Vegan-friendly
Buffet
Delivery
Take-out
Taiwanese

Veggie buffet located at a 10-minute walk from Hualien train station. Offers all-you-can-eat for a set price. Large spread. Also sells health foods and dried goods. Open Tue-Sun 11:00am-2:00pm, 5:00pm-8:00pm. Closed Mon.


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41 Reviews

First Review by KEG1106

DanSherwin

Points +111

Vegan
14 Nov 2024

'Okay' vegetarian buffet

In my opinion, it didn't live up to the rave reviews on HappyCow / Google maps. As others have suggested, it's quite plain / oily / sweet. The price is now 299 NTD, for this price you could order a decent amount of dishes at another veggie resto. Perhaps worth a try, but I wouldn't go back.

Pros: Variety , Peanut mochi , Included drinks (teas, coffee, water)

Cons: Oily , Plain, Expensive for the quality

thesunrisedreamers

Points +1310

Vegan
13 Nov 2024

Not the best buffet

I usually love the buffet food in Taiwan but this one didn't really hit, especially for $299 per person. The food was quite oily, there wasn't many tofu dishes. But the vegetables were so oily and not that tasty? No mock meat dishes but that's okay.
There were quite a few dishes with mayo & one with cheese, so you have to be careful.
The peanut mochi and the dumplings were my favourite.

Cons: 15% not vegan, Pricey for the quality

DfortheABC

Points +77

Vegan
05 Jan 2024

All you can eat for 250TWD

Nothing more to say than that really!

GeorgeComber

Points +181

Vegan
22 Dec 2023

Omg yes

Unreal variety, everything is delicious and pretty reasonable price. You can have a full on 3 course meal here, with coffee and tea - there's so much to choose from and it's all so delicious! Mostly Taiwanese food lots of tofu and veggies with soups and some sweet soup for dessert!

Pros: Variety , Delicious, Value for money

B12mangel

Points +1115

Vegan
15 Dec 2023

3,5☆ okay~good

We went there twice. First time at the evening and second time at lunchtime. Lunchtime is more relaxed and silent. On the evening there were many people and noise.

Almost everything is vegan. Staff understands "milk" and "egg" and can show, in which dishes these ingredients are.

We liked the huge variety of different dishes. But most of it isn't much flavoured, more plain and very oily. At lunchtime i had to stop eating for a while because it was too oily for me.

In my opinion going once there for a 250TWD (~7,50€) buffet is totally fine but i wouldn't go there often.

Pros: Affordable , Huge (vegan) buffet

Cons: Oily, Plain

ReneedeHaan

Points +1394

Vegan
22 Nov 2023

Good restaurant

It was a good restaurant if you’re very hungry and want to eat fast and much. I didnt like the food very much. It was plain and unspiced.
It is diverse and much though.

Also a little shop with dry goods and vitamins.

Pros: Much variety, Quick and much

Cons: Food is plain , Mask procedure

harrisonfm

Points +681

Vegan
25 Jul 2023

Ok Buffet

Decent food options, and if you come really hungry the $250 price is right. It’s a little hard to know what’s egg/dairy though.

Mask policy at buffet is super annoying, especially when seating is so haphazard and tight.

Pros: Coffee, teas and Boba included in buffet!

RhysJones

Points +753

Vegetarian
22 Jul 2023

Buffet with good range of food

This was quite a simple buffet to negotiate. We paid our 250 dollars per person at the front desk in the shop area then grabbed a plate and started loading up.

It's an unlimited buffet which was a bit different to the pay-by-weight buffets we'd been to so far in Taiwan. It was fairly expensive, probably because of this, but it still felt like decent value for money. There was a good range of food including several tofu dishes and some dumplings. I also enjoyed the bubble tea ice lolly for dessert.

Pros: Good range of food, Bubble tea ice lolly

rmiah87

Points +120

Vegetarian
06 Jul 2023

Oily generic food, rude staff

The female staff members on duty when I walked in clearly had zero desire to deal with another customer, which made me feel most welcome (there was a man who approached me later on who was nicer, but the damage was done). Buffet is good value in theory but the food is cold/lukewarm, swimming in oil, and mostly flavourless. Also they force you to wear a disposable mask when getting your food, which makes zero environmental sense. Avoid.

Ikido

Points +153

Vegan
21 May 2023

Vegetarian taiwanese buffet

All you can eat with soup, salad, plenty of tofu and musbroom based dishes, some desserts.
No distinction between vegan and vegetarian.

Pros: Great variety, Good quality for the price

Cons: No signalling of eggs and milk

roryjt

Points +85

Vegetarian
06 Apr 2023

Great value and yummy food

For NT$250 you can help yourself to the buffet of veggie food, drinks & desserts! Seating downstairs and upstairs. I enjoyed two platefuls followed by ice cream for dessert! You must wear your mask when not at your table and this is enforced. A great place to try lots of different foods!

Updated from previous review on 2023-04-06

SalomeTischhauser

Points +75

Vegetarian
28 Jan 2023

sooo gut!

