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liuzhou

liuzhou

I'm sorry,  I can't point you to any recipes, but here is a menu (PDF) of just such a cuisine which I translated about 10 years ago for a Buddhist restaurant here in town.

 

I don't know that these places are particularly Taiwanese. They are all over mainland China, too.

 

Many of the dishes use wheat gluten (seitan), as you said. Another common ingredient is konjac.

 

I confess I only ate there once and, while the food was interesting and certainly tasteful, I would never have been fooled that it was anything other than pretend meat. It also left my companion and I still hungry despite ordering more dishes than the waiter thought wise. We were almost the only people there and it closed a few months later. Here is what I wrote about it at the time.

After dinner, we went for greasy lamb skewers and grilled seafood at a nearby Chinese Muslim street stall!

liuzhou

liuzhou

I'm sorry,  I can't point you to any recipes, but here is a menu (PDF) of just such a cuisine which I translated about 10 years ago for a Buddhist restaurant here in town.

 

Many of the dishes use wheat gluten (seitan), as you said. Another common ingredient is konjac.

 

I confess I only ate there once and, while the food was interesting and certainly tasteful, I would never have been fooled that it was anything other than pretend meat. It also left my companion and I still hungry despite ordering more dishes than the waiter thought wise. We were almost the only people there and it closed a few months later.

After dinner, we went for greasy lamb skewers at a nearby Chinese Muslim street stall!

liuzhou

liuzhou

I'm sorry,  I can't point you to any recipes, but here is a menu (PDF) of just such a Buddhist cuisine which I translated about 10 years ago for restaurant here in town.

 

Many of the dishes use wheat gluten (seitan) as you said. Another common ingredient is konjac.

 

I confess, I only ate there once and while the food was interesting and certainly tasteful, I would never have been fooled that it was anything other than pretend meat. It also left my companion and I still hungry despite ordering more dishes than the waiter thought wise. We were almost the only people there and it closed a few months later.

After dinner, we went for greasy lamb skewers at a nearby Chinese Muslim street stall!

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