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[Baro]

Located in the heard of Victoria's Nerd District (just east of Johnson and Government), this tiny restaurant offers fully vegan chinese food at very affordable prices. I'm not a vegan, or even a vegitarian, but I simply can't argue with the prices and taste of the food here. The dinner menu has a lot of the standard chinese dishes, plus many unique ones. The best part though is the lunch buffet. You will be presented with a large selection of interesting chinese vegan dishes which you pile up on a plate and pay by weight. A fully loaded plate of deep-friend sweet and sour soy balls, noodles, rice, or what ever you picked, will only run you about $5-6.

A delicious hole in the wall that won't burn a hole in your pocket!

[Holden West]

Nerd district! Sounds like a great place to fuel up before that Saturday night D&D marathon.

[gumgum]

deep-friend sweet and sour soy balls

Freud would have a field day.

[G-Man]

Ha Nerd District! So true, I go down there with my "Dummy's Guide to Nerd Watching" and field glasses about once a month.

Lotus pond is excellent though and I am an omnivore!

[Baro]

I have a deep friendship with those soy balls.

[Caramia]

The owners are some of the nicest people I have ever met.

[Walter Moar]

I love the Lotus Pond, but my "fully loaded" plate tends to run over $10 -- still a steal, but later I will regret the mountain of food!

[homebrewer]

Nerd district! Sounds like a great place to fuel up before that Saturday night D&D marathon.

As a 4-eyed computer geek who lives in area, I can only say I resemble that remark!

[Baro]

I stopped in to Lotus pond after buying a 2nd had D&D monster manual (3.0 edition, they didn't have the 3.5 and there's really not a big difference, it's not like how they changed rangers class info so much from 3.0 Players Handbook to 3.5) and picking up a set of nerd-dice at curious. It takes one to know one...

[Caramia]

Haha they didn't have it cause I bought the 3.5 Monster Manual in December.
And I am not even joking.

[Holden West]

Of course you know I had to take a photo of the Nerd District.



It's great that the nerds have a part of town they can call their own. And that it's used, not only by nerds, but those across the entire nerd spectrum--geeks, dweebs, spazzes and dorks alike--united in brother/sisterhood.

Much like the [url=http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29317:a112b]Wad Accords of 1999[/url:a112b], Victoria's Nerd District is a triumph; a beacon of acceptance and tolerance in a cruel world of gaunch pulls and titty twisters inflicted by jocks and stoners.

[Mike K.]

...gaunch pulls and titty twisters inflicted by jocks and stoners.

...care of regulars at Plan B.

[Mike K.]

Had lunch here the other day. The food was excellent, albeit the prices a little steeper than one would expect at a veggie place. I ordered the fake beef dish and a tofu dish (can't remember which one) and liked both equally. This place is definitely worth a try if you're interested in alternative vegetarian cuisine.

PS...don't let the drab interior scare you away.

[Baro]

I could eat those deep fried.... balls all day.

[goke]

This place is in my lunch rotation, I'm a devoted omnivore but everything here is tasty given their ingredient limitations. A typical plate will run $10 in my case. My kids like it too.