Hao Xiao Xiao Vegetarian Restaurant was originally located on Zhapu Road in Shanghai, and the owner also brought the vegetarian shop to Suzhou after moving to Suzhou. The vegetarian restaurant has a strong old Shanghai imprint from the decoration style to the taste of the food, and until now, many Shanghai vegetarian lovers still come here.
Tonkatsu with yellow label spicy soy sauce and a bowl of borscht are childhood memories for many Shanghainese diners. As a vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai, this classic dish is naturally indispensable to the menu. The pork chops imitated with mushrooms and soy products are crimson on the inside, and the flesh is obviously fibrous; The outer layer is wrapped in tofu coating, and then fried with breadcrumbs, which is crispy but not greasy. The only drawback is that the store only goes with sweet and spicy sauce, and lacks authentic spicy soy sauce. Diners who love imitation meat dishes can have a stir-fried kidney flower, and each piece of gluten imitation kidney flower is evenly chopped with a cross knife, which is extremely realistic in appearance. The difference is that the gluten is rough in the mouth and not as delicate as the waist flower. In addition to these two dishes, the slugger pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, stir-fried crispy eel and stir-fried sausage with snow peas are also the restaurant's signature imitation meat dishes.
For the main dish, you can order a homemade large wonton with shepherd's cabbage, which is filled with a variety of mushrooms, dried tofu and vermicelli, which is rich and delicious. When you are seven or eight minutes full, it is perfect to finish with a bowl of red bean dumplings. Red bean dumplings are a common dessert in Suzhou, which needs to be cooked and crushed to let the red bean paste flow into the soup, the soup is thick and sticky, then glutinous rice dumplings are added to simmer and simmer, and finally sugar is added to the pot to taste. The whole bowl of small balls exudes the fragrance of osmanthus, and the chef's control of the amount of sugar is also in place, even if you don't like sweetness, you can enjoy it to your heart's content.
Haoxiao is located in Sulun Field, which is the former site of the original Sulun Yarn Factory, and the surrounding buildings are unified with industrial style, and the location is relatively remote. The interior of the restaurant is an old-fashioned Shanghainese restaurant, with the owner occasionally wearing a cheongsam to greet the cashier at the front desk, and the soft old-fashioned choir music is played from time to time. Most of the service staff in the restaurant are middle-aged women, diligent and quick, and basically respond to requests, and the speed of serving food will drop to a certain extent on weekends when the customer flow is high.
