Quan The Am Temple

Closed for long time. The master chef went to india for meditation practice since september. Doesnt know when he will be back.

The best place to be if you’re a vegetarian or not. The food here is awesome and there are more option than most restaurants I know. If I recall correctly, it open from Tues to Sunday. Close Monday.
The only negative about this place is the parking. The parking is so limited, so park outside if you can, especially the weekend. Somehow, there are always some idiot drivers that think is «OK» to block other people car.

Food wise– amazing spring rolls. The bun bo hue was just okay. Just worth it to drop by here to get the veggie spring rolls. This is the veggie Brodard (although the sauce is not as drinkable as brodard)

I heard a lot of great compliments about the vegetarian food at this temple for a while now, so I decided to try it out with my friend. We ordered 1 tray of spring roll, 1 mi tiem and 1 bun cha gio. The wait was really long but the food was well worth it.
The food was flavorful and the portions are big. The vegetarian egg roll from bun cha gio was crispy and very tasty. I normally do not like egg rolls in general; yet I gotta say the vegetarian egg rolls here were really good.
The spring rolls are very well-​made too. Dare I say they are just as good as the regular spring rolls from Brodard. I seriously never had a better vegetarian dish elsewhere in my life!!!
The price is also very decent: $ 7.50/bowl and $ 3.00/tray of spring rolls (4 small rolls), no tax and tips, CASH ONLY. Since this is a temple, besides making the food, everything else is self-​service. However, they do offer free teabags and fruits. Yay! Another bonus point is that they have a wide variety of entrees, from porridge to various types of noodle soup and rice dishes.
Some small problems:
1) the room is small and it could get really crowded so there might not be enough seats for dine-​in on busy days.
2) Long waiting time before and after making orders, especially on the 1^st and 15^th day of the Lunar calendar.
3) Small parking, so the chance of your car getting blocked by other cars in the parking lot is very likely.
Regardless of the problems, I will definitely come back twice per month to get my vegetarian dishes fixed. Definitely recommended!!!

I’ve tried almost all vegetarian restaurants in the Bay Area, and I think this temple really makes the best vegetarian food! Even though I don’t speak Vietnamese but it’s not difficult to order if you know what you want. They are very friendly and the old lady sometimes give me extra food!
The parking can be very difficult if the temple gets very busy.

