Yuan Su Vegetarian

Really happy we found this place! Its such a treat to have such wonderful Chinese food all being vegan and vegetarian! The plate sizes were massive and one entree could easily feed two adults! We loved our service! The owner was so kind and was very informative! I hope this place continues to thrive and be well! Its always nice to have a vegetarian dedicated food spot!

Great food! As a vegetarian, the idea of not having to worry about dietary restrictions on the menu is so liberating! The food was absolutely delicious.

Definitely reminds me of a Chinese restaurant like Chins, if you order the hot tea . The food and service was very good 👍 all vegan 🌱

Food was delicious! Tried for the first time and got take out. They were quick and kind. Got the dinner plate thing, was cheap as far as Chinese food goes especially for vegan Chinese. Everything was just fabulous

We love love love Yuan Su!! We have been visiting this restaurant for over 9 years now. It is an all time favorite! Great service, great food, and large portions!! They remember us every time and make us feel so welcome!

Wonderful Chinese restaurant with vegan food. Their dishes are delicious with meat substitutes. The bean curd appetizer in particular was absolutely delightful and easily the most tasty thing we ate while we were there. The service was great and the restaurant itself was beautiful. Would return again.

I love this place. Everything is vegan and large portions. My favorites so far are the hot and sour soup (great for sharing), pork belly with taro in hot pot, and the turmeric fried rice.

Lovely spot that deserves to be visited and revisited. I look forward to diving into the menu over the course of many meals here in the future. If you dream of a classic American Chinese restaurant but plant based, this is a dream come true.

This was my first time visiting this restaurant. It's called vegetarian, but it's all vegan. And they make their own seitan there! They have a lot of seating, and it seems like it would be a great place to go out to eat with a group of friends. They don't have any outdoor seating unfortunately, so I ordered takeout. Parking was easy on a Saturday night at 7pm. I ordered through the website, and it was very easy to use. Rice is $1 extra for each cup. I ordered the General Tso's Chicken and the Kung Pao Chicken. Both were made with their housemade seitan and were DELICIOUS. It cost about $35 for both meals and a cup of rice. If you're not a big eater, you could probably get 2 meals out of an entree.

I always love the food here. Everything is vegan and delicious. I'm still making my way through trying the whole menu. Haha. So far my favorites are the hot and sour soup (great for sharing), the veggie pork belly with taro in hot pot, and the tumeric fried rice. Their lunch combos are also amazing.

Tried for the first time and loved it. Had the spring rolls, pot stickers , house fried rice and orange chicken. Everything was delicious and server super friendly. Very good service. We did go at lunch time so it was not busy. Will definitely be back.

GREAT vegan chinese food! What a little gem of a place. Got the beef and broccoli and it was awesome. So was my partner's cashew chicken. Definitely coming back here and would recommend to anyone, vegetarian or not.

Yuan Su serves all-vegetarian Chinese food. (Perhaps all vegan? Hard to tell, as they don't have a full website.) They're in a giant red building off Powell and 111th so it's not exactly a happening part of the city or a fun dinner destination. I ordered takeout for lunch recently. Service stood out as above and beyond, from helping me decide what to order on the phone, greeting me when I walked in, having the order ready in about 10 minutes, packaging the order in a box to go, helping me with a complicated payment. The restaurant was nearly empty when I went to pickup. It's a huge space, somewhat spartan in decor. Looks like the building used to be used for something else. I ordered beef and broccoli, kung pao chicken, mapo tofu, potstickers, and rice. It was all good but not necessarily amazing. Portions were large enough for leftovers. Main dish prices were about $14-18 so a little pricey depending on what you get. If I go back, I will keep working my way through their menu to see what dishes are my favorite and how they adapt them to be vegetarian/vegan.

When people ask me my favorite restaurants, I'm often hard pressed to come up with an answer. Yuan Su is on the short list now! I've eaten here a couple times and am never disappointed. I highly recommend eating family style so you can try more things! Visited with a large group and got to try several dishes. General Tso was still a crowd pleaser and the beef style dishes were a major hit. The surprise was the lemon "fish" which was delightful. And again, even with our large group, the staff kept up with our many requests. Can't wait to come back!

