With its innovative and rich dishes, elegant and Zen environment, and exquisite and considerate service, Yihua Yiye is a popular vegetarian brand in Chongqing, which has become one of the mid-to-high-end vegetarian restaurants in Chongqing soon after its opening.
The chef is the core of the flowers, the chef has served as the executive chef of the InterContinental Hotel in Lhasa and Guangzhou, won the French Cordon Bleu Gastronomic Medal, and has been a chef for nearly 20 years, with rich catering experience, ensuring the quality of the restaurant's dishes. Unlike the Chongqing vegetarian market, where imitation meat dishes occupy the main direction, there is no imitation meat dish supply for one flower and one leaf. In addition, some of the dishes use animal products such as cheese and are not vegan. Like most vegetarian restaurants, Blossom & Leaf offers seasonal dishes based on seasonal ingredients, but still focuses on classics with a heavy flavour.
Among the classic dishes of one flower and one leaf, Dinghu Shangsu and Iron Plate Emperor Tofu have been prosperous for a long time and are deeply loved by diners. Dinghu Shangsu uses 18 bell ingredients such as cordyceps flowers, bamboo sunflowers, bamboo shoots, lotus seeds, etc., which are mixed into a semicircle and placed in a gourd-shaped dinner plate, and the white mist released by the dry ice lingers in the meantime, which is exquisite and elegant, which makes people have a great appetite. Because a variety of mushrooms and vegetables are stewed together with the sauce, the dish has a sweet, crispy taste, smooth and sweet, and rich in layers. The sauce has a unique taste, salty and sour, and is highly rated by those who like it, but diners who are not used to it rarely use chopsticks. Teppanyaki Emperor Tofu is fried and topped with a thick sauce made with pumpkin, cheese, etc., and garnished with green beans and broccoli.
Unlike local cuisines such as Hunan cuisine and Cantonese cuisine, vegetarian cuisine does not have a fixed genre, which also makes vegetarian cuisine more innovative. One Flower and One Leaf draws on the practices of Chinese and Western cuisines such as Cantonese cuisine, Jianghu cuisine, Western food, and Southeast Asian cuisine, and has developed a variety of innovative dishes. The boiled mountain delicacies adapted from Mao Xuewang are spicy and salty, which is in line with the taste of Chongqing people; Tom Yum soup pot adopts Thai method, a variety of mushrooms and vegetables are soaked in spice soup, sour and spicy appetizing; Inspired by Japanese cuisine, the seaweed is wrapped in peanuts, tomatoes, carrots, etc., which is refreshing and crispy; Fruit pizza, cheese curry baked mushrooms, etc., refer to the Western food preparation method, the taste is acceptable, and the production is decent.
There are two branches, Liangjiang Happiness Store and Dongyuan 1891 Store, which are commendable in terms of service and environment. The waiters are all dressed in classical Chinese clothes, with a modest attitude, just the right service details, timely cleaning up the desktop garbage, and responding quickly to the needs without slackening. In terms of environment, the two branches are clean and bright, the design is simple and elegant, and the Chinese ornaments and Buddhist murals are dotted with artistic conception, and the overall environment is at the upper level of the industry. Dongyuan 1891 also has open-air tables with a view of the river, making the dining experience even better.
