Chamlong's Asoke Vegetarian Restaurant - Bangkok, Thailand

A vegan hidden gem in Bangkok! This isn't your typical vegan restaurant with fancy dishes and high prices. It is a cafeteria 99% free of animal products with street food priced dishes. There is also a cruelty free health store that sits right next to the cafeteria full of juices, frozen mock products, beauty products, dried snacks and grains, cooking utensils and much more for once again, marked at a very reasonable cost.

Make sure to check all items before purchasing as I did see some that included honey and came across a dressing that may have contained milk. But other than that, all is gin jay! (vegan in Thai haha)

Not many foreigners know about it, hence the weird location which can be difficult to find if you've never been. Check out Eating Thai Food blog for the best way to get there. 

When you enter the eatery you will want to get money coupons from the lady at the little window as you walk in on your right. I started out with 100 baht (about $3 USD) and it was more than enough. 

Black sesame steamed bun, one of their many flavors. I have also tried the pumpkin, veggie and mushroom buns... mushroom was the winner.

Among the steamed buns, the cafeteria is full of varieties of fried rice, noodle dishes, soups, salads, fresh rice paper rolls, fried veggie rolls, desserts and much more. I also like to get the juices from the health store, which can be found in the back room in a big red cooler. 

The food is fresh and delicious! Here I ordered the salad bar, rice paper veggie wraps and I have tried just about all the juices (passionfruit-carrot flavor is my go to!).

The mushroom soup is my FAVORITE, can be found at the beginning of the line next to the steamed buns. This dish is made upon request so it is served scorching hot!

The only thing that they can improve on, which happens with a lot of buffet style joints here in Thailand, is warming up the dishes. They make huge portions (like the noodle dishes and fried rice) and leave them out then serve to you without being heated up again. Sometimes a meal is just a thousand times better when hot! But literally, that is my only complaint. 

My two dishes at the bottom of the picture.. on the left is tom yum fried rice and on the right is som tam or papaya salad. 

The staff serving the food is friendly, the food is good quality, the portions are good size and to top it off the health store full of cruelty free products is amazing! It is a great place to buy cheap memorabilia's, souvenirs, and household commodities.