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Dharma Realm Guan Yin Sagely Monastery
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Vegetarian
Lacto
Chinese
Buffet
Buddhist
Offers a buffet spread. Option for mix of salads and drinks. The public can participate in the chanting & recitation of the daily Ceremony Of Repentance Of the Great Compassion With A Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes (Guan Shr Yin Bodhisattava) 12.30pm daily at the monastery. Buffet closes at 2pm when there is a chanting ceremony. Near Petronas Towers, 5-minute walk from KLCC. Some mock meats may contain dairy. Open Mon-Fri 11:00am-2:30pm.
89 Reviews
First Review by gigi1033
JaqAvery
Points +149
A Must Visit! - Edit
Be warned, it’s difficult to find he entrance as it’s not signed. Head down the corridor to the left of the temple.
Read moreThe food was really delicious, amazingly cheap, and the location was vibrant and enjoyable.
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PlantHappy
Points +123
Local, cheap, lots of options - Edit
If you’re pinching your pennies and need a hearty vegan meal while in KLCC then this is your place. Grab a plate, get in line and load your plate with all sorts of Asian dishes (noodles, rice, fake meats, veggies). Decent food guaranteed to fill you up but don’t expect a fine dining experience. This place can be packed and you’ll need to find a spot at one of the crowded tables and get cozy with other patrons. Don’t forget to clean off your own plate into the giant scrap bins at the end.
Read morePros: Crazy cheap!, Filling vegan food, lots of options
Cons: Opposite of fine dining
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GabrielEng
Points +677
Awesome spot - Edit
I love this place, I have been here three times so far and with a week left in KL I will go a few more times, I mean, what's not to like? It's delicious and super cheap. Definitely one of my favorite lunch spots in KL so far.
Read morePros: Cheap, Tasty
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NicoleWaithira
Points +28
One of the best Vegan places around - Edit
Temple Canteen a few minutes walk from KLCC.
Read moreDozens of options to choose from,includong drinka,fruits and desserts.
Got a huge plate plus fruits, a drink,and vegan mini donuts for only 14RM. Would recommend to Everyone! Get there before the lunch rush at 12pm or you won't find a place to sit or a huge variety of dishes
Pros: huge variety, delicious food, extremely affordable
Cons: gets full after 12pm, a bit hectic
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Batu
Points +20
When compassion prevails over business - Edit
Working in the area, I probably have an average of 2.5 weekly visits to the monastery since I discovered it over a year ago.
Read moreIt is clear that the aim here is not to accumulate wealth but simply to provide fairly priced and healthy cruelty-free meals to as many people as possible.
I love this feeling of being surrounded by so many considerate beings all eating together in a large hall, sharing long tables and sitting on rustic stools, people are smiling and everyone seems more mindful of their neighbors.
To sum it up, Dharma Realm Guan Yin Sageli Monastery really feels like a haven of peace and compassion in the middle of the bustling city that is Kuala Lumpur.
Note: If you are planning to eat at the Monastery for the first time, maybe aim to get there before the noon rush in order to benefit from the full range of choice with a smaller wait time.
Pros: atmosphere, cheapest place around (by far), friendly staff
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mr.rebelo-harris
Points +58
Tasty plant based food - Edit
Secret gem in the centre of Kuala Lumpur. Modest surroundings packed with lots of tasty vegan food options. Buffet style dining experience at a very good value for money. Please arrive early as it gets very busy by midday.
Read morePros: Lots of vegan options, Value for money
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NathanSing
Points +124
Cheap meal, get there early - Edit
I got there around 12:50 and all of the food was gone. Had around 10 dishes to choose from, and none of the steamed buns or other dishes from the others stalls were available. The food was cheap, fresh and tasty. Wish I could of had more variety! Get here around 11!
Read morePros: Fresh food, Tons of variety if you get there early
Cons: Food goes fast, Very crowded
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pomange
Points +1590
Impressive - Edit
Such a wide choice, proper plant based buffet with fresh fruit and baked products too, so you can have a dessert. Full of flavours, the food was delicious. This place has a buzzing atmosphere and is full of locals. A full plate costs 9MYR, which is great value. Must visit.
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Charlie.
Points +812
Cheap! - Edit
This place is so crowded and busy during lunch hours. Very affordable price, many dishes available and may even face difficulties deciding what to eat. Initially I thought this would be just another vegetarian places, I can hardly believe they are ALL vegan!
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Shell.88
Points +19
delicious - Edit
Lunch in a monastery canteen :) I love where happy cow takes me. Delicious food, friendly staff and a whole plate of food only cost me 11MYR so £2.
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bhavtav
Points +133
food is nice and very good - Edit
I am satisfied with food and it’s quality
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austinb
Points +51
Good, Delicious, Cheap - Edit
I don't like KL very much. But this place is a slice of heaven in the middle of hell for me. Really delicious and wholesome vegan food. A bit oily, but not too bad by Malaysian standards. 6 baht for a honkin plate of food.
