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f you aren t aware why hemp seeds should be eaten see the usda nutrient database values and note the 30 complete protein content and excellent fatty acid profile posted by the new epicurean at 18 46 no comments saturday 4 february 2017 lûmé april 2016 another year another birthday degustation after seeing shaun quade at sweetfest and noting that he had worked at royal mail hotel i subtly suggested that lûmé would be a good place for my mother s birthday degustation i had also suggested amaru but she vetoed it on the basis of pictures of the gloomy interior no i don t understand either also igni but we weren t in the mood for a drive to geelong which is a bit ridiculous and i know from eating at loam that we would surely have had a worthwhile trip my interest was piqued by the promise of some more experimental food but likely not too terrifying for my more conservative mother lûmé is in a 19th century building on a quiet street in south melbourne and this being south melbourne though the restaurant itself is very elegant and polished it s also located close to some seedy brothels as i said south melbourne service was provided by ridiculously good looking young staff who did at least have enough understanding of what they were presenting to answer the odd question it was also interesting to see that the front area of the restaurant is a casual dining area though not that casual where local well heeled baby boomers were enjoying dinner together as though this was their local saturday night venue perhaps it was fuelled by the riches of negatively geared investment properties such a life to the food with a disclaimer that this is from many months ago my mother had the usual omnivore menu i requested my usual awkward vegan and gluten free combination which they managed with remarkable aplomb i will also preface this by saying that if you want a degustation with stand out desserts and there were many this is a good option i m notoriously not a dessert person but i was on this night they were that good place setting limed effect tables and rose gold copper toned cutlery since it was 2016 we had a good view of the bar and part of the kitchen which i always enjoy since there is a definite pleasure in watching professional people at work first up some small dishes omni eel honey butter and crumpet a crumpet like no other apparently all sublime this helped to appease my mother s inner bread monster she is upset by restaurants that don t provide bread the quantity she ate at the fat duck is legendary vegan shaved asparagus and coconut chips light and crunchy almost freeze dried in texture obviously not as amazing as a crumpet with butter and honey but fine in itself omni emu macadamia tart i think taco corn crab not pictured as similar to vegan version see below vegan jerusalem artichokes in quince broth which was pleasingly sharp vegan taco smoked baby corn divine finger food omni last of summer s fruits vegan last of summer s fruits can t remember what the missing thing was present in the omni version but possibly some sort of mousse or cream anyway it was pretty good without that on to the main dishes omni sea urchin abalone native flavours i don t seem to have a picture of this vegan shiitake fingerlime native flavours fresh pistachios a lot of my favourite things in one dish omni getting into fat duck territory now pearl oyster miso caramel succulents meyer lemon rice sand vegan sea flavours daikon succulents rice sand felt a bit like i was eating a hipster s terrarium but delicious the sand was fascinating always glad too to have something that is comparable to the omni dish at that course it means we can both exclaim about the same elements omni calamari noodles i e noodles made from calamari i believe vegan celeriac noodles young coconut a reprise from earlier though i didn t mind omni sunflower seed porridge mackerel crispy skin vegan sunflower seed porridge with chestnuts and garlic superb i can never get enough chestnuts which just aren t used enough and i think sunflower seeds are very underrated omni happy duck fed on strawberries my mother has qualms about eating duck because she likes them when they re alive but apparently this was regrettably delicious vegan carrots smoked amazing amazing texture and intensity omni cheese croissant pear the cheese is made from cauliflower amazingly and the croissant was i am told stupendous a very very clever and successful dish vegan cheese and pear so no sub for the croissant exactly but a fossilised pear similar technique to the fallen fruit i had at royal mail years ago and so something i would happily eat every day forever and ever the camembert was totally outstanding omni goat s curd and berries ice creamy goat s curd i was pretty wistful not to have tried this and it took all my willpower as i love goat s curd or did anyway as well as frozen desserts vegan fig granita and berries a lovely and fresh palate cleanser the granita was