This one was easy to find. They had about forty dishes that you used to fill up a plate or a bian dang. They weighed the plate and came up with a price. Very convenient, everybody likes buffet style.
This plate costs 70 NT or about $2 US. What looks like meat or fish is toufu, mushrooms, ... It was very tasty, I'll probably go back it's just a few blocks off the NCKU campus.
I almost gave up trying to find this place. But I turned a corner and there it was.
It has an endorsement from a Buddhist nun out front and a western chef gnome so you know it's got to be good. The plant life in front also if a nice touch.
The menu was in both English and Chinese, with a crayon you checked off what you wanted. They were very accommodating, trying to speak English and very helpful. (Unlike some Chinese restaurant that want you to demonstrate you can read the menu before they let you sit down. It's like taking a test to see if you are good enough to eat at their establishment.)
I order the curried rice and a fried mash potato and it came with cream of corn soup. It was good, a little spicy, tofu that looked like and had the consistency of chicken.
They had a full range of tofu in different forms. With takeout a possibility.
The third place I gave up on, google maps sometimes gets confused and points to places that couldn't possible be correct. Also anything on the web has a limit life span before it's obsolete.
I have a couple more places to check out from the web, once you start looking for the Chinese places you have a whole new set of possibilites. Here's the characters to search for:
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Your descriptions of the vegetarian restaurants make me long to visit them also! The food sounds great. Perhaps I'll compromise by going to Facing East, which has some good vegetarian dishes and is closer. I'm glad that Tainan has tofu. You have to pass a Chinese test to be seated at some of the restaurants you've tried??
The vegetarian food here looked really good. I am glad you could find so many to try.
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