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How does this sound for a centuries old zen buddhist diet?...a bowl of buckwheat noodles nestled in a housemade vegetarian broth topped with wakame seaweed and fiddlehead ferns; sour plum punches up the flavor...
and fried lotus root, asparagus spears and sweet corn kernels in a light batter, served with a chilled soup and a daikon and ginger dipping sauce...
...not to forget desert, there's chilled coconut soup dotted with cubes of chewy agar-agar and crunchy silver ear mushrooms...
Shojin cuisine as it is practiced today in Buddhist temples and restaurants in Japan is about 500 years old...
...and a restaraunt in San Francisco, called Medicine New-Shojin Eatstation -- Medicine for short, is serving up these Japanese vegetarian delights for everyone to try.
The menu offers new takes on the simple, vegetable-based cuisine that eschews dairy, eggs and strong-flavored foods like onions and garlic.
I'm not a vegetarian, but I cerainly wouldn't mind trying one or two of these dishes...
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