Holy Hell Yes. I thought the pure ecstasy of Chinese food was lost forever when I went vegan. Most of those juicy dishes are pure meat but Po Kong rekindled my passionate love affair with all things Chinese. It was like Bruce Lee kicked my taste buds in the face. Go there. Go there now.

Solid veggie Chinese food! We only ordered take out and the Enoki mushroom dish was great. I have to try their dim sum though, veggie dim sum sounds awesome.

Dim sum was amazing! We have tried vegetarian dim sum all over the place. Only comparable ones are in NYC. And this one is still the best.

Their 豆苗肠粉 are the best 肠粉 (rice rolls) I ever had.... and 肠粉 is my favorite, most important dim sum dish. Get items filled with vegetables, not doughy bready or very protein-y dishes. Because their vegetables are great.

Lots of buddhists eating there.... more

So I made a reservation to go for Dim Sum lunch at 1:00 yesterday. When I arrived at 12:50, the host was surprised I was there. The thing about a reservation is, when you make a reservation for 1:00, you expect to be seated at 1:00. We got a table around 1:25. And when you make a reservation for Dim Sum, you expect they will have Dim Sum. I was told they did not have any Dim Sum, and I needed... more

This is a great, unpretentious fully-vegetarian Chinese restaurant about a 15-minute drive from downtown Vancouver. The service is consistently friendly and attentive, the space is always kept clean (though it is in an older building and the furnishings are a bit outdated and tacky) and the food is both comforting and tasty.

They have a good dim sum menu from 10:30-2pm featuring about 40 items... more

After 8+ years of not having ordered sweet and sour chicken, I decided to try a vegetarian version here. Pleased to know this place serves North American style and authentic Chinese dishes... But I think we completely ordered the wrong item. I remember sweet and sour fondly but my tastes have since changed! We didn't like the hot and sour soup either (consistency was too thick and contents... more

This place is hands down the best vegetarian Chinese food restaurant in Greater Vancouver. Pretty much everything on the menu is delicious and worth ordering. They have a great selection of soups, appetizers, main dishes, hot pots, sizzling plates, noodle soups, and a great dim sum menu for lunch. Portion sizes are quite large and a good value for the prices (about $12 per dish). The service is... more

Noodle soup is not recommend cause it's plain no flavor! Other dishes are probably good to try

Great family oriented restaurant. They have fast and friendly service and can easily host large parties. This is one of my regulars and I have never been disappointed with their dishes. The beancurd skin rolls with black bean sauce is one my favorites along with the hot and sour soup.

Very family oriented restaurant. Great selection of veggie dim sum. Lots of space for big parties. I really enjoy visiting this place as they have a good selection of non deep fried veggie dishes. Ample parking either on Kingsway or around the vicinity. I recommend this place!

a bit conflicted about this place since i'm not a vegetarian that craves meat. great vegetarian beat great imitation meat, any day of the week man!

having said that, it's a great place to take your meat-loving friends and family because they will approve. we had the hot and sour soup, sizzling pepper steak, kung pao chicken, spicy green beans, and a chow mein noodles dish. the first four... more

Reincarnated from previous Bo KOng vegetarian restaurant,im a meat lover not vegetarian and will never be,just for the record i want to try and satisfy my curiosity why theres always a line up....im completely ignorant on what to order,i got fried cashew nuts as my appetizer,chef fried rice and the famous seaweed bean curd roll(fried actually)noise level high,service is typical chinese... more

Try the Sizzling Steak and Hot&Sour Soup, its amazing! great staff, interior is decent looking fairly priced good location

Looking for a place to host your next gathering? Look no further. My friends and I have booked a total of four large gatherings at Po Kong in the last year, with groups ranging between 12 to 16. We found that the magical number of chairs that will fit their largest table to be 12, and if people show up last minute -- 14, and that's a tight squeeze.

The waitress or waiter usually starts off by... more

I've been here a few times for dinner. I like Chinese vegetarian restaurants because I'm a sucker for imitation meat - sweet and sour "pork" without the guilt of having a pig on my plate? I'm down.

However, other places are a bit greasier. I find Po Kong to be less greasy. It's a weird compliment, but it's a bonus.

