Vegan
Take-out
Asian
Vietnamese
Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant in a busy strip mall. Offers an extensive menu with many mock meat dishes. Food is supposed to be all-vegan. Open Mon 11:00am-8:30pm, Wed-Fri 11:00am-8:30pm, Sat-Sun 10:00am-8:30pm. Closed Tue.
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10804 Bellaire Blvd Ste E (at Lion Square), Houston, Texas, USA, 77072
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42 Reviews
First Review by TexasVegan
fondducoeur
Points +1167
Excellent Vegan Chinese - Edit
I visited Quan Yin while on a business trip to Houston and really enjoyed it. The menu is huge, and filled with many items I used to enjoy before going vegetarian 9 years ago, such as cashew chicken, orange peel chicken, kung pao chicken/shrimp, etc. I had the vegan sweet and sour pork and hot and sour soup. It was so much food and all delicious. The soup especially impressed me because I used to really like that as a non veg. And I thought since it was under the appetizer menu it would be a small portion, but it could have been an appetizer for a whole family (I actually wish they had a smaller option because it can be hard to deal with leftovers while traveling). The sweet and sour pork was delicious, but note that as at many Americanized, standard Chinese restaurants, there were really not many veggies with my protein dish (some pineapples and slices of green pepper). Anyway, this is not a health food establishment, nor is it fancy, but I had an excellent meal very reminiscent of non vegetarian Chinese meals I used to eat.
Read morePros: Delicious faux meat dishes, Huge Portions, Extensive Menu
Cons: Not many veggies with faux meat dishes
Guest
veganqueen
Points +64
Tasty Vegan at a great price, huge portions - Edit
Quan Yin is 100% vegan deliciousness! I have dined a lot at this restaurant over the years and was so happy they went 100% vegan a few years ago. The flavors are superb and very authentic. Their House Special Fried Rice is the best in Houston. You'll love the Vegan Pho, the Orange Peel 'chicken', the Veggie 'beef' Gai-lan, the authentic Vietnamese-style spring rolls, and the sizzling veggie 'fish'. It's great to know everything is vegan and you don't have to ask about ingredients. If you go on a weekend, there is such an eclectic mix of customers. The servers are very sweet, even when they are extremely busy. This restaurant has been around for over a decade and you can see why. Vegan thumbs up!
Read morePros: Vegan, friendly staff, good price
Cons: sometimes long wait if really busy, not greatest part of town
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cookiemonster_ontour
Points +167
Great fake meats and flavors - Edit
My husband I are vegans and this place is close to our offices. We go here once in a while for lunch, usually for some fake meat dish. I call this type of food 'comfort food', because it tastes really good. You can get a Peking duck and dumplings all vegan and you wouldn’t taste the difference. This is a place where some of my carnivore friends compromise going to.
Read moreHealth wise I would be careful. You will not find brown rise or grains. The vegetables are usually not the base of the dishes, but added for flavor. If it is fried or deep fried it can be oily of course.
Again, I love that places like this are available. They helped me transitioning to being a vegan and are still my 'once-in-a-blue-moon-treat'. Nutritional wise this should probably not be your main food source.
(They are closed on Mondays.)
Pros: great fake meat replacements, friendly service, 100% vegan
Cons: not very healthy diet
Guest
gokartmozart
Points +47
Loved everything I have ordered - Edit
I don't go in for the faux meat but the Vietnamese dishes I have gotten were excellent and very reasonably priced. My wife does usually get the faux meat soups, and she likes them. Wait/cashier was quick to attend and refill waters. Kitchen was fairly quick (given their extensive menu). They are closed on Mondays.
Read morePros: Good Vietnamese dishes, Price, Reasonable wait for food
Cons: Not in my part of town, Closes at 9pm, Closed Mondays
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alxsrbraun
Points +135
Great food - Edit
Food is AMAZING. Their salted tofu dish is among the best tofu I've had anywhere! And their cajun soup is great! Personally, I stay away from anything that has vegan squid in it (I pick it out of the cajun soup), but other than that their food is amazing!
Read moreUpdated from previous review on Tuesday March 05, 2013
Pros: Food can be AMAZING , Wide menu, All vegan
Cons: Sometimes service is not great
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pennylane
Points +254
yummy - Edit
I will go back just for the Quan Yin soup
Read morePros: Vegan
Cons: far
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windysgarden
Points +154
Delish Vegan - Edit
I had the pleasure of finally making it out to Quan Yin. This restaurant had been on my short list for like, two years!
Read moreWe had six different dishes: spring rolls, fried mushrooms, sweet/sour soup, tofu curry, spicy eggplant, and stir fried bean sprout dish. They were all very good. I especially like faux meat - the vegan ham and beef were very good in the stir-fry. I think the highlight was the soup which was so fresh and full of flavor. Every dish was delicious. I definitely plan on going back.
