W W T D? — What Would Terry Do?

     Introducing Chez Tofu – the restaurant of the 00’s. The restaurant that has your allergies in mind.
     Chez Tofu is a buffet style restaurant. The main buffet table has two lines – one for building your own tacos; the other for building your own stir fry. There is also a salad bar and for dessert there’s a fruit bar. Plus there’s a variety of beverages to drink.
     All the food at Chez Tofu is organic. Everything in the buffet tables/bars is single ingredient unless otherwise marked. All items are labeled with their ingredients. If an item is not made of one ingredient, it contains as few ingredients as possible. After all you don’t want to not spend your whole life reading ingredients.
     Chez Tofu is a non-smoking environment. The air is constantly filtered. And you can get extra oxygen for “Ophoria” any time you want. Our ever-smiling, ever-helpful staff completes the ambience of Chez Tofu.

     My day was going extremely well. Up until my wife shoved this ad into my hand and ushered me into Chez Tofu. “Chez Tofu = Chez Yuck”, I thought; but I said nothing. After all, it was my wife’s turn to choose the restaurant. With downcast eyes (and thoughts), I shuffled in, preparing to hold my nose and tough it out.
     As I entered Chez Tofu, I couldn’t believe all the smiling faces. These customers have really been duped, I thought. But, then I found myself in line for my favorite mexican food – tacos, and got down to the business of trying to find something I could stomach, to eat.
     The Taco line has the following items: corn chips^m, wheat chips^m, corn tortillas^m, wheat tortillas^m, ground beef, ground turkey, ground chicken, tofu^m, lettuce, chili peppers, jalapenos, green peppers, hazel nuts, almonds, cranberries, cabbage, black beans, pinto beans, adzuki beans, anasazi beans, sliced tomatoes, sauce tomatoes, black olives, cheese^m, and avocados.
     Needless to say, I skipped over the tofu and the unknown beans. I did pick up some hazel nuts and cranberries, though and was surprised at the zest they added to my Taco Salad. Finishing that course, I went back for some Stir Fry.
     The Stir Fry line has the following items: brown rice, white rice, almonds, peanuts, cashews, carrots, celery, green beans, green peppers, red peppers, yellow peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, kale, cabbage, dandelion greens, and soy sauce^m.
     I was not prepared for a totally vegetarian Stir Fry, so I snuck back into the Taco line for some meat. I noticed several of my fellow customers were also my co-conspirators. This time I skipped some of the unsavory vegetables, but I loaded up on those cashews! After finishing this entrée, I was filling pretty good about things. (A happy stomach = A happy mind.) Even so, I hit the oxygen button at our table, just to see what Californians find so pleasant about O2 bars.
     The Salad Bar contains the same vegetables as the Taco and Stir Fry lines, plus cucumber, zucchini, summer/yellow squash, sunflower seeds, and vinegar-and-oil dressing^m. I’d already had more than my share of veggies, so I skipped that and went on to the Fruit Bar/Drink Counter.
     At the Fruit Bar I found cranberries, pear slices, banana slices, orange segments, grapefruit sections, tangerine segments, papaya slices, guava slices, apricot halves, pineapple, watermelon, almonds, pecans, and macadamia nuts. The Drink Counter serves juices made from the fruits at the Fruit Bar. Or you can get hot teas, milk, or water.
     Boy, did I ever pig out! Chez Tofu was a most pleasant experience. I actually thanked my wife for taking me there. As always, this is your “Restaurant Critic for the Weak” (Stomached).
^m = Multiple Ingredients

The restaurant that has your allergies in mind

Book 1
Welcome to My World

Written by Dale Stubbart
Blessed by Terry Stubbart

Page 2 of 6
Nov 2000