Question about Vegetarian South Asian Teen Experience in 2000s Perth

[alias_sqbr]

Question at little_details from someone trying to accurately write a vegetarian second gen Indian immigrant teen in Perth in 2003.

I'm still getting over my cold but rambled about what I remembered vegetarians eating back then, and it occurred to me some of you might be able to offer useful information as well. No pressure, I don't know this person, but thought I might as well pass it on.

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[winterbird]

Oh I could give some looooong answers to this one. What I'd add is that no one went to Utopia if they were teenagers unless they were rich (i.e. private school kids who weren't on scholarships) or it was their birthday or something. With Hare Krishna just down the way offering like $5-10 all you can eat, and Annalakshmi doing the same on a gold coin donation, there were just so many cheap ways to eat vegetarian and Utopia was like so so so expensive comparatively. It was like 'fancy vegetarian' - I remember I couldn't afford to go until my mid-20s, and we had to avoid it or stare longingly in the window at the cakes in the early 00s.

I think I actually could only afford to eat there once! Despite most of my friends being vegetarians and us eating out *all the time.* salkjfas Hell, we could just go to Moon Cafe and get chips with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce and drinks and shoot the breeze in a booth and pay almost nothing between us.

Utopia was like...rich people food to us x.x