Food is all vegan, which is nice, but the actual food wasn't anything to write home about. If you need gluten-free, it'll be hard to find options here as they could only recommend one dish with tofu and plain vegetables. This is a Chinese-American food restaurant so if that's what you enjoy & are expecting, it's fine.

Got to say, I was skeptical going in to this restaurant. The location and concept of vegetarian Chinese food did not strike a good chord with me but I surprisingly had a very good time and thoroughly enjoyed the food! We went as a big group so we got to try a bunch of dishes and I think that's the way to do it with this place. I'm not a vegetarian so I was curious to compare their mimicked dishes and they honestly did an amazing job! The taste, of course, wasn't precise but the texture and eating experience were quite on point. Everything was made super fresh and we all liked everything we ordered. The dishes that really stoodout for me were the Pork Belly with Pickled Cabbage and the Pork Belly Taro Clay Pot. Their Char Siu was also very tasty. I appreciated this place for the novel experience. Great spot for vegetarian and large groups. Service was quick and friendly, as well as great prices.

The food was bland and the orange chicken was just cooked really oddly like it wasn't crispy just very tough and dry in the middle. I've had other veg orange chicken and this was just not up to par. The veggie chow mein was alright but also kinda bland. I also felt sick like 1-2 hours after eating it and kept getting waves of nausea. I sadly can't recommend going here :( I had high hopes for it tho I was so excited for veg orange chicken !

I still really like this place, but I have an up down to report. The up are the prices. I noticed they have new menus, which usually only signals one thing, same offerings and higher prices. I had an appetizer and an entree and a small bowl of soup, which is really a large bowl of soup, $35 before tip. Now the down, damn the neighborhood. I think it's bad each time I go to this place, then it gets worse.

Oh em geeeee this place is amazing. I can't believe I've never ordered from here before! Sometimes I get a craving for Chinese and Panda Express can only do so much with their limited veg options. I never heard of Yuan Su until I learned about it from a Portland vegan group. After partying a little too hard last night I desperately needed something satisfying. I opted to order the dinner combo 1 which came with ham fried rice, beef and broccoli, and sweet and sour chicken (plus an egg roll) and a side cup of hot and sour soup. Online ordering was super easy and it was ready very fast. The restaurant is really big with tons of indoor dining and a decent-sized parking lot. The staff are super friendly and nice. The prices I believe are very reasonable for the quality of the food. Nothing tasted overly salty or greasy. It was all very fresh and delicious. I can't wait to come back and try more of their dishes!

A very unassuming exterior but the service is great & the food is nice & flavorful. Absolutely forgot to take pics but I'll definitely get those next time. Fried rice & general chicken! This used to be a great pizza joint when I first moved to Portland. Just some trivia!

Love love the food here; have been coming for 8 yrs, but I have to say that the treatment of the servers, one particularly, is rude. Also, I can repeat many times to add xtra mustard for to go orders, and instead she will not give me any sauces or even a fortune cookie. She yells and will say it takes 15 minutes, but sometimes it will be 45-50 minutes. I don't stop going, because again...the food is fantastic. But I no longer tip. I used to tip over 20% no matter what - no more. I won't pay someone to treat me poorly.

We love it-- lots of options,, everything is vegan, really good portions, and they have all of the favorites. We'll be back to try more & will definitely be our go-to Chinese takeout spot! It's a huge space, great for parties. We sat at one of the window booths and the hot & sour soup was PERFECT for the freezing cold weather. Definitely good for sharing / family style dining. We ordered General Tso's Chicken, veggie chow main, a hot pot dish, and the hot & sour soup. Helen, our server, was knowledgeable and very welcoming. Plenty of parking out front. A great spot, definitely recommend.

All vegetarian Chinese food! The restaurant is surprisingly spacious and clean, service is consistently friendly, and although they don't seem to have many customers dining in, their take-out business appears steady. I've been here a few times now and I've never been disappointed by any of the dishes. Since I stopped eating meat a few years ago, there were certain dishes I figured I just wouldn't have again, but Yuan Su fills some of that gap. Veggies are fresh & the meat alternatives are well seasoned and cooked.

