Kechara Oasis @ Jaya One, PJ

What comes to your mind when you first come across vegetarian cuisine?
“Meat-less!” (Yes they are, for sure)
“It is something for Vegetarian only.”
“It is something that I am going to have on chor yat sap hmm”

After my first experience dining in a vegetarian cuisine, I must change my mind and disagree with the latter two.



My very first Vegetarian dining experience was at Kechara Oasis Jaya One with KampungBoyCityGal, Vkeong and Jason and friend. It was a great lunch and we actually ohhh-ed and aahhh-ed over the lunch. We kept guessing the ingredients they used and how they make them. :P



Kechara Oasis 如意轩 is located in Jaya One, Petaling Jaya; a new age Vegetarian Restaurant that serves healthy vegetarian cuisine. Being new to Jaya One, I still find it easy to get to this place.



The interior design and the decorative items are in the Tibetan style.









The VIP dining area


We were eager to try out their Tibetan Butter Tea 藏式酥油茶 (RM 12.80). It is a kind of tea that made of butter, salt, tea leaves and to be consumed once it is made and while it is still warm.


The buttery, greasy and creamy Exotic Tibetan Tea. The Tibetans have this as part of their daily requirement as it keeps them warm living at high altitude.


Kechara Salad (RM 38) comes with regular portion. A refreshing dish that tastes so-alike-like the Yu Sang we use to have during Chinese New Year.



5 Mandala of Prosperity (RM 58 for small portion) mimics the 4 or 5 seasons we used to have in the wedding ceremony. It comes with butter mushrooms, BBQ skewered ‘pork’, luncheon ‘meat’, Vietnamese Spring Rolls and stir fried beans with lily bulbs. We kept guessing, how they made the meat into real meat texture?!


Tibetan Vegetable Momo (RM 21) is the steamed and pan fried Tibetan or Nepalese dumplings. Personally, I heart this because of the buttery taste of the dumpling skin. The dumpling was juicy and the vege inside was fresh.


Yu Xiang Egg Plant (RM 20 for regular portion) is great too. Just like what normally my mum cooks this at home. It was loaded with minced ‘meat’ and dense and flavoured with chilies.


Golden Pocket with Broccoli priced at RM 20 was a good try. The golden pocket was flavourful and abundant with minced ‘meat’ filling. They were nicely wrapped and poured with the special gravy cooked with gei zi.


Vietnamese Spring Rolls (RM 13.80), the crispy and crunchy one.


Fish Head Meehoon priced at RM 20 for this big bowl.


I find this lack of sourish taste as compared to the hawkers’ type. However, according to the restaurant manager, the sourish taste comes from the sour plum itself. The sour plum has its natural nutrients and this mild sourish will not directly damage to the wall of stomach even if you had this whole bowl.



Last but not least from the main courses, we were wow-ed with their Kechara Oasis Fried Chicken (RM 17). It was surprisingly great!!!


KOC in short has the texture so much similar or exactly the same as fried chicken. Some of the customers even said KOC is way more delicious than K*C (you know which). Why not head to Kechara Oasis and try it yourself?



Who says there isn’t any good selection of desserts in Vegetarian Cuisine?!

We tried on the Crystal Fruit dessert (RM 10). The little and cute tiny crystal layer with orange-y custard fillings in it.


And Red Bean Banana Roll (RM 10). Red bean paste and banana slice inside and finally the roll is dusted with icing sugar and rolled over.

I prefer the red bean banana roll to crystal fruit dessert. The red bean banana roll is indeed a flavourul sweet tooth with real sweet banana taste.

Now, I must change my mind towards Vegetarian Food. It is not for vegetarian only. It is for everyone (Vegetarian, Non vegetarian) and even our Muslim friends (as Kechara Oasis has obtained the HALAL certificate). It is not some kind of food that you can have it only on chor yat sap hmm. You can even have it every day till you tried up all of them from the menu (they keep on experimenting on new recipe/ dishes). I must admit, their menu is quite appealing :)

Kechara Oasis
Unit 19-LG1, Level B1
Block D Jaya One,
No. 72A Jalan University,
46200 Petaling Jaya,
Selangor.

Tel: 03- 79681818
Fax: 03- 79688118

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