A recent Yelp review my dad wrote that I'm saving here for posterity:
Golden Era Vegetarian Restaurant (2/5 stars)
572 O'Farrell St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
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Many times I just don't give a f*ck.
Fake fish, fake chicken and fake beef?
It's all soy product, isn't it?
I don't even like f*ckin' Eda-mame shit.
I am sorry but I don't like all soy product except shoyu and miso.
I am addicted to shoyu and miso.
I have the addiction for ... 50 + some years.
No way out.
Btw, shoyu in Japan was found by Zen monk.
Is a sauce that was originally introduced to Japan in the form of the colorful, then, is gradually disappearing from the life with the flesh "(sauce) sauce." The major reason is that it was forbidden to eat the meat of Buddhism by the teachings of ahimsa. Because I should not eat the meat itself, of course, mean that I went to no longer use the meat sauce is made also of the beast.
In Kamakura period, 1185-1333 A.D., when China is brought back from the previous study of a method of manufacturing a delicious miso miso of Zen monks at the mountain of (core) signal goes through the objective. And I found a natural water suitable for the manufacture of miso temple in the land of Yuasa Kishu this route. So I pay attention to black liquid that has accumulated one day you have been studying more delicious miso-making, in the bottom of the barrel that had been used in the manufacture miso. Indescribably flavorful ... this is where I casually tried to lick. I had become good chemistry and delicious seasoning, miso temple than menstrual originally was aiming with rice seasoning is also, in conjunction with such well Tsukena ancestors of pickles that were already born at the time. It is a moment of birth "soy sauce" This.
About the Golden Era.
All those fake meat things are tasty but artificial level.
I was hoping that that is better than real thing but the real thing is better.
spaghetti squash isn't spaghetti.
margarin isn't real butter.
Jiveass roll isn't real sushi.
instant coffee isn't good as real coffee.
low-fat products are making you fat.
I'm just hoping that soy and corn will be able to use as fuel soon.
