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Vegan-friendly
Chinese
Take-out
Asian
Catering
Malaysian
Tian Ci (Heavenly Compassion) offers Chinese and some Malaysian vegetarian dishes, daily yum cha. Food is vegan, but desserts are not. Confirmed closed Sep 2018.
17 Reviews
First Review by Lea
davidyatesau
Points +93
Sadly now gone - Edit
Loved it here. Sadly it’s now gone
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VanessaCullen
Points +43
Go for the mushrooms - Edit
Very friendly and attentive service. The Buddha's Feast chef's suggestion dish is a delight - lots of fresh broccoli and mushrooms without an oily sauce.
Read morePros: Mostly vegan, Very good service
Cons: No indication of gluten free items on the menu
Guest
CaitlynE
Points +110
Yummy yum cha - Edit
Tian ci had very lovely food and nice service. The small restaurant made it feel like home.
Read morePros: Lots of vegan options, Well priced, Good location
Cons: Cash only, Service can be slow, Parking can be tricky
Guest
GaryM
Points +18
Love the food here - Edit
A great little place , an amazing selection of dish's . Staff are friendly and attentive , went with non vegan friends who loved the food also . Prices were reasonable ,would definitely eat here again if in the area .
Read morePros: Everything is vegan , friendly staff, huge selcetion of mock meat dishes
Guest
Lozcriston
Points +842
Decent Chinese Take Away - Edit
Ordered rice and the cashew chicken stir fry. Cost $22.40, which I thought a bit pricey for the amount of food given. Tasty enough though. Would be interested in trying their yum cha. Cash only.
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VanessaSprout
Points +84
Amazing little place - Edit
We loved everything we ate, the prices were reasonable and a lot of the food we couldn’t have guessed if it was or want vegan!
Read moreWe are so impressed with this little place and the great service too.
It’s cash only!
Pros: everything
Cons: cash only
Guest
thecriclover99
Points +152
Good variety and friendly service - Edit
I love the complementary oranges & biscuits at the end of the meal.
Read moreFavourite dishes:
Tom Yum Noodle
Pineapple Fried Rice
Mongolian Kebab
Pros: Complementary Oranges, Complementary biscuits
Cons: Expensive
Guest
Steph13
Points +22
Best vegan restaurant - Edit
Always friendly service and all (but 3 items on the dessert menu which have dairy listed) are delicious and vegan! The Mongolian kebabs, satay chicken skewers and 2 course duck are the best!
Read morePros: Friendly staff , Amazing food , Reasonable prices
Guest
Happychillieat
Points +74
reasonable price with 5* service - Edit
Very friendly service, as soon as the waitress heard the clinging sound of our tea pot, she immediately came and refill with hot water!
Read moreThe food was alright, have had better vegan dim sum elsewhere, but very reasonable price for what it is. Spent $30 for two person.
Pros: service
Guest
leonardhall
Points +321
one of my favs - Edit
This is our favourite vegan Chinese restaurant in Sydney. Make a booking as it can get packed. All of the dishes are good. I've put up heaps of photos for you to check out. Restaurant has a small family business kind of feel. Highly recommended.
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sarah992
Points +209
taro fish - Edit
taro fish isnt good. i like taro but this tastes like glue. but havent tried anything else so will come back again.
Read morePros: almost all vegan, nice staff
Cons: taro fish is gross, some dairy products in desserts
Guest
Mslanei
Points +890
hidden gem! - Edit
It would be easy to miss this place on an otherwise urban street. Inside the staff are welcoming and lunchtime is popular. As another reviewer mentioned, the steamed pork buns are very tasty. There is a large menu, varied dim sum, and a bargain specials board.
Read moreThe food is very tasty. It's Chinese style with lots of mock meats. The portion sizes are good. Would definitely come here again.
Pros: tasty food, cheap specials
Guest
Harvestmoon
Points +28
Great Food! - Edit
Love this restaurant for its food, we stop by for lunch every time we are in Sydney. Reasonably priced, and meals are a good size.
