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| - When you live in a city with a huge Chinese population, you can most assuredly expect at least one vegetarian based Chinese restaurant in the area. Markham in fact has several, but this is the one I prefer to frequent.
Graceful Vegetarian has the standards that I would expect from a vegetarian Chinese restaurant. The assorted gluten, a staple of Chinese vegetarian dining, is available as an appetizer, and offers a wide variety of flavors mixed together. You can also in the mornings order vegetarian dim sum, which gives you things such as deep fried milk, taro fish, and vegetarian dumplings. The imitation meats there are surprisingly realistic, to the point that my friends and family thought we were eating real crab and real chicken.
Compared to some of the more modern vegetarian Chinese restaurants, Graceful Vegetarian is more traditional, serving dim sum esque dishes. The flavors are very well done, but there's nothing out of the ordinary and no new fusion style dishes. The drinks are pretty good, and I did get the red bean ice which was very sweet.
I highly recommend this restaurant to any vegetarians who aren't gluten free and are looking to try quality Chinese food in the Greater Toronto Area.
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