After a long love hate relationship with veggie seafood (for those of you not in the know there is a wealth of fake seafood out there just for vegetarians...and vegans......they usually incorporate some form a seaweed to give it that fishy taste....but I digress) I have come to a decision. A few years ago I discovered a really good vegetarian restaurant in Boston called Buddha's delight. It served really good veggie shrimp (among other things) at the time my veggie friend was a little weirded out by it. I found it novel. A few years pass and I am introduced to a vast array of Asian grocery stores in NE Ohio. They have everything from veggie shrimp, lobster, crab, fih fillet, etc etc. While the breaded füsh or feesh stix were pretty good the rest varied greatly in quality. My quest to find those good boston veggie shrimp has begun. Along the way I fell to many a trap. Namely some stomach churning V-lobster that I had for new years......man oh man....I get queesy just thinking about it. Also some how I had aquired some v-squid.....never tried it. I also bought a fish fillet I never ate (and these things AREN'T cheap, honestly sometimes it seems it would be cheaper to buy really sea food which itself is not cheap.)
ANYWAY, now the Austin connection. There is a restraunt here called Veggie Heaven. They are very similar to Buddah's Delight. They have v-shrimp. I tried them....I found a match.......then I realized I don't like them anymore.......
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So sometimes you find what you are looking for but it's never quite the way you rememeber it when you find it. I guess in the end my friend was right. They do creep me out.
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