a great success omni i have no idea what this was there looks to be a carrot vegan pear sorbet can t really remember much more except that the sorbet was very very good i was on the verge of dessert fatigue by then but i valiantly ploughed on omni piece de resistance the cacao pod this is made entirely from chocolate presented whole on the mat with the ice cream alongside as it s being presented the waiter smashes it open to reveal even more goodies vegan cacao pod yes they managed a vegan one with poached fruits and the best non dairy ice cream i ve had in my life we couldn t eat all of the chocolate pod so we took the rest home kindly parcelled up for us we were also given copies of the menu in stylish black envelopes sealed with bronze sealing wax and lûmé s own seal smart i also got to talk to the pastry chef a lovely young french woman and told her how thrilled i was that she had accomplished several outstanding vegan desserts and that it was probably the best experience i d had as a vegan she was very self effacing but glad for the feedback especially as it was her first time trying a lot of these dishes and she was rather nervous about how they would be received it s a lesson to other restaurants who typically might just manage the savoury courses for vegans just but fail spectacularly when it comes to dessert the internet and specialty vegan places prove you can do amazing desserts without eggs or dairy so it s time for haute cuisine to catch up some fruit and sorbet is not good enough so in summary top class food with an unusual intelligence technical expertise and a laudable inclusive attitude i would unhesitatingly recommend lûmé for a special dinner posted by the new epicurean at 18 12 2 comments friday 7 october 2016 singapore 2015 tokyo 2015 i m not good at taking holidays it s not something that really happened as i was growing up and i find it very hard to spend what seems like a lot of money on something so transient on the other hand i realise that normal people get pleasure from going to different places and i also have enough things to sort of justify spending on experiences last year was the conclusion of my second go at university though i didn t really feel like celebrating objectively it was a good excuse my best friend lives in singapore and i d been curious about going and i d long wanted to go to japan ever since flying uk au on jal and adoring the neatness efficiency and aesthetics so singapore and tokyo it was singapore i was warned that it might be difficult being vegan in singapore there are places listed on happy cow and more diligent bloggers than i had found out good places to go but i also wanted to experience singaporean singapore which meant hawker food which meant potentially having to countenance a bit of egg actually i ended up doing reasonably well my darling friend r negotiated this for my first breakfast i d started eating before i took a picture rice vegetables fried peanuts soft fresh tofu on the side also eaten multiple stir fries with vegetables and tofu with preferred hawker food being at newton food centre century eggs not that bad sugarcane juice it s not that sweet yes yes it is lots of cheap coffee that was hardly melbourne standard but no worse than that in most of the uk durian i wouldn t say addictive but not at all repulsive more amusing was having to go to the red light district to find it vegan ckt fried radish carrot cake which i had massive cravings for on my return and managed to find freshly made stuff at tokyo hometown in the cbd lots of fruit vegan yum cha vegan hainanese chicken which omnivore r said was actually pretty good mad desserts with jelly and nuts and shaved ice and all sorts of textural variety kaya toast plus some beautiful home cooked food my biggest hugest regret was not trying mr bean non dairy soya ice cream the normal soft serve has milk as well i am a complete idiot for missing out on this note i subsequently saw the shibuya branch as well when in tokyo but i think i d already had my ice cream quotient for the day so singapore is fine for veg ns it would be reasonably easy to be strictly vegan there it helps to have someone who speaks mandarin and hokkien if you want to do hawker food otherwise happy cow lists a plethora of options as for singapore itself i liked it a lot i made r show me the singapore of singaporeans i e all the residential areas and where she grew up the botanic gardens are fantastic and gardens by the bay was pretty too it s just a bit hot tokyo but of course i flew jal from singapore to tokyo and i wish i d photographed this had a spectacular vegan airline meal i can t remember much other than it was everything one would dream of i had a bit of a sketchy time food wise in tokyo i did well on my first evening meeting up with friends from melbourne and having dinner at ain soph in shinjuku where i was staying though i was at the other end i can t remember what i had only that it was evening menu stuff and maybe not as exciting