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Vegan
Chinese
Buffet
Salad bar
Take-out
Asian
Vegan restaurant in the Great Valley Shopping Center. Offers an all-you-can-eat price. Has brown rice, vegan ice cream. Open Mon 11:30am-8:00pm, Wed-Thu 11:30am-8:00pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-9:00pm, Sun 11:30am-8:00pm.
85 Reviews
First Review by greggh
noodleMind
Points +22
Good, But not for everyone - Edit
Its a really good family owned restaurant that serves variety of Vegetarian Chinese food. The concept is to serve vegetarian food that looks like meat. Its really novel but not for everyone.
Read moreIf you want to try something that looks like meat but not meat, this is a place to go.
Pros: Unique Menu, Buffet
Cons: Ambiance, Too much Tofu
Guest
zteator
Points +24
AMAZING!!! - Edit
Vegan or not. This place rules. Hands down some of the best Chinese buffet food I’ve ever had. Staff is pretty cool too!
Read morePros: All vegan, Lots of options, Friendly staff
Guest
JoMilz
Points +17
Same old menu for the last 10+ years...unfriendly owners and restaurant is old - Edit
Never going back
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GuidedbyVeggies
Points +67
Favorite restaurant of all time. - Edit
Hopefully the title of this review speaks for itself! My partner and I have been coming to this 100% vegan restaurant for years, and we are NEVER disappointed! We always get the buffet, simply because their entire menu is so good. The last time we were here was during this past easter holiday ; it was our first time trying their special holiday buffet bar in addition to their usual hot & cold bars. It was sooo worth it! The vegan turkey loaf was out of this world! Our favorite items on the menu are the “chicken” balls, lemon “chicken”, bean curd salad, and “crab” rangoon ; but EVERYTHING is so tasty. They also have vegan desserts, vegan ice cream, and hot and cold drinks that are included in the buffet. I will never have a reason to stop coming here! 😊
Read moreMy partner and I have an episode all about Su Tao on our vegan YouTube channel. If you’re interested, you can check it out here! ➡️ https://youtube.com/channel/UCQ3ffXtIrXm3AkvsqUYRFbg
Updated from previous review on 2018-05-29
Pros: Best buffet ever, Extensive hot & cold bar, Vegan Asian food heaven!
Cons: Only that they deserve more business!
Guest
Ama_Rose
Points +47
Amazing - Edit
Typically I have difficulty eating out as I'm vegetarian and gluten free but not here. While the buffet has a limited amount of gluten free items there menu has plenty to choose from. The gf general tsao's tofu and "lamb" kabobs are my top 2 favorite items. Love this place.
Read morePros: All vegan menu, Gluten Free options, Friendly service
Guest
endanimalcruelty
Points +538
love it - Edit
Great food and AMAZING VEGAN ICE CREAM
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jmemelissa
Points +30
Best Chinese Food Ever - Edit
100% vegan buffet with scrumptious raw and hot options
Read morePros: Excellent food, Good value
Guest
MelV
Points +74
Great little vegan spot. - Edit
Great food. Great prices. A lot of their food in the buffet is fried, but very tasty. They have a large menu, will definitely indulge here again!
Read morePros: Lots of vegan options, good prices
Guest
stonecat
Points +1020
Great Variety - Edit
I tried this restaurant with a vegan meet up group and really enjoyed the variety of options on the buffet. However, I'm usually not a buffet person. If I go again on my own, I'd probably order from the menu. Delicious food! I saw lots of regulars stopping by for pick up and wished I lived closer.
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theresabolner
Points +20
great food, but way too greasy - Edit
The overall atmosphere of the place is very inviting, however most of their buffet food is deep fried, so if you're aiming to eat a plate full of greasy food, this is the place. Also I'd like to mention that I did not feel so great afterwards.
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Arnanbd
Points +28
Nice vegan place - Edit
Both me and my wife are vegan so this was a perfect choice.
