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1400 Bristol St. Costa Mesa, CA 92626

714-668-9288

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Best Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant
Award Winner 2011

Cuisine(s): Vegetarian

Hours: Daily 11am-9pm
Price: $$

Reservations: Not Necessary
Parking: Lot Available

Description

If there is one dish to try at Happy Family, it is the stir-fried lily buds with lycium berries. The main ingredient looks like white concave cups, its appearance similar to separated layers of an onion. But where you expect to be stung, sweetness comes. Its calming presence on the plate pulls together a dish bright and invigorating with snow peas carefully snipped of their stems, sliced asparagus and the slightly tart red flecks of the lycium berry.

2011 | Best Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant

When you finally tire of the narcissism and self-righteousness that pervades most vegetarian/vegan restaurants, come to Happy Family. Here, meat abstinence isn't a fashionable lifestyle choice; it's religion. Even if you don't quite buy the Buddhist sutras that forbid garlic and onion because they engender anger and irritability in mortals, you won't miss them. Besides, you could do well by being less angry and irritable these days. Whether by the power of suggestion, the things you eat here... More »

Happy Family Mocks Meat

By EDWIN GOEI | Thu, December 16, 2010

More than six months have passed since Happy Family Vegetarian replaced May Garden in Costa Mesa, but practically every other person who walks in the door asks the same question: “What happened to May Garden?” One night, the hostess, by now no str... More »

Main Menu

Appetizer

Smoked Bean Curd Skin
bean curd skin

Vege Fish With Sweet Sauce

Two Flavors Cold Dish

Spring Roll (5 Pieces)

Deep Fried Wonton (8 Pieces)

Minced Squab In Lettuce (4 Pieces)

Soup

Spinach & Tofu Soup
snow bean, carrot, broccoli, black mushroom, butter mushrrom, baby bachoi and firm tofu

Corn & Tofu Soup

Hot & Sour Soup

Fei Chui Geng

Entrees - Veg Chicken

Vege Oyster With Black Bean & Chili Sauce
vege oyster, bell pepper, fresh mushroom

Mongolian Beef
vege beef, chop celery, fresh chop chili, hot sauce

Beef With Broccoli
vege beef, fresh broccoli, carrots

Sizzling Beef
vege beef, bell pepper, black pepper sauce

Soy Chicken Nuggets With Orange Peel
vege chicken(soy), house special orange flavore sauce, hot chili pepper

Soy Chicken Nuggets With Curry Sauce
soy chicken, bell pepper, potato, carrot, yellow curry sauce

Rice/noodle

Deep Fried/steamed Bread (2)

Sauteed Rice Cake With Vegetable

Fried Noodle

Fried Rice

Fried Rice Noodle

Dessert

Red Bean Cake (2)

Steamed Sweet Stick Rice

Steamed Sweet Taro

Zima Tangyuan

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Happy Family Vegetarian

1400 Bristol St. Costa Mesa, CA 92626

714-668-9288

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2011 | Best Vegetarian/Vegan Restaurant

Happy Family Mocks Meat

By EDWIN GOEI | Thu, December 16, 2010

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