Hua Kai - Blossom Vegetarian

We used a coupon for a dinner deal at Blossom Vegetarian (7 courses, one drink für RMB 488 for four diners) and maybe that was the reason, the staff wasn't as welcoming as they could have.

The first course after ordering came very quickly, too soon afterwards, they gave us the next course, not even having finished the first plates. With Chinese style dinner where you share plates, that works perfectly. When everybody gets their individual plates, the plates just pile up so at time we had twelve plates sitting around and food getting cold. Waiting for more room to put even more plates on the table, the waitress was standing besides my husband and reaching out for my plate when I wasn't even finished. Telling her to wait a couple of minutes, she just silently kept standing next to it and waiting for me to finally finish. I do *not* like being rushed at dinner.

That being said and getting the feeling they want us out as soon as possible, I have to say the food was excellent. All of the courses tasted very good and although I found the gratinated sweet potate a bit too sweet, that is probably due to personal taste. I liked that a lot of courses did not included mock meat like in other restaurants but rather let the vegetable stand for themselves.

The price with the coupon was around RMB 120 per person. A good deal for so much food. Without it, the same meal would have cost around 250 per person. Still okay. There's way more expensive restaurants in Beijing but also a lot of cheaper ones.