The food is overall tasty, and even my red meat-loving family are fans of this... more

I'd been to Po Kong before, and what I believe was the earlier incarnation, Bo Kong, when it was on Main. I'm vegan. It was pretty awful this time--it was not just that the food was less than ordinary, ingredients thrown together slap-dash in large chunks that were difficult to handle with chopsticks, and in very ordinary, thin sauces, but the lousy service as well. We asked what was in a dish... more

They serve cheese which is not only disappointing but downright strange. In spite of this weird and unethical ingredient in what is meant to be an authentic and buddhist restaurant, I still love Po Kong and it's one of my favourite vegetarian places in Vancouver, though of course vegan places which don't profit on suffering are top on my list.

The food here is pretty flavourful, would have to agree with the other reviews I've read about the greasiness of the food here. I've been to a couple other vegetarian restaurants in Vancouver and this one is probably slightly better.

I was impressed with the cleanliness and service though! Most chinese restaurants are not very big on smiles or manners but Po Kong was actually pretty good.

We... more

Delicious meal, fine service, reasonable price, very clean

This is our 2nd meal at Po Kong in about a month. Both times the food was delicious, served piping hot (each dish came about 5-7 minutes apart, giving us time to relish it) and the portions are very generous and reasonably priced. The service was very attentive even though the restaurant was packed on a Wednesday with over 60... more

Bean curd skin rolls, sizzling steak, kung pao chicken. It doesn't sound vegetarian but it is. The food is amazing every time I come here. The hot sauce is also amazing. Yes, food is on the oily side but I believe they use sesame oil.

This place got packed as the lunch rush started after noon on a Saturday. Ordered the deep fried taro balls, spinach dumplings, fried bean curd rolls and pea shoot rice rolls (our favourite, excellent!). All fresh, tasty and reasonably priced :) Just $2.50 for the bean curd rolls and spinach dumpling - wooot! It was worth it to see the look of pure delight as the veggie hubby could actually eat... more

Aside from the fact the food is on the oily side, overall it's not bad.

Me, and my three other dining mates came here for lunch. We ordered a bunch of dim sum dishes such as spinach dumpling with tapioca skin, another kind of dumpling with tapioca skin but with white fungus bits, rice roll with pea shoots, rice roll wrapping deep fried Chinese donuts, tofu skin wrapping julienne turnip, pan... more

I must have been over excited after the first visit or it was on a good day... We went back a couple of times since and the food was ok, service rushed and disorganised. But worse of all, the toilets and kitchen that I glanced at were pretty gross. Will not be returning in a hurry!!

used to go to Bo Kong all the time, both the one on main and the one on #3 road. finally ate at po kong, owned by the same people who owned the yummy Bo Kong.

mmm, supper. we ordered chili tofu in sesame sauce (yum), sizzling chow mein (double yum), and bean curd skin rolls in lemon sauce, which isn't on the menu, but they made it for us (triple yum).

everything was scrumptious, just as it... more

What a find. We were exploring our soon-to-be neighbourhood and stumbled on this terrific restaurant.

In former days as serious vegetarians, we were big fans of vegetarian Chinese food, the BoJik on West Broadway having been our favourite.

The Po Kong was delicious. They were friendly and the place was very clean and bright. We had vegetarian dim sum, including some amazing soup. But the big... more

Six months since last visit so ordered favourites to see if they're still on game; better! Spicy Green Beans were perfect, tofu skin rolls switched up from black bean to sweet and sour ... awesome with lots of pineapple and my personal fave ginger fried rice was even better than before. Staff serene as usual and looks like the word is out ... it was crowded. $50 with tip and we took enough... more

this is one of the best vegeterian restraunts in Vancouver. They use to be the Bo Kong on Main, which happens to be one of the most successful vegeterian restraunts in the 90's. Ownership issues, lead to different chefs in the end, it got closed down due to slower then usual business.

This restraunt was re resurrected by members of the old Bo Kong staff, they kept exactly the old menu on top... more

THERE IS A GOD!! We used to drive up from Seattle salivating for Bo Kong in Richmond and were devastated when they owners 'retired' and it turned into a meat place! On our recent trip to Vancouver, we found that it had been reincarnated into a new place called PO KONG with the same menu, same fantastic food and even friendlier service than before. We ordered five dishes and all five were... more

Tonight an unassuming vegetarian restaurant on Kingsway in east Vancouver surprised our group of 7 diners. Read Crystal G's review on this page, for the history of the place. Because two of us were vegetarians, we decided to try Po Kong, recently re-opened in this new location, were warmly received and a large table quickly set up for us.

