Supreme Master Television

Robert Popper has posted an appreciation of Supreme Master Television, a cult-backed satellite television network I've seen advertised in airports around the world, but never before bothered to google. There's a lot to love in this clip. Robert: I'd like to know when we can say "hebbo!" to a Tarvuist Faith television channel.

Supreme Master TV has a website, the cult behind it operates a chain of vegan restaurants, and they have offices in Southern California. Their leader is one Supreme Master Ching Hai, and Rick Ross says it's more like ka-ching. That's her, at left (click for large size), and here's a Wikipedia article. She sells hair extensions and stuff. She has opinions on global warming. She sings spiritual lounge music. She designs "celestial clothes and sleeping mattresses for dogs," which are spiritually themed costumes designed to bring your "blessed canine friend" closer to enlightenment. If you do one thing today, please: watch the dog video.

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redstarr

I’m thinking that even if the food at the restaurants was delicious and the staff didn’t seem too pushy about their agenda, food prepared by a group like that would be too scary for me. I guess the high profile extremists and cults have left me with a bit of a fear of groups like that, but I’d worry that at some point they might tamper with the food. The fear that the food was poisoned would keep me from being able to eat it. It wouldn’t matter what religion or fringe group or cult or what was serving it, I just couldn’t eat it.
watman

Some of the TV has been screened seemingly randomly on the community TV station in Cape Town, South Africa. I, too, was so mesmerised by the dozens of simultaneous languages, the scrolling ticker, and the popups on screen that I have no idea what the broadcast was about.

(But my subconscious did go: “WTF? Is this a cult?”)
Charles Shopsin

How is it possible that wikipedia does not have an entry for this TV network?

They do however have a whole category for self-declared messiahs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Self-declared_messiahs
TokenFrenchDude

I do like the universal subtitle system.
pspinrad

Ching Hai is interesting, but her book “Aphorisms” was a disappointment– the packaging was nice, little red book, and it had a bunch of photos of Supreme Master Ching Hai dressed fabulously in a wide variety of elegant outfits, but the aphorisms themselves were pretty trite, lots about leading a simple life etc.
Oxymoxy

I love their san jose restaurants–they are both on santa clara street, one’s called vegetarian house and the other is ToFooComChay. The food is really good, and the vegetarian house is full of Supreme master artifacts. It’s a nice scene.
Anonymous

i like it. go vegan newagers!
neWWave

Looking for vegetarian restaurants on our honeymoon in San Francisco we stumbled on a Supreme Master restaurant called Golden Era on O’Farell. Noting the widescreen play that news channel on a loop I bet my wife that a vegan cult ran restaurants like this all over the country. Thanks for settling in my favor. Really great food by the way.
lauriok

The Supreme Master Television people come to my little hometown annually to sell the greatest vegan food during the music festival week. I have their flyer on my kitchen wall – “please don’t kill us” the cows say, “we love you”!
- Xeni Jardin
  
  The food photos in the restaurant menus really do look fantastic. Similarly, some of the finest vegetarian food of my life I ate at Hare Krishna temples.
Blaine

This… this can not possibly be real.
I’ll sooner believe it’s the world’s most elaborate viral ad/practical joke.
ryderdie

I’ve been to one of the Supreme Master’s restaurant’s in Worcester, MA. Every one of the waiters wore the same strange necklace and all of the items on the menu were pretty much exactly the same thing, but in slightly different combinations (think Taco Bell), also all the food was served in military-style metal bowls…creepy. While you ate, you could watch videos of Supreme Master Ching Hai, who, as I recall mentioned that she had come from the past.
KimmyBZ

ryderdie — I grew up in Worcester, MA (how I ever got to be commenting on BoingBoing I will never know, but will be ever thankful for) and have to say I LOVE that restaurant. They recently moved and upgraded the plates and things. Plus metal cups and bowls are how food is served in many developing nations. It is kind of nostalgic to me. I think the food is delicious and the Supreme Master TV is great to crack jokes at while dining with friends. =)
seokso

I live just around the corner from one of these Loving Hut restaurants and it creeps me out so much. The food was not great, but mostly it was the TV right by our table playing culty propaganda the whole time that put us off. The funniest part is that the workers all plaster their cars with massive stickers telling us to go vegan to save the Earth. Every one is an SUV.
- Anonymous
  
  A vegan driving an Escalade is greener than a meat-eater driving a Prius!
dougrogers

Something wrong with being happy?
Something wrong with being rich and happy?
Anonymous

