2 Filtered Reviews of Baihe - Lily Vegetarian - Dongcheng
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overpriced and bad service
The food was pretty good, by why on earth do think they can charge double regular restaurant prices just because it's a veg restaurant?
Then you can't just order a bowl of steamed rice, you need to pay ¥38 for rice with fake meat in it. I've already got fake meat in my main dish! Why do i need some in my rice?!
Service was OK but bare minimum.
viral_kamdar
Points +13
A confused vegetarian restaurant - Edit
I don't understand why this restaurant serves vegetarian food. Either it is vegetarian or it is not.
Read moreI don't understand why all the items in it's menu are look like or tastes like meat?
I went to this restaurant believing that I could order something vegetarian that tastes like and look like vegetarian food. If I want to eat meat, I would go to such restaurant. Why would I go to a vegetarian restaurant to eat food that tastes like meat?
Another big problem was that nobody spoke English there. I didn't think of it as a problem until I found out that I did not know the gesture to order a glass of water. I had to get up from my table, point at a glass on another table to get a glass. The staff did not get an idea to fill the glass. Then I had to point at a partially filled glass on another table to order water. They served hot water. I could not know how to order cold water and then I had to get up and point at a bottle of water upon which one of the staff member brought a bottle of mineral water.
I had ordered a dish made of green beans and tofu. The tofu was over burnt and was not edible. My dinner wasted. They don't have any provision to print a receipt. They gave me a handwritten receipt in chinese. Evening wasted. Had to go to another restaurant for better dinner.
Pros: No one speaks English, All items look like or tastes like meat, Poor location
Lanky
In how many restaurants in India would you find staff who speak Mandarin?
Read moreThese types of incidents are part of the joy of travelling, and if you look at it in another way, your attempts at getting a glass of cold water are actually quite amusing.
In China, people drink warm water. Its the standard thing. Cold water, if its straight from the tap might be unsafe, so they boil it. If you dont want hot water, you buy mineral water. It does kind of make sense.
Chinese vegetarian restaurants around the world usually serve imitation meat dishes. Some people love it, some people hate it. Again, its pretty standard. Complaining about it is kind of like western vegans complaining about the ghee and curd that comes in almost every single Indian dish.
Guest