Das Essen war köstlich und das Personal sehr freundlich

Pros: viele vegane Optionen

Cons: Nichts

hokkaidohoneydew

Points +1155

Vegetarian
10 Jan 2023

Wide variety

Good selection of food. Good variety of vegetarian food.

Changyeanyen

Points +3299

Vegan
01 Aug 2022

物超所值的(蔬)素食自助餐店

位於花蓮市火車站、後站出來往左邊走6 ~8 就會看見了。内用(蔬)素食自助餐點、菜色品項眾多、多元化、價格物超所值、服務不錯。

Updated from previous review on 2022-03-13

Pros: 純素餐點品項眾多。, 精緻美味, 價格物超所值

yiheve

Points +391

Vegan
07 Apr 2021

Various vegan dishes

Really good selection,different types of dishes including Taiwanese style dessert! There is no vegan option for the ice cream, but we’re generally satisfied about the dishes

Pros: Lots vegan options, Fair price

vivsan76

Points +291

Vegan
24 Dec 2019

Awesome!

Nice variety of hot and cold dishes, plus dessert, ice cream and tea/coffee. Everything I tried was really good and the price is more than fair!

thechatonstravellers

Points +1274

Vegan
10 Dec 2019

One of the best buffet in Taiwan

You can eat inside the restaurant but only if you pay 220$ and you can eat as much as you want. We're on a budget so we couldn't afford this. So you can take food away and pay by weight. It was rather cheap. We paid 170$ for 2 (you can see the amount on pictures)

Pros: Many dishes, Affordable if take away

Cons: Have to take all-you-can-eat buffet to eat here

Elliot

Points +189

Vegan
21 Sep 2019

Simple ambiance great tasting food

This buffet restaurant was quite full and that's typically a good sign. They have a nice array of dishes and all that I tried were flavorful.

Cec_dh

Points +76

Vegan
07 Aug 2019

Wide selection all you can eat buffet

Really good selection of both more traditional and more western dishes. Lots of vegetables and meat substitutes. Was very reasonably priced- we paid 220 per person.

Pros: Lots of vegan options , Good value for money

StephanieCitra

Points +71

Vegetarian
11 Jun 2019

love!

just 10 minutes from train station of Hualian, and "All You Can Eat" 😍😍😍

Pros: lots of vegan option

Cons: quiet cheap

AnthonyBravey

Points +667

Vegan
02 Jun 2019

Delicious Tasty Cheap Buffet

I had a huge lunch here that was very delicious with lots of vegan options. They had a great variety of salad, soups, hot dishes, sides and desserts. The price was very reasonable and it is located close to the main train station.

They had a sweet taro paste topped with chickpeas that was incredible, a few of there dishes were so amazing actually.

Be warned there could be some egg in some dishes and all the ice cream contain milk.

I would definitely come back here to fill my boots with tasty Taiwanese vegan food.

Pros: Cheap and tasty., Huge variety of options.

Cons: Can get busy at peak times, Egg and dairy in some options

GillVHibbitt

Points +758

Vegan
17 May 2019

Súper variety of food. Friendly staff

Amazing selection of food. Mainly vegan. Staff very helpful in letting me know which items weren’t vegan ( only 2 ).
Very friendly.
2 nd visit tonight

drlj

Points +628

Vegan
02 Apr 2019

Great value buffet

This place was full of locals, always a good sign! The buffet was varied and tasty. Several soups, rice, noodles, lots of vegetables, dumplings, fried tofu, sushi, fruit and mochi. Several hot and cold teas. There are no English labels so depends how willing you are to take your chances. Everything is vegetarian and I easily avoided anything with egg in it. Some reviews say staff are rude. They were very helpful, they are just there to do their job, which is to keep the buffet topped up, they are not there to serve you!

Pros: Varied plentiful buffet , Very cheap

Cons: No English labels

Alinanar

Points +41

Vegetarian
08 Dec 2018

Great buffet for either lunch or dinner in Hualien

Great buffet for Vegans, all you can eat for 220 PP. cheaper for children. Very popular in two evenings we went with locals. Shows you the quality . Takeaway by weight option available

happyhase

Points +30

Vegan
07 Dec 2018

Ein Traumbufett

Sehr leckeres vegetarisches "All you can eat"-Bufett. Es gibt sogar Suppe und Eis zum Dessert. Ebenso Getränke und Kaffee. Wir werden wieder kommen!!!

Pros: All inklusive

huawhenua

Points +2769

Vegetarian
30 Sep 2018

Wide variety of food.

This buffet was somewhat busy and very noisy when I visited. There were many different dishes to choose from, although quite a few were rather oily. It seems to be a place that the locals enjoy visiting. There were also many organic and health-food products for sale inside.
Overall it's worth a visit to enjoy a basic Asian buffet, but don't expect anything awesome.

Pros: Wide array of dishes to choose from.

Cons: busy and noisy, many dishes quite oily.

AbbyKuo

Points +552

Vegan
09 Aug 2018

great price, great food! happy that i visited

mayo containing dishes contain dairy, for example, potato salad, a roll dish, thousand island dressing, are not vegan. Very delicious and satisfying

Pros: lots of vegan options, reasonable pricing, fresh

Cons: some of the dishes are too greasy




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