Hu Hot: Well Prepared for Vegan Customers

Many possibilities for lunch or dinner exist if you choose the Mongolian grill, where you create your own stir-fry. Make sure you identify that you are vegan or vegetarian to both the wait and cook staff. I’ll explain why.

After ordering, pick up your bowl, walk past the meat and seafood section, and pick your noodle selection. Chinese noodles (lo mein), Japanese Yakisoba, or Pad Thai (rice) noodles are all suitable.

You will then have 21 or so vegetables to choose from to add to your bowl, as well as cubes of tofu. (Hooray for another restaurant that serves tofu!)

Then on to the sauces, some of which contain fish or oyster sauce. That’s why you want to alert the wait staff so they can remind you which to avoid, or save this article and take it with you.

Vegan sauces are: Not-so-sweet and sour, Samuri Teriyaki, Mongol Mustard, Feed the Hordes Hoisin. All the Create-your-own-sauces are vegan, such as garlic chili sauce, lime juice, etc. Add several ladles of sauce to your bowl and turn it in to the grill staff.

Let them know you are vegan and they will make sure the area of the grill that holds your food is well cleaned, and they will use fresh utensils to stir-fry your food. Otherwise, they use the same utensils for everyone’s food.

They seemed to clean the grill very well after each stir-fry dish was made without requesting special treatment, but I hadn’t been told by the wait staff to ask for fresh utensils-I learned that from Hu Hot’s web site later. On a national level, Hu Hot is knowledgeable about vegetarian dietary needs.

One serving bowl was plenty, but you can go back for seconds or thirds.

Hu Hot’s website indicates that their spring roll appetizers are vegetarian. Don’t order soups-they all have chicken broth. Desserts aren’t vegan.

If You Go

What: Hu Hot Mongolian Grill
Where: 1805 45th St SW, Fargo
When: Fri-Sat, 11-10; Sun-Thur, 11-9
Info: 701.478.4688