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| - This is a nice choice for vegetarians. My wife eats a mainly vegetarian/pescatarian diet, and after a few days of seafood in New England I wanted to find a place in Montreal that better suited her dietary choices. Yuan Vegetarien is located near the hotel we stayed in, so it was worth trying.
The restaurant is "buffet" style, but the difference is that you use a list to check off items you'd like to have, and they bring the dishes out to you a little at a time. You can reorder as much as you want. We got two orders, but big eaters will probably want to order more often. The dishes are pretty small, which is good for pairs or groups of three who want to sample a wide variety of food. For instance, the sushi is 4 pieces per order, the "chicken" and tofu dishes have roughly 6-8 pieces, and the noodles are about a 5-inch plateful.
Overall the food was really good. My wife and I usually stay clear of vegetarian meats because of the potentially high sodium content, so we ordered all of the different tofu, mushroom, and vegetable dishes, the crispy and Singapore noodles, the spring rolls, and the futomaki and kamikaze sushi rolls. Everything was prepared well, and not greasy (except maybe the Singapore noodles). It took about 5 minutes for our first dish to arrive, and the rest steadily arrived every 3 minutes or so.
The service was quick and the staff was friendly. We went on a Tuesday night, and it wasn't crowded. The ambience of the restaurant isn't much to cheer about, but it's clean inside. The only drawback of the night was a pompous older man 4 tables away, who spoke really loudly about all of his lifelong accomplishments as a professor.
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