Dou Dou - Qing Buffet

this is london, and where else can you find all you can eat buffet for £5.90 at lunch??? ( and £6.90 at dinner) amazing value, great variety and really tasty. food is definitely not good for you and some of it is a little oily but it's so delicious- first time I've had vegan sesame prawn toast!

This Veg Buffet is nice and has a good selection of items to choose from. The cafe is pleasant and the price is very reasonable. I will definitely return.

It's a simple place and for just under £6 you can eat as much as you like at lunchtime safely knowing it's all vegetarian - can't fault that. There was quite a variety, lots of mock meat, but yes, very oily as many people have mentioned. Not a bad place to go when you're low on money but want to eat a lot.

Really good for the price. Food is really tasty!

It's an all you can eat buffet with quite a lot of food and a reasonable price. Service are friendly and leave all the time you want to spend in there.

I went as a raw vegan knowing it wasn't the right place, but I could choose a few things like fruit, cucumbers, tomatoes, a couple of salads that were raw (cabbage, carrots, etc.).

I recommend it if you love chinese fried food and are very hungry and don't want to spend much money.

Quite a large selection, lots of fake meat options. Really tasty. Fairly cheap (£6.90 each all you can eat). Obviously not fine dining but when you want loads of Chinese food it's perfect!

The restaurant has a very low hygiene standard. The lady in the kitchen was coughing and then spat into a bucket on the ground. Food is really poor quality and the floor looks like it hadn't been mopped for years.

To call it a salad bar may be a stretch. However it's cheap, and if you want fine dining it's not the place for you. But grab a pot and go.. This is your place. Chinese buffet.

Buena relación calidad/precio , también me gustó la comida pero había muy poca variedad , de postres casi no había nada.

Updated from previous review on 2016-08-31

Really cheap restaurant. I mean cheap ambiance, cheap service and cheap quality food. The owner was refilling the food with a big dirty plastic bowl as if feeding hogs. I also noticed that they seemed never to give bills to clients. At least not to me. The owner just muttered out 10.35. With my fatigue after my flight, I actually gave her 14 by mistake. No appreciation, no change, she just said, "that's correct!" But that's wrong from every aspect! Restaurant like this should be closed as soon as possible to stop further damaging the reputation of vegan and vegetarian diary.

A small all vegan restaurant where you can either stay in for an all you can eat buffet or take away.
The price is really cheap so if you are very hungry and like Asian food this might be a place for you.
They offer many meals with meat substitutes so this is a matter of taste thing since some vegans just don't like the taste.
It tastes quite real though, so it might be something for those who like it but don't eat it because of ethical reasons.
All in all the food tasted nice but rather fatty.

I do recommend it when you have a low budget and are hungry. :-)

A massive selection of Chinese foods. First there's the soup (admittedly I have never tried)
Then there's the starters area with prawn crackers, toast, dumplings, fried potatoes.
Next to that there's the cold salad section full of vegetable salads, noodle salads and tofu salads (I'd say about 6/8 to choose from) and here you'll see some fruit for pudding too.
Then there's the hot food area with some delicious noodles on offer, rice, veg and mock meat dishes to choose from (sweet and sour, red curry, green curry, mince dish, black bean and then just hot vegetables).

All the food is vegan (not labelled), however, the staff do not know about the alcohol so best stick to branded beers you know are vegfriendly.

I saw an allergens poster on the wall beside the soup so you can check yourself for any other allergens.

Once service charge is added you pay about £8 a person for food, cash only.

I was there at 12 on the dot as I had. a train to catch.
there was initially odd moments when I arrived and wasn't really spoken too. there seemed an assumption that I might be a regular and no on really spoke to me, and I didn't have a clue about the set up.
the food looked good and there is a huge selection of fried foods, cold dishes and hot buffet
the food I had was okay but not spectacular, and although it's good value i left full but not satisfied. too reliant on mock meat and not enough vegetables for me, and it felt a bit oily. the place is fine for lunch, but I wouldn't recommend to a friend as it's okay, but not great.

I've eaten here twice in the past couple of years and I actually really liked the food at Dou Dou. A fellow vegetarian friend pointed it out as it's easy to miss as it's on the "other" side of the camden town tube station. Once you know, it's actually really easy ;)
The variety of food is great and I liked the mix of starters and main dishes and also cold/hot food. I usually eat too much at buffet places, especially when I find something that's really yummy, so, that's what happened. don't wanna complain about it though ;) Really liked the dessert section, too!
Service wasn't extraordinary but nice enough. Tea was nice too. It's not the poshest place but I found it rather charming.
Not the best asian place I've ever eaten at but definitely will be visiting again!

I wasn't really sure what to expect when I entered Dou Dou. It was so quiet, small and almost seemed a bit deserted. The atmosphere was really odd. No one came over to greet my friend and I as we entered. We had to just find a seat and help ourselves without being asked if we wanted drinks or anything of the sort.

Unfortunately, I have coeliac disease so I had to ask if they had any gluten free options. They genuinely had no idea what gluten was or if any of their food contained it. So I had to 'take a gamble' and hope for the best. I got lucky that time but I don't recommend this place if you have coeliac disease.

All in all, the food was nice but the atmosphere was a let down.

No frills, nothing fancy but good selection of vegi food. Our favourites were the fake chicken sweet n sour and the sesame toast which were quite addictive. The fake beef was surprisingly good.

Went here last night, managed to down 5 plates of food and get a guava juice for £9.25! All the food was amazingly tasty, although the noodles and rice were a little oily when they brought out fresh batches. overall amazing buffet

Wonderful veggie place not far from Central London in the Camden area which is already worth visiting anyway. Great choice of dishes, all really tasty, with a multitude of sauces to choose from. The all-you-can-eat buffet is the cheapest I've seen, and a takeaway box is even cheaper.

