Ee Beng Vegetarian Food Center

I liked this place a lot. Kale, eggplant, cauliflower, cabbage, etc. Come here if you need greens. I went for lunch and the only downside was that some of the dishes were a little bit cold.

I used to visit Penang especially for Ee Beng, but this place has gone downhill big time. No more Asam laksa; the restaurant next door has closed; and they seem to charge arbitrarily based on whatever they feel like charging you on the day. Not the place I remember.

Updated from previous review on 2017-02-09

It is busy during peak hours. If one goes outside breakfast and lunch times, there is more place. They sell many Chinese vegan meat sauces/dishes in addition to vegetable dishes. And just plain meat analogues (such as "fish" inside seaweed). One can choose between rice and noodle varieties and add the veggies or meats on top. You will be charged based on the number of items. Also sweet and salty steamed buns are offered. The only place I did not manage to go back there was that it closed before I was ready to have dinner. Very tasty.

You can select an array of dishes here and combine interestingly-looking ingredients in your plate as you like. Almost all of them taste great and a few of them are extremely nicely done. Try it for a fast and simple meal, it's basically like street food for vegans/vegetarians/admirers of healthy stuff.

It's one of those super simple, canteen style places. You come and choose the items you like. Some of the ones I've tried (been there twice) were very good to me and some were just not for my taste. Those wheat meats are not my cup of tea. The potatoes were amazing though! And noodles were meh the first time but second time were ok, enjoyable. So I can't make up my mind but not a fan of this place I guess. But my boyfriend adores it.

Lots of delicious veggies and mock meats. Price was 9 RM both days for my full plate of 4 or 5 generous scoops (skipped the rice).

yooo they have soooo much ricee!! :D it's amazing! I wasn't very impressed with their food mostly because it was all mock meat, salty, and oily, even the veggies were very oily. however of that is your thing come check it out tons of options! and you can never go wrong with plain steamed rice :)

Buffet has a HUGE variety of foods, all vegan. Help yourself, have plate examined, and never pay more than 10RM.

This restaurant offers a extensive buffet with only vegan food starting from different versions of mock meat to many varieties of vegetable dishes. They also offer different chinese dumplings which is amazing. It is easy affordable and a perfect spot to have a quick and filling bite. The only downside is that they don´t have a clear system on how to price each plate. They just eyeball each plate and also make it up on the fact if you are a foreigner or not.

You can choose from a buffet with many different food and taste everything you want. It's really cool, the also have boxes for take away. Every plate full of food we took only costs between 6 and 6.50RM. :)

I really enjoyed coming here.
Food is good, people nice, Breakfast as lunch : my best place in Georgetown.

If you're not a local, expect the price to double or triple. I had less food than the dude before me, his meal was MYR 3 and mine was MYR 9? Pretended to walk out and she bumped it down to 4 lol. It's still relatively cheap though and definitely not too shabby, wouldn't go back just cos there is much cheaper in Penang but still a good feed.

It was very cheap but the price did vary from 4rm up to 9rm for the same amount of food? but you did get a lot for your money so it was okay. I found most items on the buffet delicious. We came back here many times. The mushroom burgers with hash brown for 5rm to take away is a must too!

On a second visit, plate of food costs twice what I paid 2 days prior. Mentioned that it was more, and was told "because our money is so small" aka you are a westerner so you pay. Watched Asian customers pay far less for more food. Original price was decent for what this food is.. mediocre and generally overcooked Chinese that is heavy on the soy protein mockmeat. Not worth being charged double.

The buffet has a huge selection of dishes, the biggest issue is choosing which ones to try. I sampled about 8 different dishes and all were really tasty. A few were mock meat, which can be a bit hit and miss back home but it was all delicious. My plate was piled high and it came to less than $3 which is insanely cheap. I will definitely be back before I leave town!!

Even though they list it as vegetarian, All the food is vegan. No eggs and no dairy. The only reason I won't give it five star is because it is a buffet. The lady working the register spoke good English and the food was very tasty with lots of options. I will go back again tomorrow since I am only here for three days.

I have been here twice now. There is a huge selection at the buffet, 37 items at 8:30am this morning. Everything that I had there was quite tasty and not too oily or salty. If I lived in the area I would probably go there daily.

Ee Beng has many recommendations in internet and also staff of our hostel recommended it warmly. However, even if there are good things like you can spoon the things yourselves to your plate from buffet, everything we tried was quite salty and oily in taste.