Read moreWe took the "all you can eat" deal and found many tasty dishes in the buffet. Some of the dishes looks like meat but we were promised that everything is totally vegan.
We paid less than $30 which is very decent price.
Pros: Lot to choose, Tasty, Price
Cons: Decoration is a bit gloomy, plastic covered tables
Guest
Peta2VeganKitten
Points +20
I LOVE IT!! - Edit
As a young vegan ( 12 years old! ) I just love it here. My mother just went vegan cause she liked it here so much! One think I didn't like was this peach pie. I feel like maybe it had a strange egg replacer I've never heard of but every thing else was amazing! Just for what my mom and I ate was 22$ and with the take out we brought, it was 44$ so it is reasonably priced! Next to it is such a nice man working there! It's filled with Indian food! Make friends with him, he's super nice! Another thing I didn't like was that some of them were seemed angry, the woman working at the from was the sweetest but the other who filled my water was angry and I felt bad, but every thing was great other wise!
Read morePros: good food!, nice store next to it, large variety
Cons: angry worker
Guest
JamesAle
Points +24
Amazing - Edit
I wish I could eat here ever day, but then I would get extremely fat because everything is so good. Tons of options, all vegan and all delicious.
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veganrebecca
Points +25
Perfect place to stuff your face now and again - Edit
The selection of food here is pretty awesome. An entire buffet of vegan options?! Rare for this area. And wonderful. Keep in mind this is not necessarily the place to go when you're trying to be healthy. It is a buffet, and it is full of fried food (as well as a variety of salads and sushi). That being said, you can really get your money's worth here. If you're looking for a very comforting, satisfying vegan meal in the area, this is the place to go.
Read moreNow for the not so good. If you get there during off-peak hours, sometimes the food has been sitting awhile and it is not the freshest or things may be out and not replenished. If they are in the middle of switching from lunch to dinner, you may have to wait a bit (but at that point the waiting is worth it). Their customer service is not the worst, but definitely not the best. The "waitress" only seats you, refills your waters, and collects your used plates and she doesn't always have the best attitude, but expects you to tip well.
Overall, recommended if you're in the area and looking for a well-priced, satisfying vegan meal.
Pros: Great food selection (during peak hours), Right price, All you can eat. Need I say more?
Cons: Quality goes down in off-peak hours, Service lacking at times
Guest
Lisa.M46
Points +20
excellent variety! - Edit
The buffet is large for such a small restaurant. They had 18 different hot items, two soups, and surprisingly, 10-12 prepared salad/cold items plus fixings for a tossed salad, 4 different cookies, iced tea and lemonade. I was stuffed before I could try everything! Most of the food was Chinese. A few items labelled Indian/curry were clearly the Japanese version of Indian (which is just fine, but not quite the same). I didn't love everything but it was a good experience and I enjoyed tasting all of the different dishes. The staff didn't seem as happy as I was to be there, but they did call several patrons by name so it seems like a neighborhood place. I was there at 11:30/noon on a Friday and was the first one there but quickly there were 5-6 other folks. Definitely a place I'll go back to, not a place I'll take my picky eater children.