The first time we came here last year, it was absolutely amazing. But this restaurant is slowly going downhill, when I go in there now it's almost empty every single time that I go with maybe one person there. Maybe it's because the quality of the food is slowly dwindling as well. The chicken that they use is so different now and tastes like corndog meat, I invited a friend of mine here with me before and was embarrassed at how the food tasted, they even said it tasted funky. The lady who works at the register never has a good attitude, and always seems to be not the happiest that she's at work. That combined with the increased greasiness of the food, and also I was just told that starting this year the lunch specials do not come with rice, you have to pay extra. I've never heard of a place that serves this type of food where the entrées did not come with rice. And I hate to be the one to go on and on but honestly I don't understand how they think that the way things are going to be sustainable, long-term. I just had them for lunch and now my stomach hurts, it's been this way for a while now. I keep trying to give this place a chance but I sadly won't be returning, I do not like feeling that I wasted money, I essentially paid $13 for the lunch special, only 9 "chickens" with no side....hmm.

Absolutely love this place!! All their food is amazing I've loved every dish. My favorites are general tso chicken, beef and broccoli, bbq pork fried rice, and the Kung pao chicken.

I have not yet drunk the Kool-aid that is making everyone crazy about Yuan Su. For the price you can dine at much better restaurants in Portland that make their own noodles as well as hand made sauces. If you are looking for a vegan alternative to American Chinese I would recommend Yuan Su. I would love to see this business thrive. When I drive pass Yuan Su the parking lot is empty. It would be a cool addition to the neighborhood if a limited and less expensive menu was offered ala "farmers market style" with self bussed tables outside.

I no longer live in the area, but we were passing through and I wanted to order my favorites. I called in and requested 2 dinner plates, one with double orange chicken, and the other combo with sweet & sour and broccoli beef. When we arrived to pick up, the cashier told me this was a special request to have double orange chicken so she charged us more, I thought that was odd but accepted it because I was excited to eat. We get back to our truck and started to eat quickly before having to hit the road again. Our appetizers were good, but definitely not as good as I remembered, then we opened our combo plates. She charged us for absolutely nothing! The order was wrong, the double orange chicken ended up getting only 4 pieces of orange chicken and the rest was broccoli beef. My combo had the right items and was much bigger of a portion size than my fiancés. It was honestly disgusting, I don't know how they managed to do it but the broccoli beef tasted like sea food so I couldn't eat it, the rice was hard the peas in it were so dehydrated and the whole thing was just a HUGE disappointment, wasted most of our food having to throw it in the trash. That is the last time we will pass through and choose to give them money... never again. Gross.

Amazing vegan food & it's close by! They have great portions and prices. Not to mention they are quick! Love taking food to go and bring big groups to dine in as they have the space.

Food - awesome Service - great Ambiance - nice Best vegan Chinese food in Portland!!

Check this place out, vegetarians!! Got takeout from here on a Friday night for the first time. Truthfully, the lack of cars in the parking lot seemed a little discouraging, but I'm going to peg that on the part of town this restaurant is in because the food was amazing. You want traditional Chinese American fare like sweet and sour chicken, ham fried rice, and egg rolls but with vegetarian "meat"? This is the place. I've only eaten here once, but would definitely eat from here again if I'm on the east side of town. We got two different combo plates, #3 and 4, and everything was delicious. The egg rolls were perfectly crispy and savory, the mouth feel and textures of the veggie meats were great, and the taste was scrumdillyumptious. I loved the fried shrimp and the ham fried rice. Did the General Tso's taste exactly like General Tso's chicken from a non-vegetarian place? No, but it was delicious just the same. Nice and saucy and very flavorful. The veggie chicken, shrimp, and pork all tasted different too. Good job! The menu is expansive and I'm interested in trying more of Yuan Su's dishes, but also I had such a good experience with the combo plates that I'd happily get those again.

Chinese vegetarian is strong in Portland! We had vegan friends in town and got some Yuan Su for takeout. The bbq pork was pretty good. We.all thoroughly enjoyed our family style meal. Would come back for dine in for sure

Awesome food in ample portions, expansive menu that includes dishes you may rarely find vegan, and a very kind staff. Ive always felt so welcomed here, & gone home with leftovers. The dining room is spacious, so you can bring friends and share a variety of dishes (& they even have a big ol parking lot!) The chow mein and a clay pot/sizzling platter dish is my baseline for every order.

