• CLOSED: Shì Dào Sùshí 釋道素食 - Qiū Mama

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  • White Veg-options
Fast food
Take-out
Taiwanese
Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Run by a woman referred to as Qiu Mama, which is sometimes what locals call the eatery. It's a small shop by Guanghua Market. Menu offers rice and noodle dishes and a few other sides. Chinese writing only. No longer fully vegan as of Oct 2019. Reported closed, Feb 2020.


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6 Reviews

First Review by JeppoMAX

iokan

Points +1751

Vegan
22 Oct 2019

Tastes like cigarettes

Arriving late in Taipei, I wanted to eat at the closest vegan place to my hotel. This turned out to be "Qui Mama". It's located in a small back alley, full of other small restaurants. The place looks downright dirty and my first thought was: "this is food poisoning waiting to happen".

Since everything is written in Chinese, I had to go on the photos on Happy Cow. The owner, Mama Qui herself, doesn't speak English and when I showed her my phone with the Happy Cow listing she called a man. He also didn't speak much English, but enough to confirm "no meat" and "big or small portion"? Then Mama Qui said: "MONEY".

I didn't choose anything from the menu, I think "the man" did. He selected noodles with fake meat in some broth for me. The fake meat tasted the way cigarettes smell (although there was no one smoking in the restaurant). I think it was made from mushrooms, but at one time I bit a hard part which could have been a seed (and mushrooms don't have those). The noodles tasted dry, even when scooped right from the soup.

Perhaps if you go here with a local who can read the menu you can get decent food at Mama Qui, but for a tourist who just arrived in Taipei this isn't a good start for what is supposed to be a culinary tour.

Pros: cheap

Cons: fake meat tastes like cigarettes, noodles have a dry taste, place looks disgusting

giruja

Points +1251

Vegan
12 Oct 2019

Super local, mostly vegan (?) eatery

This place is listed as vegan, but there were non-vegan items on the menu (bivalves)... I mean I know some vegans claim bivalves are "debatable" but... biologically, zoologically, factually, they aren't plants, so... um, yeah.

Anyway I had a noodle thing and the taste was pretty nice, but this place isn't exactly tourist friendly - I wasn't their usual clientele (local regulars) and I think my clumsiness amused the owner lol! I told her the food was delicious afterwards and she just dismissed me with a wave of her hand lol ;-)

Pros: yummy local food

Cons: not totally vegan?, no english menu

ValenLondon

Points +792

Vegan
10 Jun 2019

Nice local place to eat

We have the vegan version of beef noodles that are very typical in Taiwan and we loved them! The aunty is really nice and helpful! No need to speak English or Chinese as her food is amazing!
Thanks aunty!

Pros: Everything is vegan

denn

Points +553

Vegan
20 Mar 2019

Okay food

I had noodles and fake meat stuff, it wasn't great but it was 90nt so....

Veqing

Points +148

Vegan
27 May 2018

Lovely local food

You take a menu in and sit down, contemplating what you are going to get while not understanding a single word on the menu - that’s the local experience! Just pick a few mysterious items i guarantee you won’t be disappointed ;) tip - the boxes on the menu is showing different types of flavours while first item in a box is normally rice 飯,then soup 湯, then noodles 麵/面, then thin rice noodles 米粉,then transparent green bean noodles 冬粉, etc. Bon appetit😊☀️

Pros: Vegan yuuums, Cheap, Local food

JeppoMAX

Points +685

Vegan
07 May 2018

Basic noodles

I was in the area and had seen this listing so I checked it out. They seem to have a few noodle dishes as well as the rice/sides thing; my I had one of the former and it had very little flavour, but it wasn't super oily which was nice. Could've been cheaper, but some other dishes were, not that I knew what they were!

Pros: authentic, not drowning in oil

Cons: some dishes very plain




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