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Vegan-friendly
Chinese
Buffet
Vegetarian restaurant attached to the buddhist temple, inside the same gates. No English signage or menu but has a photo menu. Serves a wide range of vegan food from simple mushroom dishes to mock meats to elaborate banquet style dishes. Buffet at every new and full moon. Short walk northwest of city center, at Xinyi Rd, across the red bridge. Open Mon-Sun 11:00am-1:30pm, 6:00pm-9:00pm.
56 Reviews
First Review by flamekat
FrankieW
Points +3076
A true gem - Edit
The perfect place to appreciate authentic vegetarian food, prepared by volunteers in the Buddhist tradition of Metta.
Read moreExcellent and abundant food options, including some surprisingly spicy dishes.
It seems to have an exclusively buffet style dining option, with no visible a la carte on offer.
Pros: Inexpensive
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sveasvea
Points +945
Best Buffet I've been to for just 29¥ - Edit
They have salad, main dishes, soups, dessert, fruit and even sushi (all vegan) different kinds of tea and soy milk. This has a very nice restaurant atmosphere, unlike other vegan buffets which rather feel like a cafeteria.
Read morePros: Vegan, Best selection, Not spicy
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VeraKho
Points +151
many choices at the buffet - Edit
Cheap and many choices at the buffet. Please come early, to get a fresh food. A good choice while visiting Guilin.
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chinka666
Points +85
The best vegan restaurant in China - Edit
Great variety of vegan dishes for resonable price (29 rmb for all you can eat). This is best vegan place that I ate for now in my first month in China. Staff is friendly and some of them speeks english. Love it!
Read morePros: Good food, Cheap, Variety of vegan options
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Codyhoffman77
Points +23
Great variety of tasty food - Edit
Living in China as a vegan or vegetarian, you get used to not so great food, if you can find anything at all without meat. This is the kind of place that restores my faith in Chinese food... yes, there is such a thing as delicious Chinese vegetarian food!! You just often need to seek out a Buddhist temple to find it. Everything was so tasty and there was such a large variety that I wished I could have tried more but sadly I was too full! The only downside was that it was quite busy and lining up in an orderly way to get your food doesn’t really exist here, haha. Had to fight my way through some grannies to get the dishes I wanted!
Read morePros: Large variety , delicious Chinese dishes , DIY rice noodle bar
Cons: No orderly queue to get food , Though this is pretty normal in China
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GreenChris21
Points +70
Great buffet place - Edit
Huge variety of local dishes. Customized noodles and Sushi. We were lucky to get a table. Opens at 6pm.
Read morePros: Very helpful staff
Cons: Cheap. 29 RMB per person for buffet.
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shekshaman
Points +345
Great. - Edit
Awesome variety of food and even DIY noodles. Plenty of fruit in the buffets, including juices and teas. Could not recommend more for a cheap and satisfying meal. You don’t need reservations as the store description suggests. We went twice in two days :)
Read morePros: Lots of options, Great value, Great staff
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fgarvey
Points +20
Great veg buffet - Edit
29rmb, lots of options and a lovely waitress with a few words of English who was very helpful showing me round. Price includes drinks and desserts/fruit. Easy to find, just past the steps up into the temple go through the glass double doors!
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katfletcher
Points +84
Lots of options and very popular - Edit
To find this place just walk past the beautiful temple. This vegetarian buffet has a great selection of mock meats and lots of options. The teas are especially good :) we arrived at 6 which is when the buffet started so it was very busy and crowded. Nevertheless the food was great!
Read morePros: mock meats, variety of options, teas
Cons: busy
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Vegangirl7777
Points +700
Amazing ❤️ - Edit
Amazing buffet next to the temple. Costs 28 rmb for all you can eat buffet. The staff is super friendly! Lots of choice, soups, desserts, tea, hot dishes, mock meats, fruits and veggies... a must go!! ❤️ The staff told me everything is vegan, and it closes at 2:30.
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ElisabethFéline
Points +74
big choice good taste - Edit
There is a huge vegetarian buffet and most dishes seemed vegan to me. Most of them taste delicious and even drinks and fruits are included in the 29 RMD fee. It closes already at 8 so better be there in time. I have serious doubts that you could also chose from a menu. The atmosphere is something between restaurant and canteen, but therefore it's a very authentic place. To me it seemed to be open every day as I went there more than once in a row, but I don't know for sure.
