‘Are you a vegetarian or someone looking for meat-free food in Brunei? Well, Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant is just the place that you will be looking forward to on your first and forth-coming visits. Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant is the longest surviving vegetarian restaurant in Brunei i would stay, with history running for more than 10 years.
I have personally been visiting this restaurant for more than 5 years myself and am still not bored with it’s mouth-watering food that they served. Most of all, I loved the concept of the restaurant. It is a non-profit restaurant who’s main aim is encouraging people to dive into meat-free food. Mituo Restaurant is not an organic restaurant, they still sell meat-free fried foods. This restaurant is set up by a group of committee, aiming at encouraging people to savour various meat-free products ( as we ourselves have heard of weird stories of chicken meat or meatball (made from portion of horse meat) leading to unhealthy eating by most consumer).
Mituo Restaurant sell Economy Rice from everday for lunch at the price of B$3 for three kind of dishes (in the case where you are a big eater, no worries, as you can ask for additional rice at no cost at all). What I personally like about their economy rice is that, the portion is BIG (as compared to other stalls selling economy rice), for dine in customers there are free flow of soup too, all at the cost of only B$3, where to get such good bargain for filling up your tummy? =D
They do have ‘Today’s Special’ Menu too, serving Nasi Lemak, Chicken Rice, Bak Kut Teh, Hakka Lou Shu Fan, Kuching Laksa, Dim Sum, etc seven days a week. So if you do not know what to eat and would like to be surprised, please do give this restaurant a visit when you feel like being a vegetarian for a few hours. LOL!! >.<
So…after so many years, is the menu still the same or…there are revolution in this restaurant too? Well…they CERTAINTLY do, as they are serving Vegetarian Dim Sum!! My favourite in this restaurant is 1) Dim Sum 2) Kolo Mee/ Kole Mee Pok @ B$2.00 (which ever I feel like eating on that day hehehe ><’’’) 3) Chai Ping a.k.a Cucur Sayur (B$0.60)
Now, let me make an introduction to their aweseomeee vegetarian dim sum, for a vegetarian like myself, having a vegetarian dim sum is like going up to heaven from hell (nah..just exaggerating..LOL!) Mituo only sells Dim Sum on every Sunday (except if it falls on the 1st and 15th of the lunar calendar, then it’s too bad, please come the next week) What’s most awesome is that…assorted dim sum is selling for only B$2.00 per plate!! Where do you except to find such good bargain?? Here of course!!
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- Stem fried beancurd filled with mengkuang (don’t know what’s it’s called in english) and mushroom, this is just so a MUST MUST try!!! Everytime I go there I just have to eat it up!! But…an advance advice…don’t go too late, as it sell fast!
- Siew Mai (vegetarian of course), this taste gooooddd tooo!!! Please just go try and have a taste for yourself
- Seafood tofu for tofu freak…like me!
- Porridge which is selling only for B$1.20 per bowl, enough to fill you up if you’re feeling up for something light in the morning.
- Everyone’s favourite Chee Cheong Fan
- Fried wan tan (eaten with their homemade chilli…just the perfect matching couple)
- Bom filled with peanut or green bean (decided by the pastry maker at different day) and Wu Kok (Yam pastry). I have to say before I became a vegetarian myself, I’m a big fan of wu kok (filled with meat, yam and green pea) but I’m so depressed that I couldn’t eat this after I decided to become a vegetarian years ago…but finally my depression was uplifted by the creating if this superb vegetarian wu kok!! Life’s great!! While it’s eaten hot from the oven, damn…you could literally fly eating it~~
- Fried popiah for fried food lovers~
- Chai Kueh (served daily at B$1.20), I love the filling of mengkuang in this chai kueh~ pepper taste was just so right!
- Kelupis filled with vegetarian sambal shrimp
Thus, being a vegetarian myself, I feel the need to blog about this vegetarian restaurant to promote it’s good tasting food, good service and most importantly to tell people being a vegetarian it not that boring after all, with just vegetables in our life =D
Do find out more on other food served in Mituo Vegetarian Restaurant in my future post, as I believe i’m still gonna blog on their awesome food again! Hehehe~ Cheers everyone ^^v
Information:
Address: Seri Complex, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei (Next to a photoshop or the building opposite Sui Heng Restaurant)
Tel: 2222821
Operating hours: Monday to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday @ 7am-9pm
Friday 7am-12pm, 2pm-9pm.