Service was rapid, friendly and helpful. The manager... more

I went for Dim Sum last week, and except for the fact that I liked Bo Kong back in the day, I may not go back. Admittedly, I have never had Dim Sum before and was very excited to taste the vegan bite-sized morsels, what I got was a whole lot of slimy, goopy, white glutinous rice mass + deep fried tofu(?)/gluten(?) items. Perhaps I chose all the wrong items, but the only exciting (and vegetable)... more

The ambiance is so relaxing, with the gentle Buddhist music! The service is always excellent--fast and super friendly. The owner is very kind.

There are soo many tasty dishes on this menu it is hard to choose what to recommend. The black bean curd skin rolls are great, shitake mushrooms, green beans, spinach thick soup....

There are many deep fried dishes, which are not my thing, but they are... more

This place used to be the Richmond Bo Kong (The Main St Bo Kong turned into the Whole Veg). We hadn't gone here, as we were used to the Main St. restaurant, but finally went twice with an Earthsave (Meatless Meetup) dineout. The first time we tried less common dishes, the second time the menu was all the most popular ones. Both times it was very good. Same extensive menu as before, with large... more

I've only tried one thing in this restaurant so this review is for Jai only.

Jai is how you say Vegetarian food in Chinese and I ordered the small take-out Jai combination platter. It was enough to feed 2 people when eating with rice. I wasn't sure exactly what is used to make Jai, but there were 3 types in the combo. One is a more reddish color and is slightly sweeter. There's a dark brown... more

With the chairs being a washed-out turquoise and the food soaked with grease, it can easily be a turn off for some people.

That being said, the food was great and the portions were huge. Two $10 plates could easily serve 3-4, if not more.

Absolutely great selection! The food is pretty tasty and the variety of people that come in puts a smile on your face. You don't usually see more causasians at a chinese restuarants than asians.

Definitely will be returning

I had never really had a full dim sum meal, especially vegan but I tried it with some friends for a meetup dine out.

I found that everything was really heavy on deep fried buns, deep fried tofu and rice. There were lots of steamed buns but almost no vegetables at all, which I thought was odd for vegan cuisine. I was pretty disappointed. I didn't really feel well after with just bread bread... more

I was pretty excited when I heard that this restaurant may be the reincarnation of Bo Kong. My beloved Bo Kong. The name would certainly suggest this...
And there certainly were enough similarities to think it is at least a very closely related sister, hooray!!
The shitake mushroom dish was as yummy as I always remembered it, and the black bean curd rolls were their usual yummy selves. The... more

A friend brought me here a couple days ago and wow! Definitely impressed. Here's what I had:

Orange Cutlet - Fake chicken cutlets in sweet orange sauce.. soo yum. Incredibly addictive.

Black Bean Bean Curd Rolls - crispy chewy bean curd rolls with vegetables in black bean sauce. (crispy when hot and becomes chewy afterwards.)

Fried Taro and Fried Soy Milk - This one is my fave... Taro... more

how good is this restaurant? well, like the great parody man al yankovich says, just eat it!

Bring lots of friends

Bo Kong is great place to go with lots of friends, and that's the only way you'll be able to sample the huge menu. I was amazed at the variety of tastes and how delicious everything was. And it's cheap! For dinner, it cost our group $15 each with tax and tip, and we each ate mountains of tasty vegetarian food.

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This is a fabulous place for vegetarians and people who say they could never live without meat. The portions are large and meant for sharing family style. The service is friendly attentive and very quick. The outside of the restaurant is nothing special but the inside is colourful and the servers are professionally uniformed with bow ties so I wouldnt walk in without shirt and shoes but people... more

This place is a great restaurant for beginner's vegetarian. The menu is full of color pictures that are quite accurate. Set aside the old assumption that you'll only get rabbit food. The menu has over 100 items easily and they are all mouth-watering. Prices are moderate and I would recommend making reservations prior to going, as they can be quite busy. Atmosphere is nice and the staff are very... more