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vitalvegan
Points +550
Excellent food and price - Edit
Ate here three times in late September 2017.
Read moreIt is at the first intersection towards the central Guilin train station from the Red (Orange) bridge (Lizeqiao). (Note that the red bridge looks like a grey-brown bridge at night!) The temple is clearly visible from the street. Go in through the temple gates and walk across in front of the temple hall to the restaurant.
The buffet is every day at both lunch and dinner time, not just at new and full moons. Hours seem to be 12-2.30 and 6-8 rather than 11-1.30 and 5-8. Wasn't aware of there being an a la carte menu also and don't really see how there could be as the buffet is on every day.
The buffet has a wide variety of steamed wheat bread type foods, salad components, fried vegetables, tofu dishes, soups, gruels, fruit and drinks. Extremely good value at 26 CNY per person. Fried items tended to be oily and some with plenty of chilli. Very popular and some diners very noisy. Some days there is a queue.
Can also ask to take away some foods (at extra charge).
Pros: Good food and plenty of choice, Easy to find, Cheap
Cons: A place to eat not for a quiet romantic dinner
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vh089
Points +229
awesome! - Edit
must go-to. *so* many options (although I'm not sure they are all vegan—there was one tofu looking thing that tasted almost exactly like egg with an eggy consistency), very cheap (26 kuai for all you can eat, including about 10 types of soup, juice, tea, coconut milk, dumplings, baozi, cooked and raw veggies, noodle station, gourmet station, dessert, I could go on!) wonderful staff too. just make sure to get there before 8, when they close!
Read morePros: cheap, diverse options, all you can eat
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Mimoli
Points +289
Best buffet I have eaten - Edit
Great buffet with many options for 26 CNY per person. Was very crowded with locals both times we ate here.
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Anwoody
Points +145
fabulous - Edit
A 28 rmb buffet of amazing tasty varied dishes, including sweets, teas and salads. So good that I'm adjusting travel plans to make sure I can go there again
Read morePros: wonderful food, wonderful price
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MichelleSohumYoga
Points +24
Good find - Edit
I wanted a good meal after travelling from Yangshuo. I came across this place and was able to eat a vegan buffet run by A Buddhist monastery. The food was mainly Chinese and the buffet offered many vegetable dishes, stews, teas and raw salads. We were two adults, two teenagers and a baby. The place was stroller friendly and everyone enjoyed their meal.
Read morePros: There is a monastary worth visiting just beside th, Very reasonable price. I think we paid 45 rmb per
Cons: The interior is a little shabby.
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Meghlake
Points +76
affordable, delicious - Edit
This place is amazing - cost 25 rmb ($3.84 US) per person for dinner buffet. It is super close to our hostel and the tourist area. We got there a little after 6 pm on a week night and were seated right away. Food was replenished quickly and lots of options.
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htenbos
Points +264
Best vegetarian buffet ever - Edit
The restaurant has an excellent vegetarian buffet with many many choices. Different Chinese and western salads, some types of mock meat, soups, several types of Chinese buns, teas, fruit juices and a number of different desserts.
Read moreThe buffet starts at 6pm and seems to be very popular hence you might want to book in advance or you'll have to wait until there is a seat available.
Very affordable, for a family with two adults and two kids we paid 104 Yuan.
Pros: Very tasty, excellent price , wide range of choices
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Simon B
Points +75
A popular choice - Edit
For the travelling vegan/vegetarian in Guilin, this place is as heaven-sent as its location would want you to believe; even finding vegetarian food was a tall order in the small eateries throughout the town. As far as Buddhist buffets go, the food is of a high standard, though a little more expensive than usual. It also seems to be very popular with local families, at least at lunchtimes. As the seating is mostly large banqueting style-tables, it took a while to get seated as a lone diner; groups of two or three might also experience the same problem. The buffet itself is the usual array of vegetables, tofu, mushrooms, buns, noodles, rice, soups, none of which was boiled or fried to excess. The atmosphere is the usual pleasantness associated with these kinds of buffets, though markedly more boisterous due to the number of group diners. The restaurant is the closest HC listing to the city centre, but takes around 20 - 30 mins to walk there from the bus station or south railway station. Should anyone want to take a taxi, drivers are a tough bunch to deal with in Guilin, as one can expect in a tourist town. A taxi from the bus station or south railway station to this restaurant should not cost more than 20RMB (should anyone succeed in getting a metered cab, I imagine it would be even less) - do not accept anything higher.
