Vegetarian suggestions

eggs + other stuff (rice and veggies of some kind).

after years of gradually cutting down the amount of meat i ate (i stopped cooking it at home a decade ago), i stopped eating it altogether last year. it was just a case of my habits taking decades to catch up with my principles.

i don't really miss meat. what i do miss is having more choices at the "ethnic" restaurants i'm fond of. middle eastern is fine, because i can eat all kinds of bean-based stuff, salads, etc. chinese is more difficult. i find hot pot to be a good solution because you even without meat it's full of flavor and you can add such a wide variety of veggies and proteins. but at your typical (decent) chinese place,what is there to eat, really?

what do y'all vegetarians eat when you go out for chinese?

Fried rice, lo mein, various tofu dishes

this is very tasty:
http://thewoksoflife.com/2015/05/sichuan-stir-fried-potatoes/

^^^ looks really good

what do y'all vegetarians eat when you go out for chinese?

I'm only p/t vegetarian but I usually get something with seitan or tofu, if I know it's going to be fried. Squishy blocks of barely-cooked tofu kind of bum me out. But I find I've been buying way more Thai and Indian stuff lately, both seem to be way more amenable to vegetarians than the Chinese places in this area.

chinese food tends to have animal products like fish sauce and minced pork in a lot dishes labelled 'vegetarian', too. i think the general definition of 'vegetarian' in chinese restaurants is 'mostly vegetables', not 'strictly vegetables'. thai and vietnamese seem to do that less.

chinese is pretty great vegetarians! there is an entire "bean curd" section and another "vegetable" section on every menu. some of them might have some animal products like fish sauce or minced pork but not always and you can specify when ordering that you don't want them

chinese is pretty for great vegetarians! obv

homestyle (or family style) bean curd is probably my go-to dish and it always features fried tofu and a bunch of vegetables in full-flavored sauce, very rarely ime does it come w/ meat in it so i usually don't even have to specify anything

fwiw i was vegan for about 10 years and vegetarian for a few more, now im mostly vegetarian and eat meat/seafood occassionally

I rarely have chinese food because most American chinese food is fucking disgusting but as long as you check about the things that Justin mentioned you'll be fine. Veggie Moo Shu vegetable. Sesame Tofu. Tofu and veggies. There should be tons of things.

"What i do miss is having more choices at the "ethnic" restaurants i'm fond of."

This is such a weird statement to me because "ethnic" restaurants are usually way better for veggie stuff than most American standard stuff?

i know!

Has anyone ever cooked with TVP? Do you have to use it as a meat substitute? Could you put it in oatmeal, for example? Bland TVP squares would be fine if they ended up tasting somewhat like soybeans. (I am surprised by the font of this thread.)