Read moreThe only massive downside is the way the staff 'hover' over you while you are eating. I find it really off-putting. It's like being an exhibit on display for them. They watch ever so closely, waiting for that last piece of food to leave the plate, and they swoop on in, take it away and the process starts over. I guess if you live locally takeaway is always an option.
Pros: Delicious food, Reasonably priced, Good sized meals
Cons: staff behaviour somewhat off-putting
Guest
Fingercuts
Points +289
huge selection - Edit
One of the better Chinese vego restaurants in Sydney. Big menu selection of fake meats, prepared and served in the method of the corresponding traditional meat dish.
Read moreA rare gem in Sydney, definitely worth visiting.
Friendly helpful staff can help with menu selections. Menus in Chinese and English.
This place does not serve meat.
(Don't know why the title says "maybe closed" - the place fed me in November 2012)
Updated from previous review on Thursday December 06, 2012
Pros: good food, interesting food, good value
Guest
MaitreyaBelmore
Points +416
NOT YUMMY Yum Cha - Edit
I went to Tian Ci on a strong recommendations of a friend who said they have the best vegetarian yum cha in Sydney. So off I went with a great expectation, but the yum cha dishes fell awfully short. Firstly, you have to wait more than 30 mins to get the dishes out. When the dishes finally arrived, they don't look as good. The har gau (vegetarian prawn dumplings) looked frail and the pastry looking not fresh and broken, then the taste was just absolutely bland and not fresh. The same thing happenned with their sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf, vegetable dumplings, and the vegetable BBQ pork buns. Really disappointing. Later I had a strong feeling that those yum cha dishes were probably already frozen and heated as ordered. But why took so long to serve? I have tasted much better - the best yum cha is still Green Gourmet at Newtown!
Read moreAnother day I came at around 2:30pm and the waiter told me that the kitchen already closed (well they wrote their closing time is supposedly 3pm) and the chef could not make anything for me. After I begged (since I had to travel 1 hour to get there), the waiter finally agreed to cook one dish for me but not to dine in, but only to take away. I chose the lunch special, crispy soy chicken with rice. It looked good and tastes good too. But I felt disappointed by the service and the yum cha.
This is a thought:
Opening a vegetarian restaurant is supposedly not for profit, but more to promote vegetarianism/veganism by giving convenience to fellow vegetarians/vegans and people who started to learn to be a vegetarian. We are doing our bits to contribute to this earth, and since we know being vegetarian is still quite difficult for most people, vegetarian restaurants are there to provide convenience so more and more people will be willing to be vegetarians, right? But why, most vegetarian and vegan restaurants have to open late at 11am and then to closed between 3pm-5pm? This is not a total convenience for some who did not have time to lunch by midday. Maybe because there is only one chef in the kitchen? But it does not make sense...... Think about this, restaurant owners! You carries a noble task to propagate vegetarianism to everyone! So do it with all your heart! If your motivation to open a vegetarian restaurant is profit, then you are absolutely lost!
Pros: Good lunch specials
Cons: Terrible Yum Cha, Half hearted service
Lanky
I have a couple of points:
Read moretry adding some salt. Food at many vegetarian reataurants taste bland because they go way too low on salt, thinking that that is healtheier.
I have a question, if they dont make profit, how do they pay the rent? how do they pay their staff? how do they pay themselves?
Also, it should be noted that the second half of your review is completely nonsensical... if profit were their only motivation, then they would serve you without hesitation at 2.30pm. The fact that they close for a couple of hours shows that rest is more important to them than making a couple extra bucks.
Guest
anindha
Points +25
Nice Place - Edit
All the dishes I have had there have been good. The steamed 'pork' buns are my favourite. Good yum cha selection. Really good service.
Read morePros: yum cha, service
Cons: only cash
Guest
Lea
Points +415
Good for yum cha - Edit
This is where we go for yum cha since the tragic closure of Pitt Street Vegetarian. You order what you want from the yum cha menu and then the dishes come out one or two at a time at regular intervals. You need to be judicious in ordering - some dishes are a bit greasy and there is a predominance of fried foods and not many vegies available. Haven't got around to trying the non yum cha dishes yet.
Read morePros: Yum cha
Cons: Lots of fried food, Not enough vegies
Guest
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