Best Taipei Vegetarian and Vegan Restaurants – Voted By Facebook Group Members

What are the top Taipei vegetarian restaurants and vegan eateries? We put it out to our 190,000+ Taiwan Travel Tips (TTT) Facebook members and there were lots of great Taiwanese vegetarian suggestions.

From famous Taipei vegetarian restaurants and Taiwanese veggie buffet chains to less well known vegan and vegetarian places, this is a crowdsourced culinary gem.

Taiwan is an amazing and easy place to be vegetarian with lots of eating choices – and just under 15% of the population are said to be vegetarian or vegan. CNN also once named Taipei as one of its top-10 vegan-friendly cities.

So let’s take a run-down of the best Taipei vegetarian restaurants and Taipei vegan establishments, as suggested by locals, netizens and tourists.

PS Happycow is a highly app recommended resource by many TTT members too.

• Serenity 祥和蔬食 (map) – the most mentions from members
• Yang Shin (map) – second most recommended with classic vegetarian dishes / dim sum
• I Jy Sheng bakery chain store (map)
• CHAO 炒炒新亞洲蔬食 (map)
• 小小樹食 Little Tree Food (map)
• Plants – gluten free restaurant in Taipei (map)
• Vege Creek 蔬河 – recommended by several TTT members (map)
• Veggienius 不葷主義茶餐廳 台北店 (map)
• Fruitful buffet 果然匯 (map)

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The guide features over 200 recommended vegetarian restaurants all over Taiwan as well as these vegetarian restaurants in Taipei:

• BaganHood (map)
• 上善豆家 DeliSoys (map)
• MiaCucina (map)

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Based on the Fruitful Food we went to in Tianmu, there were several stations of hot and cold vegetarian food which you serve yourself plus a kitchen where chefs were cooking up creations like braised vegetarian beef soup with udon noodles (very good), vermicelli with black sesame oil, spicy hot bean curd, crispy risotto cake with creamed corn or tempura mushrooms.

Honestly, there was a lot of food, from vegetarian sushi and vegan nigiri to steamed buns, turnip cake to salads plus lots of dishes like tofu pastry, baked vegetables with miso sauce and steamed mushroom soup (served in cute little kettles).

Make sure you arrive on an empty stomach. Prices start from NT$638 each (not cheap) including unlimited food and soft drinks.

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Check out our guide to Taipei’s best buffets including A Joy atop Taipei 101 >

A second vote from Pamela Ward: “Delicious variety of everything vegetarian. Busy last month when we made our usual visit to Taipei”.

Minder Vegetarian Taipei can be found at the B3F food court of Q Square mall, near Taipei Main Station. There are other Minder Vegetarian Taipei branches too including Xindian.

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After a night of beef noodles and pork buns, we wanted something without meat the next day – we usually head to ‘Miao Yuan’ vegetarian buffet as it is cheap with a good variety of dishes.

Two huge plates (along with rice) came to $NT235 for two of us (so roughly $3.60 USD or £2.75 each). It is also a good place to escape the rain as you can sit in!

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有麵子 makes some of the best vegan ramen I’ve ever had, anywhere, and I’d put it on par with even iconic spots like T’s Tan Tan in Japan.

They offer a variety of unique, flavorful broths (creamy oat milk, rich soy sauce, spicy Thai, fragrant pesto, Korean kimchi, caramelized onion), perfectly cooked noodles (you can even note how how firm you want them – Japanese style) and tons of fresh ingredients and protein to round out each bowl.

The chefs are absolute wizards with tofu skin, and the secret recipe tofu skin (祕製燒排) in the soy sauce ramen (my fav) is ridiculously good. They also batter and fry that bad boy into their signature Sichuan Crispy Cutlet (椒麻G排), another fav. I would take these over any vegetarian faux meats any day.

Also offer excellent curry and rice dishes, lots of delicious fried sides, excellent oat milk milk tea, and occasionally flip the menu on certain days to a western/fusion style pasta dishes.

And last but not least, the service is amazing. Always energetically warm, friendly and welcoming and a big part of why I’m happy to go back time and time again”.

Jeremy has more Taiwan vegan recommendations on his Instagram @vegan_taiwan_adventures.

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Fo Guang Shan Anguo Temple has a vegetarian restaurant open Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 5:40pm with an English menu – just tick the menu card as to what you want. All the food is prepared by the monks from the temple.

Vegetarian Dishes include vegetable baked rice, baked pumpkin, lasagna, Thai style noodles, dried lion’s mane mushroom noodles, tofu dishes and an extensive drinks menu – someone also said it was the best 麻酱面 (sesame sauce noodles) they ever had.

