Michael Hewstone (ex Peace Kitchen/Blaze’s soup kitchen) and the crew from Monk Bodhi Dharma and Admiral Cheng Ho will be holding a peace offering and celebratory dinner with absolutely all the proceeds going to the Playing for Change Foundation.
Date and Time: Saturday 20 September, 2014 at 7.30pm
Bookings Essential. To make a booking, go to: http://www.monkbd.com.au/wpd
Dinner will be fully vegan and will include the following :
> African Grumpy Soup
> Jamaican Sweet Potato, Kidney Bean & Coconut Stew
> Moroccan 7 Vegetable Cous Cous
> South Indian Sambar
> Mexican Chile Beans
Served with Bengal Pushpanna [Royal Rice], Tunisian Cous Cous & Spanish Polenta.
Chile Jam & Brinjal Tamarind Chutney
> Raw Dessert
What is Playing for Change?
Playing For Change is a movement created to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music.
Playing For Change Day unites a global community through the power of music to affect positive social change. Communities will gather as musicians from all over the world perform on stages, street corners, schools, yoga studios, and cafes all with the goal of bringing music into the lives of young people.
Monk Bodhi Dharma is thrilled to have Salvador Persico [percussion Blue King Brown] and friends joining us for a little latin groove out front under the tarps.
+ the van will be parked outside MBD again for anyone wanting a private dinning experience on Moroccan rugs - we can seat 4 comfortably.
ART BY MICHAEL HEWSTONE
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Monk Bodhi Dharma – Rear 202 Carlisle St, Balaclava, Vic, 3183, Australia
The dinner will be vegan.
Bookings essential at $65 per person.
TO BOOK: www.monkbd.com.au/jamaica
Michael Hewstone (ex Peace Kitchen/Blaze’s soup kitchen) and the crew from the Monk will be holding a peace offering and celebratory dinner with absolutely all the proceeds going to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre! This issue is hot at the moment so we are coming together to celebrate peace amongst all nationalities!
Date and Time: Saturday 21 September, 2013 at 7pm
Bookings Essential. To make a booking, go to: http://www.monkbd.com.au/wpd
Dinner will be fully vegan and will include the following :
> African Grumpy Soup
> Global Experience – Madras Cauliflower, Chickpea and Yellow Potato Curry, Ethiopian Wat and a Caribbean Jambalaya all served with a Silverbeet Kitchari, Mansoor Dal, Sela Rice,Tunisian Cous Cous, Chile Jam and Lijjat Udad Papads [ MBD supporting Indian Women's Empowerment Movement]
> Raw selection of mignardises including chocolates & cakes
> Peace Cookie to take home
> Beautiful Chai Masala
Special surprise guest speaker and music TBA
What is International Day of Peace?
The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly.
International Day of Peace is also a Day of Ceasefire – personal or political. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time. Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind.
http://internationaldayofpeace.org
“PEACE IS NOT MERELY A DISTANT GOAL THAT WE SEEK, BUT A MEANS BY WHICH WE ARRIVE AT THAT GOAL”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
ART BY BLAZE WARRENDER
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I am so glad to know that we as a coffee city in Melbourne and our coffee roastery are bringing in fresher, higher grade and generally better coffee than ever. What it comes down to at the end of the day is the raw product that we get in 
Coffee will never be as good as what it was when it was inside its coffee cherry. As such, the less we do to it during roasting, brewing, packaging and transportation the better.
Currently we have some amazing Kenyans (Gachami AA and Thithi AA) and Guatemalans including the Small Producers of Atitlan, Entre Volcanes and Las Nubes. The El Salvadorian coffees are tasting awesome too including the El Carmen, San Cayetano and El Timbo. We also have a lot of lovely Brazils including the Cup of Excellence #9 Serra Dos Crioulos and the sweet Cambara.
see you at the bar
Marwin
]]>In our menu, you will find entrees like Corn & Tomato Wraps with pesto mayonnaise, veggies, sprouts drizzled with olive oil & Sweet Chilie Love – stuffed sweet chilies with macadamia & sundried tomato served with fresh mango and a cucumber salad & drizzled with chilie oil.
For the larger mains, you will find the Pad Thai: organic zucchini noodles, coriander, basil, avocado, lime and capsicum with activated nuts, Cannelloni: broccoli cheddar cannelloni with herbed tomato sauce and cashew parmesan and the popular Mexican Enchilada Plate: Gluten free corn tortillas filled with sweet potato, eggplant, corn, black beans, capsicum & spinach & cashew sour cream with spicy tomato sauce & served with guacamole and heirloom tomato salsa. This is on top of the rotating meals of the day!