I frequent her Chicago restaurant Alice & Friends often. There is a small TeeVee constantly playing Supreme Master TV along with some of her literature by the cash register which I always found charming but never pay much attention as it is well away from the main dining area. The staff is nothing but nice, the ambiance is very soothing and, most importantly, the food is fantastic (and I am a carnivore).
- serfer0
  
  This meat-filled agnostic seconds the report of SUPREMELY delicious food at Alice & Friends in Chicago. I am normally instantly freaked out by any sort of religion being pushed in my face, but every time I’ve been to Alice & Friends that little tv was muted. So…hear-no-evil & try the “un-meats”.
- reznicek111
  
  The Chicago North-side Alice & Friends resto is now part of the Loving Hut chain. Haven’t been there since the change of ownership (the signs out front read “same chef, same menu!”) but I can vouch that the vegan offerings at the old A&F were very tasty – and I’m an omnivore. Was a great place to take out-of-town vegan friends, if you don’t mind a little “Supreme Master TV” in the background on CC/mute.
VagabondAstronomer

Incidentally, when I first saw this, I thought it was a tie in to “V”. Then I read the article…
Robbo

Does she sell special oatmeal for the dogs too?
fujichia

quan yin may be goofy, even tacky, and certainly extremely curious, but it is not a cult.

let’s look at today’s post on cults- http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/04/goldwag-cults-in-the.html — is quan yin “a coercive or totalizing relationship between a dominating leader and his or her unhealthily dependent followers.”? no. does it have “1) A charismatic leader who makes him or herself an object of worship; 2) A process of “coercive persuasion or thought reform” (“brainwashing,” it is sometimes called); and 3) Economic, sexual, or psychological exploitation of members by the cult’s leadership.”? well, no no and no (ching hai is indeed a “charismatic leader”, who is a teacher, not an object to be prayed to). i’ve gone to the restaurant mentioned by ryder more times than i can count. it’s good, it’s cheap, it’s fun. never did i feel like i was being preached to or subtly indoctrinated. pretty bummed that boing boing is denigrating rather than celebrating this– i mean, look at what you’re criticizing:
- she has her own television station (and seriously who doesn’t nowadays?)
- she urges people to go vegetarian (as does ray ghandi, morrissey, and coltrane)
- she designs her own cool-looking clothes
- she sings spiritual lounge music
- she makes halloween costumes for dogs

are these things you want more of or less of in the world?
- Enormo
  
  Cool-looking clothes???
  
  Oh! So, how long have you been a devotee?
Cowicide

Dear Christians,

Does this video creep you out? Yes?

As much as this video creeps you out… this is just about how creepy you guys make me feel.

Could you imagine being surrounded by these delusional nutjobs all over the United States and having to deal with them on a daily basis? Could you imagine these star-twinkies influencing your government and passing inane laws that you must obey?

Now you know how I feel… welcome to my world.

Hail, Sagan!

Cowicide
- VagabondAstronomer
  
  @Cowicide,,,
  Not all Christians are that way; I’m one. Don’t get me wrong, I look at my more fundamentalist friends with a sideways glance; they’re really going out of their way to turn a fairly good philosophy into a death cult. There are a good number of us who simply prefer to go about doing the best we can, not proselytizing to everyone, letting our acts say what needs to be said, and chuckling at the Fundies who are constantly convinced the end is nigh. Seldom if ever do we watch the religious networks or listen to their radio. We don’t take all of the books of the Bible at face value; we remember that they were written in a totally different age, and we accept that humans are humans, and some of those biases show in the book. But stripped down to the bare bones, it’s not a bad.
  Yes, I’m Episcopalian.
Anonymous

I went to one of their restaurants in Brisbane the food was amazing. Some western, some asian styles. All presented well the vegan cheesecake was to die for. I had two slices chocolate and blueberry.

The staff were polite and courteous, and like in the previous comments did not push their agenda.

Trying to save the world by encouraging a vegan diet may not work but its certainly not sinister.

I found the positive TV occasional sickly sweet but a break from the usual crap that is universally banal or negative.

I was told their teacher does not accept donations of any kind and even though they call her Master they said the main focus was to find their own inner master.

I can see why some people could see this is sinister but in reality many eastern groups have a master who followers respect an hold in high esteem. The Westerners in particular seemed casual and pretty easy going.

Gotta say the atmosphere was much like the Hari Krishnas ie. not pushy but the staff seemed genuinely happy to be there and the food was in my opinion of a higher standard.

