Vegan-friendly
Indian
Fast food
Take-out
Indo-Chinese
Serves Indian and international vegetarian food plus sweets and drinks. Kitchen makes soy milk based cheese and yogurt sauce. Est. 2015. Relocated from Nguyen Dinh Chieu. Hours are irregular - call ahead. Reported to serve non vegan items September 2023. Open Mon-Sun 9:00am-10:00pm.
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16 Huynh Thuc Khang St (at Big Chill Food Court), Phan Thiet, Vietnam
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- Outdoor seating
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- Accepts credit cards
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Last update on 26 Jan 2024 by hummus_sapiens
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93 Reviews
First Review by MeikoNeuman
RotemMozes
Points +354
The best place in mui ne! - Edit
The food is very good and the kitchen is open and clean.
Read morePros: You can also do a vagen cocing class of cheeses
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amyy
Points +146
Absolutely delicious - Edit
The food here is really good and they have veggie options of basically everything. They even have sour cream and proper cheese (for the vegetarians!)
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somogyi.zzz
Points +41
Professional - Edit
This is one of the best food I ate so far in Vietnam. I visited the restaurant twice and ordered dahl, samosa and ice cream. If you are looking for something, which was made by real cooks and looks nice on your plate, you won't be disappointed! Forget about the cheap buffets and taste some real Indian food here. The owner is super friendly and passionate too and the prices are very reasonable for such a good service!
Read morePros: Many options, Friendly staff, Great food
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Vegetate
Points +331
Lots of variety - Edit
Such a big menu to choose from! I really enjoyed their peri peri potatoes and the tacos!
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Tjasa&Tadej
Points +84
Very good food and lassi!! - Edit
We ate at this place a few times and came back for lassi. It was delicios! The owner was very friendly and helpful and the food was delicious as well. We liked that it was all vegan. They make their own vegan cheese! Definately a very good choice to have dinner at!
Read morePros: Amazing lassi, food and very friendly staff
Cons: None
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FrankaWijngaarden
Points +19
Best meal of my life - Edit
I am not even exaggerating when I say this was one of the best meals I've ever had. The gravy momos and cauliflower bites were beyond delicious and the owner was very nice. A lovely experience!
Read morePros: The food, The owner was really nice, Good wine
Cons: It is 12343 km away from my home
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Chaya.cho
Points +64
Very good taste, a bit pricy - Edit
The place was very cozy and the food was really good.
Read moreGuacamole not that good and they gave us very little but the rest was great.
The price a bit more expensive than normal place but it's okay.
KayjusSingh
Thanks for your valuable visit to el Cafe.
Read moreGuacamole is made from avocado. Which is all year expensive and fragile fruit. Even not everyone like avocado fruit. Sometimes we get back in empty cutlery.
You ordered nachos which comes with the side sauce only. If you love guacamole in big motion? We have guacamole 25.000vnd for 150 gm. In our menu.
If you talking about normal place (Vietnamese rice vegetables places) for sure but it's okay.
Salad are 2.6$ USD,
Drink 1$ USD
Snack which you order 2.6$
Food you order is 10$ for all.
Happy to serve you ?
See you again.
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LaeticiaBetrancourt
Points +308
Delicious - Edit
We had a burrito, and a chimichanga, which is a fried burrito, with banana chocolate soy milk smoothies, and everything was delicious, especially the chimichanga. The price worth it
Read morePros: Variety, Really tasty
Cons: A bit expensive
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bimala108
Points +31
Delicious! - Edit
We've been travelling through Myanmar and Vietnam for a month and craving some familiar food! We're so glad to have found El Cafe on Happycow as it was delicious and the service attentive. We had the Shahi Paneer and the Palak Paneer - all their "cheese" dishes are all vegan except for the parmesan which can be easily left out of anything! It was soooo good! We also ordered the Garlic Naan and steamed rice. There was enough leftover to have lunch tomorrow also. Large servings, delicious fresh food and great value!
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Rouban
Points +41
Great international food - Edit
Nice place in a calm area. Many dishes to choose from.
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Tuulia.
Points +831
Tasty but small portions - Edit
We tried the Mexican Salad, the Falafel Plate and some Tacos with two dips. The taste was good but considering the portion sizes it’s all a little bit expensive. The staff is friendly, the ambiente and the variety of the menu are great. But not everything on the menu looks vegan so make sure to ask yourself.
Read morePros: variety of dishes, modern place, friendly english speaking staff
Cons: small portion sizes, a little bit more expensive
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sophie.lec.03
Points +24
Delicious - Edit
Super good food! I would go back anytime😄
Read moreKayjusSingh
Thanks you so much for your rating.
Read moreHope to see you again. ?
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kelseyjaynex
Points +2953
Has potential - Edit
It’s in a big modern outdoor area with tons of seating, but there’s no music or atmosphere and when walking past many times it was always empty. The menu seems too ambitious for its own good, it’s massive and there’s SO many different international dishes on there how can it be possibly to execute them all properly. Peri peri chips were pretty good, but then we had quesadilla and falafel plate which we didn’t like at all. Quesadilla was doughy and pretty flavourless (not thin & crispy on the outside, cheesy on the inside), the falafel had a weird texture and the hummus tasted funky. The creamy sauce and salad were good at least.
