There are so few varieties of vegetarian meals at Puning Temple!

How little?

The waiter said that there are only three dishes that can be prepared at the moment, but the recipe is spread over four pages.

The guest hall used to be a place for receiving distinguished guests from eminent monks, but now it has been converted into a hotel.

According to the plan, we wanted to eat vegetarian food here. Firstly, Si'er had never seen what vegetarian food looked like. Secondly, the vegetarian food I had once left a good memory for me.

But when I saw the big plaque in the guest hall, there was no sign of vegetarian food. It was just a shop selling Buddhist supplies.

After going in and asking the staff, I learned that you have to go through a door in the corner of the store to enter the dining area.

After walking through the door for a short while, I finally saw the table and the waiter.

When we got the recipe, Si'er and I were stunned. Page after page was filled with meat dishes. Where was the vegetarian food?

The waiter said that Tibetan Buddhism does not taboo meat, so they have a lot of meat dishes here.

After we expressed our wishes, we were told that we could only cook three vegetarian meals at the moment, and one of them was something like a fruit dessert.

In desperation, we ordered a dish of cumin lamb.

Every time I eat vegetarian food, I always admire the wisdom of the monks. Although the ingredients are all vegetarian, they are named after chicken, duck or fish. The color and shape are very close to the food with the name, and even the taste is different.

Very close.

It was already past meal time, and it was not the peak tourist season in Chengde, so Si'er and I were the only two people in the entire lobby.

The food arrived quickly and I ate it happily, but Si'er said that she could still taste the taste of the cumin mutton soy product.

Just eat it. After all, this is a vegetarian meal.

It was so different from the places where I had eaten vegetarian food in the past that I was greatly disappointed.

We ordered a dish of cumin mutton, which tasted good, but Si'er said she could still taste the taste of soy products, but I couldn't taste it.