OMG! The best place for Vegetarian Chinese food in Portland. Because I live so far away from this place, I go here on my birthday and on Mother's Day. It is a special treat for me. I love the veggie beef chowmein, potstickers, sweet and sour pork. Everything is good though. Also, the people working there have always been friendly and kind to my kids. Thank You!!

Yum! Definitely in a strange sort of spot but the food is delish. I wish they did have what the actually protein substitutes were somewhere on the menu but I guess no-meat mystery meat is better than plain old mystery meat. We got the seafood with vegetables and the beef and mixed veggies. (Beef dish's sauce was more flavorful).

The best and only Chinese Vegan Restaurant in PDX. If you're craving good old school authentic Chinese and you're vegan, look no further.

So, so good. We are from Seattle and if you've ever been to Seattle or know anything about Seattle's vegan scene, Bamboo Garden was the Mecca for many, many years. They unfortunately closed and all the vegans/vegetarians mourned. Word spread that Yuan Su was comparable and so down to Portland we went! It did NOT disappoint. The service is top notch. They acted like we were family as soon as we entered. Absolutely the sweetest people. The food was the cherry on top. Everything we ordered was delicious - we got the Dinner Combo #1 that comes with veggie ham fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, beef with broccoli and a spring roll. We also ordered the pot stickers and eggplant with hot sauce. Everything was fantastic and if you're a Seattle vegan reading this, comparable to Bamboo!! I'm definitely adding this to my list of PDX stops. We can't wait to try some more dishes on our next trip! Please go and support these wonderful people and their business!

This is the first time I've been to a vegetarian Chinese restaurant. And being a big meat eater I was a little skeptical. And now all I can say is the food was absolutely amazing. We got the combination 1,2 and 3. The flavor, the texture everything was outstanding. Including the service. This is a must try if you've never been before

I'm an omnivore, my wife is vegetarian: we LOVE this place. The first time we went there she paused and said, "I've NEVER been able to eat a combo plate at a Chinese restaurant ... until now!" I'm not a huge fan of fake meat that looks or tastes similar to meat, because .. well, its not. Enjoy vegan and vegetarian food on its own merits. My favorites? General Tso Chicken and Kung Pao Chicken. Any of the combos are dynamite.

Food: Since it had been almost 3 years, I wanted to make sure this place was still good before I took my whole family (100% carnivore) here. Thus, I visited Yuan Su for the 2nd time with my cousin 3 weeks ago just want to have an idea of how everything tastes like now. We ordered two dinner combinations (typical Americanized Chinese food). They still did a good job mimicking the texture and taste of real meat, but the (black) sauce they used tasted super salty. The waitress told me most of their American customers like strong tastes so their Americanized dishes tend to be salty. --------------------- A quick tip------------------------- For average Asian customers: I don't recommend ordering the combos or any Americanized dishes. Might as well order a normal dish plus a bowl of rice, and it is not going to be that much more expensive. --------------------------------------------------------- What I learned from my 2nd visit was that the spirit of this restaurant is still there so I took my family here tonight. We ordered about 10 dishes, they all tasted good but 2 or 3 of them tasted a bit salty. The salty ones used the same (black) sauce that they put in the combos. The owner said that all the sauces are pre-made by themselves so it is not easy to adjust the level of saltiness for individual dishes. One way to make things taste less salty is to use less sauce, and people can just let them know in advance. Not a big deal. They still have the same cook, and the Herb Sauce Fried Rice (personal favorite) still tastes the same as it did 3 years ago. They did a good job mimicking real meat with vegetables (mostly tofu, mushroom, etc). Personally, I have no problem eating vegetarian food if these are what I get to eat every day. When you order spicy food, you often get asked if you want mild, medium and so on. Most of the time, mild = not spicy and very hot = mild when I buy food from other restaurants. We ordered a few spicy dishes tonight and they turned out to be spicier than most "hot" dishes from other places. I think this is a good thing because what's the point if you order something spicy but they don't taste spicy at all? The amount of food in every dish is slightly less sufficient than most Asian places that offer real meat. However, considering the effort they put into faking the real thing and making them actually taste good, I am okay with the amount of food I am getting. The use of MSG can't be avoided if you want to enhance the taste of vegetables to make them taste like meat. I am okay with it in this case because mimicking real meat is their goal and that's what attracts me. Environment: Clean environment with instrumental covers of Chinese pop songs played in the background. Lights are a bit dim and it can be hard for some people to see things clearly at night (One of my family members couldn't read the menu). They tend to guide everyone to sit in the first half of the restaurant and leave the other half in the dark to save energy. Service: Service has been great so far. All the employees are friendly. All of them (or most of them) believe in Buddism, so they treat customers even nicer. I did experience one exact thing from all 3 visits, which was they promoted vegetarianism and Buddism to me (or tried to convert me). I am a very open-minded person so I am okay with that. I think coming to Yuan Su is a good opportunity for me (a 100% carnivore) to communicate with vegetarians so we can learn from each other and understand each other's lifestyle. Conclusion: I enjoyed the food here, so did my family. For meat lovers, I recommend this place for a different type of "meat". For people who want to or are in transition to becoming a vegetarian, I think this can be a good place to start.