If I’m in Mt Gravatt I’ll go back.
Antinous / Moderator

Were those…hyenas?
matt blank

I was too fascinated by the obscene amount of subtitles that I didn’t really pay attention to the content. Bring on the text!
thechicgeek

Must…go…murder…cows? I think I received the wrong message.
thechicgeek

@antinous I actually think those are wild dogs from either Africa or Australia.
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Exchinghai/ Koldin

Here’s a blog of a (former?)member of ching hai’s cult who was involved with their supreme master television station.

The whole letter is pasted here.
Hope this is of interest to some on this forum.
http://forum.rickross.com/read.php?5,65333,73362#msg-73362
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/Exchinghai/
http://ramsss.com/ching-hai/index.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maENZz6fmrE

The Letter.

“This was a letter that I wrote to her, but I am not sure where to email it to. Since the master doesnâ€™t have an accessible email account for the general public or her initiates to use to contact her. Oh wait, we have the direct contact! Contacting Supreme Master ching hai! Your members in SMTV are conducting fraud on every possible level!

To Supreme Master Ching Hai, et al.

I have put off writing this letter to you and foreign group for some time believing that I was the sole case of marriage fraud. However, I have learned that more than once SMTV, the broadcasting station that purposively promotes positive work, are also practicing shady methods to retain foreign workers here in the United States. I know two others, other than myself who were contacted and brought over for that. A close friend and another who was asked to have a divorce so that both could have marriage fraud to get people from foreign countries to stay in America to work here, is what I have just said. FRAUD.

Curiosity piqued, I went online and did an online search and found that there were others who fell for the â€œcalling.â€ SMTV contacted us first informing us of doing simple jobs, but when we arrived there it was for marriage.

I will only elaborate on my experience, as it is mine that I can discuss. I was first contacted on November 17th 2007, for inquiries on work Visas. At first I thought it was akin to just a contact for working in the United States. Thinking that was all, I later received another email whether or not I could come to LA to work. I was only informed to bring my camera and nice clothing. The date would have been on December 9th 2007. With such short notice, I took off from work without pay in order to go to Los Angeles thinking that I would be able to work for SMTV.

My initial contact details: â€œhi (keeping my name out),

Can you come to LA next Friday or Wednesday? Better to come before thanksgiving otherwise it will be crowded. If you can, you will need a suit and 10 different shirts (nice ones). And bring your digital camera.â€

I left to work at SMTV with the belief that I was being told the honest truth and would be photographing things for SMTV.

The story changed when I got there. I was not told who to expect or when I would be picked up till the driver got there. When the driver picked me up, I was informed of what I would really be doing. Getting married to a girl from Australia so she could stay here to work permanently for SMTV. I am pretty sure the premise of this faith and SMTV was positive work and honesty. How can that be when SMTV has tried to commit marriage fraud, and continues to do so?

You can only imagine the emotions I went through during that day. I went from being impatient to confused to furiously angry to emotionally distraught. To be told that I would be marrying someone who I didnâ€™t know, loved, or even seen at all, instead of what was initially informed me what I would be doing is deceitful and betrayal. I immediately booked a car rental to go down to San Diego to my parentsâ€™ friends to stay for the week, as that was how long I would be in California.

I still have the emails from the beginning and ending, emails pleading with me not to send this to Foreign group or to Master. I thought to myself, that this was only once. Sad and disastrous as it was, maybe they changed after I sent them a promo letter to them of what I would be sending to you. After that email, I received an email lecturing me that I should not have worried about getting the marriage and that sort. And I decided to take a forlorn break from the practice, which I still am on.

The response to the letter that would have been sent: â€œPlease make sure that you or anyone else does not send any letter of that sort to foreign group. This is extremely grave. You MUST make sure that (anonymous) keeps his cool and anyone else who wants to challenge or follow that route. [...]

I didnâ€™t want SMTV to be blown off kilter, because at the time I believed that I was the only one and I still believed in the general premise of SMTV.

So I decided that, might have shook them up. I was naÃ¯ve.

Until two days ago of present, I thought that my debacle was the only event. But a close friend of mine went through the same ordeal and another friend was asked persistently to get a divorce from his marriage so that he and his wife could marry foreigners to stay here to work permanently. And then I found this online from countless sites that had topics on Marriage fraud. I took it with some grain of salt, however, it displays that this has been going on for some time. Which makes me wonder if you, Master or Foreign group, knows exactly what goes on with your heavily promoted supreme master television.

