Hong Kong’s Best Vegan Restaurants 2025: Plant-Based Dining in Asia’s World City

From meat-free dim sum to non-dairy pearl tea: a 2025 list of Hong Kong’s best vegan-friendly eats.

If you’re in Hong Kong and you happen to love food, you’re in for a good time.

The city’s historical cuisine is known for its Cantonese origins, with international culinary accents sprinkled all over.

It may be among the most prolific meat-eating regions globally, but as Asia’s World City, it’s also home to some of the best meat-free food on the planet. Hong Kong is a fast-moving, ever-evolving plant-based paradise, with meat-free eaters getting a taste of the island as much in fancy diners as they do at street food stalls.

Post-Covid, the vegan scene underwent some major changes, and many of the lists online are outdated. Since the first question people ask us when we say we work at Green Queen is “Where are the best vegan eats?”, we figured we owed it to our home city to create an updated list of the island’s best vegan-friendly restaurants.

About this list: This is by no means an exhaustive list; rather, it’s a curated, up-to-date snapshot of some of the city’s always-reliable, plant-based restaurants – all tried and tested by our team. The restaurants listed here are either vegetarian or vegan. We are not including some great non-veg spots to get plant-based food. Find some of those here. Hong Kong also has a great selection of Cantonese and Buddhist Chinese vegetarian cuisine (dozens, in fact), but that list would have been too long, and Happy Cow does a perfectly good job.

Vegan dim sum

Veggie Kingdom

For vegan dim sum (or yum cha as the locals call it), look no further than Veggie Kingdom. It’s a fully plant-based parlour that keeps to the tick-what-you-want tradition but modernises classic dim sum dishes to be animal-free. Try the shredded turnip puffs, the vegan shrimp dumplings, and the cucumber salad – but book in advance, because the restaurant is almost always full!

Veggie Kingdom has two locations: VIP Commercial Centre, 120 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, and 4th Floor, Kyoto Plaza, 491-499 Lockhart Rd, Causeway Bay.

LockCha

Another great restaurant for local food is LockCha, a vegetarian tea house and dim sum restaurant with tons of options for vegans. It’s slightly pricier, but it’s worth it. Go for the bean curd rolls, stay for the siu mai and pan-fried rice roll with XO sauce (a Hong Kong original).

LockCha has two locations: G06-07, Block 01, Tai Kwun, 10 Hollywood Road, Central, and The KS Lo Gallery, Hong Kong Park, 10 Cotton Tree Drive, Admiralty.

Date night

Japanese Isoya

Just a short walk away from Wan Chai station, Isoya is a Japanese restaurant that puts the ‘fine’ in ‘fine dining’. A perfect date spot, the meat-free establishment has a tasting menu that can be made vegan upon request. While some dishes change seasonally, we loved the tofu tasting plate, the veggie sushi, and the life-altering tomato sashimi. Reservations recommended.

Isoya is located at 83 Wan Chai Rd, Wan Chai.

Cantonese-French at Emerald

How about some modernist Cantonese-French cuisine? Emerald has you covered for date night, with some truly inventive plant-based dishes to keep you interested. Think iced king oyster mushrooms with yuzu-wasabi soy sauce, seafood fried rice with laksa and XO sauce, OmniPork dumplings in soup, and vegan foie gras balls with truffle sauce. And if that wasn’t enough, diners can also enjoy vegan tiramisu and golden crispy oat milk.

Emerald is located at 6/F, M88, Wellington Place, 2-8 Wellington Street, Central.

Pan-Asian at Root Vegan

For a more casual vibe, Root Vegan is the place to be. The establishment offers a mix of Cantonese and pan-Asian dishes, with most dishes changing seasonally. We’re big fans of the khao soi with soy drumsticks, which is permanently on the menu, as well as their dairy-free, eggless cakes.

Root Vegan is located at Shop 102-103, 1/F Sunwise Building, 112-114 Wellington Street, Central.

Desserts and brunch

The Cakery and Maya Bakery

Owned by entrepreneur Shirley Kwok, The Cakery and its sister chain Maya Bakery are two of our favourite places to find vegan sweet treats. The former has a host of options for diet-inclusive cakes and desserts (from a Dubai chocolate cotton cake to a Biscoff cheesecake), while the latter specialises in baked goods, savoury brunch options, and coffee (we’re big fans of the vegan egg tarts, pineapple buns, and the fish-free tuna mayo croissant).

The Cakery has five locations across Hong Kong, including in Admiralty, Wong Chuk Hang, and Tsim Sha Tsui. Its sites in IFC Mall on Finance Street and PCCW Tower in Taikoo Place also feature Maya Bakery.