TTT group member Si K-t also recommended Yuandao Guanyin Temple Coffee  緣道觀音廟道咖啡 in Tamsui district (map). They serve Taipei temple vegetarian food, coffee, Chinese herbal tea, juice, desserts and frozen treats and it is next to a gorgeous walking trail.

Other suggestions were Dharma Drum Mountain Nung Chan Monastery in Beitou (map) – recommendation from Wilfred Lee.

This little shop only has a few seats, but the wait is never long. If you’re not familiar with dohua, it’s a great opportunity to try a classic Taiwanese desert away from the lines and crowds.

From red bean boba, black sesame, crushed peanuts, to dragon fruit, these are a wonderful way to cool off in the summer months.”

Please note some of the puddings here are not vegetarian friendly as they contain gelatin so do check with staff beforehand.

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“NT$500 per person can get you really full. The only problem is you can’t eat alone”

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The one in Taipei is very city center, easy to locate. All need advance reservation because Taiwanese love them too!

The menu in Taipei and Yilan is slightly different; overall both menus are amazing! but if I have some time for a getaway, I’d definitely choose Yilan”

However, there’s a saying in Taiwan that vegetarian food can be quite greasy in the making to make food stick together – my tummy didn’t feel well both time after dining here due to its greasiness, you don’t feel the greasiness you eat it, but you’d feel it afterwards at midnight – in summary, I enjoy it a lot!

It may need a reservation as it’s a hotspot for Taiwanese as well!”

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Ooh Cha Cha, Plants, and Green Room are all more Western, very solid meals and flavors. Green Room had amazing vegan tiramisu.

Yang Shin has vegan and vegetarian dim sum (yamcha).

Hip Pun is a vegan bakery serving Taiwanese breads. Nice Cream has excellent vegan gelato with Taiwanese and traditional Italian flavors. The best traditional chua bing is Chun Mei.

There’s also my favorite dumpling soup and daily weekday lunch biandang where you choose three dishes and choice of mixed rice or turmeric rice, vegan fantuan stall, and douhua stand in my old neighborhood near Jiantan station.

The open air farmer’s market aunties and uncles had lots of fresh fruit and vegetables from Yangmingshan, a Buddhist faux meat stand that had really great chicken nuggets and fish cakes, grandpa who sold watermelon, and uncle who sold chestnuts.“

Vegan Restaurants

Recommended by Capri Rasmussen

“We had so many terrific vegan options in Taipei, Taiwan (even attended a vegan festival via: 無肉市集 No Meat) and so much to do!

We got breakfast daily at the awesome Ijysheng (Xinyi Branch) bakery (across the street from the hotel) which is all vegetarian with about 70% vegan.

All the spots we ate at we found using HappyCow Vegan Guide & Community app and I added reviews and photos for every spot we ate at under my profile “vegetariangirl”.

List of restaurants below with a sample of photos:

• A-Zhu Peanut Ice Cream Roll (map)
• BaganHood 蔬食餐酒館 (map)
• Herbivore – Shin Kong Mitsukoshi (map)
• Ijysheng – Xinyi Branch (map)
• Koneko Cafe (map)
• Loving Hut – Heping Branch (map)
• Mukuchi 無口小廚 – WúKǒu Xiǎo Chu (map)
• Nice Cream – Xinyi (map)
• Nous Deux – 努得世界冠軍咖啡 (map)
• Rén Lǐ Jū 仁里居 – Yuli Your Home (map)
• Tai Lai (map)
• Uncle Q (map)
• Vegan Amore 蔬慕 (map)
• Vege Creek 蔬河 – Zhongshan (map)

“Several locations in Taipei. So good that non-vegetarians enjoy it. Rich flavors and also mid eastern dishes are offered”.

Hsing-Shia Tai also rates Pulau Redang South East Asian style vegetarian restaurant (map).

Other quick Taipei vegan and vegetarian suggestions from TTT Members

Nationwide Healthy Vegetarian – 全國健康素食 – 中山錦興

Recommended by Doris Toh

Doris Toh recommends Nationwide Healthy Vegetarian (map) – “they always have lots of veggie options”.

Organic Yam (蕃薯藤)

Recommended by Mi Yu

Mi Yu recommends this organic bakery (map) that also has a self service buffet / dining hall (plus Sweet, SWEET potatoes). “There are several locations but this is the one I went to. I really enjoyed their food”.

Our Final Taipei Vegetarian Restaurant recommendations:

Finally, TTT member 鄭雅玲 also recommended Shushi, Veggienius (map) and Yang Ming Spring (map).

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