Okhajhu

Our friend Amanda introduced us to a wonderful restaurant, which although not vegan, serves the most amazing salads in the city. All the ingredients are organic and are grown on a farm belonging to the owners.

You can choose from a selection of a dozen different greens, or opt for the house blend of all twelve as a base. To that, you select five additional toppings: tomatoes, asparagus, grilled mushrooms, beets, carrots, various seeds, seaweed, chickpeas and kidney beans, to name a few. Then you choose your dressing from one of these categories: healthy, creamy, vegan or low oil. On our first visit, we opted for the Japanese sesame dressing, but on our second, we had the to-die-for creamy garlic! Probably not vegan, but worth the sin. You can select more add-ons like grilled veggies, avocado or tofu, etc... at an additonal cost, but the salads are substantial enough without any extras.

The salad is served in a huge bowl with a generous portion of the chosen dressing on the side. You can also order them to go, in which case they come in a hermetically sealed tub with an envelope of the dressing taped to the top.

These salads in Canadian restaurants would easily sell for upwards of $12.00 CAD, but here at Ohkajhu, the eat in version is ฿50 ($1.96) and the take-away tub is ฿60 ($2.35).

Oh yeah, we're really going to miss this place.Read more