Read morePros: Large Portion, Delicious, Cheap
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LaurenceMontreuil
Points +687
My favorite vegan place in KL - Edit
WOW! I was blown away as soon as I entered this place: so many people eating vegan food together, so many different choices, free tea and water, delicious and fresh food, etc. AND on top of all this...it is ridiculously cheap! It cost me 6 ringgits for a HUGE plate with rice and 3 different dishes! I highly suggest you to visit this place and eat dishes from the self-service buffet! It is not far from the twin towers! Just go!
Read morePros: Best vegan restaurant in town, Very cheap , Many options
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ShannonTran
Points +202
a hidden gem! - Edit
Wow what a find this is!!! Was not expecting the huge canteen when we rounded the corner behind the temple. The food was delicious! Cost around 5-7 ringgit for a full plate from the buffet. Had a “chicken” drumstick - looked to be like braised tofu wrapped around a stick and deep fried more than an actual mock meat - it was so yummy! Also had some really yummy bao buns. There was also lil food carts aside from the buffet with daily specials and fruit.
Read morePros: cheap , lots of variety
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Siew-May
Points +18
Really liked this place! - Edit
I was blown away when I had lunch at this canteen for the first time in 2014, which is located behind a beautiful temple in KL City Centre. I wasn't even a vegetarian at that time! I am a Klang Valley girl but never knew of its existence until that very year, when my then office was located in the heart of KLCC. Glad to be introduced to this canteen!
Read morePros: Great variety of delicious vegan food options, wit
Cons: 1) There is only one such awesome vegan canteen th
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sanluvegan
Points +200
Lovely food and atmosphere - Edit
We came a bit late, after 1 pm, but there were still many options and not as many lunch guests as I would assume there are in the middle of lunch. All vegan buffet, great choices, both veggies, rice, noodles and mock meat. The staff was really friendly. The only con is that it was a bit hard to find - if you do go here, enter through the gate then the restaurant is on the left side of the building.
Read morePros: Great vegan food, Friendly staff, Cheap
Cons: Hard to find
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EmilyNolan
Points +149
amazing - Edit
Amazing staff, huge variety of food, and so cheap!! Definitely recommend. Go before 12!!
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junya
Points +722
Not your school cafeteria - Edit
Food taste here is quite good - not great, but better than the average stall or coffee shop. The win is the huge selection: in addition to the buffet (maybe 20-30 dishes!), there are separate stalls for noodle dishes, mixed rice daily specials, soups, fruits, cake/cookies/buns, and drinks. If you can't find something to try, then you probably have no appetite.
Read moreBut the best part is the sight of a huge crowd dining on vegan fare. The first day, I was in awe because I'd never seen so many folks dining vegetarian. The second day, I realized I had never before seen so many adults gathered to dine on anything, as I'd left mass dining behind me in the school cafeteria. What an incredible people-watching experience - all sizes, shapes, shades, styles, and adult ages (saw no kids)! And, unlike high school, I didn't worry about scolding, punishment, bullying, ridicule, or being ostracized. Definitely a new milestone in my dining experience.
Useful to know...On the way out, I saw a sign displaying policy I wish I'd seen on the way in:
"Each person may use only one bowl and one plate to take food. If you want to go for the next round, please use the same bowl and plate."
Updated from previous review on 2017-07-21
Pros: Variety of dishes to choose from, Inexpensive, World-class people-watching
Cons: Food sells out quickly
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Walnuts
Points +87
Amazing melting pot - Edit
What a great place. It all starts with the abundance of delicious vegan food! Can't remember I've ever tried so many different types of tofu, exciting!
Read moreAround 12 the place starts to fill up and that's when the true beauty of this place surfaces. Everyone is there! People from all different ethnicities and religions enjoying vegan food together. Doesn't get much better than this.
Pros: Delish food, in abundance, Melting pot of people
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D0mmi
Points +144
Cheap and super delicious Buffet - Edit
Big and widespread Buffet that's super affordable. The most people there speak also English and are happy to inform you about the food and have a nice chat with you. Everything I tried was very delicious what really isn't the most cases if there is a Buffet. They are also open if it's the first week of moon calendar month. Always worth a visit.
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nicolawalker92
Points +20
So cheap and so good! - Edit
Amazing rotating spread of vegetarian (mostly vegan) dishes - I ate here four days in a row. Gets very busy 12 - 2 so if you can, go there around 11. I filled my plate up and had fresh coconut water for 7 ringgit. Highly recommend!
