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• tai hang's only veggie eatery

veggie spinner, tai hang's only vegetarian eatery, fits right in in this hipster enclave. it's a tiny, cosy place, with about four to five seating areas. while i was there during lunchtime on saturday, there were only one couple and two other female solo diners. i chose option a from the lavash wrap menu: organic tofu and portobello mushroom. at hkd53, this was certainly more expensive than the hkd32 wraps from sooo vegi (i mention it as a comparison, as it's the only other slightly unconventional veggie eatery i know of in the tin hau / fortress hill area). but was it a world of difference. the wraps were not only bigger and textured, with some embedded black sesame seeds, but were toasted to the point of being crisp yet still soft and chewy. fillings - lettuce, portobello mushroom, pumpkin, tofu - were warm, generous and heartily packed, with each wrap probably made to order. i later learnt that they made their wraps from scratch - no wonder! while it was delicious and not too salty when eating it, strangely enough a slightly salty aftertaste lingered for a while. on my next visit i'll ask them to use less salt, if possible. i added hkd15 for a small bowl of broccoli, green peas and porcini soup. it was light, nicely textured and not too salty. i was already full from the soup and half a wrap. bigger eaters have the option of a variety of other set meals (mains+soup/juice, starting from hkd70++) such as pasta, burger or brown rice, or even heavier set meals (mains+salad+soup+juice, going up to hkd168 for a vegetable risotto set). prices are on the high end, but, judging from the way my wrap went today, i'm hopeful the rest of its menu should be equally fresh and good. they seem to have a discount for takeaway food. while the menu doesn't indicate which dishes are vegan-friendly (i've sent them a facebook message to suggest they consider this), ingredients for wraps are listed out in english and chinese. staff are friendly too. my only gripe would be that juices are overpriced by my standards, ranging from hkd30 for a simple apple/celery juice, hkd38 for a wheatgrass shot, to hkd45 for wheatgrass/apple juice.