Notable Restaurants in China

Jingdu Caotang is a phoenix-from-the-ashes reinvention by the original core team behind Da Shu Wu Jie — its newest concept space, informally "Da Shu Wu Jie 3.0" — set on the sixth floor of a heritage building on Nanjing Road East. Inside, geometric origami-style planter walls and reclaimed wood furniture frame gladiolus, string-of-pearls, staghorn fern and bird's-nest fern, bringing the seasons into the middle of the city. Two rooftop gardens round out the space: a north terrace growing 20-plus herbs — Cuban oregano, rosemary, lavender, thyme, lemon mint, lemongrass, chamomile and more — that doubles as an organic herbal-tea picking-and-tasting space, and a south terrace shaded by blueberry, grape, hawthorn and yew trees that trace the seasons from blossom to fruit, with skyline views at dusk. Jingdu Caotang hopes to use taste that reaches the essence of flavor to awaken a purer palate — moving vegetarian cooking beyond restriction into a dialogue between food and nature.

A Michelin-starred vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai, famed for refined Chinese tasting menus that follow the seasons.

A two-Michelin-star (and Green Star) vegetarian restaurant in Beijing, blending temple traditions with contemporary fine dining.

A Shanghai institution founded in 1922 and one of the icons of modern Chinese vegetarian cuisine.

A popular affordable vegan chain in Shanghai whose name puns on “eat vegetarian early.”

A fine-dining vegan/vegetarian restaurant in Hong Kong offering creative seasonal tasting menus.

A vegan restaurant in Hong Kong's Central serving Asian-inspired plant-based cuisine.

An all-vegetarian tea house in Hong Kong Park, known for vegetarian dim sum and tea.

The Macau outpost of the global vegan chain Loving Hut, serving affordable, varied plant-based dishes.

A popular vegetarian tea house in Taipei, famed for vegetarian xiaolongbao and a wide range of dim sum.

A well-known upscale vegetarian restaurant in Taipei, celebrated for refined, wellness-minded creative cuisine.

A popular Taiwanese vegan chain known for its build-your-own vegetable lu-wei and noodles.

A century-old vegetarian hall inside Xiamen's Nanputuo Temple, known for its poetically named Buddhist dishes and long regarded as a famous temple vegetarian banquet in southern Fujian.

A vegetarian restaurant run by Dafo (Great Buddha) Temple in Guangzhou's Beijing Road district, serving Cantonese-style Buddhist dishes and a vegetarian buffet.

A Hangzhou vegetarian institution founded in 1919; after years closed it was taken over by Jingci Temple and reopened in 2022 beside West Lake, specializing in meat-free noodles, pastries and banquets.

The vegetarian eatery at Suzhou's Xiyuan (Jiechuang Vinaya) Temple, popular for Suzhou-style vegetarian noodles with clear broth and generous toppings.

A creative vegetarian restaurant in Chengdu's Wuhou district themed around the 24 solar terms with seasonally changing Sichuan-inflected menus; a multi-year Michelin Bib Gourmand pick for Chengdu.

A popular plant-based restaurant in Shenzhen's MixC World in Nanshan — the brand's first South China outlet — serving over a hundred natural, handmade vegan dishes.

A natural-vegetarian restaurant near Baotong Temple in Wuchang, Wuhan, offering affordable buffet-style home cooking and mock-meat dishes.

A vegetarian restaurant set in Nan Lian Garden beside Chi Lin Nunnery in Diamond Hill, Hong Kong, serving refined Chinese vegetarian dishes and dim sum in a Tang-style garden.

A Cantonese vegetarian restaurant in Macau's Fai Chi Kei that cooks without the five pungent spices, serving stone-pot rice, crispy lotus root and set lunches.

A Sichuan-style vegetarian restaurant in Taipei's Songshan district that cooks without onion or garlic; a Michelin Bib Gourmand vegetarian pick for several consecutive years.

A hotel-grade vegetarian brand from the Hai Lai group in Kaohsiung, led by hotel chefs and known for creative international vegetarian dishes and daily handmade dim sum.