植界蔬食Vegetarian

Item: 植界蔬食Vegetarian
Rating: 4.5
Author: 一刻又一嗑

台中市 • Cafeteria

8 months ago

Dinner1 pplNT$96

📍Location: Taichung, Xitun
This self-service vegetarian buffet only offers vegetarian food 🌱. The variety of choices is abundant, and the environment is clean, tidy, and bright. I've already marked it as a place I can visit often in the future!

I used to be afraid of weighing self-service buffets because I generally don’t have a good sense of weight, and it’s easy to overindulge and exceed my budget 😅.

However, ever since I learned how to estimate weights at the market and had an experience at a vegetarian weighing buffet in Pingtung, I’ve really come to appreciate vegetarian buffets and their charm 😍.

There are many types of vegetarian food (such as completely vegan, no five pungent vegetables, lacto-ovo vegetarian, etc.), and the variety in preparation is vast, allowing for options for all kinds of vegetarians. Therefore, the selection of dishes is basically meat-free, but the range of vegetables, eggs, and beans usually exceeds that of a typical buffet!
Some restaurants emphasize healthy eating through vegetarian options, using less oil and preserving the deliciousness of the ingredients. The environment isn't usually greasy, especially with some of the newer vegetarian restaurants, which have been revamped to look brighter and cleaner!

With more varieties, it naturally feels fresher. Compared to a typical buffet where various vegetables are just stir-fried, I prefer vegetarian buffets that get creative with the dishes. The weighing system is even better; I can try a little of many different kinds!
I've been searching for other places that offer delicious weighing vegetarian buffets, and today I found one 🥹 that’s not only tasty but also gets a big thumbs up.

Few people ask about prices, but since this restaurant doesn’t publicly display prices, I went ahead and asked.
The price for weighing food is $30/100g, and rice is charged separately.

This time, I selected a total of 7 kinds (just a little bit of each) along with a small bowl of rice, totaling $96.
$30*2.876=$86.28
The small bowl of rice is about $10, which I think is reasonable.

If dining in, there's free self-serve soup, including herbal jelly and hot soup.
I was a bit surprised to find sweet soup available 😳.
Many buffets provide cold drinks instead of sweet soup or offer a choice of hot or cold soup, or charge extra for sweet soup.
But this place not only has sweet soup; there are also two types of hot soup, which surprised me given the small size of the restaurant.

Regarding the environment: clean, bright, and comfortable.
However, it’s clearly not a suitable place for dining in.
There are very few seats, and bar stools are used, accommodating about 10 people in total.
Indeed, during my entire dining time, I rarely saw customers dining in; most were for takeout or delivery orders, grabbing their food and leaving.
I also saw quite a few Uber orders, with staff taking orders and quickly serving food so the delivery personnel could grab it and go right away.

I deduct a little for the staff; while they greet customers, it's not very frequent, and the signage in the restaurant isn’t clear enough.
Therefore, when I first entered, I was confused about the flow—whether to find a seat first or choose food?

But overall, I think everything else is great, and I’m very satisfied with the rich variety of dishes! 👍

Here's the translation of the provided text into English: "This time I grabbed some meals! Let me share my tips for weighing food at a self-service buffet: choose items with less 'water' to save money! If you encounter bones, that's one thing, but actually, both vegetables and eggs have a high water content. So, if you want to spend less, you can choose more dishes that will lose moisture after cooking. However! If you love to eat, that doesn't apply here✋🏼 Just like I know that tomato scrambled eggs will weigh more, but because they're delicious, I just grab them anyway, haha!"

Golden scale hands 💪 I was thinking about $30/100g, and if I want to keep it under $100, then I should grab about half a pound (300g) of the portion. I weighed it out, and it was a bit off, but still close enough 😆 Adding a bowl of white rice brought the total to $96, nice! With that amount, I'm personally about 80% full (I also had 2 bowls of soup dine-in) Just a reference for those who need to fill up! 👋

There are so many kinds of dishes! Actually, I really want to try a bit of each one.

The scrambled eggs with tomatoes are really too tempting. It pairs well with several bowls of rice. The dry pot broccoli also looks very delicious. The steamed egg ingredients look quite plentiful as well…!

The salad and octopus balls really make my heart race. That radish cake and taro cake truly make me struggle inside. I really want to eat them, but I know it would be a disaster on the scale...!

The three pots all have very deep colors 😆 The one on the left is sweet grass jelly (slightly sweet). The two pots on the right are hot soups; one looks like seaweed soup, and the other is so dark that I can’t see what it is.

The dining bowls and utensils are self-service.

After entering the store, I first took the tray, but he placed it against the wall, which created a bit of an awkward flow.

In-store environment section At the counter in front of the store, as soon as you enter, there's the counter; the space inside the store is only this big.

Sign at the entrance When I first arrived, I felt that the inside and outside were completely mismatched. The sign looked very old, but the interior looked very new. I even doubted whether I had found the right place and hesitated for a long time.

Store entrance If I hadn’t noticed the small store name, I would have thought this was a salon! 😂 There’s really no place to write the store name aside from the small sign, so I didn’t look at the outside banner! 😂

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