Bookworm Cafe

Located right off the main drag. In general the atmosphere is good, but the motorized carts on the path are quite distracting. I wasn’t a fan of the cheddar cheese pizza.

Bookworm Café is a well known vegetarian and vegan café on Lamma Island, which is also a sort of library, where you can browse books on health, Buddhism, and not eating things with faces. It’s very easy to find, just a few minutes walk from the ferry pier, and along the Yung Shue Wan Main Street.
The setting is more than pleasant, with a nicely decorated interior of café meets library. Unfortunately, everything is slightly tired, and could do with a nice spruce up and a clean. I get that we’re into saving Mother Earth, white guys with dreadlocks, and not wearing shoes, but it doesn’t mean you can’t have a good scrub occasionally.
The food can be a little hit and miss. Hits include the veggie lasagne, and any of the salads, but misses include the bean burger, which looks great in the photo but sadly not on my plate. What you are guaranteed here though, is that all the dishes are healthy and meat free.
If you can avoid it, don’t use the bathroom facilities here. You have to exit the café in to an alley way, which seems to be populated with the local 15 year old gangster lads — «in’it bruv!», and then go down to the end of the alley which narrows to about one foot across. If you are as prosperous as me, you won’t actually fit through the gap to the restroom. Perhaps I need to eat less fired chicken, and more bean burgers???