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Small Asian market specializing in wide variety of vegetarian mock meat products. Fully vegan July 2023. Open Mon-Sun 9:30am-5:00pm.
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443 8th St (at Broadway, downtown Oakland), Oakland, California, USA, 94607
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Last update on 16 Sep 2024 by kindlizard
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Added by eric on 01 Aug 2007
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10 Reviews
First Review by vduplessis
SarahS88
Points +2282
Kind staff, awesome selection - Edit
Awesome selection of faux meats. Lots of soups mixes, seaweed, and other options. Lovely staff.
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Gopala108
Points +3323
natural food store with vegan faux mock meats - Edit
Layonna Vegetarian Health Food Market isn't really a natural food store, but a vegan butcher's shop that specializes in vegan faux mock meats.
Read moreIf you are looking for a Natural Food Store head to Sprouts further up Broadway or the Whole Foods near Lake Merritt. Layonna Vegetarian Health Food Market has an eclectic array of vegan mock meats & to my knowledge were all labeled clearly vegan. Most are made in Taiwan it seems.
The most unusual mock meat was Vegan Beef Tendon. Special kudos for the bulk section of mock meats. I love making a large pot of vegan stew every week in my slow cooker & feel that using the bulk section here would be great to "beef" up my vegan stew a bit w/ some Vegan Beef Tendon or Vegan Shrimp or Vegan Scallops. Of course would focus my stew as always on dried beans & heaps of veggies yet the addition of some mock meats found here would keep it interesting for sure.
Besides mock meats there is miso, dried mushrooms, & noodles along w/ tofu also available in bulk.
For vegans that live in the East Bay or those that aspire to a plant powered lifestyle or flexitarans think you should come on over to experiment w/ some of the products here.
I feel mock meats are especially useful for transition foods for those new vegans yet even seasoned vegans like myself having these to accompany your home cooked meals keeps things fresh!
Pros: natural food store with vegan faux mock meats
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missmuffcake
Points +1377
Fake meat heaven - Edit
The best vegan jerky you can get is here! My boyfriend and I call it meat candy! I would go more often but parking around the area is horrible!
Read morePros: Great faux meat , Clean
Cons: Parking can be tedious
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colbyjam
Points +117
Great store - Edit
As others have noted they have tons of mock meats at cheaper prices than places like Berkeley Bowl and Rainbow Grocery. They also have some harder-to-find specialty items like vegan fish sauce (with MSG for proper levels of dankness). There is a robot voice that welcomes you upon entry and politely sends you on your way as you leave. Highly recommended.
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Aniseed
Points +5213
Vegan Mock Meat Heaven!! - Edit
Loads of vegan meats including vegan chicken, vegan shrimp, vegan fish, you name it!! Also some great ingredients for hot pot and so many fantastic products from Taiwan. They even carry my favourite Taiwanese bbq sauce that I got hooked on whist living in taiwan years ago
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aner1kind17
Points +1289
Great small local business - Edit
This is the place to find all kind of Asian mock meat products. Some I’m too squeamish to try (fake shrimp, fake seafood :/) but if you are into that you’ll find it here! I like that it’s a women of color owned small local business. They also have a great massive jar for powdered vegetable stock which is a good find given how expensive and small veg stock is in the regular supermarkets.
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m@earthville
Points +9608
Good source for fauxtein products - Edit
If you're into meat-replacement foods, Layonna is a shop where you'll find stuff you probably haven't seen anywhere else. Layonna herself is personally dedicated to the cause and used to run a veggie restaurant in Oakland but eventually decided to focus on selling the mock meat products she'd been importing.
Read moreWe tend to use these products only in moderation because many of them are rather processed and thus not entirely good for the health, but a little bit isn't gonna hurt anyone.
It's definitely worth checking out if you're into fauxtein.
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FoodAndLoathing
Points +294
Cool, unique, hole-in-the wall place - Edit
This place is kind of funny and adorable. They've got nothing but veg meats. It's an Asian store and the veg meats are all Asian, no Gardein or anything like that. They have vegan beef jerky and stuff! The veg shrimp don't really taste like anything, but they're very cute. It's kind of like eating animal crackers and being like, "Awww, it's so cute to eat these animals," all the while knowing you're actually eating something that contains no animal flesh or secretions.
Read moreI know some people are against veg meats and if you're one of them, more power to ya, I suppose, but Layonna Veg seems really unique and cool and fun to me. It's small and packed with stuff. I got some kind of slab of barbeque slices that were like ham and I put them on a Cuban-style sammy with some vegan cheese and it was not the healthiest thing I ever ate but I enjoyed it very much. No need to make any animals suffer to fill certain cravings!
VeganSingin
You seem cool!!
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LaurenMoody
Points +40
Veg meat heaven!!! - Edit
Teeny tiny store in Oakland, but a vegan mock meat heaven! You can buy just about anything mock here. My favorites are the 6 lb bag, yes, 6 lb, of mock chicken chunks. Great for stirfrys, and curries. I also love the mock scallops, thai beef, and chicken drum sticks. The also have a small dry goods section, where you can find vegan fish sauce, and yummy jerky. If you have no idea what you are looking at, the people at the register can help you, they have laminate cards explaining what ingredients in various items are. They also can tell you which items are non gmo.
Read morePros: great selection
Cons: parking can be difficult
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vduplessis
Points +72
this is place for mock meats! - Edit
the veggie chicken, beef nuggets & roast pork ROCK! worth the trip.
Read morePros: mock meat, mock meat, & more mock meat!
Cons: location, parking, hours
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