Casual Indian restaurant with multiple locations - this particular branch is pure vegetarian. Offers both North and South Indian food, mock meat in dishes, economic rice, a la carte, Indian breads and snack foods. Check the address carefully as a non-veg stall with the same name is located on the same street. Open Mon-Sun 7:00am-11:00pm.
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25 Lebuh Penang, Georgetown (at Little India), Penang, Malaysia, 10200
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21 Reviews
First Review by eatinggreen
RobertaCalce
Points +3811
Delicious - Edit
Amazing authentic south Indian food, super tasty and good portion.
Read moreBe aware white sauce in my pic might be with yogurt - i forgot to specify to omit it
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Jcj3ssi3
Points +1414
One of the best Indian places - Edit
Truly one of the tastiest Indian places I’ve had in my life. I had the garlic naan and my partner had the veggie banana leaf rice. The daal is amazing and for the vegetarians the paneer butter masala is a must try!!
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Tarubeni
Points +42
Very decent buffet - Edit
Like every buffet it is a good idea to go at the busiest times if you want fresh hot food. Serve yourself and a waiter will magically appear at your table to add up the cost. The buffet at this place has a particularly big choice of food.
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Zeynep7
Points +72
So so.. - Edit
I had banana leaf vegetarian thali set there. The food was cold, didn't taste good. The waiter was trying to sell chicken or beef so persistently, though I told him twice I was a vegetarian! I also had upset tummy afterwards. I won't go back there, as there are many other, much cleaner a d tasty Indian veg food in little India.
Read morePros: Central location
Cons: Cold and bland food, Weird server, Not clean!
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DZet
Points +976
mainly too salty - Edit
I only tried a few dishes from the buffet, but wasn't that impressed. The taste was acceptable, but mostly too salty.
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Yoana_ve
Points +1335
Nice but not coming here anymore - Edit
It's the second time I'm here and I really like the taste of the buffet dishes. When asking if roti canai and naan bread are vegan the staff said multiple times that it's all 'pure vegetarian' which more or less means vegan if I have to believe all the Chinese similar places. But after reading the reviews I'm not so sure if I ate dishes with ghee or butter. And I have seen burgers with cheese on it (vegetarian cheese is still from animals). They sell Milo Nestlé horrible dairy products and condensed milk, so that already proves that it's not a 100% "pure vegetarian" establishment. Plus, first time I came here I paid 7RM for my dish and 8 for my partner. This time they charged me 13 and 20 (same amount of food)!!!! We think it's because the first time, we were with a local. I asked the guy behind the counter what the reason was for the high price and he claimed the cheaper price was because the first time I was there it was lunch time but that's nonsense as I was there at 20:00, same time as today. Oh and to make it worse, all of a sudden I had to pay for a service fee as well (something they hadn't done the first time). I don't believe that is fair. I understand that tourist attractions will have different prices for tourists to protect locals with lower incomes, but when it comes to a succesful restaurant like this one there is no reason to charge us double or even more. To be safe I'll go to Ee Beng or Evergreen next time where they treat me equally.
Read morePros: Nice taste
Cons: Unfair pricing , Confusing for vegans, Never coming back
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PíaGarcés
Points +19
good and cheap indian food - Edit
I tried the vegie meal (6 rn) and also the buffet. The food is fresh, tasty and not very spicy. My friend told me that the mango lassi was very nice.
Read morePros: special menu for lunch, buffet, menu
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CarolineJoana
Points +128
good food but - Edit
Good and tasty Indian food. I would rather chose the buffet where you can take what you want instead of a set plate on the menu.
Read moreBut... staff is not really nice or helpful. They said that all is vegetarian however there is some food that look and taste like meat in my opinion and for vegan be carful cause they use dairy and Ghee.
Plus prices are not really clearly indicated when you choose buffet option...
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austinb
Points +51
Good But Confusing - Edit
The food here is really tasty and cheap. It's a really hectic place as well and makes me think what it might be like in India. Most of the patrons are Indian.
Read moreDespite what another reviewer has said I don't think I was overcharged. I had large rice with two curries and one Samosa, for 4.80. Tell me if this is normal price.
However the staff's English is not great, and it can be hard to figure out what is vegan. Even after consulting the manager, I just end up feeling confused. So I think you must specify very clearly to them, "I do not eat milk, ghee, or butter. Please show me what does not contain these things." But depending on the employee, I don't know what the response will be. So it's a bit tough for vegans here.
