Bodhi Tree
Restaurant, Coffee/Tea/Juice
$ - inexpensive
Vietnamese
Good vegetarian food within walking distance of the pier.
Bodhi Tree offers a lot of faux seafood, meat and poultry made from soy bean, bean curd and assorted vegetables. Check out some of the pictures.
- Outdoor Seating
Added by Chris Soriano on Apr 28 05 (updated Jan 16 08)
Reviews
This is perhaps my favorite Vegan Restaurant in Orange County. My husband and I have been going for years, and it is still as great as it was upon our discovery of the place.
Yes, the Spring Rolls are great. Our other Favorites are:
Grilled Vegetable Skewers
Anything (Beef, Veggies, etc.) in their Spicy Peanut Butter Sauce
Braised Vegetables w/Tofu
Dry Vermicelli w/ Assorted Soy Meat
Sweet Rice w/ Taro + Mango
The Combos on the Lunch Special Menu, and
Their Sandwiches
But our absolute #1 FAVORITE is: the Jack Fruit Salad on a Bed Sesame Chips. It is totally unique and delicious.
We also have had the artichoke tea -- unusual but tasty.
This Family Run restaurant is so friendly. As another person said, the wait staff, especially Huong "who-ung", the daughter, remember you and your "regular order".
A wonderful place to eat!
I love how close Bodhi Tree is, I live right down the street. I LOVE their desserts.. banana bread pudding, sweet rice with mango, young coconut!!! Sooo good! I am a bit finicky about their entrees. I have tasted quite a few and think if you get the wrong one, they taste like a tv dinner. They do have a lot of options though. I prefer the lobster (it's amazing). And their appetizers are great. Best vegan eggrolls ever!
yellow chicken---MMMM! we also had the fried rice soup, my boyfriend says this is the best vegan food he ever had! we were there in january and going back this weekend! we live in arizona!
My husband and I go to this restaurant at least once a week. It is the best Asian food I have ever eaten during my vegetarian and non-vegetarian years. My favorites are: the spring rolls -very refreshing & filling. The spicy "chicken-less" satay yellow noodle soup -you can add wontons to this soup, very delicious. The Bodhi Tree Spicy fried rice is also excellent. All the flavors combined in their dishes make eating a very pleasant experience. Our waitress already knows us, and what we order. Service is great, people are friendly, and the food is EXCELLENT!
I go here whenever I’m on Main Street. Which is quite often. I’m a sucker for the boba they have there. I just wouldn’t recommend the avocado one… I just don’t think avocado should be sweet if its not just being used for texture. My favorite is the crispy duck and the wonton appetizer. All my non-vegan friends love the place too. My best friend likes the fried banana dessert. All in all this is a comfortable little restaurant with good food and good service too.
We went to Bodhi yesterday and were SO impressed! We got the orange chicken and it was to die for. I also tried the "Beef in Spicy Peanut Butter sauce" and it was pretty good too.
Not only was the food great, but the waitress was really on top of it. I had picked out the little pieces of cilantro from my hot and sour soup (does anybody actually LIKE that stuff??) and had the tiny leaves on the side of a plate. She walked by and asked if I didn't like cilantro. I said no, and she said "OK, I'll run to the kitchen and tell them not to put it on your entree!" Wow, I was impressed that she was so observant and then went out of her way to please customers. It is a family run business - I can't wait to go back!
So good! Come here at least once a week. There are so many options I just roll through them all and I can't decide what's the best. Fairly cheap as well, even for a tightwad like me.