Being Vegetarian with Indian Food

Hi Foodies...

A healthy body is everyone's dream. Healthy is not only obtained from exercise, but the food consumed every day affects the health of the body. The impact of an unhealthy diet is not immediately felt. With age, terrible diseases such as cholesterol, diabetes, and others begin to threaten the body. Its presence is faster if we often eat unhealthy foods.

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Malai Kebab

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Vegetable eaters or vegetarians are a group of people who have a healthy lifestyle. The results of research in America, vegetarians are healthier, live longer, stay young, and also avoid heart disease. Other studies have shown that the fiber in vegetables and fruits is very beneficial for health which has led to the popularity of vegetarianism in the world.

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3 In 1 Nasi Biryani

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Visiting Indian Restaurant After Publish A Novel

When I write a novel based on India culture, I've done research by Internet cause in my hometown, there's no Indian Restaurant. I've been knowing about several type of Indian Cuisine by movie but never seen directly.

So when I've got my first job, I visited an Indian Restaurant named Le Mint Indian and Chinese Restaurant around Sunter, North Jakarta.

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Vegetarian's Meat

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Recently, the development of vegetarianism is growing rapidly. More and more new menus of processed vegetables that can arouse appetite. Le Mint Indian and Chinese Restaurant, for example, a restaurant that was founded in 2012 provides special vegetarian dishes.

The owner of Le Mint Indian and Chinese Restaurant, Sharan Sadarangani, said that his restaurant also provides menus that are no different from other restaurant menus. For example pizza, burgers, lomie, satay, and other menus that are usually made from meat. The difference is, the restaurant replaces vegetables with meat or often called vegetarian meat.

When eaten, vegetarian meat is no different from real meat. Starting from the taste to the texture, it deceives the consumer's tongue, as if they are eating meat even though what they are chewing is vegetables and mushrooms that are processed in such a way that they resemble meat.

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Meat for vegetarian

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Sharan's goal in establishing the restaurant is to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle. He wants to change the views of people who always say that vegetables are not delicious. According to him, being a vegetarian is very good, the benefits can be felt directly by the body, besides vegetables are digested faster by the stomach. Being a vegetarian can also make the audience to be young.

Le Mint has three mainstay menus from three different countries. From Indonesia, this restaurant's mainstay menu is kampung fried rice, while from India the mainstay menu is nachoschat, and adalo mie which is a mainstay menu from the country of bamboo.

nachoschat

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Adalo Mie

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Chefs who make dishes are also presented directly from India, China, and local Indonesian people. That's because only they (chef) understand the original spices from India. That's why the food they cook is like the one in India.

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Kind of Sweets in Le Mint

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Sweets

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At every wedding we will find snacks that are usually in the form of small balls and are yellow in color. The snack is called ladoo or sweets made from a mixture of flour, sugar, and milk. These sweets are increasingly varied, not only the shape, the taste is also different.

• Paan Mithai
• Boondi Ladoo
• Red Velvet mithai
• Rose Petal Barfi
• Shahi Cashewnut
• Nan Ketai
• Modak
• Granola Nutty Bites
• Kheerpura.

These sweets are usually mandatory snacks for major celebrations such as the Deepavali Festival, Ganesha Festival, wedding parties, and many are ordered for death events.

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Paneer and Spanish Nan

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The restaurant, which is located on Jalan Sunter Garden, Blok D8 No11 M-N, Sunter Agung, Tanjung Priok, Kota, North Jakarta is open from 10.00 to 23.00 WIB. The price set is also fairly pocket-friendly, starting from IDR. 3,5K, visitors can enjoy the sensation of vegetarian food while wiggling their tongue.

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All Photos taken by Canon D1000

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