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Shanghaiist has finally found a great local place to buy vegetarian bacon. We could have probably tracked it down much earlier if we had bothered to look properly, but we are still happy to be able to buy meat free bacon and sausages from Vegetarian Lifestyle on Songshan Lu.
We recommend you go there for a wholesome, cheap, tasty meal, before heading over to the freezer in the foyer that stocks the "meat" you can buy to take home. A large veggie sausage and a tray of rashers only cost us 13 RMB. Bacon sandwiches need good bread, so you should also take the opportunity to head around the corner to get a 9 RMB wholemeal loaf from Yamazaki's Boulangerie in the basement of Pacific Department Store.
Vegetarian bacon sandwiches taste even better if you add some eggs, ketchup, mustard and savour the experience by doing it leisurely over the weekend.
Vegetarian Lifestyle can be found at 1F,77 SongShanLu, near Huai Hai Lu,
Tel: 63848000
Yamazaki Boulangerie is in the basement of Pacific Department Store, 333 Huai Hai Lu, near Huangpi Lu Metro Station, Tel: 63818888
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Welcome to Shanghai. Jiao Zi Su (Vegetarian Lifestyles) has multiple locations to serve you with locations also behind WestGate mall off nanjing West Rd, and near the Gubei Carrefour. Their dining rooms are non-smoking and do not serve caffeine or alcohol. They take away section is small but in each store.
功德林 the oldest well known Shanghaiist vegetarian restaurant never fails to have great vegetarian dishes. 枣子树 is another new one that is open behind Isitan shopping center. The last time I went there with 7 people it only cost us 300rmb for a table full of dishes. It was quite filling too. The name also sounds like "always eat vegetarian food" meaning to it.
But it's not bacon so it can't be called bacon.
What's it made of btw? mushrooms? tofu?
I have not had meat for around 15 years (since working on the Jack in the Box e.coli case), but even I will not eat fake bacon. Fake burgers, yes. Fake sausage, yes. But I have yet to taste fake bacon that tastes like food. Bacon tastes great because it is so high in that which is so bad for you: fat, smoke, and nitrates. It cannot be replicated.
oops, Zhao Zi Shu...my pinyin sucks. My bad.
Fake ham tastes ok. The fak ebacon tastes much like tha local "real bacon"...bad. I miss the nice crispy strips from home...sigh. SOrry, but nothing like the real thing in my mind. But The veggie palces mentioned above are all really quite good!
China Law Blog - tell more - what was is that put you off meat so strongly?