Many similar marriage fraud occurred within the SupremeMasterTV.com organization whose address is at 1431 N. Potrero ave, El monte, Ca 91733. SupremeMasterTV.com is an internet base and satellite television program claimed to show positive news especially advocate of prevent global warming. SupremeMasterTV.com (SMTV.com ) is an non-profit operation headed by the Supreme Master Ching Hai who also has a company called The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association. Many fraudulent marriage committed by volunteers of SMTV.com to keep the foreign volunteers to work for SMTV.com and also for One World Restaurant in West Covina (illegal alien work here). This Russian girlâ€™s case is a good example but SMTV.com volunteers-crimers believe that they wonâ€™t get caught because Supreme Master Ching Hai has the magic power to protect them. Probably USCIS need to catch more cases like this to stop people from committing marriage fraud.
[www.topix.com]

Around topics on the discussion of marriage fraud, posts and discussions of this is highly prevalent. Although those are not from accredited journalists, they are from users who know or have experienced marriage fraud conducted by yours truly, Supreme Master Television.

Then there is the mentality of your members there that is also in question. How do you really promote good will, when your workers there consider anyone who does not work for SMTV as trash or in such disdain? How do you pertain positive change when your workers are informing those that may have second thoughts that those that did leave have suddenly died? I acknowledge that workers that left suddenly die as exaggeration, but that is fear tactics. So SMTV not only conducts marriage fraud to get workers to stay, but reinforces it with fear tactics?

The conducts of your workers at SMTV are disdainful and deleterious and should be examined by yourself or foreign group, let alone the US authorities. This kind of conduct generates much question to yours and your affiliatesâ€™ judgment and activity and I am hoping that there is resolution to this.

Whether this being resolved or not, is paramount to your organization because if left unresolved it opens up a Pandoraâ€™s box of troubles. Not only to you, but also mainly to the victims, such as myself, who see no justice being done to rectify this horrendous deed. The authorities already investigate marriage fraud on a countless basis.

Yours truly,”

Koldin says: All you followers & supporters of ching hai who are not in on the scam will sooner or later be writing stories such as these in the link below if you refuse to open your eyes & realise you are being scammed big time. I sincerely hope you don’t leave it too late to free yourselves from this cult ok.
http://www.ex-premie.org/pages/journeys.htm
- Anonymous
  
  It is interesting how people leaving cults seem to say the same thing over and over again. When you have scientologists saying this, Plebeists saying this and even them the followers of ching hai, you just cannot help but to ponder on the underlying message here is..
GauchoAmigo

Holy subtitles!
Antinous / Moderator

I like the meditation products: Three tents, one mosquito net, two tinfoil mats, a folding chair and a plaid dog bed masquerading as a meditation cushion
jimh

The dog video made my day.
“The Poet” ftw.
Rosindust89

I think that dog video was an attempt to brainwash me, because I found myself laughing uncontrollably. Did anyone else experience that?
Anonymous

So, that’s what those child beauty queens look like when they grow up!
jody

It is always a wonder to behold how complete and utter nutbags can create such a hysteria around themselves. Some of us are just born with the can’t-help-but-follow-a-nutbag gene.
- Anonymous
  
  I tell you… I’d rather this kind of nutbag any day, than the one that just got voted out of the office of the president of the united states!!
hisdevineshadow

Oh goody, another strange belief in a supreme being. This one is so special he…it create two universes. Are they like the light and dark universes in LEXX? I don’t know, didn’t care to read much more.
Anonymous

There is a Buddhist temple (at least it used to be) down my street and all the people that live there have the big magnets all over their cars. Now I know what/who the Supreme Master is.

Thanks BB!
Anonymous

I frequent a vegan restaurant in Sacramento called ‘Au Lac Veggie’ and they have flyers for this stuff in the restaurant. Interesting to understand more about what I have been supporting with my dining dollars. Kind of creepy, but the food is undeniably delicious.
martinhekker

@cowicide

It’s true. The laughter is painful. I feel like I’ve just been subjected to a kind of reverse Turing test. The robot concludes I can be manipulated into anything, and will even like it if tickled enough. I conclude that I believe in nothing.
Anonymous

cult or not,I think that vegetarianism,and treating the earth with respect are good messages.I believe that we all should make a conscious effort to limit the suffering of sentient beings instead of concentrating in our lust.
I just think that if she is using these messages to gain fame,popularity,money,and to stand herself as a queen or as a godly figure,then it is wrong.
Many people are vegetarian and respect the earth and they come from all walks of life.You does not have to follow any enlightened master to find enlightment.
the teachings of buddha are sufficient to understand spirituality.anyway you have to experience it yourself,and it is only in the self that it dwells without any intercessors.
HiTek LoLife

