I arrived... after a day of sightseeing and eating in Hong Kong's Kowloon. I'd gone on a food tour around Sham Shui Po and was absolutely stuffed from all the delicious street food I'd sampled, so I was simultaneously looking forward to sitting down for a more high-end meal experience, while wondering how many extra kilograms I would have packed on by the end of the day.
I chose here because... It has a central location, and I love vegetarian food. Veda is part of the Ovolo Central hotel where I was staying and I was there with a group of other travel writers. I'd eaten breakfast a couple of times at Veda but was yet to check out the dinner menu.
My first impression was… it was a reasonably small and intimate setting, but the decor was a mix of elegance, art and greenery. The bartender and wait staff were quick to welcome me and the place felt warm, yet fresh.
The menu... for my three-course dinner with dessert was already on the table when I sat down and I was excited to taste some new foods. I started with ricotta and spinach momos (a Nepalese dumpling), pani puri, which is a hollow fried crisp filled with spicy tangy water, and pariyaram, a small baked dumpling. The mains consisted of a soba noodle salad, brown rice and quinoa mushroom congee and roasted carrot, kale and quinoa salad.