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scareglow
Points +479
vegan paradise - Edit
one of the best - if not THE best vegan food experiences I ever had. It's set up as a vegan hawkers market and you can chose from an abundance of different dishes. The selection is amazing. It's a culinary journey through South East Asia. It totally blew me away. Highly recommended.
Read morePros: vast selection, cheap, interesting cultural experience
Cons: entry might be a bit hard to find
KorShuhXian
Not really symbolize the whole South East Asia culinary.
Read moreIt's more to:-
1) Chinese (Malaysia Chinese, tweaked China and Taiwan culinary),
2) India (Malaysia version but a little lesser spiciness than local Indians),
3) Thai
4) Korean (because they got vegan Kimchi).
Malay food (Muslims' diet) is more to must-have-at-least-chicken-or-beef-or-occasionally-mutton salty dishes. Heavily chili-based especially cili padi like the chilies are free. So, it's most probably not found in this temple's canteen.
The mock meat in the canteen consist of mock chicken, mock pork, mock prawn, mock mutton but more to Chinese or India or Thai cooking. Majority of them made with the extract of soybean, mushroom stems, wheat and so on.
I think mock oyster sauce included in cooking. This is a Chinese culinary sauce which one of the extracts are from celery.
South East Asia consist of Vietnam, Myanmar (which I really like too but they presented in non-vegan culinary where they use lots of pork) and so much more to explore.
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Ayebizi
Points +264
best restaurant I have ever been to - Edit
this is simply the best vegetarian restaurant I ever been to.
Read morebig full plate of everything and beverage for only 7 ringgit.
I went there the 15th, it was buffet.
if heaven exists, it must be here.
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sglcklch
Points +3833
Pure awesomeness - Edit
There's not much I can add that's not already been said, except the fact that I wish they had a more transparent pricing system. We got two plates of different things—first one with a drink (RM2 extra) for a total of RM6.50 and the second without for RM8.50. Seemed to me certain items, presumably the fried stuff, were priced individually. Then again, we are talking about only a few RM here, so the difference is really insignificant. Bottom line is whatever and however much you pile on your plate, it's going to be cheap cheap cheap and yum yum yum!
Read morePros: delicious food, wide variety, cheap
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beancurdled
Points +1675
unforgettable KL experience - Edit
I always enjoy passing through KL for a few days when travelling in SE Asia, particularly because there's no shortage of delicious, veg*n, Indian, Chinese, and Malay food on offer in this city! Lunch at this eclectic buffet, tucked behind a temple, a stone's throw (or short walk) from KLCC, has been my favourite KL dining experience yet.
Read moreMy partner and visited at lunch time on a weekday, peak time for office workers from the area taking their lunch breaks. It was bustling! I personally wouldn't avoid going at this time. The more the merrier, I say. It's not like they're going to run out of food and the seating area is huge, with plenty of communal tables. The only problem with this is looking across at what other people have on their plates, and wishing you'd tried some of that as well! The buffet table is heaving, with at least 15 dishes on the day we were there. I have to guiltily admit that my favourites were the rich, oily, fake meats in rich, sweet sauces. There were some sort of crispy, fried potatoes which I also loved. Luckily there are lots of lighter, refreshing dishes of greens as well, so make sure you get plenty of those on your plate to balance it out. My partner doesn't really eat rice so he went without to save room on his plate (and in his stomach) for other dishes. I personally recommend taking rice to soak up some of the tasty sauces, even though it is super filling! Because we knew we only had time to visit once and wanted to try a little of everything, we totally overloaded our plates and over ate. I wished we'd had a chance to visit a few times and walked away less stuffed! I'd like to go back and try some of the lighter lunch options from the noodle stand and some of the others.
My partner did get a bag of cookies from the sweet stand. He took one bite and then put it on my plate. They were pretty much inedible. Tasteless and hard. Definitely not freshly baked. Give them a miss! There weren't many desert options when we went. They did have those fried balls of dough with sweet white or red bean paste inside and sesame seeds on the outside - always a winner as far as I'm concerned.
Pros: buzzing vibe, tasty food, huge choice
Cons: stale cookies
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Thetruthpaint
Points +63
Good Foodcourt - Edit
The foodcourt is in the plot oft the Buddhist temple! Enger through the main entrance and continue in left side oft building! Big selection oft nice food. People speak english just ask them about the food. Its self service, you pay at the end. I Bad a good filled plate plus a drink and fruits and paid 7,50 rm
Read moreAt around 12.00 it gets pretty crowded avoid if possible this time..
Pros: Big Selection, Cheap, Good
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Heather_lil
Points +74
Good food at an even better price - Edit
Tons of food options. The "chicken drumstick" was eerily similar to real meat. We also bought a bunch of cookies and two meals which came to less than $6CAD. Very impressed. Tons of seating and very bustling during lunch.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on Friday November 29, 2013
Pros: Good price, Lots of food, Lots of seating
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