Read moreWe asked the waitress at the start if everything was vegan - no cow’s milk and she said yes. I’m still not fully convinced though, as it’s not mentioned anywhere, and if it is actually vegetarian with vegan options there should be some clear labelling.
I hope this place succeeds, just wasn’t our cup of tea.
Pros: large outdoor dining space, good portion sizes
Cons: expensive (mains around 90k), the dishes we tried were not tasty
KayjusSingh
It’s in a big modern outdoor area with tons of seating,
Read moreYes, correct we have seating of 350 people but there’s no music because we have loudly Russian neighbors who play a music loudly everyday. May be you haven't care about that. We also think that every place have music with loud speaker, so why not one place in muine with peaceful atmosphere, where peopl can feel different from another places. We might put the music if we get more customers request. The area is newly built, less than 3 weeks of opening, that's the reason its looks empty.. people will get to know slowly. The menu huge and have something for everyone. It's our old menu with add on more new dishes on customer request. And it's good that people have a great choice of meatless food. We have dishes from 13 different countries. And each dish is chosen only after perfection in result. As you order plenty of dishes. Peri peri chips is the only one dish we have from Portugal. And we doing really good into that. I saw the picture you posted of quesadilla and falafel plate which we didn’t like. We really dont like Quesadilla doughy and flavourless, so after reading your review , we understand how to lift up the dish and we did already. Thanks for that. falafel can't be crispy inside or can say can't be crunchy, its because its fried from outside only. I saw dish picture. The hummus we re-check and didnt found any complaint.
Our waitress have all the information about each dish. We produce 6 typed of different vegan cheese by our self. These cheese we use only in our cooking - no cow’s milk or any animal product. To make you fully convinced?, we invite you to our cheese processing field any time. Mon & Thursday. We didnt mention it’s because once we wrote vegan text and find that vegetarian people didnt like ot. Sp we back to vegetarian tag. But everything is vegan. Our place is succeeding more because we have lots of time and space to focus on demand on vegan and vegetarian customers.
Thanks you so much, A Big one..
Hope to see you again.
kelseyjaynex
Thanks for taking the time to respond, you obviously have a lot of care for your customers. Glad to hear you’ve revised the quesadilla recipe too. Good luck with everything!
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Veggie_friend
Points +606
Mostly vegan (not all) - Edit
The girl serving us told us that the menu is old and much is veganized with (home made) cheese. Mostly of cashew. There are still a few non- vegan dishes (pasta, just ask about this). Our Quesadilla did not look the same as on the first picture above and didn't taste like real cheese. But was okay & truly vegan. We went here tree times and we loved the amount of choices. Most of the dishes were a bitt small, so we mostly ordered three. The salads are clean and simple, the falafel is good, the Mexican food is okay and the Nepalese food is yum! We love that they don't use a lot of oil except with the fries. Oh and the banana chocolate and coconut chocolate milkshakes are delish!
Read morePros: Lots of vegan options, Vegan milkshakes and fresh juice, Three kitchens to taste from
Cons: Some dishes are not vegan
KayjusSingh
Hello and thanks for your review explaining with experience straight after the above review. We recently change the recipe with cashew parmesan for pasta. In Quesadilla we work with a change after above review. That's why it's different. Its didn't taste like real cheese. It's just because of our home made vegan cheese recipe and 100% vegan. The main course dishes are bigger than snacks and starters. Everything we make only at the time order comes. That's why its takes a minutes for serve fresh and delicious. In the Mexican food we made more improvements and bring it upto perfection.
Read moreThanks your valuable review
Hope others guest find it helpful
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Happysoiboi
Points +1049
So many options! - Edit
I had one of the Indian dishes and it was great. I also got the falafel dish but the servings were very small and not very tasty. There are so many amazing options on the menu it's very over whelming!
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Selonyx
Points +1120
The food here is unreal - Edit
All the food here is so tasty and delicious you definitely have to come here if you get the chance!
Read morePros: All vegan , Lots of variety
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thechatonstravellers
Points +1274
Excellent mais non vegan - Edit
Je suis allée 3 fois dans ce restaurant et j'ai adoré chacun de mes plats, l'assaisonnement est parfait !
Read moreAttention le restaurant comporte des plats végétariens j'ai demandé au staff (produits laitiers dans la salade grecque et certains plats de pâtes)
Pros: L'assaisonnement des plats
Cons: Non 100% vegan
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rosieho
Points +60
Delicious hummus - Edit
We had falafels with hummus, French fries and a bit of salads. Besides, the Budda bowl is a bit bland, (carbs, fat and protein are not well combined)
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annaha
Points +30
Delicious - Edit
The food took just a few minutes and it was very good! We asked the staff if the cheese was vegan, because we read in the reviews on happy cow that many people thought it wasn't. They told us that it is and now that we tried it we are sure that it is! It didn't look or taste like real cheese but it was delicious, also the falafel were very good.
