In a market where imitation meat dishes are popular, it is not easy to find a vegetarian restaurant, if you ask vegetarian lovers about Shanghai's delicious vegan restaurants, I believe many people will recommend this Wuguantang restaurant.
Shanghai Wuguantang Vegetarian Restaurant opened in 2004, and for 14 years, the owner has been insisting on "no imitation meat food, no frying and stir-frying". Most of the restaurant's dishes are jointly developed by the owner and the chef, and the main ingredients are fresh seasonal vegetables, soy products and mushrooms, and the cooking methods are mostly cold, steamed, boiled, and a small number of dishes are grilled. Wuguantang has abandoned the usual imitation meat and high-oil and high-salt routines of vegetarian restaurants, so it is highly regarded by many vegetarian lovers, and in addition to the oldest restaurant in Shanghai, Suzhou and London also have their own vegetarian restaurants.
The menus of Wuguantang are all handwritten, and the yellowed line bound books are quite ancient, and the blue characters on the paper are neat and beautiful, which shows that the store is extremely attentive. The selection of nine treasures box is a signature cold dish platter, including willful sauce radish, dried bean curd and seaweed, king oyster mushroom sauerkraut and bean curd, Tibetan wild mushroom with spinach, snow pea enoki mushroom dried tofu, Zhouzhuang Apo vegetable with edamame, black date stewed lily lotus seed, pine nut nine mushroom stew and hot and sour cold noodles nine cold dishes, you can taste all the classic cold dishes at one time, suitable for many people to share. Baked potatoes are a must-order dish on the table, the potatoes are flaky and the butter cheese is so fragrant that you can't stop melting as soon as you sip it. Yipin Xian is also very popular, the hollowed-out space pepper in the middle of the top lid is filled with pumpkin puree, mashed potatoes and other fillings, and after steaming, the chili flavor faintly penetrates into the filling, and it is a delicious meal without other seasonings. In addition to a variety of representative dishes, the restaurant also offers a variety of seasonal dishes according to the season.
Wuguantang is located on Xinhua Road, which is lined with garden villas, and the surrounding environment is quiet. The restaurant also occupies three floors, and the first floor is divided into several small private rooms with simple bamboo curtains, suitable for friends gatherings; The second floor is the main dining area, but it is slightly crowded between the tables; There are outdoor seating on the third floor, and when the weather is nice, it is also a good dining experience to sit outside and enjoy the old villas. The three-storey wooden old-fashioned tables and chairs look full of age, the neatly arranged green plants and emerald green tableware on the table make each guest feel a lot brighter, and the ancient calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall and the guqin music that has been playing all the time add a lot of elegant atmosphere to the restaurant. The service staff uniformly wore coarse linen clothes, and the service was gentle and thoughtful, which made people feel like a spring breeze. Tea, preserves, bean curd and other products are placed in many places in the restaurant, so that customers can buy and take away directly after meals.
In addition to the Wuguantang vegetarian restaurant, the owner also opened a vegetarian buffet restaurant next door, the restaurant is known as "how much you eat, how much you weigh", whether it is a single meal or a large number of people gathering, the meal is taken according to the portion, will not cause food waste, interested diners can go to taste.
