Vegan Vietnamese - Yum!

My friend Shaun is visiting from New Mexico.

I love it when he's here, because he's a lot more adventurous about trying new restaurants than I am (well, and we like visiting with him too, of course!!!)
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So, yesterday we took my youngest Sprout and ventured to a new-ish all-vegan Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle's busy and colorful International District.

Oh MY! We'd heard great things about the place from fellow vegans and let me say... we were not disappointed!

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Vegan Garden (OK, the name's not real original) has this h-u-g-e menu of tasty sounding Vietnamese favorites, all vegan and many made with fairly realistic "mock meats". If those aren't your thing, there's plenty of veggies and tofu too, not to fear.

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Well, I am not ashamed to admit we all really LIKE fake-chicken-fake-beef-fake-lobster (?!?we didn't try that, but they have it!).

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It took us forever to order, faced with so many choices, but I think we were most excited they had vegan Phở (a traditional Vietnamese beef and noodle soup), so we started with that. It had some sort of mock meat, mushrooms and tofu in a tasty broth; I can't imagine anyone missing the meat!!

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My daughter had tofu spring rolls (which, as always, she inspected for any "weird" things - like carrots). The three of us also tried lemongrass "beef" and "chicken"-something-that-I-can't-remember. I DO remember that it was good though!! Everything was.

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Yes, we ended up with lots to take home, but SOOOO worth it! We finished with my favorite treat ever, Vietnamese coffee which I haven't had since going vegan, (it usually has condensed milk) but this was made with coconut milk. Oh.Wow.
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Everything was incredibly delicious, colorful, generous portions, perfectly cooked. The staff were super helpful and the restaurant was clean and well lit.

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If you're in Seattle, you have to check this place out!!