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veganjess15
Points +20
All Vegan - Edit
I was happy that i didn't have to worry about the food since it was 100% vegan but there were some things i didn't like. For starters about 90% of all the food there was fried which isn't very healthy and another is it is more of an asian themed restaurant, no discrimination its just when me and my mom went there we felt a little out of place. next is the smell it smells like indian food thats for sure. although i did enjoy the food, there is a salad bar too, the sushi was a little disappointing though because there were about 5 pieces of the 30 i intended on eating, after all it is a buffet i would expect more, i don't think i will be coming back, and my waitress didn't do much either
Read morePros: all vegan
Cons: fried food, smell, waitress
Hizl
Though this original review was written in 2014, I just ate here July, 2016. My observations are similar. The service is sorta non-existant (I saw our waitress napping at an empty table in the then empty restaurant). If you did not want the buffet, you'd have to work a bit to get service...Not a huge deal for me but a bit odd. I too appreciated an all vegan restaurant but like the previous reviewer, was not enamored of the hot-line and it's large number of fried items. But, to be fair, there are enough options that for the $12+, one can be very satisfied with some somewhat healthy choices. One important critique I must share is the following: when I mentioned that I thought an item tasted "spoiled", the server kinda shrugged and told me to talk to her...meaning I guess, the owner? Seated at the register, I then did gently mention to that person my observation and that I too work in a vegan restaurant and that at times these things can be a matter of tastebuds but it might be something to scope out. For restaurants, this can be a tough, maybe embarrassing situation and it is easy to be defensive. But if someone says something like that, I think one should take it seriously. In fact, I felt embarrassed as she seemed a bit incredulous but kinda agreed to see about it...Ok. well, here's this review now. Like the previous reviewer, I have no interest in going back...
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JeffBar
Points +67
Grazing in Paradise - Edit
It's a buffet, and I can eat most anything. And it's really, really good! The "atmosphere" is a bit lacking, but you'll love the food and you won't leave hungry!
Read morePros: Great food, All you can eat, You can eat all
Cons: "Modest" facility
Guest
veryvegan
Points +100
this place is always great - Edit
I'm not sure why not everyone loves it, its not 5 star restaurant fancy but plenty fine of an environment for a date or for the family. owners and staff are always welcoming and considerate. Cost is moderate to low and buffet style dinners can't be beaten, and we come from NJ!
Read morePros: Buffet, cost, selection/taste
Guest
s144799
Points +140
Good veg food - Edit
Has self serve buffet with 100% veg foods. Come during their specials; food is even better then.
Read morePros: Buffet is quick
Guest
VeganAimee18
Points +104
Good variety, not the best food - Edit
I had an overall good experience at SuTao Cafe but it was completely empty when I went with my family. The buffet had excellent variety, and I loved that everything was vegan. I was disappointed with the freshness and quality of the food, though. Everything seemed to have been sitting out for hours and a lot of the food was fried, which I don't like. The sushi was good and there was a salad bar, which I appreciated. The prices were good, but our waitress wasn't very friendly or outgoing. Overall okay experience at SuTao Cafe.
Read morePros: Good variety , reasonable prices
Cons: food wasn't fresh, not very good environment, staff wasn't too friendly
Guest
FoodAndLoathing
Points +294
A great pan-Asian buffet that is sentimental to me - Edit
So, like, when I was a kid growing up in King of Prussia, I worked one summer at my father's office in Malvern, and I was, at that time, having my first dabble into being vegetarian. For lunch, we'd often go to Subway and I'd get their veggie burger (they had those at Subway then), which were not vegan, and at that time, I really had no concept of what vegan was or that it was actually possible to be one.
Read moreAnd then my dad took me to SuTao. It was the first vegan food I ever consciously ate, and it was the best meal I'd ever had. I couldn't believe it. Here was this buffet with veggie meats that tasted and felt so much like animal meat that it actually scared me. I was legitimately afraid it was actually animals. But my father assured me that it was "wheat meat" (that's what people called seitan at that time) and I was as confounded by this as the time I was 5 and my dad pulled a chord from the phone to the computer and then told me he was typing to his friend Peter. How was Peter in our computer? And how did this food made from the same thing as bread taste and feel so much like chickens' meat? A few years later, the answer to these questions became clear to me, but they're really no less amazing.
When I go to Montgomery County to see the fam, SuTao is still the ultimate pan-Asian vegan buffet. It was a trailblazer in my life and it's still great fun. I imagine all the other young vegetarians in the area being brought there by their parents who are supportive of their new-found vegetarianism and them realizing that vegan food is even better. Way better than some crappy Subway veggie burger. Way better than cheese pizza. Because of SuTao, I always thought of vegans as vegetarians who actually cook really well. Because of SuTao, I never had the insane impression that vegan food was bad food -- rather, it was the best food!
