Phuong Mai Veg - Phan Chu Trinh

yep, these 2 dishes drive me here, besides it's located quite centrally. Staff is very friendly :) And i love to look at the painting while waiting for my food :)

Lots to choose from. The pancake was huge!

Enjoy my trip in Vietnam in only 1 week, and I came here 6 days :)). I book a room in hotel near Ben Thanh Market to make it easy for shopping time.
The food is delicious, friendly staff and beautiful spaces. Beside the vegan food, you can enjoy very touching background music and awesome painting on the wall. ( They also have a painting gallery upstair )
High recommend from me. Very easy to find this restaurant if you have time in Ben Thanh Market.
See you !

I visted here 5-8-16

Not hard to find. Just east of Ben Thanh Market on side street.
Nice relaxing place to get away from the hustle.
I had Stewed Pork(vegitarian) with Veg, along with rice and a bottle of water. The dish was flavorful and filling and all for $3.33
Updated from previous review on Thursday May 26, 2016

We've eaten here so many times because it is in a central location, but I have to say despite the servers' great service, the place is pretty average. The food is pretty bland in general, every now and then a meal comes out which is really tasty, but far too often, it's just not worth it. The meals can take more than 45 minutes to arrive as well. This place is generally clean. The music is Buddhist chants and there are large paintings around the downstairs restaurant.

One other thing is the parking guys outside can be pretty frosty and often try to get you to pay even though you don't have to. But the friendly staff inside make up for that.

I just arrived from Cambodia today where I didn't like most of the Food, so I was really happy about this Restaurant. It's very Close to the Benh Tanh Market and Looks quite expensive/chic from the outside.

staff are super friendly and my waitress spoke good english.

most mains are about 45'000 Dong. I ordered the "Mien Mang" and a Cup of hot green tea for 5000 Dong. no Service Charge. I was happy with my noodle soup: taste was different than anything I've ever had but (very) good. Portion was good size. quite a lot of veggies and fortunately not that much mock meat (i'm not a big fan). the broth was tasty too. they served me beansprouts on a separate plate. green tea tasted different than what i'm used to too but was good!

i got my Food after 5-10mins, so very fast. Service was efficient. i even received a wet tissue before.

wifi didn't work. i'd go back there!
Updated from previous review on Wednesday December 30, 2015

UPDATE: I JUST CAME BACK FROM EATING THERE. MY DISH WAS 45'000 BUT I GOT CHARGED 52'000. YESTERDAY (31ST DEC 2015) THEY DIDN'T CHARGE ME FOR USING THE WET TISSUE THEY PUT IN FRONT OF ME (IT WAS FREE!), THIS TIME I HAD TO PAY 2000 DONG WITHOUT KNOWING.
AND NOW THEY ALSO CHARGE 10% VAT!!
I WAS TOO SURPRISED TO REACT WHEN I GOT THE BILL. I SHOULD HAVE ASKED WHY BUT I JUST PAYED AND LEFT.

and to be honest: i got the dumpling noodle soup. my soup contained 2 lousy dumplings. i expected a few more.
therefore my new Rating is way lower, sorry!

I've just eaten in this place. I found this to be a reasonable positive experience.

The point raised by other reviewers about the pro vegan signs in place being at odds with dishes listing (for example) butter as being among the ingredients. There's also pizza on sale and while it may well be that the cheese is vegan, there is no indication of such on what is a menu of a very extensive list of dishes. Similarly there's a lot of coffee on sale advertised as being with milk. There's no indication that the milk used is anything other than the default milk used (i.e. cow's) in any omnivorous eatery across this earth. Do the owners think mistakenly that the words vegan and vegetarian are synonymous? I don't know.

Fortuitously when I hoovered in I did so with a Vietnamese and pictorial representation of what vegan is. The quietly pleasant waitress read the text and I tried to use the pictures to highlight the point about no milk products, no egg products, no honey. Her English is certainly way better than my Vietnamese. Whether the message successfully got through, I certainly can't make any guarantees.

I wasn't overly hungry so I went for a papaya salad. This was nice enough. I also went for something I don't recall seeing before, namely fruit spring roll. This turned out to be very interesting. It came with an oil burner with a small underneath to the melt chocolate to be used as a dip.

The bill came exactly to the 84 000 dong that I expected it to. There was no service charge.

The decor of the place is quite nice. If though the manager is considering any sort of refurb, he needs to ring the HCMC branch of Walter Wall Carpet Fittings to get those completely worn out on the way to the kitchen & bathroom replaced.

The sound track to the place was piano music of what seemed like familiar western songs ('country road take me home' was one I defo recognised). The piano playing seemed a little over done to me but what do I know (sod all probably). I didn't feel it added anything to the place. This is a trivial point though.

Rating out of 5 for me is a spin up between 3 & 4.

The dishes were small and not very tasty. Two different dishes that were ordered were just the same dish. The cost for what you get does not really makes sense. We left the restaurant hungry and not happy. Better avoid it.

This place is somehow trying to be a bit more UP MARKET! But I decided to give it a try as the food is still cheap!

Dishes lacked any effort at all, portion sizes were too small and I just found the whole experience a bit.... Meh! After receiving the bill I was serviced charged an extortionate amount.... Asked the staff why?! And told them I did not enjoy the food, they had nothing to say to this At all! Disappointing... I won't be going back.

Had bun cha gio today which was average... Portion size was a little smaller than other places I've been to. Convenient location for people staying near backpacker area.

Some dishes are vegan, and some contain cheese & milk. There is a sign on the wall indide the place that says 'Vegan restaurant'. Not true. Deep fried spring rolls were really miserable.

Everything on the menu is mushroom-based. Even the unlikeliest things and those that specifically omit "mushrooms" from their descriptions. Literally every dish on the menu is comprised of a bowl or plate of mushrooms topped with whatever you though you were ordering. If you like to eat all mushrooms and only mushrooms, this is the place for you. You will love it. If you aren't a huge fan of mushrooms or prefer a different headliner for your meal, it's probably best to avoid this place.

I can't stress enough: absolutely everything on the menu is primarily mushrooms with a tinge of various flavours added secondarily.

They have a "western" section that features cheese-heavy entrees (presumably with copious mushrooms) if you feel like giving that a shot and don't mind entirely defeating the purpose of eating at a vegetarian restaurant.