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Dharma Realm Guan Yin Sagely Monastery
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Offers a buffet spread. Option for mix of salads and drinks. The public can participate in the chanting & recitation of the daily Ceremony Of Repentance Of the Great Compassion With A Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes (Guan Shr Yin Bodhisattava) 12.30pm daily at the monastery. Buffet closes at 2pm when there is a chanting ceremony. Near Petronas Towers, 5-minute walk from KLCC. May 2017 reported no longer using dairy. Open Mon-Fri 11:00am-2:30pm.
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161, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 50450
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Last update on 02 Feb 2023 by thetofutravellers
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73 Reviews
First Review by gigi1033
EmilyNolan
Points +149
amazing - Edit
Amazing staff, huge variety of food, and so cheap!! Definitely recommend. Go before 12!!
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junya
Points +700
Not your school cafeteria - Edit
Food taste here is quite good - not great, but better than the average stall or coffee shop. The win is the huge selection: in addition to the buffet (maybe 20-30 dishes!), there are separate stalls for noodle dishes, mixed rice daily specials, soups, fruits, cake/cookies/buns, and drinks. If you can't find something to try, then you probably have no appetite.
Read moreBut the best part is the sight of a huge crowd dining on vegan fare. The first day, I was in awe because I'd never seen so many folks dining vegetarian. The second day, I realized I had never before seen so many adults gathered to dine on anything, as I'd left mass dining behind me in the school cafeteria. What an incredible people-watching experience - all sizes, shapes, shades, styles, and adult ages (saw no kids)! And, unlike high school, I didn't worry about scolding, punishment, bullying, ridicule, or being ostracized. Definitely a new milestone in my dining experience.
Useful to know...On the way out, I saw a sign displaying policy I wish I'd seen on the way in:
"Each person may use only one bowl and one plate to take food. If you want to go for the next round, please use the same bowl and plate."
Updated from previous review on 2017-07-21
Pros: Variety of dishes to choose from, Inexpensive, World-class people-watching
Cons: Food sells out quickly
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Walnuts
Points +87
Amazing melting pot - Edit
What a great place. It all starts with the abundance of delicious vegan food! Can't remember I've ever tried so many different types of tofu, exciting!
Read moreAround 12 the place starts to fill up and that's when the true beauty of this place surfaces. Everyone is there! People from all different ethnicities and religions enjoying vegan food together. Doesn't get much better than this.
Pros: Delish food, in abundance, Melting pot of people
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D0mmi
Points +144
Cheap and super delicious Buffet - Edit
Big and widespread Buffet that's super affordable. The most people there speak also English and are happy to inform you about the food and have a nice chat with you. Everything I tried was very delicious what really isn't the most cases if there is a Buffet. They are also open if it's the first week of moon calendar month. Always worth a visit.
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nicolawalker92
Points +26
So cheap and so good! - Edit
Amazing rotating spread of vegetarian (mostly vegan) dishes - I ate here four days in a row. Gets very busy 12 - 2 so if you can, go there around 11. I filled my plate up and had fresh coconut water for 7 ringgit. Highly recommend!
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scareglow
Points +324
vegan paradise - Edit
one of the best - if not THE best vegan food experiences I ever had. It's set up as a vegan hawkers market and you can chose from an abundance of different dishes. The selection is amazing. It's a culinary journey through South East Asia. It totally blew me away. Highly recommended.
Read morePros: vast selection, cheap, interesting cultural experience
Cons: entry might be a bit hard to find
KorShuhXian
Not really symbolize the whole South East Asia culinary.
Read moreIt's more to:-
1) Chinese (Malaysia Chinese, tweaked China and Taiwan culinary),
2) India (Malaysia version but a little lesser spiciness than local Indians),
3) Thai
4) Korean (because they got vegan Kimchi).
Malay food (Muslims' diet) is more to must-have-at-least-chicken-or-beef-or-occasionally-mutton salty dishes. Heavily chili-based especially cili padi like the chilies are free. So, it's most probably not found in this temple's canteen.
The mock meat in the canteen consist of mock chicken, mock pork, mock prawn, mock mutton but more to Chinese or India or Thai cooking. Majority of them made with the extract of soybean, mushroom stems, wheat and so on.
I think mock oyster sauce included in cooking. This is a Chinese culinary sauce which one of the extracts are from celery.
South East Asia consist of Vietnam, Myanmar (which I really like too but they presented in non-vegan culinary where they use lots of pork) and so much more to explore.
