Vegetarian restaurant located above the Songjiang Nanjing Station exit and upstairs from a bakery. Serves Cantonese style dim sum typical of Hong Kong except that it's all vegetarian and vegan. Menu has food photos, so you can point to the dishes you want. Choices includes small dim sum plates (like dumplings and buns) as well larger entrees. Has fresh juices. Interior is spacious with large round tables covered in white cloths. Finer than your typical veggie eatery in Taiwan. At Songjiang Nanjing MRT Exit 8. Open Mon-Fri 11:30am-4:30pm, Mon-Sun 5:30pm-9:30pm, Sat-Sun 11:00am-2:30pm.
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80 Reviews
First Review by sglcklch
KyoSara
Points +28
Best food ever! - Edit
This is seriously among the best food I have ever eaten. The sweet-and-sour bearded tooth mushroom was unlike the typical tangy version of sweet-and-sour, and was much more fragrant. The apple slices were a tasty touch. The cabbage dumplings were soft and flavorful. Fantastic fried rice. The sesame dango was so delicious, I nearly wept. The service was also extremely good, with several English-speaking staff. Even our waiter who didn’t speak English was friendly and helpful as we spoke to her in a mix of English and Japanese. Prices were very reasonable. I would have paid far more. Highly recommended!!
Read morePros: Wide variety of very delicious dishes, Clearly labeled vegan, ovo-lacto, Great service
Cons: Danger of overeating!
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Helly101
Points +28
Fantastic range of choices - Edit
We ended up opting for the set menu for 10 as we couldn't decide what to try first from the extensive menu. The set menu included steamed rolls, dumplings, a hot pot, stuffed lettuce leaves, kebabs, vegetable and rice dishes and a pudding. Plenty of variety to keep our mixed group of vegetarians and non-vegetarians, Taiwanese and English, adults and children happy. Service staff were attentive but unobtrusive. We will no doubt go back again.
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Amy_n_n
Points +2844
Best Dim Sum Ever! - Edit
This is the place where I had the best dim sum ever in my life! Every single item is so yummy and definitely worth the money! Surely will come back again!
Read moreThe staff is aware of vegan requirement. Just tell them no egg and dairy.
Pros: Huge menu, Tasty
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yehadut
Points +2099
Mixed results - Edit
Take exit 8 from the Nanjing Songshan MRT station and it'll be right there, through a bakery and up on the second floor.
Read moreThe choices varied in how much we liked them, but to generally positive results. The pumpkin dumplings were really boring. The spring roll sticks were very tasty. The monkey head mushroom dish was quite good -- I've never had this kind of mushroom, and it is surprisingly meat-like in texture. The daikon pasties were delicate and flaky on the outside, and delicately soft inside, I've never been a huge fan of these but this was one of the best ones I've had. The nori rolls were filled with rice and sweet potato chips, which was really disappointing, just potato chips and rice.
Updated from previous review on 2019-01-03
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stam
Points +2335
Delicious!! Lacto-ovo labels on menu - Edit
Even though it’s pricey, this place is totally worth it. If you don’t make reservations, expect at least a half hour wait. Staff are friendly and very professional. The menu encompasses appetizers, mains, dim sum and desserts. Service is quick, and items with eggs/milk are clearly marked on the menu. I haven’t had dim sum this good since I went vegan 11 years ago!
Read morePros: Lots of vegan options , Polite and quick service, Delicious dim sum
Cons: Very busy so need to make reservations or wait
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GrahameDavies
Points +18
Unmissable - Edit
Outstanding choice and great quality in a great location. What’s not to like!
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erase
Points +110
Great Food, Great Dim Sum - Edit
Excellent food, attentive service, extensive menu, great dim sum offerings.
Read moreArrive early after opening or make a reservation; this place fills up quickly (you reserve a 1.5 hour window for your table). Menu has english and several of the staff are fluent.
Very easily accessible from the metro; enter through a bakery on the first floor and go up the staircase in the back to the restaurant.
Pros: Good Food, Excellent Selection, Convenient Location
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ElectricM
Points +159
Amazing! - Edit
Traditional Hong Kong style dim sum. Seems a bit formal at first as reservation is needed and all tables have white table linen. The menu is in English and Taiwaneese and has clear markings for what has egg or dairy. The food is so delicious, it’s really a trip for the tastebuds. Everything was like a surprise of flavours with high quality ingredients. I’m not a dim sum pro, but to me this was a true experience that I would recommend anyone travelling to Taipei to try.
Read morePros: Inexpensive , High quality products , Fast serving
Cons: Need reservation , Serves egg and dairy
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RawChefYin
Points +5841
Excellent Dim Sum - Highly Recommended - Edit
One of the best places I've ever had vegan dim sum. I enjoyed every single item I had on the menu. This is a vegetarian place and the menu will indicate if eggs or dairy is used.
