Vegetarian Gourment owner responds about oyster sauce

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The owner of the new vegetarian restaurant in San Mateo, Vegetarian Gourmet, exchanged several emails with us about a reviewer's comment in the Ultimate Guide that one of the veggie dishes tasted 'fishy'.http://www.bayareaveg.org/ug/display.htm?id=561They submitted a review (which we couldn't allow through since that would skew the ratings):"We are the owners. We want to apologize. From now on, we will buy veg oyster sauce only . We have removed all the old sauce. This won't happen again. We want to make it up to you; please try us again."After an exchange of emails, he did ask that I forward his email on to the list for everyone to see. Here is the pertinent email of interest.> Quoting Andrew Sharpe <asharpe:>>> Hi Tammy,>>>> Thank you very much for your reply.>>>> It is difficult to answer your questions right now. We did think our>> restaurant was vegetarian and vegan. However, after the posting on>> your board by veggiegrrrl, we discovered that the oyster sauce>> provided by the supplier (the same that provides ingredients to>> Garden Fresh) was using real oysters; we have stopped using the sauce>> and are now only using vegetarian sauces.>>>> We will continue to investigate and examine labels. We are also>> talking to our suppliers. We now believe that we are a vegetarian>> establishment, but we need further research to determine if we are,>> or will become, a vegan restaurant.>>>> We want to thank you for having a great bulletin board system that is>> already helping us to reach more people.>>>> Andrew Sharpe>>>> Vegetarian Gourmet>>