Vegan MoFo Day 5 - Latin Food, get in mah Auntie Nelly!

Last night, my workmates and I decided to take the cable car over to the O2 Arena to have some food and go to the cinema.  We got there a bit too late to have dinner and make the film so we just settled for some food and cocktails.

Here is a pic of my view from the cable car - pretty!!

After being tipped off by a commenter in my last post (Thanks, Chris!) about Las Iguanas and their vegan friendliness; I googled their vegan menu as only vegetarian options are shown on the menu. I printed it off to help me when I got there and here is what I ended up with.

I went for the Moqueca, which is a creamy coconut based curry, with squash, lots of peppers, hearts of palm and spinach in and it was delightful. It was very mild though, I couldn't taste any chilli and I like the shhpicy so I added some Cholula hot sauce that was on the table, which made it extra rad.

 

It came with spicy fresh salsa, rice, toasted coconut and fried plantains.  

I loved almost all of this dish, but I didn't really enjoy the plantains.  I have issues with banana textures and it tasted like a fried banana to me and just didn't float my boat.  But the rest of the meal was pretty damn awesome.

I also had a cosmo (or 2), as you do.

I'm going home tonight just for one day before I'm back to London but I think dinner might be limited to something I can find at Waterloo station.  Woo - exciting post tomorrow then! :o)

Kat Slaters
xXx

Cockney translations of the day:
Auntie Nelly = Belly
Kat Slaters = ah come on you know that by now!