ferment<<
>>TOTAL: $13.80<<
I obviously don't know how to Supercharge because Gemma's bowl looked so much more photogenic than mine but oh well. It was pretty good but I'm going to have to experiement a bit more with the combos so mine doesn't look so boring but it wasn't boring at all. We both ordered the dahl and had to agree it was way too spicy for our somehow white girl tastebuds, it was almost too hot to handle. I'll also have to add the serving sizes are a bit small. I always like to order up big, especially on something like rice because I don't think there was enough rice for all of the dahl we were given. I wonder if it's possible to chuck a few extra dollars in for extra rice? I'll let you know if that's a go :)
Overall it's so awesome to see places like this popping up, especially a FULLY VEGAN eatery in a busy shopping mall like Emporium. You go guys!
RATED: Success
PRICE: Affordable!
MUST TRY: House made ferments (daikon, sauerkraut)
NEXT TIME: Some of the different simmers!
Sooo after kinda deciding we were hungry again, I dragged Gemma all the way to vegan-friendly Wonderbao known for their homemade organic soy milk and incredible BaoZhi, or Baos which are those amazing Chinese bread buns filled with stuff. I could literally eat the white buns all day everyday, and sometimes I do. SO.GOOD.
So anyway after getting lost and realising we were on the wrong side of the street, we found Wonderbao tucked away hiding and I ordered 2 baos, both vegan, and no soymilk because acne. I honestly wish I could have liked Wonderbao, I had such high hopes. The vegan bao was honestly kinda slimy and gross with not much flavour other than like slimy mushroom, and though the taro bun was okay... it WAS just a taro bun. So although they're really well priced and not too expensive, I'm not keen to go back.
Have you guys been to Wonderbao? What was your experience? Maybe it's just me or maybe I just got a bad one.
I ordered:
>>Choi Bao (tofu, mushrooms and vegies) $2.50 <<
>> Taro Bao $2.70 <<
RATED: Unsuccessful
PRICE: Affordable!
MUST TRY: Taro bun
NEXT TIME: Nope, sorry :(
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So that was my first VeggieFix Vegan Day Out type of thing, hope you enjoyed this post and hopefully I'll continue making them because it's so good when you find a vegan restaurant that amazes you and I think they deserve to be talked up and promoted because there's good and bad out there. My goal with this series is to give you guys an idea of really good vegan places to get awesome food so you don't leave disappointed. This one was a bit of an express VeggieFix as we didn't actually go to a restaurant but just did little food stops so you'll see me change it up here and there as we go along :)
Don't forget to live Glowing, Green and Peacefully xx
Lily
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