San San Tofu

This is a hidden gem! Restaurant to the left with delicious vegan food and the grocery store to right to purchase a variety of food and more made in the kitchen. I've been back several times since my first visit the service is always good, dinning area is well maintained. Looking for a good vegan restaurant add San San Tofu to your list.

It's a Vietnamese vegetarian place that offers groceries/and deli (to go or dine in). The takeout counter is a little hectic. Prices range - some things are cheap and some aren't (everything is made in house so some things get a pass for being high). My mom always gets the soy milk (unsweetened) at the Chinese grocery store so we decided to venture here to get it fresh from the source. There's a lot of good finds here. The parking lot is small and cramped so I recommend going early or not on the busy weekend.

This place is magical for anyone who's on a vegetarian diet. The food is super fresh and tasty. The staff is the nicest ever! You'll be so lucky if the manager Kimberly is taking care of you.Highly recommended!

This place is a treasure for all vegetarians!! :) Since their closing time is early (6 pm), I haven't been able to come here so often but today I made it! I got some tomato based soup noodles and wanton soup baked noodle and they were very good!! :) They have amazing food options in the morning and early lunch time so if you wanna see varieties I recommend you to come earlier! I like the service here and peaceful environment! :) Come and enjoy vegetarian diets! Cheers

Walking in I didn't realize this was also a grocery store and was happily surprised by all the vegetarian and vegan products!I ended up getting the combination house Banh Mi.It was stacked with filling. The daikon was the highlight of the sandwich, it was super sweet and crunchy. I do wish there were more greens in the sandwich. The meat dupes were not bad but did not remind me of meat at all. I thought the pate was kind of bland. Overall glad I tried the sandwich but I don't think I would get it again. Service is what you would typically expect for an asian restaurant.

I have been to San San Tofu 山山豆腐 many times to pick up vegetarian groceries few years ago. Just recently, my friend Cathy wanted to show a group of people that vegan dim sum exists in Houston Chinatown.This is not a fancy restaurant nor with a full service. So, don't ask much, just look. As I walked in, grocery store was the first thing I see. Walk towards the left if their restaurant. Employees are very friendly. But not everyone speaks fluent English. So, be patient.One side of food warmer is for lunch box. Next one is the dim sum display. Further, the restaurant cashier is at the end of the line. You can order banh mi or noodles or anything from the menu that is not on display.Food has gone up due to inflation, this is nothing new across the country. So, the two-item and three-item lunch is really reasonable. I ordered some dim sum and asked for a knife to cut them for sharing. They gave me a pair of scissors instead.Three pieces of any type of Dim Sum is $5.50. All vegan. Don't complain there is not meat. Even though they have chicken and beef on the menu. I also ordered Bún bò Huế with vegetarian beef. Sigh... The "beef" is flavored textured soy protein slices. The display looks like the real thing. Vegan version of real thing actually tasted pretty good. Don't overthink what the real thing tastes like.If you want fresh vegan dim sum, best to come before noon. You'll get the real taste of San San Tofu.

San San Tofu is one of my FAVORITE places in the bellaire area! I am vegetarian and it is so affordable. My sister is also allergic to shellfish so it is one of the few places in bellaire she can eat because everything there is vegan!The combo plates are less than $13 and I always have leftover. I definitely recommend always getting at least one vegetable with your combo because otherwise all the imitation meat loses its tang. Also come around peak lunch time (11am-1pm). If you come too early or late they won't have soup and the soup is amazing!

Still a local favorite spot I love to visit for lunch to get soup or hot lunch items! They have a grocery side you can browse along with other ready made food items you can grab and go. I love the vegetarian noodle dish they have packaged at the register. When dining in you get a free hot or cold tea with your meal. The service is good the ladies do speak enough English to help when ordering.

We stumble upon this place while driving around our Airbnb. This place opens early which was great because it was too early for us to go eat lunch so we shopped around the store. They have a huge selection of vegan food to eat and cook! We don't have a large variety of vegan food back in Chicago so this was great! We bought some vegan jerky and other vegan food for cooking. We also ate lunch there too. It was not bad at all. I would definitely come back here again to eat and buy more vegan snacks.

For a small grocery store, they have a lot of options to choose from to highlight your veg dishes if you choose to cook. Occasionally, I follow and watch some of my favorite vegan YouTube bloggers recommend certain items to add flavors or proteins to their meals to enhance the quality. Most of those items I spotted in San San Tofu. To name a few: veg bacon slices, drumsticks, fish, ham, mushroom seasonings, veg oyster sauce, veg rehydrated meats, veg fish sauce, and the list goes on. What, I enjoyed from here was the handmade veg meats spring rolls that they sell near the registers. The veg shredded beef with the peanut sauce has to be the best that I've ever tried. Most places strictly sell tofu spring rolls for the veg option or just veggies (which sucks since the effort isn't there), but not at San San Tofu, I love their creativity. I don't know about you, but I've found it hard to find an Asian restaurant that has stellar peanut sauce for spring rolls, but at San San Tofu, it was perfect. Not too much peanut flavor, not overly sweet, but just right. It isn't too thick or liquified. It's a happy medium in between. Not only that, but the spring rolls are fat in size and so flavorful! Even the veg meat has seasonings to it. I swear, I did not think that they would even marinate the veg meat, but they did. Most places would just add barely cooked or sauteed tofu to the rolls and the taste would be so off that you would have to add more sauces just to get that flavor consistency. The last time, I did purchase the veg bacon slices and I noticed that it is the same brand that Spiral Bakery (in the DFW area) uses. It was very simple to prepare. I just let the veg bacon thaw out in the sink for an hour (or shorter) Then, when I was ready to construct the BLT, I added it to the veg BBQ sauce that I bought as well from San San Tofu and placed it into a medium heat pan. It cooked it right up and it even gave off the crispiness of pork bacon minus all the fat of animal bacon. The drumsticks do look similar to the ones that Pythagoras vegan restaurant in Sugar Land has on the menu. This grocery store is pretty much a haven for me since I am a veg. The prices are significantly cheaper than Whole Foods and Sprouts. You can buy veg ham slices here which would last you a lot longer than what Target, Kroger, and HEB tofurky brand packs have. Instead of purchasing dehydrated veg meats from Amazon, you can pick them up at San San Tofu, they have a whole aisle dedicated to that. Oh, and let me mention this, they even sell veg jerky! In so many flavors, which is 100% more affordable than Bucees', any service station, and health food store combined.I wouldn't sleep on this place and I see why the parking lot is packed. I can't speak on the restaurant part since I did not frequent it. I was more intrigued with grocery selection.