Lucky Vegetarian — Restaurant in New York

This is a 5 star vegetarian find. The restaurant is entered through an enclosure that looks like a big phone booth. To access it, you go into the enclosure & down a steep flight of stairs. Hold onto the handrail. It was about 7pm & smelled of incense when we entered. We were quickly greeted with menus, then a pot of hot tea, chopsticks & and small bowl of roasted peanuts were brought to the table. The hostess answered any questions we had. We decided on stewed eggplant clay pot and Korean Veg sliced fish with bean curd clay pot. It was not clay pot like I enjoyed in Hunan with rice in bottom of pot. We had to ask for white rice. We had to ask if entire menu was vegetarian because it referred to meat dishes but we were assured that it was 100% vegetables. $30.50 total for our 2 dinner meals, plus tip. The only other table was done shortly after we arrived but a table of 8 came in before we left & we could see an amazing multi course meal being served. The following day, I walked past it again & realized it was in basement of Buddhist Temple! No wonder we saw Buddhist Nun coming in & out of restaurant. If you are looking for 100% vegetarian meal, try it. It was clean with a simple decor. They have a nice deal for lunch with entree, soup, rice for $8.50 from...

Only some of their fried rice noodle can choose with or without eggs（vegetarian) , the rest of dishes are all vegans .

They have lovely Buddhism music, decoration, and atmosphere in the restaurant. Thank you

The shifu clock out and left with his electronic bike on time 8:30 pm, so don’t try to place the order after that.

This is my first time here :) because everytime when I’m around they close already, they close rarely early comparing with other stores. love their vegan options. Many thanks :)

Their vegan roasted pork totally reminds me of the hk vegan restaurant in Astoria name “jujube “ , ever since they closed I can’t find any other places has that taste anymore. I will totally come back for the “1. Roast pork “ and “2. Stir fried hofun” again :) their hofun has the Chinese herbal medicine taste that I familiar with :) totally love it :) many thanks

And I was very surprised that their “34 sautéed string bean” is sautéed with #豆 豉 （ ㄔˇ ） (fermented beans) this is a very hunan style of sautéed style totally reminds me of my grandma, thank you

And the most amazing things about this restaurant is that your phone has no signal when you are here underground, wow I truly enjoy the quiet moment that no disturb...

We wanted to love this restaurant but unfortunately it was a huge disappointment. It’s possible that we came at the wrong time (2pm on a Sunday), or ordered the wrong items, or upon seeing that we aren’t Chinese food was prepared differently. It’s also located in a very dimly lit/dark basement.

The spring roll was burned outside but still cold & frozen inside. The steamed dumplings had very hard skin outside. We ordered three bean curd dishes, all of them were deep fried and oily, with no vegetables, and not one of them was tasty. The oil was rancid, clearly reused over and over again. The broccoli fried rice was recommended to us, but tasted very weird. The mushrooms on the sizzling mushroom platter were also battered and deep fried with the rancid oil. Perhaps if we had ordered items that were not fried, we would have enjoyed them. It did not state on the menu which items were deep fried, we did not expect everything to be. Cost was $85 for 3 adults and 2 toddlers. We ordered two appetizers and four...