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Ayebizi
Points +264
best restaurant I have ever been to - Edit
this is simply the best vegetarian restaurant I ever been to.
Read morebig full plate of everything and beverage for only 7 ringgit.
I went there the 15th, it was buffet.
if heaven exists, it must be here.
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sglcklch
Points +2895
Pure awesomeness - Edit
There's not much I can add that's not already been said, except the fact that I wish they had a more transparent pricing system. We got two plates of different things—first one with a drink (RM2 extra) for a total of RM6.50 and the second without for RM8.50. Seemed to me certain items, presumably the fried stuff, were priced individually. Then again, we are talking about only a few RM here, so the difference is really insignificant. Bottom line is whatever and however much you pile on your plate, it's going to be cheap cheap cheap and yum yum yum!
Read morePros: delicious food, wide variety, cheap
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beancurdled
Points +1565
unforgettable KL experience - Edit
I always enjoy passing through KL for a few days when travelling in SE Asia, particularly because there's no shortage of delicious, veg*n, Indian, Chinese, and Malay food on offer in this city! Lunch at this eclectic buffet, tucked behind a temple, a stone's throw (or short walk) from KLCC, has been my favourite KL dining experience yet.
Read moreMy partner and visited at lunch time on a weekday, peak time for office workers from the area taking their lunch breaks. It was bustling! I personally wouldn't avoid going at this time. The more the merrier, I say. It's not like they're going to run out of food and the seating area is huge, with plenty of communal tables. The only problem with this is looking across at what other people have on their plates, and wishing you'd tried some of that as well! The buffet table is heaving, with at least 15 dishes on the day we were there. I have to guiltily admit that my favourites were the rich, oily, fake meats in rich, sweet sauces. There were some sort of crispy, fried potatoes which I also loved. Luckily there are lots of lighter, refreshing dishes of greens as well, so make sure you get plenty of those on your plate to balance it out. My partner doesn't really eat rice so he went without to save room on his plate (and in his stomach) for other dishes. I personally recommend taking rice to soak up some of the tasty sauces, even though it is super filling! Because we knew we only had time to visit once and wanted to try a little of everything, we totally overloaded our plates and over ate. I wished we'd had a chance to visit a few times and walked away less stuffed! I'd like to go back and try some of the lighter lunch options from the noodle stand and some of the others.
My partner did get a bag of cookies from the sweet stand. He took one bite and then put it on my plate. They were pretty much inedible. Tasteless and hard. Definitely not freshly baked. Give them a miss! There weren't many desert options when we went. They did have those fried balls of dough with sweet white or red bean paste inside and sesame seeds on the outside - always a winner as far as I'm concerned.
Pros: buzzing vibe, tasty food, huge choice
Cons: stale cookies
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Thetruthpaint
Points +63
Good Foodcourt - Edit
The foodcourt is in the plot oft the Buddhist temple! Enger through the main entrance and continue in left side oft building! Big selection oft nice food. People speak english just ask them about the food. Its self service, you pay at the end. I Bad a good filled plate plus a drink and fruits and paid 7,50 rm
Read moreAt around 12.00 it gets pretty crowded avoid if possible this time..
Pros: Big Selection, Cheap, Good
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Heather_lil
Points +74
Good food at an even better price - Edit
Tons of food options. The "chicken drumstick" was eerily similar to real meat. We also bought a bunch of cookies and two meals which came to less than $6CAD. Very impressed. Tons of seating and very bustling during lunch.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on Friday November 29, 2013
Pros: Good price, Lots of food, Lots of seating
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mikebinos
Points +165
Nobody is exaggerating : Best buffet ever - Edit
A friend who gave us the low-down on KL vegetarian food told us about this place behind a Buddhist temple within walking distance of KLCC park/mall.
Read moreWe stayed 6 days in KL and ate 3 lunches at this place. There's no reason not too, there is so much to choose from you won't get everything you want the first time.
You are charged per plate, so get as much as you want (we had just come from Indonesia, where most warungs charge you by number of dishes eaten and where eating a little bit of 4 things costs more than eating a lot of 1 thing, so our first time here we weren't sure if it was the same and only got a few things, the second and third time i think I tried 10 different dishes...).
Some mock meat but also delicious vegetable dishes. Pumpkin dishes, lotus root, so many different flavors.
THE STEAMED BUNS!
