Hoa Sen

This restaurant is beautifully decorated. The food is delicious and service quickly . The staff is very friendly !

Very nice food.... vegetarian paradise.... worthy to have a 5 star

We've been loyal patrons of this vegan restaurant for many years, and it has never disappointed us. While the prices have slightly increased to keep up with inflation, the quality of the food has remained consistently exceptional. Every visit guarantees a meal that is both healthy and absolutely delicious, featuring flavorful Asian vegan dishes we know and love. It’s the kind of place where you can always count on your favorites to be just as good as you remember. We’re so grateful to have discovered this gem years ago and continue to enjoy it to this day!

I am thrilled to award this vegetarian restaurant a well-deserved 5-star review, especially for their delectable rice noodle dishes that are both satisfying and packed with flavorful ingredients, making it an absolute delight for vegetarian food enthusiasts.

My favorite Vegan restaurant in SoCal! Their food is consistently delicious and super flavorful! And I love how fresh everything tastes! Their service is also fast with everyone on their staff being super friendly and respectful. We love it so much that I come here with my family almost weekly! Our favorite dishes are the clay pot rice, spicy beef noodle soup, lotus salad, fried mushrooms, and fried tofu with coriander leaves. Highly recommend!

Very affordable Bánh xèo. I think it's the cheapest I've found so far. Yet tasted as great as any other places.

Customer service awesome and food is super delicious. Recommend you guys come and try this place .

Hands down the best vegan meal we had in our trip to Orange County. Make sure you order a side of rice paper with the banh xeo!

We eat halal so finding a Vietnamese place that serves that is nonexistent. Vegan would be the second next option and Hoa Sen really surprised us in the imitation meat department! Their meats are super well textured and tastes almost like meat. They have more traditional dishes as well in comparison to other vegan Vietnamese restaurants around here! Service is fast and everything is delicious.

This is my favorite place to go when I'm in town. BEST vegan/vegetarian food! I got the jackfruit salad today 😋

Bomb bomb bomb. My fav viet vegan food restaurant in all of the OC.

+6

Delicious both taste visually winner winner vegetarian dinner or lunch a real 10+

Hoa Sen was an absolute gem! As someone trying Vegetarian food & Vietnamese food for the first time, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was completely blown away. The flavors, the freshness, and the care put into every dish were incredible. You can truly taste the love in their cooking. The staff was very friendly and attentive, amazing customer service! If you’re looking for a place that serves amazing vegetarian food, Hoa Sen is a must-try. I’ll definitely be coming back for more!

Great food and wonderful service.

+2

Great choice for vegan food! Every dish was perfect in texture and flavor.

Delicious. Vegan pho taste so good compared to cow pho

Wow, this place was delicious and super friendly service. We did not realize it was a vegan restaurant. My sister is a meat lover and she loved this place. Highly recommended!

This place changed my perspective on vegetarian restaurants. Easily recommendation from me! Used to always be a proud meathead but had a respect for vegetarian/vegan restaurants as I believed they had to be good to be around. After giving Hoa Sen a try with some friends, I realised that meat isn't always the best thing in a meal. Almost every single order I've had here has been a smash. The Happy Hoa Sen salad is usually a staple when I go with friends to share. Vegetarian food already feels light in general but this was a great refresher between bites. The Com Dap is a comforting crunchy-ish rice dish that feels like a sure hit with anyone indecisive. The claypot rice is my favourite meal here for sure, reminding me of an amazing rice and mushroom dish at a now closed tapas restaurant. These two rice dishes come with their own sauces if I remember right that absolutely change the way the meal tastes, and not just like adding soy sauce. The house special fried rice is a nice familiar staple for those less adventurous, and it's impressive that there's even vegetarian pork floss! The Mi Xao Gion isn't much to write about though, as I'm not much of a mi xao person. The servers are all very nice and friendly, with the restaurant making good use of space although on the cozier side. The food doesn't crank out fast but you won't be waiting too long.