Read moreBe sure to make reservations as they are usually booked up.
Request for the English menu. Staff are mostly trained to speak in English.
Entrance to the restaurant is a bit tricky, you go past the bakery to reach the stairs or the lift.
Pros: Huge variety of dishes , Food tastes amazing, Waiters speak English
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vichinol
Points +245
Great food and service - Edit
Large menu with the main local dishes and a great variety of options. You should arrive a little before it opens or make a reservation to secure a table. Very tasty food and tea and good service with part of the staff prepared to speak English.
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Cqveggiefinds
Points +11610
Really good vegan-friendly Dim sum - Edit
I was here without a reservation and almost late for their lunch session but the friendly waitress managed to find us a table for two of us. How lucky were we!
Read moreThey have a menu meant for dim sum items. We had the lotus wrap rice, xiao long bao and others.
The xiao long baos was amazing, they're filled with vegetable broth and is slightly sweeter compared to the ones made with pig flesh. Definitely a must have.
The restaurant can be very crowded due to it's popularity, so do make a reservation online before coming down
Pros: Friendly staff, Fast service, Directly above Exit 8 of Songjiang Nanjing MRT
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kool_kitchen
Points +875
Gourmet style cuisine - Edit
This place had delicious gourmet style dishes.
Read moreWe came on a Friday evening and had to endure a sort of regimented seating arrangement. We queued with a bunch of people for the 7:30 pm seating. Everybody that was eating finished got up and we were ushered into their seats in military fashion. Never seen anything like it.
The highlights were bean curd with peanut sesame sauce stuffed with bean sprouts, hot and sour soup, skinny spring rolls with honey and mustard sauce and some Duck style pancakes. The dim sum was nice and there was a spinach type pancake that was lovely and a ham bun and taro dim sum. However the ham bun and taro dim sum took a ridiculously long time to be made
Pros: gourmet style food, good mock meat, good dim sum
Cons: Pricey, some dishes can take a long time to arrive, military seating style with long waits
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Immaterial
Points +38
OK, but not that tasty - Edit
I've gone to Yang Shin twice now, it's quite large and easy to get a table, the interior feels fairly clean and professional (if not particularly "warm" or inviting) and the menu is quite large and seems to label what dishes have dairy or egg (although I'm giving them some faith that it's accurate). It's also very conveniently located on an intersection of the green and orange line of the MRT, and I have no complaints about the service.
Read moreHowever I've tried about 8 different dishes and while some were alright, some also seemed a bit disappointing. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't exceptional either, it just felt a bit too bland (to my taste buds at least) and at least one dish seemed too dry I think. I probably wouldn't recommend them unless you were already in the area, and I'd perhaps give them 3.5 stars.
Updated from previous review on 2018-01-14
Pros: Large menu, Seemed efficent, Clean looking
Cons: Somewhat bland often
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livcamp
Points +36
INCREDIBLE - Edit
I had dim sum when I wasn't a veggie and was sad when I became veggie (most of it is meat) so when a local took me here, I WAS AMAZED. ITS TRUELY AMAZING. BBQ PORK BUNS TASTE SO GOOD. You would literally not think any of this is veggie it's amazing!!
Read morePros: Amazing food , Amazing food, AMAZING FOOD
Cons: You MUST book in advance, Kinda pricey
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Rosa veg
Points +2060
Very good vegan options - Edit
Vegetarian classy restaurant . Very professional staff . Good service . Amazing food l big portions . Good price
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bruixa86
Points +346
Classy place and good food - Edit
The place is quite classy with very nice staff and fast service. The food is good and you can try tipical taiwanese food the vegetarian way so it's nice. Just mentioning it's a little bit pricey comparing to this kind of food in other places.
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KelvinWuGW
Points +1490
Wide variety of dim sum in taipei - Edit
We came here for the dim sum and love it. Plenty of handmade dim sum. But the prices is kind of high so we had higher expectations. Food is not bad. Taste very healthy.
Read moreUpdated from previous review on 2016-10-16
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ladude26
Points +47
awesome. best dim some I ever had. - Edit
It's made to order so it's super hot. The place is very clean and the service is great. It's all vegetarian so I can pick anything I want. It's small plates but it's great so you can try many dishes. Jasmine tea was great.
Read moreI will come back for sure. Wish they had this place in LA.
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helenedrouin
Points +3095
Good cantonese food - Edit
Typical cantonese food: dim sums, hot pots, fried noodles, mixed vegetables, etc. So many choices, it's really hard to choose! Also, it was a little bit stressful for us, because we arrived there at 8pm and had to order before 8:30pm for the last call... We couldn't get a table before that, because they were all reserved. Like the other reviews say you have to make a reservation, because the restaurant is very popular.
