Vegan
Chinese
Thai
Buffet
Fast food
Take-out

Jay vegan restaurant near Chinese temple. Choose from many ready-made dishes on their buffet. No garlic or onion used. Open Mon-Sun 7:30am-6:00pm.


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24 Reviews

First Review by RinaEva

risajanda

Points +950

Vegan
02 Feb 2024

Hesan

I ordered non spicy dish and everything except the rice and pumpkin was spicy. Soup was great.

Pros: Price

Cons: They don't know what they cooked

Chris1082

10 Feb 2024

Well the Thai idea of spicy and non-Thai can be different... They cook the dishes to the Thai taste as practically all of the customers are Thai. If you truly want not spicy food you can order your dishes cooked fresh. You will receive one dish but a larger quantity if ordered :)

Kaya&Brad

Points +1484

Vegan
13 Jan 2024

Great place

Similar but different to all the other vegan/jain food available on that street. Lots of mock meats, she will tell you which ones are spicy (if you don’t line spice DO NOT have these) delicious

Updated from previous review on 2024-01-07

Pros: Price, Portion , Taste

Chris1082

10 Feb 2024

Jain food is Indian food which although similar in being vegetarian without garlic and onion Thai vegan food is Jae "J". Its quite easy to get it confused as they do sound similar.

dominik.pietryga

Points +1316

Vegan
09 Nov 2023

Incredible taste of Thailand

Wonderful food, a lot to choose from. We have visited twice. Tried different things, basically always extremely delicious. The earlier you come the more choice you have. Available to take as 'To Go'. And it's also very cheap!!

elyamentar

Points +1926

Vegan
23 Oct 2023

Disappointing

After having been to the same jay buffet all my holiday here, on the last day, I decided to try something new. Prices are twice as high as at Jiya Chai, although still technically inexpensive. Also I likely just made a bad choice. They have a lot of meat and fish substitutes, and what I believed something like seitan tasted like algue/fish. At the other restaurant tho, I practically couldn't miss, everything always was super tasty.... no matter what I took.

Idk. Wouldn't come here again, but it's likely up to preference.

happylen

Points +26

Vegan
03 Mar 2023

Vegan, not vegetarian

The buffet offers a wide range of vegan food, also a lot of mock meat. Everything is vegan, the staff speaks english and told us everything is without egg, milk or meat. In addition to that it‘s pretty cheap, really clean and super delicious! Would definitely recommend it!!😄

Pros: Cheap , English-speaking owner , Delicious

vegangyy

Points +752

Vegan
23 Jan 2023

Authentic

Awesome flavors. Super authentic. Tons of options throughout the buffet and extremely cheap.

dcchris

Points +153

Vegetarian
15 Aug 2022

My daily place so its gotta be great :)

I eat here every day. Actually take away with my own container. Get there early before 1pm if you want fresh dishes. Earlier the better. Have brown/red rice too. They can speak a bit of English. For me the best in Phuket... My favs are the peow wan (sweet sour), phatang (pumpkin), pak kin (ginger tofu). Prices - 3 toppings with rice 40 baht. Fake meat dishes are extra. Oh and they normally have red rice and sometimes the lovely burberry. Update. Prices have gone up to 50 baht for 3 toppings on rice. Fake meat is extra as always. Still consistently great quality

Updated from previous review on 2021-04-07

каринджон

Points +209

Vegan
09 Aug 2022

Good options and tasty

We paid 40 Baht for rice with 2 toppings😄They offer free water and a lot of mock meat. Dishes can be very spicy but they warn you in advance.

Pros: Everything vegan , Friendly staff , Cheap

damianferro

Points +375

Vegan
26 Feb 2022

Very nice food

Cheap (40 bat for one dish of your choice), flavorful and many different options in the buffet. Including quite a big selection of fake meats!

Updated from previous review on 2022-02-26

miep

Points +159

Vegan
23 Dec 2021

Great spicy thai-chinese vegan restaurant

To much too choose from the buffet, everything is vegan, colourful and spicy. Love the brown rice and the TVP 🌶 sauce dishes. A plate cost you between 50 - 75 Bath. Drinking water for free and a small shelve to buy vegan products to take home.

Pros: Clean, All vegan, Spicy

BenLeo

Points +19

Vegetarian
16 Aug 2020

Plenty of options

Plenty of options. Chinese/Thai style

Pros: Cheap

Littleriches

Points +70

Vegan
17 Dec 2019

Normal food

manychoices , taste is average

Pros: many choices, not very expensive

Cons: not super tasty, bad service

JasmineEmma

Points +891

Vegan
11 May 2019

Tasty, spicy and cheap!

