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Vegetarian Eating San Francisco

• Posted by Encino on August 11th, 2009 filed in animals, food, san francisco

There is a billboard outside the office where I work.

The first day I noticed it I only read the “Go Veg” part and I thought it was part of the PETA campaign that I had seen recently when I went to the Gay Parade and someone gave me some stickers.

I think that it is nice that there is a campaign although I think we, the vegetarian parties, are losing many battles lately to the evil animal eater parties. Hot dogs wrapped in bacon are sold openly on the streets, pork is common, high fructose… These are dark days.

The second time I looked at the billboard, it puzzled me. Supreme Master? TV? SOS? What? It doesn’t make sense. It only makes sense when I look at it with “Chinese Mind” so I thought to myself that surely it must be a Chinese or Korean conspiracy here in the USA. So I checked on it. It is a Vietnamese lady named “Supreme Master Ching Hai” who shares the “Quan Yin Method” in order to help people look within to find their own divine greatness. She has written international best sellers: The Birds in My Life, The Dogs in My Life, and The Noble Wilds. Her site is very interesting. I like it. Supreme Master SOS

I have been trying various vegetarian places in the area. Today I went to Herbivore. I got the Red Curry dish and Paul got the Curry Coconut Udon. Paul thought his lacked some flavor. Mine was good, but it wasn’t as tasty as the curry of the best Indian place around, Shalimar.

I have been going to Ananda Fuara the restaraunt of the followers of Sri Chinmoy who used to teach meditation at the UN and once wrote:
“Only silence has the capacity to awaken and strengthen our God-love” and “Minimize your needs and maximize your self-giving life”. Seems like such strange ideas in these times. The food there is pretty good too.

Then there is a restaurant in Chinatown on Washington. As do many chinese veg places, they specialize in mushrooms, mock meats, made from things like wheat gluten and soy, and dumplings.

I also found a place that has durian smoothies.