The Best Vegan Restaurant In Bangkok : Loving Hut Nonthaburi

Today was my day off, so that means sleep a little longer, and do some grocerie shopping with the biky in the morning.

After twelve it's time for relaxing outside.

Today we did go to the Loving Hut Nonthaburi branch. Loving Hut is the only veg restaurant here in Bangkok that serves authentic vegan Thai food. I know, there are other upscalish veg restaurants that serve "thai" vegetarian dishes, like the fancy Churn Kun at Sukumvit, but these restaurants target foreigners and so have adapted their Thai dishes to foreign tastebuds. Very nice food but don't take your Thai friends there.
The only other authentic Thai vegan flavors come from the jay restaurants which serves a kind of fusion Thai-Chinese vegan food.

Not only is the Loving Hut the only place that serves authentic Thai dishes vegan style, it is also prepared with great care and much love, and it may sounds corny to some people, but my taste buds really can taste the diference between food prepared with great care by a great dedicated cook, or "good food" that is prepared by a less dedicated cook.

We did go with taxi from the Silom area, tollway, it wasn't so far as i imagined, around 40 minutes or so and costs were 55 baht for the tollway and 185 baht for the taxi ride.

All dishes are between 45~65 baht, which is extremely cheap for this kind of quality food. When we arrived there were about 4 or so Thai customers, looked like office workers, enjoying their meal. We ordered about.....8 or 9 dishes, or even more, and three drinks. I guess we were in a decadent mood. Kidding. Our final bill was 500 something baht. Anybody who regularly eats in restaurants (that doesnt include greasy street vendors or cheap buffets) knows that is a bargain.

I did choose two appetizers, mushroom tempura (three diferent kinds of mushroom) and Crispy wonton filled with Spinach. Both were very crispy and no oil taste, very skilfully prepared.

The masaman curry was prepared with  fake chicken soy nuggets and potatoes. It had an peanutty very rich taste. It was defenitely the best masaman curry i ever ate, and inspired me to also try to make this kind of masaman curry.

Chinese Olive Fried Rice was another "simple looking" but very tasteful dish.

I/we did eat several other dishes and ended our culinary travel with a vegan icecream (there were three flavors ; chocolate, chocolate chip and strawberry) and a brownie.

Nonthaburi might seem a bit far away, but it isn't. The trick is to go by tollway and in the morning or early afternoon before 1 pm, and take a taxi back to Bangkok around three-ish. That way you avoid the nasty traffic jams that start around 4 pm.

Loving Hut Nonthaburi is also a short taxi ride away from the new Immigration office at Chaeng Watana road.

Pleasant relaxed atmosphere. There are various vegan cooking books for reading. Cook, staff and owner are all dedicated vegans.

Two crispy tasty appetizers for 100 baht together.

Forgot the name of this dish (fried rice something) but it was yummy.

So in short, no it isn't that far away and well deserves to be visited and enjoyed, especially since there is no equal vegan quality to be found in Bangkok itself.

website of all Loving Hut branches in Thailand