xi'an tofu and noodles

Chang-an Spicy Tofu: Soft tofu served with house sauce, hot oil sauce, and cilantro.


Liang Pi Cold Skin Noodles: Bouncy and chewy hand-pulled wheat noodles with cilantro, wheat gluten, bean sprouts, cucumber, and an amazingly flavorful chili sauce.
Both from Xi'an Famous Foods in Flushing, New York.

kim chi six ways

Six kinds of complimentary kim chi from Sunrise House in Toronto (clockwise from left): bean sprouts, potatoes & carrots, seaweed, glass noodles, cucumber, cabbage.

chickpea curry on grilled eggplant

Chickpeas in ginger and fenugreek curry, over grilled eggplant steaks. With roti, cucumber salad, and mint chutney on the side. From Vij's Rangoli in Vancouver.

quinoa salad

An amazing salad of quinoa and oh so much more: apples, cucumbers, carrots, onions, raisins, lentils, barley, and parsley, with curry powder and paprika sprinkled on top. From the fabulous Entre Indyas in Salta, Argentina.

"German" salads

Fabulous vegan salads from the buffet at Cassius Garten Restaurant in Bonn, Germany:

From left, red cabbage salad, Russian salad with mushrooms and brussel sprouts, carrot and sunflower seed salad, radish salad, cucumber salad, corn salad, mushroom antipasta, roasted tofu, and German potato salad in the middle, all vegan (with clear labels to boot) and all amazingly flavorful.


Carrot orange fennel salad, more corn salad, green bean salad, spinach salad, and potato arugula salad.
Best vegan salad buffet ever?

mango & melon salad

A very festive New Years Eve salad, invented by some Swedish friends. Mango, white melon, onion, tomato, and cucumber over a bed of lettuce, topped with toasted pine nuts and a sweet & peppery vinaigrette. Explosive!

farmers market salad

Enjoying the local produce while it lasts: lettuce, orange and white peppers, yellow carrots, and cucumber, all from our local farmers market. Topped with toasted pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, and a vinaigrette.

sushi boat & caterpillar

A sushi boat docked at Toronto's Sushi Island, bearing precious treasures: avocado sushi, inari tofu sushi, cucumber avocado sesame rolls, and daikon, kanpyo, and mushroom rolls (if I recall correctly).


And a caterpillar that somehow escaped from the boat, despite lugging around cucumber, mushrooms, seaweed, and yam, not to mention a hefty avocado coat.

sweet and sour cucumber salad

Sugar and vinegar make it sweet and sour, everything else makes it super refreshing!
From Nancie McDermott's Real Vegetarian Thai

thai pizza

More fusion crossovers - red and green thai pizzas.
Red pizza: coconut curry sauce, red onions, tofu, and mushrooms, topped with red chili sauce
Green pizza: coconut curry sauce, cucumbers, tofu, mushrooms, scallions, and jalapenos, topped with green chili sauce

sesame noodles

noodles with chili sauce, sesame oil, fresh basil, carrot, cucumber, scallions, and sesame seeds, served cold
from Suzie's Soba in Baltimore

vegetable sushi

vegetarian sushi plate: tofu, cucumber, seaweed, avocado, pickled daikon, asparagus, carrot, and inari, with sweet potato and sesame rolls
from Sushi D in Brooklyn

cold soba salad

cold soba with cucumbers and cilantro sauce (cilantro, lemon juice, peanut butter)

sushi rolls

Christmas sushi! Homemade rolls with various combinations of avocado, cucumber, steamed carrot, steamed potato, and scallion. Pickled ginger and wasabi loom above.

salad!

it's true, vegans do eat salad! (sometimes)

chili, cornbread, cucumber salsa

three bean chili made with homemade seitan, kidney and pinto beans & lentils (topped with lime-jalapeño tofu sour cream), cornbread, and cucumber-red onion salsa, from Angelica Kitchen in Manhattan

vietnamese hoagie

a "vietnamese hoagie" in Philadelphia (elsewhere know as a Vietnamese sub or banh mi): a french baguette filled with veggie pork, pickled vegetables, shredded carrots, cucumber, cilantro, chili pepper, and sauce