To end the meal, you can opt for some of our well regarded desserts like the Raw Snickers, Rainbows & Butterflies, Adam & Eve delight, Chockwork Jaffa, Heaven & Hell Crème brûlée, The New Yorker etc
Luckily for those who are gluten intolerant, the whole menu is gluten free as well as being animal, egg and dairy free.
Monk Bodhi Dharma is open for dinner on Friday nights and runs with a session at 6.30pm and 8.30pm. To book, phone: 9534 7250
This will particularly appeal to the more casual swinger hipster cool types that are looking for the experience of how this old hippie traveled the 3 K’s (Kuta, Kathmandu. Kabul) in the 60’s. But if you are straight edged and cashed up, that’s cool too!
As this is a once only offering for people looking for a more intimate occasion, it will also come at a premium price of $100 per person. Rest assured that absolutely all the proceeds go to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Edgars Mission!
Bookings of 3-4 only on a first come first served basis.
Date and Time: Wednesday 21 September, 2011 at 6pm and 8.30pm
Dinner will be fully vegan and will include the following :
Three [3] dip combo/ Moroccan Pumpkin, Mexican Red Bean and Middle Eastern Hummus served with organic corn chips and raw vegetable crudités
Rasam [soup]
Feast Plate/ Sea Shepherd Pie, Mansoor Dal, Spiced Potatoes, Royal Rice [Sela], Lijjat Pappads, Silverbeet Kitchari and Chile Jam
Raw selection of mignardises including chocolates, cookies, biscotti and macaroons
Beautiful Chai Masala
Please book online through www.monkbd.com.au/wpd as a regular payment and then email [email protected] to request an upgrade.
PS. Anyone that has already booked can also upgrade…
Michael Hewstone (ex Peace Kitchen) and the crew from the Monk will be holding a peace offering and celebratory dinner with absolutely all the proceeds going to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Edgars Mission! The animal kingdom is having a hard time at the moment, so we are coming together to celebrate peace amongst all beings!
Due to the success of the event last year and having to turn people away, we are happy to announce that we are holding two sessions (don’t tell the cookie boy!)
Date and Time: Wednesday 21 September, 2011 at 6pm and 8.30pm
Bookings Essential. To make a booking, go to: http://www.monkbd.com.au/wpd
Dinner will be fully vegan and will include the following :
Three [3] dip combo/ Moroccan Pumpkin, Mexican Red Bean and Middle Eastern Hummus served with organic corn chips and raw vegetable crudités
Rasam [soup],
Feast Plate/ Sea Shepherd Pie, Mansoor Dal, Spiced Potatoes, Royal Rice [Sela], Lijjat Pappads, Silverbeet Kitchari and Chile Jam,
Raw selection of mignardises including chocolates, cookies, biscotti and macaroons
Beautiful Chai Masala
What is International Day of Peace?
The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly.
International Day of Peace is also a Day of Ceasefire – personal or political. Take this opportunity to make peace in your own relationships as well as impact the larger conflicts of our time. Imagine what a whole Day of Ceasefire would mean to humankind.
http://internationaldayofpeace.org
First booking at 7.30am and last sitting at 9.30am.
The breakfast will be fully vegan and consist of three courses, a cleanser and petit fours with coffee or house tea.
Bookings essential (min 2 people), $40 per person.
Single origin pourover coffee served with every course, additional $10.00 per person.
To make a booking, email us on [email protected]
* Please advice dietary requirements upon booking
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Tuesday 17th and Wednesday 18th August from 7.30am – 11am.
The breakfast will be fully vegan and consist of three courses served with a syphon, pourover, chai or specialty tea.
Bookings essential (min 2 people), $30 per person.
To make a booking, email us on [email protected]
* Please advice dietary requirements upon booking
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We sought some advice from tea guru Nathan Wakeford from Somage and we came up with our own Monk Bodhi Dharma chai recipe. Even though we are all multi-tasking creatures at Monk, during busy times, one of our duties is to be chai wallahs (a wallah is one who performs a specific task). We brew our chai for 4 minutes (30grams) and then steam it with the customer’s choice of milk. We then sieve it in a Japanese handmade chai pot and serve it in custom made pottery made by the wonderful Karen Ho. Bliss!
Kate roasting the aromatic spices for our chai!
Chai Monk Bodhi Dharma