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Jordini
Points +260
Tasty but also vegan doubts?? - Edit
We really did enjoy our food here. We ordered the korma with a garlic naan and the quesadilla. We were informed by the staff that it was all vegan, but like other reviews on here I’m not totally convinced. Either the cheese is not vegan or these guys are making the most realistic vegan cheese on the planet. It smells, stretches, and tastes in all the ways I remember cheddar does. Would love to know what it’s made out of. Maybe publishing some of the ingredients could help relieve some of the doubt by questioning vegans. The service probably needs improvement. The korma came out a good 15-20 minutes before the naan and the quesadillas so my girlfriend got stuck with watching me eat. Food is good though, I would come back (but maybe avoid the cheese to be safe)
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peripateticvegan
Points +242
Amazing Vegan! - Edit
The El Cafe is located in the Mui Ne food court. I spoke with the owner last night and she assured me that everything, even the cheese and yogurt, is vegan. They have a wide selection of international meals: Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern. Yesterday I had a Mexican bowl and a Mexican salad and both were healthy and delicious. I'm waiting for my Mexican burrito as I write this! And the most amazing thing: the cheese is the best vegan cheese I have ever had. The owner says that her head chef makes it. I can understand why a previous poster thought it wasn't vegan. But the owner assures me that it is.
Read moreIf you are in this area you MUST eat here. I'll be here for 5 days and will probably eat every meal here as the variety is so huge and the food so good.
I believe the previous poster should go in and change her review to give El Cafe the five stars it deserves, since the poster was wrong about it not being vegan: Happy Cow verified that it is all vegan.
Pros: All vegan, well priced, Delicious and healthy, Huge variety of international food
Cons: None!
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AlexKolb
Points +441
I can’t believe it’s not cheese! - Edit
Visited this restaurant hoping to find a vegan establishment. However I am pretty sure that what I recently ate was dairy. I spoke to the staff and was repeatedly told it was vegan. I even asked to see a sample. It was a tub of what looked like grated cheddar. It smelt, felt and tasted like Cheddar. The product even melted just like cheese. I really hope this is not dairy as it is the perfect substitute. I just can’t believe they are making such perfect substitute sour cream/cheese/ice cream etc. Please show us proof how this is made as my apprehension really put me off my food. Overall the staff were lovely, food was okay, vegan tofu salad was great but the cheese put me off. Again please show us proof, alternatively sell this product in the UK/Europe you will make millions.
Read moreCons: Pretty sure that the food is not vegan. , Be careful, Please see my picture. Is it cheese?
KayjusSingh
Thanks for your visit,
Read morePlease welcome to our cheese production house at
EL CAFE INTERNATIONAL VEGETARIAN FOOD
1 bis nguyen thi minh khai distric 1, HCMC.
Timing 12 pm to 3 pm
Day - Monday & Thursday
We will teach you how to make and use it according to different dishes.
What ever amount you will learn and make? We will allow you to take with you.
Our customers beleive and enjoy our own hand made plant based vegan cheese is the most important than any thing.
Cooking class is chargeable
25$ USD per person which includes
- 2 types of cheese in first batch
- 2 types of cream.
- include all indigridents for making cheese
- include all one time use tools
- recipy notes.
- way of use
- hygine preservation time guide lines.
Restrictions -
Not allowed Any type of Camera, Mobile Phone.
Not allowed any type of nail paint, body perfume.
You will see and make with your open eyes.
For reservation please call
+841688114838
Thank you so much
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DavidJesseWood
Points +88
Peri peri fries 🙏🏻 - Edit
We are here many times because the food was so good. The peri peri fries are a must try! Awesome setup in this foodcourt where you can also order Vietnamese craft beers! Many of which are on tap.
Read morePros: Craft beers
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JasmineTowne
Points +106
Tasty Food - Edit
I'd definitely recommend trying one of their juices! I had the lemon/passion fruit and it was amazing! Medium sized portions too.
Read morePros: Vegan Options
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VictoriaSt
Points +431
Meh. - Edit
Vegetable korma didn't really taste like curry, but more like random vegetables with a bit spicier tomato saus. It was still pretty good, but not what I wanted. The naan was just tasteless. They added tofu for free when I asked though. I think the menu is just to big. They try to make everything, but do a medium job at all of it.
Read morePros: Tasted healthy
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Takumi
Points +58
不錯吃，葷素共食很方便 - Edit
在 Dong Vui food court 裡面,
Read more只有這家是素食，其它還有幾家有提供素食選項，
菜色風格國際化，如果吃膩了越菜，可以來這換換口味，青花菜濃湯好喝，串燒也很好吃
Pros: 菜色豐富
Cons: 有點小貴，還其實還好
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VeggieJane
Points +63
Lots of choices - Edit
Had the veggie burrito, which was very tasty and filling (not proper Mexican style but tasty). There is so much to choose from here with a wide range from salads and soups, Mexican food to Indian. Left feeling satisfied and price not bad for a tourist trap.
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