Enjoy Pure Lotus Without Spending a Fortune
Posted: June 29th, 2012 | Author: LumDimSum | Filed under: Foodies & Dining Scene | Tags: Pure Lotus, Sanlitun, Vegetarian food | No Comments »If you aren’t careful, you could easily spend thousands of RMB at Pure Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant on accident.
This is not the fault of the restaurant, but of the ill-informed/unprepared customer. The restaurant has a giant menu (literally – it weighs a ton and reaches farther than my arms’ length), and it’s easy to be overwhelmed by both its physical size and wide range of dishes that range both in ingredient variety and prices. A lot of the menu is actually very reasonably priced, but they also have crazy mushroom dishes that will leave your wallet empty.
You shouldn’t enter without being prepped with some useful tips on specialty dishes that are both tasty and affordable. I’ve been to Pure Lotus a handful of times and each time I did some major unexpected damage – I’m talking RMB 300+, which is pretty steep for a vegetarian meal.
This time, I was invited to join a group of foodies and for once, I wasn’t in charge of ordering. I left it up to the Pure Lotus experts who come regularly for their veggie fixes.
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