{"id":1979,"date":"2017-06-24T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2017-07-29T18:32:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T18:32:43","slug":"when-to-mock-a-crispy-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/when-to-mock-a-crispy-duck\/","title":{"rendered":"When to Mock a Crispy Duck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my food.. most of us do.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I love all Cantonese and Pekinese foods, the flavours, spices, the way it looks, the fresh food and the way it&#8217;s cooked.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been to a really good Chinese restaurant and taken part in a banquet, you&#8217;ll know that no menu would be complete without Aromatic Crispy Duck.<\/p>\n<p>So when friends suggested we visited a vegetarian restaurant in south Manchester called Lotus I was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>For starters aromatic crispy duck in a vegetarian restaurant must be an anomaly! And given that this was the first vegetarian oriental cuisine establishment that I had ever been in, frankly I wasn&#8217;t expecting much or to be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>The Lotus Vegetarian Kitchen has great reviews online and this is a place where you can take your own alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>But hey .. you&#8217;re here and your with friends, one of whom is a vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>So ordering Mock Crispy Duck off the Lotus menu surely is going to end in disaster, ever ending comparisons with umpteen Yang, Kwoks and Wings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170729045434.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170729045434.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly the fried tofu, pancakes, plum sauce, strips of cucumber and spring onion accompanied by pancakes were not bad, in fact surprisingly good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170729050609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170729050609.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not bad at all!<\/p>\n<p>Even the sweet and sour vegan dish was good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170729052822.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/20170729052822.jpg\" width=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if a change from meat, fish and poultry is what you&#8217;re looking for and you love Chinese food then I&#8217;d highly recommend you try The Lotus Vegetarian Kitchen in Withington, South Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my food.. most of us do. 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