Taipei Restaurants

  1. Haw Kuang Vegetarian Restaurant

    Words can't describe how much we love this vegetarian buffet just a few blocks northwest of the Shilin Night Market. The chef is a genius, with an eye for both colour and flavour. Imagine yourself a painter and the white cardboard tray your canvas. Arrange your meal from dozens of beautifully prepared vegetarian dishes and enjoy. If you visit one vegetarian buffet during your time in Taipei, make it this one.

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  2. Joy Yuan Taiwan Buffet

    Always busy, this perennial favourite offers a cafeteria-style buffet with dozens of selections, encompassing a fairly wide chunk of the omnivore dietary spectrum. As a general rule, high turnover at a buffet ensures fresh food, making this among the best bang for buck buffets.

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  3. Vegetarian Paradise

    Because of its location (right across from Shida University), this is usually the first vegetarian buffet many newly arrived students visit. The owners haven't let success go to their heads though, and they still serve the same sublime vegetarian cuisine as they did when some of us came here as students, way back when. Price is by weight.

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  4. Xiangyi Vegetarian Heaven

    Easily one of the best vegetarian buffets in Taipei, this narrow two-storey restaurant is usually crowded, with the ground-floor seating generally taken by the monks who eat here daily. A beautiful assortment of Taiwanese vegetarian cuisine is cooked fresh and served to the lilting sounds of Buddhist songs coming from an overhead boom box. The restaurant has no English signboard, just look for a yellow sign above the door or follow the sounds of soft Buddhist chanting.

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