I love meat. Some people don't, and yet I have the desire to eat out with them. What to do? Sipz solves that problem with delicious vegetarian Asian fusion. While their faux chicken doesn't taste anything like chicken, I actually find it an enjoyable alternative. It also has the attractive feature of being affordably priced, with lunch priced at $8 and dinner at $9. For those of us living "on the cheap", a good restaurant can be hard to find in San Diego, and Sipz fits the bill quite nicely. Some dishes we would recommend:
- Jymm likes the Spicy Thai Fried Rice with "chicken". It's sweet and garlicky, although it wasn't necessarily all that spicy. (You can ask for whatever spicy level you want; 2 on scale of 10 is really very mild).
- Alan loves the Spicy basil bowl; it's ingredients speak for themselves: "Stir fried with snowpeaz, baby corn, baby bok choy, straw mushroomz, celery, and carrotz in a light basil sauce, with your choice of "chicken", tofu, or all vegetables. " The best part are the snowpeaz, which are really quite better than your standard snowpeas.
- Our friend (who shall not be named, because he is imaginary) likes the wok fried drunken noodles with "beef". Since neither of us have had this one, we consulted the menu to learn more: "big flat rice noodlez wok fried with carrotz, bean sproutz, celery, onion, bamboo shootz, and baby corn." He really liked the sauce.
They have a huge menu; those three items are probably just 4% of the total options for entrees, and there are sides and deserts, etc. Of particular note is their wide range of Asian drinks (Sipz started out as a boba shop, though they don't have much boba now).
One of the reasons I like Sipz is that the food celebrates the glory that is vegetarian cooking, rather than trying to poorly imitate meat based dishes. That means lots of vegetables in each dish, and no dish has exactly same set of vegetables. It's not at all like eating Tofurkey. For instance, their "chicken" doesn't really taste like chicken at all, but it does taste really good.
Sipz has opened a second location, called "Sipz Express", but we haven't tried it yet. It might be good too, but one has to worry a little that the freshness might suffer, since it's in a mall food court...
