Fo Guang Shan Water Drop Teahouse Selangor — Restaurant in Petaling Jaya

A vegetarian place that can’t decide if it’s a food court, a Zen retreat, or your grandmother’s kitchen. The system is simple: order at the counter, fetch it yourself, and don’t expect anyone to smile while you’re doing it. Service swings between robotic and funereal, with staff moving like ghosts who clocked out years ago. And these ghosts will only speak to you in Chinese.

The crowd is mostly retirees, monks, and the kind of folks who actually know what hericium mushrooms are. There’s also a defibrillator in the corner, probably not a decoration. The food, though, is bold, plentiful, and occasionally brilliant. Curry noodles that could raise the dead, claypot “chicken” rice made of mushrooms that eats better than the real thing, braised ramen hot enough to test your pain tolerance. Generous portions, priced about the same as mall food, but the flavour puts most mall food to shame.

They serve the Buddhist centre out back like a monastery cantteen, and the menu bounces between Chinese staples and “Western” experiments. Sometimes it’s a hit, like butter mushroom rice that feels decadent without guilt. Sometimes it’s a cheesecake that’s not actually cheesecake. Vegetarian bak kwa is also sold if you want to question yourself on what meat really is.

The space itself is calm, clean, even expanding, now with more seats, more Zen, and subjectively bad background music. On good days, it’s a quiet refuge with steaming bowls of vegetarian comfort food. On bad days, it’s waiting an hour for pasta while someone in a black cap glares at you for asking. Still, for vegetarians, this place is a rare treasure in SS3. For meat eaters, it’s a lesson: mushrooms can, in fact, taste...

Today is the first day of CNY and I pre-ordered my bento set last Thursday (27/1) to be pick up at 1pm sharp.. 3 sets in total... I purposely chose to came in 15 minutes late so that my meal is ready to go once I'm here, but to my disappointment I was told by the cashier my order wasn't ready because it was not even keyed in to system.... He look at me and said will order for me now and asked me to wait at least an hour for my food... It was already 1.30pm... I took the effort to prebooked and drive all the way from kepong and this is what I get in return.. if you can't cope with the demand or having this kind of attitude and do not take your customers seriously, where do you think it will lead you to? Me and my wife left feeling hungry and angry on the 1st day of CNY because of you.... Amitoufo... Thank you and Gong...

A vegetarian cafe tucked in SS3. We had braised ramen and fried kuey teow for lunch. The food portion is pretty large and if you're a small eater then two can share one dish. Taste wise not bad but lack the wow factor. They have both local and western food choices, split between rice or noodle meals. Their food prices are fair and in the mid range between RM15 to RM20. A nice and quiet place to enjoy your vegetarian meal.

You may move about to see their other vegetarian products while waiting for your food...there are biscuits, noodles, apple cider, chips,...