All vegan menu, great, super fast, service, delish!! A must try! The restaurant is large and clean, the staff super accommodating and friendly. We thought it was a bit pricey but we will definitely be back!

This is our favorite restaurant. We order out all the time, but have dined in as well. The employees are always very nice and the food comes out fast. They also have tables that have spinning trays to easily pass food around, a great place for family gatherings.

#vegan GO HERE NOW AND GET THE SWEET AND SOUR CHICKEN. I have been vegan for 8-9 years. A few years back I started to want more than just veggie fried rice. I missed the chicken balls. I travelled afaf and ate some great food.... but never did I find a vegan chinese food restaurant. And then one day.. I found this place and I knew one day I would have to come. I finally made it to Portland. And money unlimited I was fly back monthly JUST to eat their vegan sweet and sour chicken. I just cant even.... mouth watering goodness. Like so good!!!!!!!!! The serving size was large, the price was great. Staff were nice and I was the only one around. Omg I... please someone send me more, expedite!!!

This was my first time dinning at this restaurant. Absolutely amazing vegan Chinese food and the staff is so warm and friendly! I can't wait to go back!

This place so far has been consistently delicious. Have had multiple meals here both dine in and take out, with pleasant experiences at all times. The food is quite reasonable with portions that are filling and at times enough for leftovers. The facility is clean, simple and good for large groups as well as solo or couple diners. The orders are completed quickly and I have yet to have a substantial wait time. There is ample off street parking in their lot. This has become my go-to vegan spot on the SE side of Portland. Recommended dishes: sauteed green beans, triple fried pork, General Tso's chicken, green beans and black bean sauce. Dishes to avoid: have not had a bad one yet so I am not the best source for that.

Large portions for the price, big ups for this place being meat-free too! The service was very speedy and everything tasted delicious

I'm a white male, never given any type of attitude or rudeness to the people here, but for some reason they will be all smiles to other people but to me they are always grumpy. Actually grumpy and short with me i don't get it. Anyways their food is stomach turning but good for a quick stop. Love vegan options but unfortunately I have a feeling their kitchen isn't clean or operating very well the way the food tastes at times. Tastes old too some days like it was from days before sitting out.

It is such a privilege to live in a city where the entire Chinese restaurant serves vegan dishes. Everything is delicious and the staff members are warm and kind. I love 緣素!

Upgrading this spot from 3 stars to 4 stars. I got wise this time and ordered the Sizzling Veggie Beef with Black Pepper Sauce. It's not the best sizzling veggie beef I've ever had (best one is at Loving Hut Veggie Heaven in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam), but it was still pretty darn tasty! Flavorful and "beef" and bell peppers were tender; cooked just right. It was sizzling on the clay pot when it came out. I love it! Crackle, crackle. It does not get 5 stars because they gave me a little bowl of rice that wasn't enough to cut the saltiness of the sizzling beef dish. With a dish that big, I needed two bowls of steamed rice and they charged me $1.50 for the extra rice. Kinda lame when Asian restaurants charge for rice because rice is cheap, but I understand they got to make a living. I still highly recommend this dish to everyone! Ample parking, fast and friendly service. I will be back.