Read moreWhat's fun about this place is that you order a few plates and share everything with your group. They suggest to order soups + 4 plates + noodles or rice for a group of 4 persons. The food is good, but nothing out of ordinary, so I don't know what's all the fuzz about this place. Fruitfulfood or Loving Hut are much better vegetarian restaurants, in my opinion!
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Dabizi
Points +64
Very delicious - Edit
As already recommended in an earlier review: make a reservation - Yang Shin is always crowded (b/c the food is very delicious :-)
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Chef Kati
Points +136
Spectacular Find!! - Edit
MAKE RESERVATIONS!! We read that reservations were needed but we thought it wouldn't be necessary for lunch. We arrived early and were told they were completely booked!! They were kind enough to squeeze us in and we were so grateful. The food was terrific, not as spicy and flavorful as I like it, but still fabulous. The burdock rice was heavenly and of course the radish cakes which I could have everyday. The staff was very nice and the place was super clean and organized. We noticed many Buddhist monks and nuns there which was cool. We'd definitely go again.
Read morePros: Clean, Huge menu with photos, Right above the subway station
Cons: Some dishes were a bit bland, MUST have reservations!
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AndyT
Points +2414
Delicious Dimsum, absolutely advisable - Edit
Yang Shin Vegetarian Restaurant offers delicious Dim Sum for Vegetarians and Vegans alike. Vegans are happy about the clear marking - dishes that do contain egg or dairy are clearly marked on the menu with small symbols. Checking on the (English/Chinese/Pictures) menu, 75 % of the options are vegan, so they clearly are very vegan friendly.
Read moreMost of the Dimsum is really delicious, and I must say that there are some dishes that I have eaten a number of times in Chinese restaurants and must say that the version served in Yang Shin was the best I have tasted so far.
Considering this, the price (rather expensive) can be easily accepted. When going there, make sure to call in advance and get a reservation, otherwise you might not be able to dine there.
Pros: Very vegan friendly, Delicious Dimsum
Cons: Not cheap
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holdwine
Points +28
Satisfies a craving - Edit
Radish cake, 蘿蔔糕, is one of those Chinese comfort foods that can be so easily and deliciously vegetarian but is sadly most often flavoured with bits of dried shrimp and roast pork. At Yang Shin, you can certainly satisfy that craving with a radish cake that actually tastes of sweet radish without slaving for hours making your own. The same could be said of spring rolls, taro cake, tofu skin rolls and just about every other savoury dim sum item. Hooray!
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peas-full
Points +3621
Amazing food! Not to be missed - Edit
Amazing! The best restaurant in Taipei where I have eaten so far. If you have only a few days in town it should be in your to-do list, but be aware that you have to book in advance. English is spoken, so don't worry!
Read moreThe menu is pictured and in english too. Dishes containing eggs or dairy are clearly marked. If you want to take a look at the menu online, is not in english, but still with pictures: http://www.ysvege.com/menuA.htm
This are the simbols for dairy and eggs: 奶，蛋.
Enjoy :-)
p.s. credit card accepted
Pros: delicious, nice place, not too expensive
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convertedcow
Points +120
amazing - Edit
Enter the bakery at ground level and walk through the bakery to the back of the building where you will find the stairs to the restaurant.
Read moreit's difficult to find a vegetarian dim sum restaurant. Dairy and egg containing dishes are clearly indicated. Typical dim sum dishes are available (and very delicious but that may also be due to 11 years of deprivation) as well as more Taiwanese dishes. Would recommend the turnip cake, anything with tofu skin and taro, and the Cheung fan with you tiao.
Pros: too many choices!!, helpful staff, good dessert
Cons: busy - recommend booking ahead
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sglcklch
Points +3703
Delicious! - Edit
My partner and I had a fantastic lunch here. Their menu was very well organized with eggs/dairy ingredients clearly indicated and had lots of pictures for reference. Granted, there weren't as many dim sum dishes as I expected and the food wasn't so much Hong Kong-style as pan-Chinese, still I had a hard time ordering because there was just so much to choose from!
Read moreWe absolutely LOVED the fried stinky tofu and the stir-fried lion's mane mushrooms. Mmm... my mouth just waters thinking about them! Seriously though, whenever you see these mushrooms on the menu (they are fairly commonly used in vegetarian dishes on this side of the world), GET THEM. They have a deep flavor and an incredibly meaty, complex texture that renders the beloved portobello in the western world a joke. We also got some fried rice and dumplings, which were also very good. There are quite a lot more dishes I'd love to try, so I'll definitely come back whenever I'm in town again!
Pros: excellent food
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