This roasted stack of vegetables takes on holiday flavors from a sage-infused pesto and smoked Gouda cheese.
Mr Miyagi, 99 Chapel Street, Windsor, 03 9529 5999 Belle's Hot Chicken, 150 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, 03 9077 0788 While there's no deep-fried crunch or fatty, salty aftertaste, seeking out a stack of vegetables will do your hangover good and be gentle on the digestive system that you tried to destroy the night before.
But whimsy abounds, including a mechanical version of the ancient videogame Pong and a method of beating a Chinese one-bowl-per-order salad bar rule by clever stacking of vegetables.
Though some of those old dishes can taste pretty good, we gave half of our attention to the newer models, skipping, for example, fried calamari and stuffed mushrooms and instead ordering vegetable napoleon, in which stacks of sweet vegetables — grilled eggplant, squashes and mushrooms — are topped by a thick layer of slightly pungent goat cheese.
A set of clean dishes stands at attention in a drying rack, and there are stacks of canned vegetables, bags of dry cereal and small butane cans for cooking.
Visitors traipsed through a forest of Lebanese cedar trees and snapped photos of goat pens and stacked pyramids of vegetables, with the Arc de Triomphe looming above.
"We keep getting it, but we don't know what to do with it," said Abdul Fatah al-Eilah, the greenhouse manager, as workers stacked boxes of vegetables in a storage shed while tractors towing flatbeds full of produce lined up to enter.
Eat plenty of vegetables.
Offer plenty of vegetables.
Other openers included a barbecued duck spring roll and a stack of grilled vegetables topped with lightly melted goat cheese that was a vegetable lover's dream come true.
