Gongdelin

Little is known to the outside world of China's delicious and innovative vegetarian cuisine. Gongdelin is a great place to go to enjoy it. The time-honoured restaurant specializes in using vegetable to make dishes that look and taste like meat, a feature and selling point of vegetarian dishes in China. The chefs' skills and techniques are so spectacular that often times it's hard to believe that the delicious sweet and sour pork chop in front of you is made with lotus. The main ingredients here are different types of mushrooms, fungi and bean curd. Eye-opening dishes include kung pao chicken, which made with diced firm bean curd, peanuts and pepper, braised tofu-based king prawn and a mixed stir-fry called "eighteen luohan". An average meal costs US13 per head.