meat?

a couple weeks ago, a couple friends and i were looking at restaurants at the camp near south coast plaza. one of us wanted to go to native foods. the special of the day was bacon and scrambled eggs on toast with watermelon mint salad. so we went inside and i read the menu more carefully and i saw that there was no meat! it's a vegan restaurant. i felt SO DECEIVED! all their meat is tofu! GAH!!!!!! i had it when vegetarians do that! if you don't want to eat meat, just don't do it! there's no reason to try to pretend to eat meat by eating something that's called bacon when it doesn't taste like, doesn't look like, doesn't smell like, in short, isn't anything like bacon!

anyway, it was still the best looking thing on the menu so ting and i split an order. we got it and... lol. the bacon was... not bacon looking. haha. yes, it was brown, and it was thinnish, and cut into a long strip but... anyway. it didn't taste bad... but i said that it was just dried tofu (doh fu gan, if that makes any sense in chinese?). i was like, "white people only know about plain white tofu, so they think this is amazing. but to a chinese person who eat like 5 kinds of tofu a week, this aint nothing new!" it was ridiculous!


to be clear, i don't have anything against vegetarians or anyone else who restricts their diet for whatever reason. but i really just don't see the point of eating fake "meat" if you've made the decision not to eat the real thing.