I love it here. The food is yummy, the staff are obliging, and the value is great because the portions are big enough to split if you get soup.

Try the sweet and sour pinapple delight, the black pepper "steak" or the hot and sour soup. Total comfort food!

The overly bright florescent lights wreck any atmosphere but it's still a good exerience.

Bo Kong is one of the few vegetarian restaurants in Vancouver. There are more in Richmond..but that's out of my way. My boyfriend and I came here once to try out their food, after hearing about it from another vegetarian coworker and my Buddhist friend.

They have a really wide selection of vegetarian foods, with fake seafoods and chicken. We had the pineapple delight, with house special fried rice, and a hairy melon vermecilli pot I think. Really really good. My boyfriend loved the pineapple delight. Love the food here.

It looks like your typical Chinese restaurant, just more Buddhist like. It's pretty much priced the same as a regular Chinese restaurant too, but I would say the portions at Bo Kong are a bit smaller. The service wasn't very good though. Even through my coworker, he had said that they always seem to be understaffed. We had to wait a while for our order.. and for them to pack up when we were leaving. As well, the waiter was very brief. Biggest problem was asking for a glass of water, it took THREE TRIES, with two different waiters/waitress. Very annoying.

But other than that, will definitely go back for food.

This is my second time dining at Bo Kong Restaurant. The first time the service was just ok, but the second time the service was "HORRIBLE" and i mean HORRIBLE. The waitress was very rude to us. We said we needed a couple of mintues to look at the menu, but she just stood right there and forcing us to order. After the meal we had some food left over, so we decided to pack it to go. We also ordered some food to go. It took 10 minutes for them to give us a to go box which we asked for it 3 times. It seems like they dont even care about our table. Once we had everything packed, we ask for the bill. We asked for the bill 3 times and no one bought the bill over to us. We were sitting there for more than 10 minutes. Someof the server was chatting with other servers. When the bill came i didnt even have enough time to look at it she took it away from me. Then i was pissed off already, so i went to the counter to get my bill. She printed me another bill which was $10 more than the first bill she gave us. Then i was like this bill is not correct and she knows it not correct. I'm like we only ate 3 dishes here and the other 6 dishes we ordered to go. The restaurant clearly states that to go is 10% off. The first bill she gave it was 10% off the to go orders. The second bill she just added everything together. During the whole dining experience she was very rude and didnt even say thank you. For 3 people we ate almost $100 of food for lunch. Spending $100 and getting this kind of service. Seriously, this is really poor customer service.

This is the 2nd time I've been to this restaurant after many years, and have to admit the food is not as good/flavourful as the 1st time.

It was so cold in the restaurant the Thursday night that we went, we should've asked them to turn on the heat or something.

We ordered quite a few dishes, some were better than others, but the flavour of the dishes were not that great, especially at the prices some of them were!

Service is not as good as before either, the hosts and waiters are not very attentive.

Don't think we will come back to this restaurant again, I had wanted my vegetarian friend to try out this restaurant, but I was disappointed by the food.

The food here is delicious, but I think you need to know how to order.

If you have special dietary restrictions, you can ask them to not add any MSG and skip out on the cornstarch (many Asian dishes have cornstarch). The server I had the first time told me that we can make these requests; however, the second time I went and did make those requests, the server (a lady) did not fulfill the requests and I stlil had MSG in my food.

Still, this is great for vegetarian fare, and there are plenty of healthy options for the very health-conscious.

Service can really be in the pits somedays, but one of the male servers is especially friendly and helpful. He's given me so many tips on preparing dishes at home, and even suggestions of new vegetables (like kabocha!) and how to prepare them at home.

Atmosphere is your standard Chiense restaurant -- nothing spectacular.

