• Guang Yi Vegan Restaurant - 廣一素食餐廳

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  • White Vegetarian
Lacto
Ovo
Buffet
Take-out
Asian

Vegetarian restaurant with a buffet and an option to order from the menu. Please note the restaurant is not vegan - ask staff about vegan dishes. Open Mon-Sun 11:00am-2:00pm, 5:00pm-8:00pm.


5 Reviews

First Review by MaxwellBarstowe

MarieNguyenBenford

Points +743

Vegan
25 Dec 2024

Tasty, inexpensive vegan buffet

All communication about being vegan and managing food allergies was done via Google Translate as the English menu was not fully translated/comprehensible and no one spoke English. However, via the cook’s animated gesturing when our picks were not vegan, we somehow ended up with 3 tasty vegan buffet trays with rice and 5 sides. Though this is a vegetarian restaurant, many of the choices were in fact vegan. The food was cold, except for the rice (choice of black or white), but still quite good. Had it been hot, I might even say «delicious». All of this for 225 TWD (or $6.88 USD). #Veganuary

Updated from previous review on 2024-12-25

Pros: Inexpensive, Lots of choices, Local food

Cons: Communication unclear, No drinks (that I saw), No desserts (that I saw)

lanshark

Points +58

Vegan
26 Nov 2024

Vegan menu (add egg if specifically requested)

There’s an option for most menu items to add an egg if you want but they don’t add it unless you specifically request it.
It’s both a post by weight buffet and a regular vegetarian restaurant with many options. They know which fake meats have egg (one that’s deep fried and breaded) but most of them are vegan.

I ordered a curry coconut milk ramen. It has cabbage, Shanghai book choy, oyster mushroom, king mushroom.

Pros: English translated menu available, Generous portion, Pay by weight buffet

CatherineArmstrong

Points +24

Vegan
13 Oct 2024

Great veggie and vegan food

Great restaurant for vegetarian and vegan friendly food. The owners are lovely, we were stood outside trying to translate the menu when the lady called us in and sat us down with an English friendly menu. We had the coconut curry noodles and I ordered the hot and sour hot pot. I didn’t realise the size but the portion is huge for the price and it was so delicious! There is so much choice of great food, I wish I had more time in Chiayi to visit again. Highly recommend.

Pros: Hot and sour medicinal hot pot, Coconut curry noodle soup

Timbobimbo

Points +19

Vegetarian
29 Jun 2024

Hands down best vegetarian food in Taiwan

Amazing buffet of varied insanely good vegetarian food and a super nice owner. They also have a menu of different vegetarian meals which we didn’t try but they are presumably delicious. Will definitely come back if we’re ever in Chiayi again.

Pros: Buffet, Rice to add, Lots of tofuey morsels

MaxwellBarstowe

Points +1096

Vegan
20 Jan 2023

Nice sit-down restaurant

*NOTE* this is not a vegan restaurant as the name says, but a vegetarian restaurant.
Found this place from google maps and it was easy to find. Staff were super friendly and let us try free samples of the radish cake. We didn't try the buffet and instead chose to order a few dishes. The "soup dumplings" weren't exactly what we expected, they were dumplings...in soup. Our fault I guess for not clarifying. Other dishes were good but not amazing. The staff were very helpful to point out what on the menu wasn't vegan.
The place was pleasant and clean. There seemed to be a pretty good business of people ordering buffet for take-away.

Pros: Lots of good choices on the menu or buffet, Staff were friendly

Cons: Clarify with staff what a dish is before ordering




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