Veg

Man, how should I start.
This is debatable the fact that it’s a all you can eat vegetarian restaurant trying to promote no MSG, no animal product blah blah blah healthy-​like shit.
The oil they have on EVERY dish seems to start blocking my arteries the second I step out of the restaurant. I would always order a bowl of hot water and soak all my food into the water, to get rid of the oil, before I get the food near my mouth.
They do have deliciously weird vegetarian food such as veggie duck, chicken, beef– basically, any vegetarian soy protein products you could name. I don’t know how they cook their food, but even the prepared vegetables are soaked in oil. The sauces are soaked in oil, spring rolls are fried in lots of oil, simple vegetable dishes are all in oil oil oil! Its as if their cooking motto is «drench everything in oil».
Oh, their soup is watery and tasteless.
They also serve indian rolls, rice, and noodless– which many senseless people seem to like to load their stomach with.
Fried seaweed is yummy.
They do have fruits (finally something NOT in oil). Mostly green and red (ooo~ variety) apples, and pineapple, soaked in water.
Unlimited refills are a plus if you could tolerate their grease level. I don’t mind coming here once in a while for a guilty pleasure. And don’t feel bad to ask them for some hot water and FILTER out their grease filled food before treating your arteries with another soon-​to-​set-​on heart attack.
PS. take out is not as worth it as eating in (their containers are HELLA small)
PPS. cash only.

My best friend and I have been coming here for years and its one of our most favourite places to eat. I love the variety and the fact that its only £8 for all you want!
Its all really fresh and even though its a buffet its always warm… Spring rolls etc are not always going to be piping hot from an all you can eat buffet come on lets not be silly!
I’m not even a veggie but I go here because its all quite healthy so don’t feel too bad on my third plate mountain of food! Lots of different rices and noodles and I really like the soya meat stuff! Loads of different flavours, textures and colours makes it really exciting each time you go up for more… what shall I choose next!
All the staff are very friendly and efficient. They always make sure your drink is topped up. I always finish with a big pot of jasmine tea…
I adore this place and will continue to go again and again…

I stumbled upon Veg completely by accident. You know, you’ve been out all morning doing weekend stuff and then suddenly it’s 2pm and you’re starving.
If I had read the other Unilocal reviews before hand I would have never gone in, but it was actually ok. They do do a lot of mock meat, but then some veggies are into that (I’m not, but I don’t have an issue with it). I do agree that the buffet wasn’t all kept super hot, but I was hungry and it didn’t worry me at the time. Non mock meat dishes included plain stirfried noodles, saffron rice, chilli green beans, aubergine tempura, stirfried mushrooms and veggies, a beetroot salad, another noodle dish, sliced tomato, a cucumber salad, roast potatoes, roast veggies, spring rolls, and fruit salad. I had two helpings of the mushrooms, green beans plain noodles and spring rolls and completely enjoyed them :)
Definitely not bad for £8.80 including buffet, tea and the service charge!

After having eaten nothing but Full Breakfasts and Kebabs for a few days, I needed to eat some vegetables.
Chinese Buddhist cuisine has a long tradition of vegetarianism and making meat analogues out of soy and wheat gluten. Some of them are indeed quite convincing. So Veg’s concept is fine, as was the jasmine tea that came with dinner, and the fresh fruit for dessert.
However, they run a lousy buffet. While the food is about as fresh as you’d see at a buffet with medium turnover, they don’t really hold the hot food at a high temperature. For example, if you get a freshly fried spring roll, it’ll be fine; otherwise it’ll be cold and soggy. Noodles dishes would get stick sitting there were it not for the copious amount of oil poured thereupon.
And this part is the weirdest. The ceiling was leaking, but it wasn’t…even…raining…

This place is terrrrrrrrrible. And that’s coming from a vegetarian.
We ate here on our trip to London, and I was pretty excited to find an all-​vegetarian-​thai/​chinese buffet for a great price. Boy, was I in for a surprise…
The most-​impressive thing about this place is their ability to make soy/​soya look like meat (the soy shrimp really looked close to the real thing!). Other than that, ew.
Everything tasted the same — incredibly blandddddddd. I would never go back here. It was terrible. We didn’t even finish one plate of food between two people.
Stay away!

A lot of my vegetarian friends are completely mad about Veg; I – on the other hand – abhor it. The shtick here is that vegetarians and can enjoy Thai /​Chinese cuisine to it’s fullest extent, but instead of feeling the pangs of guilt from eating an animal, they get odd, fleshy, life-​like bean curd /​soya replicas. This concept is fine, and I don’t want to appear to be one of those meat eating philistines that says «you don’t eat meat so you can’t have the shapes» (when have you ever seen a pig shaped like a sausage?); but for me there’s something very sickening about how true to life these clones are. I can’t touch the stuff without thinking «what the hell have they put in here?». Even when I was a vegetarian I was put off by this concept.
Aside from this the food ranges from a selection of crispy seaweeds, crispy soya-​duck, sweet and sour beef, and it tastes okay: better than some, not as bad as others. The service is polite and efficient, but I’ve never really been a fan of all you can eat buffet’s: the head chef should really take the pride and responsibility to set your menus; you always feel awkward and rushed; and greed is never a charming attribute. There is something quite sterile and clunky about the environment here, and I tend to avoid Veg at all costs.
Veg is a barrel of rather questionable cheap thrills, but then if it’s cheap thrills (around £10 a pop eat in, and I presume even cheaper to take out) you’re after, then go for it.