This is one of 2 Bo Kong Restaurants. It is often quite full but we have never had to wait, and one can make reservations for very busy times. Staff are courteous and try to honour special requests, like using soft tofu instead of deep-fried. There is a huge variety of choice, and even non-vegetarians can be satisfied. The "sizzling steak" which I think is made of gluten, is really good. Other recommended ones are the sweet and sour dish, eggplant and tofu, and the thick spinach soup and wonton soup. These are all quite popular. Every time we go, we see new things to try and are usually pleased. Even apparently without onior or garlic, the food is very tasty.

The Richmond location has more little things to buy (like candied nuts) and seems a bit larger. The menus are the same. Overall, both Bo Kongs are wonderful and also are not too expensive.

My only complaint is the menu. If they would work on a quality translation of what they offer and maybe better and more pictures, I would eat here again. The food is good but you will have no idea what you are ordering and the staff and owner can not explain it in English. It is sad that a restaurant this size with a huge menu will miss so much business due to poor language translation. It could be a great choice for vegans but the menu will leave you frustrated and confused.

Ordered the Fried Rice Noodle, Tofu and veggie seafood pot, soup, and the veggie appie. After finishing our meal, we figure we missed the green veggie. Other than a few carrot slices and few shrew of green peppers in the rice noodle, all others are tofu or soy product. I wish they would put a few more pieces of green veggies like bok choy, broccoli, etc. It's summer time, it must be cheaper to put on more fresh vegetables. In terms of taste, the fried rice noodle is very hard. There is not much favor in it. Same as the Tofu pot. The complimentry desert of red bean soup is nice, but too sweet for most people.

The ambiance is pretty good for a Chinese restaurant. It is very clean.

After hearing some good things about Bo Kong, I just had to try it myself with a friend.

It's been a while since I had good "gluten", a staple found in the buddhist diet, and we ordered a small sample as a starter. The fascinating thing about gluten is that it tries its best to resemble meat..but its far from it. If you don't mind the soggy, cold, and gummy texture of it, and you're starving, gluten can serve its purpose as nourishment for the Vegan. My favorite gluten are the sweet and tangy red ones that look similar to Chinese BBQ pork....

We had the "Sweet and Sour Pineapple Delight", Bo Kong's iteration of the Sweet and Sour Pork that is so ominous at many Chinese Restaurants. The recipe is essentially identical ... however, instead of pork, you get crispy deep fried cubes of a tofu substance with a savory-like flavor. The texture is incredible and if I held my nose, I could've sworn I was biting into crispy pork; however, the flavoring of the pork-substitute was a bit off, and not to my exact liking. Still, this is something that Chinese-food loving Vegans should totally check out.

Next, we had the "Vegetarian Stir Fry in Nest" - assorted vegetables cut in bite size pieces stir fried with a light clear sauce, cubed vegetarian ham that had the texture of spam (in a good way), in a deep-fried taro threaded nest, surrounded by blanched brocolli. The flavors were light, and I enjoyed this one.

Service was fine. The only problem I had was the time it took for us to get our change...I don't care how big or small of a tip you deserve, thats up to me - I need my change ASAP please! But anyways, minor complaint I suppose.

There are so many items on the Bo Kong Menu and it was really hard to choose...I will come back out of pure curiosity to see how the chef could possibly make a Vegetarian imitation of a "Juicy Chicken" tasty....or a "Steak" for that matter.

I have had dim-sum and dinner here a couple of times at both locations in Richmond and in Vancouver. The food has been consistant at each location so far. the dim-sum is very unique and not greasy as regular dim-sum. dinner is also very good with a great variety of choices. They have a wide variety of meat 'alternative' dishes (looks, smells and tastes like meat, but all made with soy, mushrooms and veggies) In some dishes, you would swear your were eating meat! I would recommend to try the ginger rice (nice and salty/gingery with bits of crunchy gai-lan mixed in the rice), the deep fried taro (although is a bit bland, stilll very good, too bad they don't have worchestire sauce) and another deep fried goodie is the enoki mushroom and seaweed wrap. We keep ordering the same dishes (as that is what we are craving) but seeing what other tables order, it all looks and smells GREAT! even if you're not vegetarian (like my husband) you will not miss the meat.