Outside of a 5-​star restaurant, I have never had such consistently excellent vegetarian food as Quan The Am Temple. The place is a «hole-​in-​the-​wall» with parking worst than Sen Dai Sushi, but the food is worth the other annoyances.
The food is regular Vietnamese soup and rice dishes (VEGETARIAN), but damn is it good. My wife and I love sushi, which you can tell by the number of review/​updates that I (self-​proclaimed lazy-​ass) have written about Sen Dai Sushi. But we go this temple more often than to Sen Dai, mainly for the food. (I am not religious).
FOOD: 5 stars
There are over a dozen dishes to order from. My wife and I got Mi Tiem and Bun Hue, respectively. In the Japanese movie Tampopo, the noodle soup is excellent when the customer drinks all of the broth. Well, I usually drink the broth at this place. Today, I only drank half of my Bun Hue soup, because I had to leave room to finish the remain half of her Mi Tiem. (I swear she has a stomach the size of a new born kitten — waste of a buffet on her.) Then again, I did drink half of her Mi Tiem soup (too full after that, though I wanted to drink it all.) Both broth was just perfectly seasoned, not too salty, spicy, nor bland. Just right for me to drink it all.
We often get the a la carte stuff to take home for the rest of the week. The a la carte stuff they serve here is better than Di Lac Cuisine. To be honest, I only had one bad noodle soup out of the more than three dozen times I have been here — it was over four years ago. By bad, I mean I did not drink all the broth and left some of the bleh noodles. It was the type with the fat round white noodle ~2″ long.
VALUE: 4 stars
Our two bowls of noodle soups came to $ 13, so $ 6.50 which I think is the price on all the dishes on their main menu. At other restaurants with that good of a noodle bowl, you would pay at least $ 8 – 12 (Vung Tau anyone?). Great food at relatively inexpensive prices, nuff said.
SERVICE: 3 stars (biasedly gave an extra star due to 60+ grandmothers bringing you food on a tray)
Almost all your «servers» are grandmotherly types. These ladies look to be retired/someone’s grandmother who are volunteering their time and labor for the temple. They will take your order, give you a number tag, take your money and bring the food to your table. They can be as nice or brusque as grandmothers. If you have questions or need help with anything, then they can be friendly and helpful. Just do not expect them to wait on you like in a restaurant. Everything beyond getting you your food is self-​serve. The chopsticks and plastic spoons are in a corner opposite the counter. Once you are done eating, there are tables outside for you to place your empty bowl and trash cans for the leftovers.
DECOR /​AMBIANCE: 2 stars
This place a hole-​in-​the-​wall-​in-​a-​temple. The décor is practical — walls, roof, lighting, tables and chairs for you to sit. You won’t find anything fancy. The place is relatively clean. Bathroom is much cleaner than most fancier restaurants. My cleanliness standards leans heavily on how clean the bathroom is.
I was actually there when the Health Department came to inspect them. Who knew?! Though looking back, I should not have been surprised since they are a restaurant. The health inspector took quite a while but only had a few quips about the place. Yes, I was a little hesitant on their cleanliness the first time I was there and always uneasy about how clean things are in the kitchen, but after the health inspector came I never had another thought about their kitchen.
PARKING: 1 star (there are a few spaces)
The parking sucks. You think I hate the crappy parking at Sen Dai Sushi? Try this on: if all the people coming here knows how to park (rifting on Asian driving/​parking), then you can squeeze in a dozen cars. If you come after 11:45 am, then pray to the Parking God to see if you are lucky enough to get a spot. Do not even think of coming here to park during any holiday/​event.
Even though the hours of operations say 9 am to 7 pm, Tuesday through Sunday, I have gone there around 5 – 6 pm and they have run out of a lot of the dishes, so plan for lunch to get most of your stuff. Also, I have arrived there after 11:45 am and found a parking spot (thank you Parking God), but had to wait 30 – 60 mins for the food to arrive due to the lunch rush. After 12:45 pm is okay.
OVERALL: quite a few annoyances from this place, but if you can get past those, the vegetarian food is worth the trouble.

This was our first time here to get the food. We ordered 7 different dishes, and so far so good. Wish they would have dessert (che & xoi)

ive came here a lot and didnt know there was a Unilocal for this place cause i didnt know what it would be under.
one day i was browsing around temple since i was in a temple and found it!
im soo happy people know about this place cause this is the best vegetarian food you can get anywhere.
i know my vegetarian food cause i love eating vegetarian
i usually get the items that are on the cart and the one tofu that looks the darkest. TRY I REPEAT! TRY THAT ONE!
i can rant on about this place but itll be useless if you dont try this place.

My Husband and I are going vegetarian and this place goes for us 5x a week for our diets. i love this place. their food is really flavorful and creative for vegetarian. i even cater at this temple for charities and social events that support vegetarian and buddhism. try their eggrolls and Mi Vit Tim.

Fantastic vegetarian food! Parking can be a problem so avoid coming here during buddhist holidays.

This is my favorite Buddhist temple in the Bay Area. I’m usually there on Sunday from 2pm-​3pm and the temple is packed!

I have been to this temple over the past 12 months for veggie food, and the food here is still good as day 1. Temple has a variety of dishes; the best one is mì tìm. The price here is cheap compare to other veggie restaurants in the area, and the food is just as good or better. The staff here is great, they are friendly and nice. Staff working here are volunteers so they don’t serve you, so you have to get your own utensils and clean up yourself afterward. Recently they just renovated the dinning area so the place is clean and fresh. If you thinking of veggie food, this is the place to try it out.