Best vegan food that I've had in Southern California so far! It's definitely not the best decor or dining experience, but the food is just amazing. The clay pot rice and lotus salad, in particular, were standouts. The flavors and quality of the ingredients were excellent. We were actually hoping to go to Au Lac, but it is closed on Mondays so we wound up here. We are sure glad that we did.

I always liked Vietnamese food. All the food that we had there was delicious. You cannot go wrong here. The prices were very reasonable and the quantity of each dish was more than enough for one person.

6/2022-Delicious vegetarian dishes Viet style and you wouldn't even realize it's veggie it's that good! Staff are hardworking and friendly; 11/2019-This place is a hidden gem amongst the locals for excellent vegetarian Vietnamese dishes. Don't let its humble exterior deceive you nestled in a humdrum strip mall across from a much newer and bigger counterpart. It gets very busy during the lunch hour but their friendly servers are very knowledgeable and patient especially for the occasional vegetarian or non-Vietnamese patron. Everything is a delicious vegetarian version of a traditional Vietnamese dish. Parking can get very crowded and cramped especially in the two long aisles but it's worth the small inconvenience.

Really Amazing Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant♡ Lucky salad was super Yummy♡ Their service is friendly and Nice. We will definitely come back. Thank You!

One of my favorite Vietnamese vegetarian restaurants! I've tried many dishes at this restaurant and they are all made with good quality ingredients. You see Buddhist monks and nuns here so you know the vegetarian food is good. My go-to dishes are: Bun Bo Hue, Com Tay Cam, Nem Nuong, Bun Rieu. The service is fast and friendly. Check them out!

Very beautiful restaurant and friendly staff, I recommend this restaurant because they have a lot of Vietnamese vegan and vegetarian options I promise you this place is very amazing. It feels like home in Vietnam. So please come try and check it out. I guarantee you won’t leave place

Excellent vegetarian Vietnamese food

One of the best places!!! Love almost every item. 100% worth it and great prices!

Johnson

This place changed my perspective on vegetarian restaurants. Easily recommendation from me! Used to always be a proud meathead but had a respect for vegetarian/vegan restaurants as I believed they had to be good to be around. After giving Hoa Sen a try with some friends, I realised that meat isn't always the best thing in a meal. Almost every single order I've had here has been a smash. The Happy Hoa Sen salad is usually a staple when I go with friends to share. Vegetarian food already feels light in general but this was a great refresher between bites. The Com Dap is a comforting crunchy-ish rice dish that feels like a sure hit with anyone indecisive. The claypot rice is my favourite meal here for sure, reminding me of an amazing rice and mushroom dish at a now closed tapas restaurant. These two rice dishes come with their own sauces if I remember right that absolutely change the way the meal tastes, and not just like adding soy sauce. The house special fried rice is a nice familiar staple for those less adventurous, and it's impressive that there's even vegetarian pork floss! The Mi Xao Gion isn't much to write about though, as I'm not much of a mi xao person. The servers are all very nice and friendly, with the restaurant making good use of space although on the cozier side. The food doesn't crank out fast but you won't be waiting too long.

Matthew Lee

Best vegan food that I've had in Southern California so far! It's definitely not the best decor or dining experience, but the food is just amazing. The clay pot rice and lotus salad, in particular, were standouts. The flavors and quality of the ingredients were excellent. We were actually hoping to go to Au Lac, but it is closed on Mondays so we wound up here. We are sure glad that we did.

Pritam Banerjee

I always liked Vietnamese food. All the food that we had there was delicious. You cannot go wrong here. The prices were very reasonable and the quantity of each dish was more than enough for one person.

Cali Native V

6/2022-Delicious vegetarian dishes Viet style and you wouldn't even realize it's veggie it's that good! Staff are hardworking and friendly; 11/2019-This place is a hidden gem amongst the locals for excellent vegetarian Vietnamese dishes. Don't let its humble exterior deceive you nestled in a humdrum strip mall across from a much newer and bigger counterpart. It gets very busy during the lunch hour but their friendly servers are very knowledgeable and patient especially for the occasional vegetarian or non-Vietnamese patron. Everything is a delicious vegetarian version of a traditional Vietnamese dish. Parking can get very crowded and cramped especially in the two long aisles but it's worth the small inconvenience.

