WHETHER going for a “carnivorous palate” or maintaining a green diet, cleansing one’s stomach from time to time is good for keeping refreshed, radiant gut-healthy. For those looking for a guilt-free fix, here comes good news! Experienced Hong Kong chefs at Greenscious Vegetarian Cuisine Restaurant in Futian have designed a comprehensive vegetarian menu that caters to all types of taste buds. Food served here is presented with such exquisite cookery and artistry that it lends customers a sense of dining at a fancy French restaurant somewhere in Paris. The menu features salads composed of quinoa, avocado, cherry tomatoes, herbs, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, salsa, mango, carrot, cashew nuts and Thai chili jam, all soothing choices for an overworked stomach. As for appetizers, the restaurant serves a special spinach soufflé with roasted tomato sauce, deep-fried yam, aubergine and Japanese wasabi with balsamic vinegar sauce and white fungus with truffle. Using only the very fresh and natural of ingredients, chefs here guarantee the utmost quality in the dishes. The recommended main courses include lion’s mane mushroom Wellington with roasted yam, roasted vegetable stack and fig tapenade, roasted lion’s mane mushrooms steak prepared in African style and Portobello mushroom stuffed with mushroom and walnut on rosti, pine and rocket salad. To satisfy the appetites of meat lovers, the restaurant keeps a healthy stock of lion’s mane mushrooms, the texture and taste of which is believed to so resemble meat that foodies feel they are having a beefsteak. If the mains and appetizers left you wanting more, desserts will prove to be yet another round of satisfaction. Greenscious serves both traditional Cantonese desserts and Western-style desserts, including pumpkin and red bean glutinous rice cake with ginger coconut milk, baked peach gum with coconut milk, lemon posset with berries and almond wafer and tiramisu. The restaurant is located on the fifth floor at the Modern International Building, 3038 Jintian Road, Futian District. (Yang Mei) | 