as all this talk on the internet of pancakes etc my friend vegetarian turned omni traitor had the fried veggie meat which wasn t bad handily i had a decent sized supermarket about 100m from my hotel where i could get tofu and vegetables to turn into dinner on all the other days when i had otherwise eaten in a fashion not appropriate for an adult ice cream cakes for lunch sure i had aborted attempts to get to pure cafe in aoyama and a few other places partly because i didn t feel confident in ordering and partly because i wasn t sure i could manage the set menus that many places offered this is the big down side to solo travelling your food options are limited by stomach capacity and the lack of a companion who will order something different act as waste disposal unit the weather was milder than expected but there was one horrible wet day where i walked too far had a ludicrous breakfast of tofu ice cream got soaked going through harajuku and by the time i got back to shinjuku i was fed up and wanted something hot and carby behold the mos burger i ve since found out that the veganness of this is in question but i don t care the bun is griddled rice and it s stuffed with delicious savoury vegetables it was hot filling and cheap perfect i had two separate days of traipsing around ginza for shopping and people watching the first day i had a very hopeless attempt to find t s tan tan at tokyo train station ended up having another excellent lunch of vending machine ice cream seriously japanese ice cream is excellent and worth the guilt on my second attempt i ascertained that you have to actually enter the station past the ticket barriers to find ramen heaven i d say this was actually worth it relievingly everyone else around me was hoovering up their ramen rather indelicately so for the first time in japan i didn t feel totally gauche on one of my last days i was a bit more organised and bought a bento from the supermarket near my hotel which i think was merely vegetarian rather than vegan but honestly just trying to find things without added fish is enough of a challenge i can t remember how much this cost not a lot and i ate it in ueno park it was excellent other things heirloom carrot from the supermarket ludicrously expensive apple in packaging ludicrously apple partially unwrapped disappointingly the very expensive apples weren t noticeably better than the already excellent ordinary ones from the supermarket not pictured multiple mochi that i ate not eaten but seen at the airport with horror it s a kit kat you put in a toaster a la poptarts mm diabeeeetus bit of a vegan fail on my part in tokyo what with the cakes and ice cream and all but again it s actually possible especially with happycow help i found the department store food halls amazing and the supermarket near my hotel invaluable i didn t rely so much on the 7 11s and lawsons etc but they were handy for drinks and vegan jelly amongst other things after i got back from tokyo i went through a period of a detesting anything carbohydrate y or sweet b loathing coffee after a few months of working as a very junior doctor both of these reversed to the detriment of my skin i think anyway i long to go back to japan and do the vegan thing properly going to kyoto is a must it would also be nice to go again now that i have an income because holidaying in the limbo period between university and work is a bloody nightmare all the time to go places no money to do it gahhhh posted by the new epicurean at 17 49 no comments sunday 24 april 2016 transformer x 3 spanning november and december surprisingly i managed to go to transformer no less than three times my one experience of the vegie bar was a little underwhelming probably because of bad ordering on my part necessitated by eliminating all the more interesting dishes that wouldn t be appropriate for takeaway but i was hopeful that the spectacular experience of the management plus a more sophisticated menu would spell excellent food i wasn t disappointed visit one was for brunch with my mother i can t remember what she had except it wasn t vegan and so probably had eggs but i had the savoury crumpets i don t think these were particularly crumpety more like a hotcake but they were superbly hearty topped with herbs coconut yogurt sweetcorn heirloom tomatoes avocado and some welcome crunch from red quinoa these were so good that even the portion size didn t defeat my enthusiasm visit two no photos came on graduation day accompanied by my mother and aunt and uncle who had graciously come down from sydney to share in the festivities slightly incongruously we drank a bottle of perrier jouet 1996 vintage champagne which had been saved up for 15 years intended for various celebrations that turned out to be anticlimactic when they came this time there was real cause for opening the bottle i had agonised slightly about where we would go for dinner since i am the only vegan and was outnumbered by voracious omnivores fortunately the transf...