Vegetarian Buffet - Suzhou

After some time I had the opportunity to visit suzhou and check out the newly laid veggie restaurant. the choice is great and eating is great. many options of steamed, cooked and roasted vegetables as well as saitan with chicken flavor. my favorite: good price for money.

Superb buffet with an all you can eat formula for a moderate price (about 10-12€ at the end of 2013,) certainly relatively high for China, but very reasonable with regard to the amount of food! an exceptional choice of dozens of different dishes, with different cooking modes, including fruit, desserts and juice. possibility to cook some vegetables yourself. the place in itself is immense, quite unlike, and a little excited from the historical center, but it is worth the trip! book for big hunger! Be careful, like many restaurants in China, the place closes early!

It was located in the junction between Binhe Road Yushan Road 滨河路 玉山路）. Very easy to find. They mainly serve buffet style and it has many varieties, worth to try and delicious. It's operate by Taiwanese, staff are friendly and atmosphere is good. Worth to try highly recommend.

We happened to stay at a hotel within walking distance of this place, so coming here was a no-brainer. The buffet was priced at 65 RMB per person for dinner which included a spicy or non-spicy hotpot of choice. You can also order a la carte if you so wish. The buffet variety was truly impressive. There were freshly made fruit juices, congees, soups, all kinds of cold/hot dishes, a hotpot station, a salad bar, a dim sum station and various desserts. Food was mostly Chinese-style, not much western except for the dessert cakes and ice-cream. No MSG was used as confirmed by the restaurant and almost no trace of eggs/dairy apart from the desserts I guess. It was really light in fake meats as well, but instead lots of mushrooms, veggies and tofu stuff. I did find some dishes too greasy for my liking. However, that was typical and sadly unavoidable when eating out in China. They didn't seem fast enough on refilling either, but then again it seemed a pretty slow evening so maybe they rather let the food run low than have leftovers go to waste. Also most of the dish labels were in Chinese, so for those that don't know the language, you'll just have to go with your gut. The restaurant was clean and spacious, although the atmosphere could use some livening up. They also sell groceries and organically grown vegetables from their own farm in a small corner by the entrance. All in all, an excellent place!

We arrived at the restaurant 5min before closing so that we only get one box to fill the food for a cheaper price I believe. the coworkers did not speak English, but they were very nice and let us eat in the restaurant (now I think we should eat after home.) eating was really nice, we didn't manage to try anything, but almost everything we tried was really good. I want to go back and eat while they are still open.