Abokado

Oh dear. The update to my review is NOT GOOD.
I was very ill after having a Vegetable Gyoza Dumpling soup here. I’m very sensitive to many ingredients, and need to avoid anything artificial. Given their marketing and general blurb, I was under the impression that Abokado only use natural ingredients, so I was surprised that I was having such a reaction. I felt like I had been poisoned — it’s the sort of reaction I’ve had in the past when I’ve eaten MSG. Being really perplexed about what could have made me so ill, I went back and one of the employees kindly showed me the packaging for their Veggie Dumplings. One of the ingredients is L-​glutamine acid sodium. Another name for that? MSG. So that explains it — poisoned by MSG by a product that contains no ingredient list to warn of this.
Also, their veggie dumplings aren’t vegan, despite staff telling you that they are. They contain glair, which is egg. They also contain beef flavour — and while this may or may not be derived from beef, dear knows what it actually is. I like to know what I’m ingesting.
So, mystery solved. I’ve not had MSG for years as I know that I have this reaction to it and am desperately conscientious about checking for it, so having managed to avoid it for so long, I am pretty upset that I’ve been caught out in this way, and also that it took me about a week to recover from this incident. Duped. I feel pretty stupid and mad with myself as well as Abokado.
I am beyond disappointed.