GroVe

⚠️Note vegans out there !!
They only that have few dish that are vegan ;
1. Lotus rice
2. Laksa lotus rice
3. Laksa udon ( make sure no monkey head mushroom)
4. Sweet potato and French fries
5. Stir dishes with rice ( Make sure no monkey head mushroom)

Order a vegies baked rice, need to wait few minutes although no crowds.
Rice abit plain.
Price at high side consider its out-of-city location and quality of food.

I always believe more people will convert to vegetarians or vegans, or at least for a day or more, if the food is so delicious. I have seen quite a number of vegan joints made that impact on people, even without dairy/eggs ingredients.

First thing, you only have the glutinous rice that is vegan. There is only one option.

I ordered the vegan glutinous rice for myself, while i ordered 3 more items for my non-vegetarian wife and children to eat.

pizza (not nice)
tom yum with rice (not nice)
soup noodle (not nice)
glutinous rice (ok)

Not that i'm expecting a lot, i can make better food than they do. The price is too high for it's quality and the small variety of ingredients they use for each dish.

Let's put aside the price for the time being, i still won't go back even if they lower the prices.

I always believe vegan/vegetarian have to be made delicious, otherwise, don't even do it. Although it's a person choice to adopt a vegan/vegetarian diet, i feel that how delicious you make the food to be has an impact on their choices. If the food isn't made nice enough, it may have a reverse impact on their choice.

Just an example of comparsion:
For a lousy tasting $8 pizza (4slices), i would rather buy a delicious, vegan $15 hawaiian pizza (8slices) from Brownice East Coast. More economical and value for $.

Whoever categorised this restaurant as having vegan options was misleading. while there are many that look vegan friendly on the surface, when I asked they said they put milk in every dish except the lotus rice. So they have one vegan option exactly...

Otherwise it is bustling with business and is well designed.

Nice selection of noodles, baked rice & burgers. It's located next to the Koufu food court on the 2nd floor, which is itself next to Times the bookstore.

As there are no other veggie options in the entire mall (basement restaurants & foodcourt), GroVe is a welcome option for veggies, although they charge cafe prices instead of foodcourt prices.

Eg: my bowl of dried noodles with monkey-head mushrooms was average tasty, but cost $8.80.

Family-friendly setting (with baby chairs & space to navigate your strollers). It should be more enjoyable if you go in a group so you can order different dishes & share.

Visited at dinner time on Monday, rest of the mall was very crowded, GroVe was half-full.