Pros: Fresh, Variety, Vegan
Cons: Small wait staff, TV in background
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gr8d8
Points +39
Disappointed - Edit
Oh my where do I start... My husband and I had been trying to get out to Quan Yin for a while after hearing so many good reviews about it and it is so close to Loving Hut and Pine Forest Garden which we frequent a lot, so finally we decided to have lunch there this Saturday afternoon and words can't describe our disappointment. Maybe we had our expectations set too high? We ordered the fried dumplings, chicken curry, and kung pao chicken. Dumplings were drowining in oil but after drying them off in our napkins they were good; First, no choice of brown or white rice... the chicken curry was breaded (??wha??)strips of soy chicken product with what seemed like frozen peas and cubed carrots as the veggies (so few we could count them)in a disappointing dreary sauce, the kung pao I asked for not spicy which it wasn't, which was nice, but asked for broccoli (which was $2 extra to add broc...?) but the vegan chicken seemed like it was just warmed in a microwave and un-or very under-cooked. I was just puzzled the entire time. I couldn't believe this was the place everyone was gushing over. I was wondering if we were in the right place. The service was beyond slow and we were one of three occupied tables. I ate about 4 bites of the kung pao and actually didn't even want to take the rest home which is insanely rare for me because I am a HUGE leftovers person who hates wasting food. [edit by staff]
Read morePros: vegan
Cons: microwaved food?, slow service, bland
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rvasquez
Points +243
My absolute favorite veggie restaurant!!! - Edit
It's all about the fake meat! There are so many great options, that I don't know where to start with the recommendations. I will say that my personal favorites are the chicken fried steak and the chicken with onions. They have new menus now that tell you exactly what is vegan and what isn't. And they have a vegan chicken that can be used as a substitute in all but one of the "chicken" dishes, you just have to ask for it. Eggless eggrolls and fried dumplings are great too! The service has never been what they're known for, but it's not bad enough to detract from your meal. Love, love, love this place!
Read morePros: Amazing Food!, A lot of vegan options, large portions
Cons: far from central Houston
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justingross
Points +247
Good Eats - Edit
I've been here a few times and have always enjoyed the food. The staff could be a little friendlier, but I'm being picky. I love their egg (eggless) rolls. So delicious.
Read morePros: Delicious
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Delve
Points +302
Driving..driving and more driving - Edit
It seems that most vegetarian restaurants are outside of the inner loop. Why is that? They'd make a fortune if they'd just move to the Montrose area. Okay..anyway I went to this restaurant once. A non-vegetarian friend of mine talked it up for about a year before I finally dragged my car (and myself) allll the way out there. When I got there my companion and I were the only ones inside the restaurant, but since I tend to eat at "odd" times it wasn't too shocking. As we choose a table I couldn't help feeling like we weren't very welcome there. Just a vibe I got. We kept getting stares from all the people who worked at/owned the place. And ordering felt like a rushed experience since the waitress walked away from the table as I was finishing up my order. The food was okay - once again not anything that wowed me and makes me want to make the jaunt over there again (but perhaps I will..it's hard to properly review after just one visit). I remember thinking it was a little pricey for the quality. I'm also not a huge fan of mock-meats. I didn't stop eating meat so that I could eat things called 'vegan duck'. Aaand the most interesting thing was the Asian Christmas Special they had playing on the t.v. (ummm..in the middle of summer). Very surreal.
Read morePros: Asian Christmas T.V. Special
Cons: location - far drive, pricey, didn't feel welcome
TexasVegan
If you don't like mock meats, I really don't think you'll ever enjoy this place. Mock meat dishes are definitely their specialty.
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sirhin
Points +161
Good food, though a bit pricey... - Edit
I've only been here twice and I can say this: the food is good. HOWEVER, the portions are a bit small for my taste (I mean, I had some sweet and sour... fish I believe and I received a plate with FOUR fish "rolls" and some sauce on top - and the food too pricey. Other than that, everything's clean, good, and yummy. The service isn't bad either.
Read morePros: good food, friendly staff
Cons: small portions, too pricey
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VeganTex
Points +215
Quan Yin - Edit
I was a little dissapointed with Quan Yin; the food was just okay and the service was slow.
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jillian
Points +47
Be careful... - Edit
I've been to this restuarant dozens of time and everytime the food has been excellent. However, I was told recently that not all the dishes are vegan. Some mock meats have dairy products in them. On their webpage, the say their food has, "no animal products, no eggs and no meat." It does not specify that the dishes are dairy free. Make sure and about dairy before ordering.
Read morePros: best food
Cons: possibly not 100% vegan, language barrier
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TexasVegan
Points +87
My favorite restaurant in Houston - Edit
Amazing restaurant. This is the best vegan chinese food place I've ever eaten anywhere. In particular, the lobster and onions, chicken and onions and chicken fried steak are fantastic. I have tried maybe 10-12 of the entrees and the only one I found disappointing was some sort of fish type dish. Everything else was just different degrees of wonderful. That said, the service is terrible by American standards. It's a whole lot closer to European service - friendly but slow. None of that matters to me in the slightest. Quite frankly, the staff there could punch me in the face everytime I visit and I'd still be back as often as possible. The only thing that prevents me from eating there more often than I do is that it is so far away from the downtown area where I live. Oh, and they play easy listening music there and that occasionally drives me nuts.
Read morePros: amazing food., Amazing Food!, AMAZING FOOD!!!!
Cons: slow service, easy listening music, inconvenient location
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