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Added by Jopie, at 03 November 2016
Opening Hours
- Monday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Tuesday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Wednesday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Thursday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
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16 Reviews
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28 April 2018
this place is one more reason to come to Lantau island. Amazing place
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19 April 2018
Tried general menu and as a local I must say it's the worst vegetarian food ever in HK!! Shame the staff was hard-selling the ticket to get into display room under the Buddha while there's ZERO information to tell what the statue represent. Makes me nauseous all the way back home. Strongly suggest NOT to try!!!
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17 April 2018
For Chinese it may be 5 star for eating zero salt and zero spice food especially when you are hungry is an experience by it self. Service , arrangements arev. Really great.
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06 March 2018
Idyllic setting with a beautiful Buddha statue and Buddhist temple
Be sure to take the cable car at least one way if you are planning to visit this serene location. Good clear weather will also make the cable car ride a worthy experience - apparently the longest cable car ride in Asia as of now. It travels over the ocean and mountains to take you to the Lantau area. Check out Klook for online reservations, the US $17 VIP counter offer is a hit or miss as there are only two VIP counters and six regular counters, and depending on which counter operates quicker, you may not realize the full benefit of the VIP counter.
Landing at Ngong Ping may be a bit of a downer as the terminal area and its immediate vicinity is highly commercialized but a small walk to the main area of the Tian Tan Buddha and the Po Lin monastery will make your day. The Buddha statue is definitely huge and it is a flight of 250 steps - approximately 5 minutes - to take you to the top. I purchased the museum ticket at the office right before the flight of steps. On my visit, a purchase of the museum ticket could be combined with a limited- and pre-defined-option vegetarian lunch at the Po Lin monastery. Once you are at the top, the museum holds some neat art of Buddhist literature and is a nice way to take in the view from the top too. The Po Lin monastery looks gorgeous from the top, and that's one of the few places where you can get a full view of the monastery.
Once back down, do visit the Wisdom Path, it is a 15-minute walk one way. The place has 3-meter wood pillars with Buddhist teachings in logograms, wish there was some English translation on those to make it more meaningful for me. The diversity of the flora and fauna is also good to take in. I planned to make my visit as non-touristy as possible so I didn't stop at the few tea gardens they have out there. But there's an option right there in Ngong Ping terminal area, as well as one on the trail to the Wisdom Path if you so feel like it.
I was fixated on having my lunch at the monastery as I was not sure what my vegetarian options would be on my next stop at Tai O fishing village. Oh, how I wish I knew to use chopsticks at the lunch table. I had to ask for a fork and they gave me a plastic one. The quantity is sumptuous to say the least, but do not expect much variety, they want you to eat like the monks do - or so I am told. And carry your own napkins as they don't have any in the monastery lunch area. And if you are like me and had your spring rolls with hand, you definitely need something to wipe off that oil with.
The Hero temple and the temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas are beautiful, the temple does not encourage visitors and there were boards of "No Photos No Visitors" all over the place but that didn't discourage people from visiting the temple or taking photos or both.response / report this review -
08 December 2017
Subpar food , they used it to push along with the ticket to enter the display room under the Buddha
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30 October 2017
Interesting dessert collection. All were quite good.
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09 October 2017
It's a pretty good vegetarian restaurant. It makes you forget about eating meat for a couple of hours.
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24 September 2017
The spring rolls with taro or some other root vegetables was nice, crisp and filling. The celery stir fry and the greens and mushrooms stir fry were good. There’s little to go bad in those. The corn dish, I didn’t care for much. The soup was bland, non existential salt and a mushy root that was even blander when boiled. Thanks to the spicy sauce and soy sauce there, we mealed up.
There were snacks outside, in a canteen like thing. While we weren’t hungry enough, we tried their coconut fruit jelly, which was OK. Not too sweet, which was good but not too much coconutty, which was not enough for me.
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23 September 2017
One of the worst vegetarian meals I've had in a long time. We paid for the more expensive meal option but did not get what we had been told was on that menu. The food was quite oily and not flavoursome at all - we did not eat all of it. A tourist trap would be a good way to sum it up.
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03 August 2017
Amazing experience at Po Lin Monatery Restaurant. The area is quite as quite the budish monks are during their service, sorrounded by beautiful gardens plenty of flowers. I like the yellow poster over our table with the advise: "Not alcohol, no meat allowed". Yes, we are eating at a budish vegetarian eatery. Been there last June in a one day trip from Kow Loon. The 45 minutes ride to the top of the mountain in the cable car is a fully experience.
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03 July 2017
You can select your own vegetarian dishes. Most of them taste great! The walk around the monastery was very enlightening.
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17 April 2017
Tasty vegetarian food at an okie price
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14 March 2017
should try once if you are a tourist! food not bad and should be special for foreigners i think! at least take away some of the pastry with you
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16 January 2017
After hiking Lantau Peak, I came here with a friend I made on the trail on the back end of the hike. The sesame bun was amazing, as was the bean curd (?) which had a delicious hot ginger broth. The noodles looked great although I didn't have any. Super cheap.
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22 November 2016
Good food and the snack option was included in the price of visiting the museum in the giant buddha. What you could get for the option wasn't very clear though, you get 2 pieces of dim sum, a plate of noodles and a drink. Again, which drink you can have is also unclear. The staff pointed at the fridge so I asked for a bottle of something, to which they then said no, I could only have a can.
The food was fine, nothing special and the staff, whilst not friendly, were quick and efficient.response / report this review -
10 November 2016
Great value for money! With $38 you can get 2 pieces of dim sum (snacks), veggie noodles and either a drink or 豆腐花（silky tofu in sweet sauce) which is a local delicacy. They have a large variety of dim sum and tofu! It's all vegetarian :)
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