LN Fortunate Coffee

For a calming vegan brunch with the sweetest staff, you’d be hard-pressed to find something better than LN Fortunate Coffee. Yes, it does good coffee – but the real stars are the dishes. This 100% plant-based establishment is the only place we’ve found that offers a classic Hong Kong French Toast, sans animals – and it doesn’t disappoint. We also loved the bubble waffles and the hot dogs (with a jumbo tofu sausage).

LN Fortunate Coffee has two locations in Hong Kong: 30-34 Kwai Wing Road Shop 107, 1/F, Edge, Kwai Chung, and 118 Second Street, Sai Ying Pun.

18 Grams

One of Hong Kong’s original specialty coffee roasters, 18 Grams serves only vegetarian fare, and has a host of options for plant-based visitors (plus free swaps for oat or almond milk). Try the oat milk piccolo, the tofu-avocado bagel, and the all-day breakfast – the menu does change seasonally, so you can always expect great vegan breakfast grub here.

18 Grams has three locations: City’super, B1/F, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay, Shop C, G/F, Hoi To Court, 15 Cannon Street, Causeway Bay, and City’super, Shop 204-214, 2/F, New Town Plaza, 18 Sha Tin Centre St, Sha Tin.

Vegan Bubble Pearl Tea

Mother Pearl

Yet another entirely vegan spot, Mother Pearl is truly the mother of all pearl teas, with the power to turn bubble tea haters into members with subscription cards. The Instagram-ready aesthetic is one thing, but the flavours and textures really take you on a journey – all with homemade plant milks. With every season, the chain brings out new must-try innovations, but menu stalwarts like Crush on Gold, Soul Full of Sunshine, and Glimpse of Sunburst will blow your mind.

Mother Pearl has three locations: 25 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Shop 3, On Hing Mansion, 2-4 Tai Wong Street East, Wan Chai, and Shop No M31, MOKO, 193 Prince Edward Rd W, Mong Kok, Kowloon.

Nuttea

While we’re on drinks, be sure to give Nuttea a try. There’s no boba here, but the star of the show is the five-nut cream. The beige, airy cream can top any of the extensive teas and chocolate drinks on the menu, lending a creamy, Nutella-like flavour (but somehow with no chocolate). It’s addictive, and you can also buy a whole cup of just nut cream (wink wink).

Nuttee has seven locations in Hong Kong, including in Kwai Fong, Tai Po, Shek Mun, Tsuen Wan, Tuen Mun, Tsim Sha Tsui, and Admiralty.

All-day eateries: vegan pasta, burgers and wraps

Treehouse – multiple locations

A fantastic vegetarian chain with build-your-own bowls and wraps, burgers, and desserts that make it the perfect eatery for lunch on a busy workday, or a quick dinner before your nightlife plans. The menu is heavily focused on whole-food plant-based eating, with our favourites including the Willow bowl, the Reef burger, and the double chocolate chip-macadamia cookie.

Treehouse has five locations, including in Central, Taikoo Place, Causeway Bay, Quarry Bay, and Tsim Sha Tsui.

Years Group – multiple locations

Rather than being a chain or singular eatery, Years is a restaurant group with several vegetarian establishments scattered across the city, each with its own theme and cuisine, spanning a mix of local and international. Try the double cilantro Impossible cheeseburger at its original namesake site, the chipotle-avocado sushi volcano at Wanaka, the Japanese yuzu tofu steak bento at Here, and the Sichuan mala cilantro spaghetti at Here.

Years has six restaurants across the city: Years (Sham Shui Po), The Park (Sham Shui Po), Friends (Tsuen Wan), Be (Hung Hom), Here (Taikoo Shing), and Wanaka (Wan Chai).

Veggie4love

Bringing more international vibes is Veggie4love, which is designed as a San Francisco eatery from the 1950s. This is the place to get your burger and milkshake fix (we recommend the I Am Fabulous beetroot-cashew-lentil burger and the secret shake), but it’s also great if you’re craving dishes like a vegan bibimbap, a gado-gado salad, or plant-based chicken rice.

Veggie4love is located at 10/F, 11 Stanley Street, Central.

Thai Vegetarian Food

This unassuming eatery in Kowloon is all about no-frills dining. It has an extensive menu of Thai classics, all of which is completely vegetarian and of course, highly adaptable for vegans. Try the fried monkey head mushrooms, the pomelo salad, the tom yum, and the longan juice.

Thai Vegetarian Food is located at Cheong Wong Building, 28A South Wall Rd, Kowloon.