Pros: Cheap, Delicious
Cons: Confusing For Vegans, Super Busy
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Rosa veg
Points +2060
Best Indian food in Penang - Edit
Indian vegetarian restaurant . Huge selections of dishes form currys , samosa ,dahal and much more . Everything amamzing . Good portion and very cheap . Very nice and friendly staff
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Tofulicious
Points +1337
Okay Food, Ambiguous Pricing - Edit
We came here twice for the lunch buffet - self-service, the cashier tells you what to pay - and found the pricing system to be completely arbitrary: the second day, I was quoted twice as much as on the first day, when I had about half as many items and half the quantity on my tray! The white couple behind us were charged twice as much as we were, but they didn't seem to mind.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2017-02-12
Pros: self-service buffet, complimentary warm water
Cons: ambiguous and arbitrary pricing system, possibly based on ethnicity
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Mark__
Points +153
Tasty indian food, includes meat analogues - Edit
This place offers also meat analogues, which is not so common in Indian places. There is a self-service buffet but should one get confused, they are happy to help will the plate. If they do it, and you eat vegan, some sauces will probably have a yogurt base. There are three sizes of metal plates, with a varying number of slots for sauces or dahl in it. Also naans, rotis, papadams, the paper-thin large breads and the rest are offered. Tasty fresh juices. A large variety of Indian desserts. They also do takeaway.
Read morePros: Open late, Tasty food, good variety yet simple to choose, Mock meats
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GavNicholl
Points +177
tasty indian food - Edit
Had a selection of curries here with my partner, the nice thing about this is it actually does mock meat dishes whereas most veggie Indian places don't. Has a wide selection of breads to go with your meal too.
Read morePros: good choice, fairly cheap
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Mellifluoust
Points +807
Good but a little pricy - Edit
This is an Indian buffet. Prices aren't clearly marked - we paid about 16 ringit for 2 samosas, biryana, and a few very small curries. Everything was good, but a little difficult to check if vegan.
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happytina
Points +222
On point - Edit
The food was on point! The dishes we got with chills were flavourful and spicy. Great bang for your buck with a huge menu.
Read morePros: Large portions, Many vegan options
Cons: If you go late at night 10pm, they may not have al
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Ayebizi
Points +264
big vegetarian buffer - Edit
Nice Indian vegetarian restaurant.
Read morebuffet was really complete.
Pros: A lot of options , good food
Cons: the plate was too full :)
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Paul-V-Gregory
Points +206
Best in George Town - Edit
By far the best Indian food in George Town
Read moreVery relaxed place but can get busy
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Jepa
Points +74
Lovely indian pure veg - Edit
If you crave for north or especially south indian food, look no further. The list is so tempting we regretted of having only one stomach... Ordered idly, ragi tosai (ragi dosa) and plain tosai (plain dosa). They came with attached sambar & rasam. But note that if you want chutney, you have to ask for it separately. Especially ragi dosai was a nice surprise - I've been trying to find it when travelling southern India, but I guess I was too south. Now I found it in Penang! And how good it tastes, and how nutritious it is. And completely vegan. Oh, joy! We sat down, but there is also a premade buffet if you want to take-away.
Read morePros: both south and north indian, indian food made with fake chicken, beef, casual place
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Thetruthpaint
Points +63
Nice Place - Edit
I was so much looking forward to get Indian food in Malaysia. This was my first malay Restaurant. A nice start. Huge menu. Pretty crowded place. I liked it. Tried the mock meat garlic chicken.
Read morePros: Tasty, Cheap
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YaraCoelho
Points +243
My favorite Penang restaurant - Edit
This place seems to be incredibly popular with the locals and no wonder why!
Read moreThe food is simply delicious and the menu is so varied, you won't repeat a dish even if you eat there for a couple of months!
The restaurant is well located and open all day. The prices are great and the staff will try to hep you finding out what's vegan and what's not.
For more detailed info: http://www.heartofavagabond.com/2013/11/the-top-2-indian-vegetarian-restaurants.html
Pros: variety, very delicious mals, price
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eatinggreen
Points +608
Another average Indian joint - Edit
The first thing to note here is that the address on HC is wrong and will lead you to the non-veg branch. The veg branch is half a block down the same street at number 25.
Read moreWhilst this place wasn't terrible, we weren't huge fans either. Why an Indian restaurant would feel compelled to use mock meats in their cooking, I have no idea. We ordered a dosa, a thali, a spinach curry, a vege curry and some random mock fish dish that they tricked us into buying (we thought it was a part of the thali).
The dosa was quite soggy and the sauces/chutneys had very little flavour. The thali was average too, nothing special or memorable there. The veges in the vege curry were all deep fried - eek! didn't touch that one. The spinach curry was pretty regular and the mock fish curry looked like a fish and when poked didn't move - in fact i tried cutting it with my spoon and it was very hard. My partner decided to keep away.. I tasted the curry-like sauce and it was ok, but not being able to identify what the fish thing was I decided to steer clear too (it looked like a whole dead fish, so not a real turn on).
The next day we both had reason to believe that the ingredients here were either not entirely fresh or that hygiene standards were slightly below par.
We have since realised that in Penang, the non-veg indian places seem to be preferable in terms of quality, so while we prefer to stick with the veg joints, we are making some exceptions here. Try Passions of Kerala in the New World Mall for banana leaf cuisine, or even Sri Ananda Bahwan in Tanjung Bungah (across from the Paradise Sandy Beach Hotel) - no idea if this is the same ownership as the one being reviewed presently but the food and ambience were much better there.
Pros: pure veg, cheap
Cons: mock meat, questionable freshness/hygiene, not all that tasty
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