The old women making the steamed buns were super cute and excited to talk about the buns they were making. We tried the peanut, red bean, and lotus paste, as well as the cookies (great!) and the steamed cake (wow). All seemed to be made with whole wheat
After getting all this I think the price came to about 20 ringgit for two people, including getting steamed buns, which comes out to less than 7 USD. You cannot beat that for the flavors, the quality, the friendliness, the nice scene of lunchtime KLCC business-types mixed with Buddhists all eating while chanting is played over loudspeakers. Amazing place to eat.
Prior to eating we liked to walk the 1.2km loop of KLCC park a few loops, getting prepared for what we were about to do to this buffet...
Pros: insanely cheap, extremely cheap, friendly
Cons: none
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freeprincebandar
Points +305
One of top 3 vegan choices in KL - Edit
Buffet at lunch time (11:30 AM-2 PM, Monday-Friday, except holidays) with too many to count items, separate noodle station, separate healthy station, separate miscellaneous station, plus extra stuff to buy at the cash register.
Read moreRecommended: curry laksa with rice; BBQ mock meat; okra
Wed or Friday they do sesame balls (the specialty/miscellaneous station seems to do something different every day) also have vegan peanut butter cookies and most recently donuts-which were a real treat and are pretty awesome when you get them fresh off the fryer.
Money wise they're practically giving away the food
Pros: great food, many choices, DONUTS!!!
Cons: outside-hot, I've seen a rat running around
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vegetariangirl
Points +2337
Peaceful and affordable - Edit
A simple and yummy meal within a Buddhist Temple. The meal was very affordable. Lots of indignation posted on vegetarianism around the cafeteria. You can stay and listen to a dharma talk or spend some time in the reading room. Some books are available by donation.
Read morePros: Affordable, Peaceful, Yummy
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KLGuy
Points +199
Cheap price, good buffet & noodles! Value for $! - Edit
I went to this place also before I became a vegetarian and was surprised at the price & variety of the buffet & on top of that they had noodles & desserts! A calm atmosphere as it's located in a Guan Yin (Goddess of Mercy Temple right smack in the middle of town)
Read morePros: Price, Variety, Location
Cons: Parking, Closed on Saturday
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+++VeGaNiSaToR+++
Points +1004
Excellent - Edit
a lot of choice,cheap, and beautiful temple
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kool_kitchen
Points +848
The Best Buffet ever - Edit
I'm not a fan of buffets but this is a most impressive display of so many types of veggie cooking. It's incredibly cheap with amazing yummy salad options, loads of different noodle options (one had a lovely pumpkin sauce). It seems to be totally vegan as well.
Read moreLoads of different fake meat options. There was a chicken drumstick wrapped around a popsicle stick with a texture that made feel uncomfortable to consume due to it's psuedo fleshy nature. Great sauces and soups. The only down side is the rather functional cafeteria style seating and the fact that it is only open for lunch Mon to Fri.
A definate must for superb and gourmet veggie cuisine in KL.
Pros: really good value, gourmet, original
Cons: limited opening times, cafeteria style seating, only one of them need more
KorShuhXian
Yea, it's a Pure Vegan by omitting these ingredient as well:-
Read more1) Milk
2) Honey
3) Eggs
4) Garlic
5) Onion
6) Scallion a.k.a. spring onion
7) Shallot
8) Chives
9) Coriander
10) Leek
A pure vegan Buddhist diet (Northern stream).
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Petesternz
Points +1447
Great place - Edit
This is a wonderful place to eat, though we suggest coming early. We arrived at 1:40 pm, and weren't able to take full advantage, as many items had run out. The food we did manage to eat was still fresh and delicious, with lots of wonderful options. It's sort of cafeteria style. Load up. No matter how much you take, it won't cost much. This was the cheapest meal we've ever eaten, as two of us dined with two full plates, dessert (fruit) and cocunut milk for 10 RM. No point in relating what we ate, as it changes, but it was all good. No super atmosphere here (though the temple in front is beautiful), with long metal tables, but that doesn't hurt the place. It's well worth a visit. By the way, this is about 500m walk from the Petronas towers.
Read morePros: food, amazing value
Cons: come early!
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gigi1033
Points +65
you know all i gotta say is... - Edit
YUM. these bhuddist restraunts are the best, The guy we were with ordered for us, but alot of them know english.
Read moreKorShuhXian
Of course they know how to speak English. They live in the capital city of Malaysia, where lots of foreigners stop by to have meals in the temple.
Read moreJust for your information,
I was kind of shock when I met Arabians (1000% Muslims, the woman wore 'tudung'/headscarf) went in, stop by, dined, and took numerous selfies (should call as we-fies) just beside the big burning joss-stick pot!
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