This place is amazing!!! One of my favorite foods before I went vegan was Chinese food, and it made me so sad that so many of my favorite Chinese dishes were meat based. This place is a TOTAL LIFE SAVER. It tastes exactly how I remember Chinese food tasting! Besides the food, the lady we talked to at the restaurant who we asked for suggestions was super sweet and helpful. And our food came out super fast; I noticed even though there were other people with to go orders waiting out in the lobby everybody left super quickly. I waited for my food ten minutes tops. Definitely come here if you can, if you miss greasy Chinese food you'll love this place! This is easily one of my favorite restaurants in Portland. (And get the general tso if you can, it's the bomb!)

We love this restaurant. I would eat here even if I were not vegetarian, the food is that good in both appearance and taste. The service is always wonderful. One of the best vegetarians spots in the Portland area.

So many vegetables to choose from!!! Even though this place is vegan, the orange "chicken" is so bomb. It is a little spendy but get a group of friends and order food for sharing.

I finally made it to Yuan Su Vegetarian. It was sooo tasty and offered all the nostalgia of Chinese Food I ate growing up. I ordered a combination plate per recommendation of the Portland Vegan Instagram account I follow. I had the veggie ham fried rice, sweet and sour chicken, cashew chicken and fried wontons. Everything was tasty. My favorite was the sweet and sour chicken. While I waited for my food to go, I had a hot tea. The service was very good and the staff was friendly. I would definitely go to Yuan Su Vegetarian again and next time I bringing a friend!

They sold us a 4 year expired drink. DISGUSTING. The rice was not good, the spring rolls were decent, the general tso's was not good, the sliced crispy chicken was extremely dry and the sauce it came with was not good. Everything was extremely greasy and not in a good way. It doesn't sit well with you. They sold us uncooked noodles and a container full of sauce and I guess they expected us to pour the noodles into the sauce and hopefully that would cook the hard raw noodles? It just made no sense, the noodles and the sauce aren't good anyway. Was not worth the money, was extremely disappointing, and the expired drink was UNACCEPTABLE. I just know they will get a health code violation that will shut them down. Really wanted to give them my business. Sad.

Amazing vegan food! I'm surprised everything is vegan yet tasted like non-veg! The Mongolian beef was like the real deal. Highly recommend this place.

I was staying out in Troutdale, and I checked out my handy app to see what vegan restaurants were nearby. Yuan Su was one of first restaurants that popped up. My travel companion was feeling under the weather, so I went alone. Staff greeted me warmly when I entered the restaurant. I really had a hard time deciding what to order, everything looked good. I ended up ordering one of the combination plates, to get a variety. In retrospect, I wish I had gone with one of the other entrees. I liked what I got, but I didn't love it. Regardless, I ate the whole thing. The last time I ate vegan Chinese food, I got a stomach ache...well no stomach ache with this meal, so I was pleased. I don't live nearby, otherwise I am sure I would rush in to try another dish. I think I may try to wrangle up some of my vegan friends to see if we could do family style dining!

Food was just fine. I enjoyed the sweet + sour chicken and beef + broccoli. However I did not enjoy the chow mein or fried rice, the noddles needed more sauce desperately and the rice was pretty bland. I was thrilled to see a vegetarian Chinese place and would come back just for that. Service was pretty good, I had trouble calling in my order as I could barely hear the person on the other end of the line but when I picked up my order the staff was very friendly. I didn't eat inside but saw a few tables occupied, I do think the ambiance could be improved upon.

very kind ladies that work here! food was great and came out pretty fast. we were in need of just some simple orange chicken, chow mein, and fried rice (bbq pork rice) and they definitely did the job:) will be back soon!

This place has a ton of good vegetarian options. Haven't dined in--have only done pickup and delivery--so can't speak to the in-person dining experience, but their food is great. I love the wide array of veggie options.