S Taylor

Really Amazing Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant♡ Lucky salad was super Yummy♡ Their service is friendly and Nice. We will definitely come back. Thank You!

Don Tran

One of my favorite Vietnamese vegetarian restaurants! I've tried many dishes at this restaurant and they are all made with good quality ingredients. You see Buddhist monks and nuns here so you know the vegetarian food is good. My go-to dishes are: Bun Bo Hue, Com Tay Cam, Nem Nuong, Bun Rieu. The service is fast and friendly. Check them out!

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Very beautiful restaurant and friendly staff, I recommend this restaurant because they have a lot of Vietnamese vegan and vegetarian options I promise you this place is very amazing. It feels like home in Vietnam. So please come try and check it out. I guarantee you won’t leave place

Kevin

Excellent vegetarian Vietnamese food

Kenta Sasakado

One of the best places!!! Love almost every item. 100% worth it and great prices!

Always love coming here. The people that work here are all so pleasant. Service is fast. Excellent food. Love everything in the menu. Fav is the jack fruit salad. Always order this with everything else.

They have some great vegan proteins. Love the crispy mushrooms and get the Hoa Sen salad every time, too.

Delicious and healthy veggie foods. The place is clean and pleasant. Good customer service! Highly recommended!

I’ve only been here twice, but it’s become a must whenever a family trip to Disney rolls around. The food is fresh, delicious, and comes out quick. They have a nice menu that isn’t limited or too overwhelming. Affordable and welcoming establishment.

Patricia Chen

They have some great vegan proteins. Love the crispy mushrooms and get the Hoa Sen salad every time, too.

Haley Nguyen

Delicious and healthy veggie foods. The place is clean and pleasant. Good customer service! Highly recommended!

Elviever Neilson

Always love coming here. The people that work here are all so pleasant. Service is fast. Excellent food. Love everything in the menu. Fav is the jack fruit salad. Always order this with everything else.

Akshay Kumar

Hands down the best vegan meal we had in our trip to Orange County. Make sure you order a side of rice paper with the banh xeo!

The foods were so really gooood, very tasty, and delicious, great place for vegetarian foods. Highly recommended.

I'm not a full time vegetarian but I appreciate a good vegetarian restaurant which this one is. The reviews appear to be accurate. The restaurant is usually busy with customers which is good. The flavoring of the food and cooking technique are quite good. The chef tends to over-sauce the food so it can be a bit salty. The veggies are sometimes over cooked as typical with vegetarian food. Might be a good idea to tell your server to have the chef go easy on the sauce and don't over cook the veggies. Overall, a pretty good vegetarian restaurant and definitely recommended.

A few dollars cheaper than Bo De Tinh Tam Chay, with good food overall. The clay pot rice was a bit too chewy and not quite up to par, but everything else was enjoyable. This is definitely a new place I’d come back to.

Reasonably priced dishes and many to choose from. We ordered a Pho Hoa Sen, claypot rice, BBq Spring roll and Veggie Beef noodle soup. The soup got Pho was not as flavorful as other vegetarian pho I have tired before. But the claypot rice was amazing. The sauce combination was perfect to bring out the smokey taste of the rice. Note: They do charge for hot tea, only $1.

We ordered shrimp spring rolls, rice clay pot and stir-fried yellow noodles. Everything was good, but I really liked the noodles. Service was efficient and friendly. We'll definitely come back.

Stumbled upon the restaurant when looking for vegetarian food for lunch in Orange in Google maps. A Vietnamese Vegan Restaurant with a large menu. The seating was quick and service fast. The place is small located in a strip mall but clean and well maintained. I ordered the BBQ spicy lemongrass chicken and curry noodle . The Chicken rice dish was good. Curry noodle was ok. The menu is large , so will be visiting the restaurant again.

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A few dollars cheaper than Bo De Tinh Tam Chay, with good food overall. The clay pot rice was a bit too chewy and not quite up to par, but everything else was enjoyable. This is definitely a new place I’d come back to.