Read morePros: Food, Atmosphere
Cons: Seating, Location
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Annie Tang
Points +16
Wide varieties & value for money - Edit
We went on 23 Dec 2015 & the restaurant having buy 10 free 1 promo.
Read moreWide varieties of Chinese cooking style and definitely value for money.
Food were replenished fast.
Staff were friendly.
Recommended to try their Mushroom porridge which taste like mushroom soup. And do try their yummy Guilin Noodles.
Pros: Carpark available
Cons: Limited space n a bit narrow
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Wawbanks
Points +58
good food, pretty cheap - Edit
We went today and were surprised to find a few English speakers among the staff. Buffet was 33 Yuan each and the food was all really tasty and constantly stocked. Very popular and busy at 12:30 when we went but this wasn't a problem. We will eat here again before leaving Guilin
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Minni
Points +261
Ok Buddhist style food - Edit
Contrary to the description, you don't need a reservation to eat here, at least outside of season. I didn't try the buffet, only ate a-la-carte, but the restaurant was almost empty.
Read moreFood was ok Buddhist style vegetarian food, nothing to write home about, but they get only 3 cows because a lot of the menu items weren't available - "mei you". This didn't happen only to me but to the Chinese couple in the next table too. If there are one or two menu items that they don't have, that's ok, but if almost everything is "mei you", I just think it's poor managing!
Pros: food's ok
Cons: not vegan, they didn't have a lot of the menu items
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Virogen
Points +288
Amazing Quality - Edit
Really excellent food all around. Very generous portions. I had some sort of mock meat balls, Beijing-style spicy green beans, and fried rice. They speak very little English, but they have a great picture menu. Two dishes is enough for one person for sure - I couldn't finish 3... Very clean, nice atmosphere, and it's vegan.
Read morePros: Generous Portions, Excellent Food, Great Atmosphere
Cons: No English Menu
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procrastinasian
Points +273
Wonderful food - Edit
It was a little tricky finding the restaurant (you have to turn off the street toward the temple, then continue past the temple into the building straight ahead.
Read moreThere's a lot of mock meat, and as far as we could tell, it's entirely vegan. We tried a chicken dish that came with deep fried peppers and peanuts, another entree, and two huge bowls of soup, and the total came to 60 yuan. It was more food than we could manage, so we had to take some leftovers home.
It was our first restaurant visit in China, and we didn't realize that it was a no-tip culture, so we left some change on the table and left. The waitress came out of the restaurant running after us saying "you forgot your money!"
This was one of the best meals we had on our three-week trip to China. If we'd been in Guilin longer than a day, we'd definitely have gone back again.
Pros: Great food, Nice interior, Cheap
Cons: none!
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nipakolow
Points +93
Cheap and delicious - Edit
Foods are cheap and very delicious. We had our lunch and dinner at the restaurant almost everyday during our one week stay in Guilin.The noodle only cost 5 yuan a bowl and is enought for the consumtion of two persons. The staff are very polite and helpful.
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carleee
Points +16
Hidden Gem - Edit
What a fantastic find in Guilin! Absolutely delicious! Clean and beautifully set up inside, lovely staff and amazing food! Menu all Chinese but on the bottom of first page is a list of noodle bowls- they all cost 5yuan each and are huge and very tasty! Also opted for 2 of the pitured meals- one was tofu meatballs- finally my husband has eaten veggie meatballs that he considers tastier than the real thing! Well worth the walk across the bridge out of the city... especialy after having spent days tearfully gazing at caged animals outside the numerous restaurants in town.
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broadreach
Points +17
Life Saver in Guilin - Edit
Just a warning - the address is correct (6 Lijun Rd) but the map marks a location too far south (probably the center of town).
Read moreFood is good. No English, but picture menu available.
As mentioned earlier the restaurant is inside the temple. Family style seating (round tables). Great value.
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