Wagamama Pulled Shiitake Donburi

Wagamama pulled shiitake donburi costs £15.50 and carries 956 kcal, the vegan flagship of the donburi page and proof the format needs no meat to be substantial. Pulled shiitake mushrooms in spicy teriyaki over sticky rice with carrots, mangetout, sweet potato, cucumber, onion, edamame and kimchee.

Pulled shiitake is the technique to notice: the mushrooms are shredded along their grain into strands that char and chew remarkably like pulled meat, then glazed in the same spicy teriyaki the duck bowl wears. Around them the build runs generous, sweet potato for body, edamame for protein, cucumber for cool, kimchee for the sour argument, the same architecture as the page's biggest bowls with nothing missing.

The numbers surprise in both directions. At 956 kcal it is the second biggest bowl on the page, ahead of the beef and chicken, because sweet potato and glaze are indifferent to anyone's expectations of vegan food. The protein at nearly 30 g is genuinely strong for a plant bowl, and the salt, at a day's guideline, deserves the same respect the duck bowl demands. The price is published, the cheapest on the teriyaki ladder.

Its audience is wider than the marking suggests: mushroom loving meat eaters order it on its own merits, and it converts the vegan sceptic at the table more reliably than most plant dishes because it competes on richness rather than virtue.

How much is the pulled shiitake donburi: £15.50, with the usual location lift. The oyster and shiitake bao make the full mushroom menu of it, and a ginger kombucha cuts the glaze while keeping the order plant based.