Huge range of vegan jay foods, it is so hard to choose! There isn’t any English labelling but they speak some English so can tell you what things are. I had various mock meats and a spicy curry, all delicious! A plate with rice and 3 toppings was 65 baht so great value. The mock meat was so yummy and convincing - especially the fish!

Pros: Lots of vegan options , Cheap

ThrivingHerbivore

Points +135

Vegan
08 Mar 2019

Great selection Jay

Some really good dishes most with a lot of spice. Had soy meat dish, taste and texture exactly like chicken (if this wasn't Jay would be worried).

4 dishes, 2 rice, 2 buns, 1 water bottle 140B

Pros: Big choice

Cons: Not a problem necessarily but very spicy.

oskeewowwow

Points +744

Vegan
10 Jan 2019

Point and Choose Jay Buffet

Many options, nothing was labeled, not much English. 100% Jay food was excellent. We went with 5 people including some meat eaters who liked it.

Pros: Many options, All vegan, Good location in Phuket Town

Cons: No labels, Minimal English

Cocogirl

Points +153

Vegan
07 Jan 2019

Ok.

A buffet with choice but some of the items were tasting old... Plus charged a lot more compared to other similar places. Still relatively cheap though. But not my best one at all.

VeganFoodQuest

Points +1463

Vegan
22 Jun 2018

Hesan Vegetarian

We love this place. One of the biggest jay buffets we have visited and it is always really busy as close to a temple. Pretty sure the name is 'Hesan' and i've just uploaded a picture of the sign outside. This whole area comes alive during the annual veg fest and this restaurant must serve hundreds if not thousands of customers each day...

dcchris

10 Feb 2024

Yes its jammed during the festival and I'd say from years of experience living in the area that its the one place where the quality of the food is consistently great even during the festival although prices do go up. I recommend go there during the festival more than the pop up shops on the street if you want quality.

allyandlouis

Points +109

Vegan
19 Feb 2018

best vegan local cuisine

Clean, cheap and so yum! Best restaurant, We have been eating here every day and will continue till we leave Thailand. Great food and the ladies are friendly and lovely. Big variety spicy and non spicy. It’s a very clean place. Highly recommend! It gets 6 stars!

Pros: variety, vegan, cheap

HC2017

Points +24

Vegan
27 Jan 2018

Best Vegan Thai So Far

After being in Thailand for 1 month and Phuket 3 weeks I had the two best vegan Thai meals of my trip, Hands down. Worth the trip out away from the beach. Had two meals off the menu not the buffet. Awesome and cheap

Jackp

Points +56

Vegan
19 Dec 2017

Nice vegan buffet

Nice, clean vegan buffet. For those that know what vegan buffet looks like, this one is definitely cleaner and nicer. Dishes taste good, but cold if you come at the wrong time, which is normal in Thailand... Overall really good buffet and they understand some English.

Kukski

Points +76

Vegan
23 Jun 2017

Cheap vegan food!

Really cheap cluster of vegan restaurants. Once we discovered it we ate there until the end of our stay. No cover over food - flies were landing on it, and my shawl went in one of the dishes when I was pointing at one at one point! Can't be beaten for value for money though. Probably not any worse than most cheap Thai street food/restaurants on food hygiene. Great to see not one but around five 100% vegan restaurants in a row!

We had rice and two or three sauce/tofu/vegetable/faux meat toppings. One of the restaurants also had a small shop area and some lovely coffee flavoured (soy?)milk drinks in their fridge for only 10 baht each! Also bought a powdered soy milk mushroom drink to bring back from our holidays.

Some of the dishes were very spicy but they pre-empted our poor choices by warning us of spicy ones.

Pros: Cheap!, Large selection - lots of options, 100% vegan

Cons: Flies crawling over food, Some very spicy dishes (need to ask)

RubyBadu

Points +27

Vegan
12 Feb 2017

delicious - but a little spicy

They have a variety of foods to choose from, including curry and some fake meats. Price starts at 30b, but can increase a bit depending on what you get (I paid 50b). A good tip that I read below (too late), is check which dishes are spicy. Their spicy is /really/ spicy.

m@earthville

Points +9252

Vegan
26 Feb 2016

Buddhist temple cuisine

Her San is part of a cluster of veg buffet places near the Thai and Chinese Buddhist temples in downtown Phuket. The selection here offers a little more variety than average, so there should be something for everyone. Language is not a barrier, as one can simply point at the dishes you would like.
Updated from previous review on Friday February 26, 2016

RinaEva

Points +600

Vegetarian
17 May 2015

Many choices of food

Restaurant with buffet and big choice of vegan food. This is Jey-restaurant, it means no animal product, onion and garlic. Food is good, ask about non-spice dishes. No air-con, free water.




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