Anna Kee

Reasonably priced dishes and many to choose from. We ordered a Pho Hoa Sen, claypot rice, BBq Spring roll and Veggie Beef noodle soup. The soup got Pho was not as flavorful as other vegetarian pho I have tired before. But the claypot rice was amazing. The sauce combination was perfect to bring out the smokey taste of the rice. Note: They do charge for hot tea, only $1.

Cem Demir

We ordered shrimp spring rolls, rice clay pot and stir-fried yellow noodles. Everything was good, but I really liked the noodles. Service was efficient and friendly. We'll definitely come back.

ANR

Stumbled upon the restaurant when looking for vegetarian food for lunch in Orange in Google maps. A Vietnamese Vegan Restaurant with a large menu. The seating was quick and service fast. The place is small located in a strip mall but clean and well maintained. I ordered the BBQ spicy lemongrass chicken and curry noodle . The Chicken rice dish was good. Curry noodle was ok. The menu is large , so will be visiting the restaurant again.

I had Mì Quảng and Curry bánh mì. Both tasted alright, however it has little too much peanut butter in the sauces.

It was disappointing! The presentation was not good enough to make believe it was shrimp or fish. The cá kho tộ (braised salty caramel fish) did not look like fish. There was some pretending fish skin which was chewy but not tasty. The dish was sub par. The canh chua hải sản (seafood sweet and sour soup) was acceptable. The gỏi rau tiến vua ( dragonfruit leaves salad) was not well seasoned, it was mostly sour, nothing to balance it. It was so unappetizing that the three of us could not finish our orders.

Veg beef soup noodles were good. Papaya salad was decent, I was expecting more tanginess and maybe more veggies than papaya. But was good enough for price $12. They have amazing red chili paste. Service was attentive and good. Ambiance was clean and cozy. Their prices are reasonable. Would visit again for vegetarian meal. 😊

Ngan-Ha Do

It was disappointing! The presentation was not good enough to make believe it was shrimp or fish. The cá kho tộ (braised salty caramel fish) did not look like fish. There was some pretending fish skin which was chewy but not tasty. The dish was sub par. The canh chua hải sản (seafood sweet and sour soup) was acceptable. The gỏi rau tiến vua ( dragonfruit leaves salad) was not well seasoned, it was mostly sour, nothing to balance it. It was so unappetizing that the three of us could not finish our orders.

yogi

Veg beef soup noodles were good. Papaya salad was decent, I was expecting more tanginess and maybe more veggies than papaya. But was good enough for price $12. They have amazing red chili paste. Service was attentive and good. Ambiance was clean and cozy. Their prices are reasonable. Would visit again for vegetarian meal. 😊

For a mi xeo don lover I had to stop by and get one to go but I was talking to the waitress about it like does it come in like a combination with like beef or chicken and she only just pointed out where it was on the menu and when I got home I swear it would come with alot of meat but not even close... it came with too much tofu and I dont even eat tofu so like 20percent of what I ordered I cant even eat it I hate tofu I could only eat 80percent of what they gave me so nasty I cant believe I waste money on that shiet 5 percent was barely any meat hmm... and last thing if I get surprised by tofu then they shouldn't be charging the wrong price!! On my reciept they charged 9.99 for my dish but funny thing is in the picture in the menu it says 8.99 so they must kinda not like me or something???

Tech Tv

For a mi xeo don lover I had to stop by and get one to go but I was talking to the waitress about it like does it come in like a combination with like beef or chicken and she only just pointed out where it was on the menu and when I got home I swear it would come with alot of meat but not even close... it came with too much tofu and I dont even eat tofu so like 20percent of what I ordered I cant even eat it I hate tofu I could only eat 80percent of what they gave me so nasty I cant believe I waste money on that shiet 5 percent was barely any meat hmm... and last thing if I get surprised by tofu then they shouldn't be charging the wrong price!! On my reciept they charged 9.99 for my dish but funny thing is in the picture in the menu it says 8.99 so they must kinda not like me or something???