Highly recommended! The taste is great, big amount of food and you can choose how you want your dish to be :) the basic meal is 65 rmb and it's on the 5th floor of the iapm mall at Ban Ban, by Sproutworks in Shanghai
Hippie in Me at Ban Ban, by Sproutworks in Shanghai
Nikkei Sensation at Ban Ban, by Sproutworks in Shanghai

  • CLOSED: Ban Ban, by Sproutworks
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  • White Veg-options
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Salad bar
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Non-veg

Serves meat, vegan options available. Casual eatery from the Sproutworks team doing DIY bowls. Choose your base (quinoa-rice blend, kale salad, or soba noodles), then protein (the only veg one is tofu), and then flavor; each comes with an array of veggies and toppings, zesty sauce combos, and mounds of fresh herbs. There are also sides, soups, and desserts, and a condiment bar. Near metro Shaanxi Nan Lu (lines 1, 10, 12). Reported closed June 2020.

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6 Reviews

First Review by Pelouse

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alienvegan

Points +4972

Vegan
28 Jan 2020

Great bowls

When I lived in shanghai I loved this place. Hidden inside a mall, a build your own bowl cafe. The vegan sauces and condiments were fantastic.

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Points +21334

Vegan
17 Oct 2019

Ban Ban

It’s an OK option if you’re working in the area. I wouldn’t recommend going out of your way to eat here. I appreciate healthy options are offered. No one spoke English, so I basically ordered exactly as suggested on HappyCow. I would have known what to order otherwise since they serve meat. I had the quinoa rice base with tofu. It was good but basic.

Update: I got the same thing with cold soba noodles instead and it was much tastier.

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axussa

Points +119

Vegetarian
22 Jun 2019

Healthy and fast

Nice bowls for 68 kuai. Had The hippie in me and was delicious. Might not be cheap for a lunch, but anyway it’s impossible to find cheap, high quality and healthy food in china. Would come here again

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smitsen94

Points +412

Vegan
11 Jun 2018

Good and healthy

I like their set up menus. Services healthy and fresh choices. But I like another ones more

Pros: Healthy , Clearly see vegan or not

Cons: Expensive

Hippie in me with smoked tofu’s and pumpkins at Ban Ban, by Sproutworks in Shanghai

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Shanghai Sally

Points +302

Vegan
16 Mar 2018

delicious hippy bowl

I come here whenever I can and I’m at Iapm for lunch. I have a small baby and there’s room for her and it’s quiet if I go early around 10-11. The vegan bowl ( there are two but I have the not spicy cashew miso sauce one) is really yummy - pumpkin smoky tofu kale etc. it feels healthy and super fresh. I’m so glad this is here - it’s a quick delicious nutritious lunch stop for me.

Pros: quiet in the morning , healthy, great flavours and lots of extra optional toppings

Cons: a bit expensive but I think worth it

Avatar Pelouse

Pelouse

Points +380

Vegan
04 Sep 2017

Great quality bowls with many flavours

Although their build-it-yourself bowls are slightly more expensive than HG, the number of sauces and dressings offered to create your own flavours can turn the same bowl into a complete different experience every week. Great choice if you are wandering around that mall without knowing what to eat.
As an environmentally-focused vegan, I wish they stopped giving plastic straws automatically with their drinks. How is that good quality, if you have to drink from cheap plastic?
I suggested having other kind of glasses (not so narrow) so that the straw is not needed. I don't think they listened.

Pros: high quality, fresh, flavourful

Cons: not cheap, plastic straws

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