At many restaurants selling vegetarian food, the price of raw materials for preparing vegetarian dishes has increased slightly before Tet, however, the selling price remains the same to serve customers.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Linh, owner of An Lac vegetarian restaurant (Ward 2, Ca Mau City) shared: “I have been associated with selling vegetarian food for 37 years. The restaurant serves a variety of dishes for customers to choose from such as vermicelli with crab, Duong Chau rice, broken rice, vermicelli with pork skin, banh tam... at affordable prices, from 25-30 thousand VND. Normally, there are 3 times of the year, January, July and the end of the year are the peak times. In January alone, on average, we welcome about 500 customers each day to eat on-site or buy take-out.”

With 37 years of experience in the vegetarian restaurant business, Ms. Thuy Linh sells many vegetarian dishes to serve diners at affordable prices, from 25-30 thousand VND/dish.

In addition to dishes to eat on the spot, many places also deliver dishes such as soup, stew, stir-fry, grilled spring rolls, grilled meat, salad, mixed fish sauce... to make the menu less monotonous.

Also choosing to run a vegetarian restaurant for about 4 years, Vegetarian Restaurant 12 (Ward 5, Ca Mau City) serves many unique vegetarian dishes such as vermicelli with fish sauce, vermicelli with curry, wet rice cake, banh lot, dry noodles, Thai noodles, stewed noodles, chicken salad, especially vegetarian hot pot dishes.

Ms. Do Thi Kieu Oanh, owner of Chay 12 restaurant, said: “The restaurant opens from the first day of Tet to sell food for customers to buy for offerings, then closes for Tet and reopens on the 8th. January is also the time when many people choose to eat vegetarian food, the busiest is on the 15th day of the first lunar month. On average, we welcome over 200 customers each day, and on the big full moon day, the number increases 4-5 times. To serve the peak month, the restaurant increases the amount of ingredients, fresh vegetables and fruits. The restaurant opens all day, the busiest time is in the afternoon and evening. On weekends, families come to order hot pot sets to eat, with prices ranging from 100-200 thousand VND/hot pot, serving 3-4 people.”

In addition to food and drinks, many places also choose to sell many pre-prepared vegetarian dishes for customers to take away.

Opening a tofu production facility about 5 years ago, Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan Anh's household (Ward 4, Ca Mau City) prepares an average of 50 kg of soybeans every day to cook into many types of products such as fresh tofu, fried tofu, cha cha, cha lua, hu ki, soy milk, cha cha mushroom...

Ms. Lan Anh shared: “Because the facility is near the market, the finished products are sold both wholesale and retail to passersby. To be able to sell in time for the morning market, workers wake up at 3am to work. This year, the amount of goods sold is not as much as last year, so depending on the situation, production must be new and hot every day.”

Vegetarian dishes are easy to prepare from various vegetables and fruits. In addition, mushrooms are also clean foods that are easily available in vegetarian menus and are used by many people. Understanding the market, Ms. Nguyen Bich Nhu (Khanh Binh commune, Tran Van Thoi district) increased the number of mushrooms at the farm to sell on this occasion.

Ms. Nhu said: "The mushroom farm currently has golden and ruby ​​mushrooms, but the most popular and popular are still gray oyster mushrooms. To keep the mushrooms fresh and delicious for a long time, I only harvest them when I have an order. I don't let the mushrooms grow too big because if they grow too big, they won't be crispy and sweet. My customers are mainly local and online. Currently, gray oyster mushrooms are sold for 65,000 VND/kg"./.

Ngo Nhi

Source: https://baocamau.vn/thuc-pham-chay-vao-mua-cao-diem-a31404.html