V Rating: VVV
Where: 249 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst
When: Lunch: Mon - Fri. Dinner: Mon - Sun.
Tel: (02) 9360 3220
Price: Entrees: $7.40 - $8.50. Mains: $12.90- $14.90.

I love going to motley invitee dinners where everyone at the table does something that they’re passionate about. It reminds me that being a grown-up can be fun.

Last Tuesday, Andy and I joined three friends at Saigon Bay on upper Oxford Street. A friend was visiting from Alice Springs, and she’d invited along a friend back briefly from Cambodia and another friend who works in an education-can-be-fun type job. We had a lot to talk about, and Saigon Bay proved to be a great place for good food and catching up.

The Saigon Bay menu immediately put my mind at ease when I saw there was a separate vegetarian section. It had a hefty 13 vegetarian mains, 3 vegetarian entrees and 3 vegetarian soups (very comforting to see soups expressly described as vegetarian).

For entree we had huge rice paper rolls and crispy pancakes wrapped in lettuce leaves. These were helpfully put together at the table by our accomplished waitress. For mains we had the genuinely chilli lemon grass tofu and soft combination noodles.

Saigon Bay gets bonus points because all dishes are cooked in pure polyunsaturated vegetable oil, and use no animal fats, artificial preservatives or MSG. How good is that?

KP. 16/5/06.

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