It doesn't do desserts other than fruit but maybe they're just trying to be healthy :P

This is a perfect place to eat out when the pennies are running low! The food is good and you get to eat as much as you like with everything being mostly vegan!

The takeaway boxes are especially good at only £3.50 making it a cheap yummy takeaway treat :)

The food is average buffet quality, however it is all vegan and tasty enough. It is also excellent value for the area, being roughly £6 per head. Would visit again and recommend.

In American 'Dou Dou' means shit. I could find far worse adjectives to describe this joint. The bare minimum I expect from a restaurant is hygiene. This place fails to supply even that. We found 3 hairs in the food over the course of our meal. Disgusted, we told the waitress,to which she responded 'its an open buffet, we have no control over it. ' she didnt even remove the hair. The waitresses showed attitude, failing to apologise for our terrible experience. Flavour preference is subjective but all four people who ate with me here would support me in describing it as flavourless, greasy and pastey. I would strongly deter anyone from wasting their time and money here.

Firstly the food isn't great. It's average. The best vegan food place I've been to by far is the now closed down Zen Garden which was near farringdon station. The food at this restaurant is pretty bland and the tofu used in the black bean sauce is too rubbery in texture. My biggest gripe with this place is that there was food all over the floor when I came to visit around 3pm last week and the restaurant was empty but staff made no effort to clean the floor! The downstairs toilet was in horrendous condition too! Very damp, murky and one crappy lightbulb for 2 cubicles and the sink area! The restaurant could definitely do with some modernising and better quality ingredients sourced.

I go to Dou Dou pretty frequently as I work near by. It's one of the best Thai/Chinese all you can eat places in London, the other above average one is in Shepherds Bush. There are loads of different faux meats on offer, lots of vegetable dishes and it's very nearly all vegan (the tempura and prawn crackers are the only things that are not). The quality has improved a lot over the years and is now consistently good. Some people may find it a little greasy and some people may not like the heavy use of garlic. For London it is cheap, even though they add a 10% 'service charge' to the advertised price (the restaurant is self service, although the staff are very attentative and friendly). A good cheap option.

This Buffet is right next to the Camden Town Underground Station. I always go there when I am in Camden, since it offers great value for very little money. The choice of dishes is gigantic, there are so many nice vegetables and a great number of hot dishes including tasty fake meats. Furthermore, there are veg tempura, roasted potatoes and very delicious spring rolls.
The staff is very friendly, one feels really welcome there and the atmosphere is very lovely and cosy.

I lunched here yesterday. My opinions are generally in line with the majority of the reviewers below.

I asked what was vegan friendly and was told everything. There were 6 or 7 hot dishes in 1 part of the buffet and on another counter was salad items (including some great sea vegetables), spring rolls, crackers & soup.

The food was great, the service polite and efficient, the atmo was fine.

I'd be more than happy to eat here again.

Great choice of Thai and Chinese dishes, lots with fake meat or tofu. Just like Thais used to to. Very good value food and drinks.
Staff were very friendly.
Updated from previous review on Sunday June 12, 2011 to delet a comment about the map being wrong (as it has been updated)

I had lunch today at Qing. The restaurant is a rather cosy and tastefully designed. The food is quite delicious, and the selection is amazing. I filled my plate twice with an assortment of mock meat dishes, noodles, vegetables, and salads, and finished my meal with an assortment of desserts and fruits. My only complaints were that I felt some of the dishes were bit too salty, and some of the dishes were could have been kept warmer. I would recommend this restaurant for a fast, tasty, and inexpensive lunch.

Big variety on the dishes and perfect for a looong lunch.

Qing has the biggest vegan buffet in London. The variety is enormous. One cold buffet with salad, one warm buffet with noodles and soja and some fried tofu and spring rolls.

The service is very friendly and the location is comfortable.

If you are vegan - that's your place !

Found this place via the Happy Cow app and was pleasantly surprised. Pretty much everything was vegan and even though a few dishes tasted pretty much the same, for the location and price you really can't fault it and everything did taste really good and fresh. We came rolling out all fat and happy. Will definitely go again and probably make it a regular thing whenever we visit Camden.

One little piece of advice. The menu says green tea with free refills, which we expected to be along the lines of other Asian restaurants, but what they actually mean is free refills of boiling water to your one teabag. We took ours out the cup and then almost got charged again.

While visiting London, this little place was discovered quite by accident. I had originally set out to find another place listed on Happy Cow, but was delighted to find this gem.

The prices were good. It was under £15 for two people, which seems very reasonable from my visit to London. The selection was good and all the dishes were being filled as patrons went back for more portions. There were many soya meat options, but also plenty of options without mock meat. I especially like the steamed broccoli and dumplings.

The staff was very friendly and even offered a banana dessert to my friend's daughter, on the house.

Tai buffet is one of my staple eating places. I won't say it's a resturant, because it's not. It's a place where an extensive selection of vegan "meats" and deep fried snack foods are piled up, ready for you to load onto your plate for less than the price of a Travelcard. Wash it all down with as much green tea as you can stomach then waddle home feeling like you've just snogged your mate's boyfriend but it felt soooooo good.

Yes, it's another one of those run of the mill buffet places that you find ubiquitously situated throughout London. Pretty good value, but the food does all taste the same, and somehow, inexplicably, a bit "wrong." Can't explain that any better! All you can eat for about £6, so can't complain about the value.