Dinner @ CGS Vegetarian Cafe

CGS Vegetarian Cafe at Faradale Garden here in Miri has been around for some time, but I have never gone there for a meal. Last night, we decided to have our dinner there. Why? Cause one of my friends, D**** was recently diagnosed with high cholesterol, and so we decided to cut down on eating meat.

The menu was rather comprehensive - there's noodles, rice, stir-fried vegetable dishes, mock meat dishes, soups, and even steamboats.

Last night, we ordered a steamboat. Depending on the ingredients, a portion costs RM10.90 - RM18.90. The RM10.90 set consists of just an assortment of vegetables, oyster mushroom, black fungus, tofu and vermicelli. The RM18.90 set has some mock meatballs, sausages and cuttlefish, besides the usual vegetables, mushrooms and vermicelli.

RM10.90 set

We shared a pot of steaming soup

I felt a bit amused, eating the mock meatballs, sausages and cuttlefish. Indeed they tasted like the REAL thing, and it was amusing that they were not! The more ingredients we added into the soup, the sweeter the soup became.

There was a sourish ground chilli sauce & an unidentified black sauce for dip. Overall, since it was a rainy evening, the soup really warmed us up.

With our rice, we had olive vegetable fried rice. Besides the olive vegetable, it had bits of long beans, mock char siew, and egg. The fried rice was quite tasty.

Olive Vegetable Fried Rice

We also had Preserved Radish Omelette. The omelette was fluffy, the preserved radish crunchy and not salty. Yum.

Preserved Radish Omelette

Another dish that we ordered and I liked a lot is the bitter gourd with 3 types of eggs. It was this rich flavour of the salted eggs, and will be real tasty if eaten with just plain white rice. It's really very good and my mouth waters just thinking about it.

Bitter gourd with three types of eggs

Finally, we had Butter Mushrooms, which was battered oyster mushroom drenched in butter milk gravy. The mushrooms were crispy on the outside, and richly flavoured with gravy. Quite yum.

Butter Mushroom

It was quite a pleasant going vegetarian for a meal for a change. I liked the cooking at the cafe, and I do look forward visiting this cafe again. The price was also reasonable, RM82.00 for 3 sets of steamboat, all the other dishes, inclusive of drinks.