Thank you, SuTao. You fill a happy place in my heart.
Pros: buffet, kid-friendly, been around a long time
Cons: too much good food to fit into belly
Guest
ahimsagrrl
Points +23
The best healthy vegan food you will find! - Edit
We visit Su Tao every single week. As gluten free vegans, this is the only place that offers us consistent variety and health. As a service to their allergen-conscious customers, they label each buffet item for gluten, soy, fat, and sugar contents (WOW!, thank you Susan - owner). Their cold-side buffet is stocked with fresh, whole food ingredients at all times. Their hot-side buffet offers variety ranging from healthy and tasty options to deep fried mock meat that satisfy the more 'standard american diet' folk. Truly something for everyone, and, most importantly, for healthy, happy vegans!!
Read morePros: fresh , variety, allergen-friendly
Cons: NONE! EVER!
Guest
Veggie860
Points +36
Great surprise for a vegan traveler - Edit
I was so hungry and tired by the time I reached Malvern on a recent trip that I would have been happy to find any vegan option hidden away on a menu. I was thrilled to discover the all vegan Su Tao down the street from my hotel. The dinner buffet was only $12.22 and it included a wide variety of delicious options, including General Tsao's tofu, a salad bar, lemon mock chicken, spiced yams, steamed edamame, sushi rolls, fried rice with tofu and vegatables -- and another fun surprise -- onion rings! Everything was great. The scallion pancakes were excellent too. They had bite sized pieces of pie for dessert, but the fresh fruit on the salad bar was even better. Su Tao had a nice atmosphere, friendly staff and great food. I will come back if I'm in the area again.
Read morePros: reasonable prices, Good Food, Buffet
Guest
kanojia
Points +151
Only Vegan @ Malvern - Edit
They have very nice selections for buffet lunch & Dinner. Now i know what i like after tasting different items, hence i now order specific items which are fresher than buffet items. Hence 4 rating. Must try if you thought replacement of meat from your food menu.
Read morePros: Variety , Vegan , Price
Cons: Stale
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lfusfeld
Points +350
Mediocre - Edit
It's the only vegan restaurant in the Philly suburbs, and the food is decent. I like the sushi and the yuba from the buffet, and the hot and sour soup is good. Other things can be hit or miss, sometimes seems like they sit around for awhile. Much of the food is very greasy.
Read morePros: all vegan
Cons: heavy on the greasy foods
Guest
greenbluegray
Points +1868
So excited, we stuffed ourselves - Edit
Hard to find, in the corner of a forgotten tiny strip mall, is the humble Su Tao. It was our first vegan buffet, and we so excitedly stuffed ourselves that we felt uncomfortable afterwards and had no room for the wonderful little cakes and pastries. We need to have a little restraint, but we come from a town that knows little of the word vegan. (One server we used it on thought it was a medical condition.)
Read moreLooks BYOB; would Buddhists mind you drinking? Some foods are fried, but doesn't the fact that they are vegan offset some of that?
We saw families, college students, retirees, all happily enjoying the vegan feast. This is not a fancy or romantic place, but it is amazing inexpensive for the spread you get. Don't eat the entire day before you go!
Pros: Huge array, Super cheap, BYOB
Cons: Buffet can wilt in off hours
Guest
wishuponakate
Points +29
casual date night - Edit
I went to SuTao with a date last night. I didn't really know what to expect when I went in, but I was pleasantly surprised. We did the buffet, which was a really great value. The salad/cold bar was pretty substantial. Anything from your classic veggies and fruits, to edamame, tofu salad, and grilled tofu. Their hot bar was pretty awesome too. All sorts of yummy asian-inspired foods and sushi rolls. And for dessert we had a really tasty peach cobbler. And there's always a big carafe of unsweetened iced tea! My fave. Two thumbs up, I wanna go back.
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