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Though most of May Wah’s business is wholesale, selling to suppliers and restaurants worldwide (President Lee Mee Ng estimates that 50 percent of New York’s vegetarian restaurants buy their faux meat from May Wah), individuals can shop directly from the freezers on Hester Street, which hold a mind-boggling array of imitation animal parts. You can get ready-to-eat dishes like Black Pepper Steak, Chicken Nuggets, and the ever-popular Citrus Spare Ribs. There are many versions of chicken, beef, and ham — sliced, filleted, balled, smoked, stewed, whole, with or without bone (generally a piece of cane sugar). There are seafood imitations of cod, tuna, squid, shrimp, abalone, crab, and even mock lobster shaped like, yes, a lobster. There are delicate dishes like sashimi and more pedestrian fare like burgers and hot dogs. Then, there are what I term “the exotics,” animal foods so rarely eaten by Westerners that their vegetarian counterparts seem all the more surprising: shark’s fin, eel, mutton, kidney, gizzards. (via The Veggie Butcher)

Though most of May Wah’s business is wholesale, selling to suppliers and restaurants worldwide (President Lee Mee Ng estimates that 50 percent of New York’s vegetarian restaurants buy their faux meat from May Wah), individuals can shop directly from the freezers on Hester Street, which hold a mind-boggling array of imitation animal parts. You can get ready-to-eat dishes like Black Pepper Steak, Chicken Nuggets, and the ever-popular Citrus Spare Ribs. There are many versions of chicken, beef, and ham — sliced, filleted, balled, smoked, stewed, whole, with or without bone (generally a piece of cane sugar). There are seafood imitations of cod, tuna, squid, shrimp, abalone, crab, and even mock lobster shaped like, yes, a lobster. There are delicate dishes like sashimi and more pedestrian fare like burgers and hot dogs. Then, there are what I term “the exotics,” animal foods so rarely eaten by Westerners that their vegetarian counterparts seem all the more surprising: shark’s fin, eel, mutton, kidney, gizzards. (via The Veggie Butcher)

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