My story about “Supreme Master’s” crazy cult and restaurant:

They opened a restaurant in downtown San JosÃ© on Santa Clara st. back maybe 15 yrs.(?) ago conveniently named “Supreme Master of Meditation Suma Ching Hai’s International Vegetarian House Restaurant” (they were somehow able to fit all of that plus a picture of “Supreme Master” herself on a tiny awning over the door). The name has since been shortened but I used to love reciting it verbatim to folks as a vegetarian restaurant suggestion. Anyway, when it first opened I dropped in on a whim one day and was treated to a giant screen indoctrination video of “Supreme Master” (pre blond bleach job) addressing a soccer stadium full of hapless minions while I enjoyed a reasonably good vegetarian meal in the otherwise empty dining room. As she launched into some rant about being able to bring the “true beauty and peace of the world” into my life I heard shouting coming from the open window I was seated next to and was treated the spectacle of a drunken vagrant in the parking lot pissing himself while loudly fighting an invisible opponent. Just as she raised her hand and said something like “Now feel the power of God!” he took a staggering dive and hit the pavement, (evidently K.O.d by his invisible opponent). He then lifted his head and puked profusely, stared down at his output and exclaimed “Now who the fuck did that?”. The last thing I remember her saying was something like “Remember that here today I have shown you God’s beauty and power at work in the world”. The whole experience was just so perfectly synchronized for unintended comedy. Sometimes I think life’s random events just conspire to entertain me.
HowardsGrl

The pastel colors…the multiple swirly typefaces…the cute doggies in clothing…the artwork…the blond hair…there is just so much! I feel dizzy! wheeee….
8bitpixel

Jesus effing Christ!

I mean…

Supreme effing Master Ching friggin Hai!
scifijazznik

@ antinous– yes.

@ GauchoAmigo– I work as a closed captioner for the hearing impaired and my first thought when the video started was, “What this really needs is a few more lines of captions.”

Every now and then I get a reminder of why bOINGbOING is better than a Snuggie and a bong hit. Wow. Just…..wow.
pentomino

@49: Your arguments aren’t very sound, but I place the burden of proof on the sane rest-of-the-world to demonstrate the bullet points you’ve described. But the phrase “Supreme Master” has that hyperbolic connotation that just makes you automatically think “CULTCULTCULTCULT”.

I remember seeing Ching Hai on public access TV back in the day. I think she was on after that UFO guy with the eye patch. She wasn’t blonde back then, but I like the new look.
cycle23

She may be crazy, but Veggie Heaven near UT in Austin is a kick ass restaurant; and I say that as an avid eater of all things meat.

The rest of that new age clap trap can suck it.
Anonymous

Lighten up guys…..she is taking the mickey out of you. Search “Sufi masters”. Those that are meant to get it do and the rest are just left quoting misinformation. I have known her for 13 years and think she is sooooooo funny and endlessly tolerant and switched on. Yeah some of the followers do seem a bit “fundamentalist” but that is just THEIR level. Go get initiated, it’s a must do before you die.
EH

remember me when the rain falls.
Anonymous

In my neighborhood of San Francisco I have the option of two Vegan Chinese restaurants. One provides “supreme master” bumper stickers and the other sports a rack of pamphlets about Christian morality.

The staff of both eateries are pretty nice, but the Christians irk me more because their interpretation of the bible is so weird. Something that’s completely alien and unknown is sometimes easier to brush off than something you understand and have an opinion about.
Anonymous

Crap, I just recited Tarvu’s Prayer! I guess I’m in, however reluctantly. They tricked me! I’m going to shout out to all the octopuses (octopi?) and start a octopus/human militia, and we’re taking ALL you fools down!
Anonymous

Ok, I’m sorry I threatened everyone with my octopus/human militia. I hereby renounce Tarvuism. Being nice all the time is effing stupid! I do think Supreme Master Ching Hai is a naughty, naughty girl.
Anonymous

she was convicted on environmental grounds in Florida, cut a swathe through a neighbouring national park so her followers could build an artifical island for her

http://www.rickross.com/reference/ching_hai/sumaching11.html
“Go veg save the planet”? Don’t think so…
forgeweld

My inlaws (like 30 of ‘em) are all disciples. I’ve always thought of it as a (personality) cult, but of the most harmless kind. They volunteer to feed the homeless (great veggie Vietnamese food), contribute money to the various charity arms of the thing, and the doctors in the group are always flying to poor countries to do volunteer work.

The spirituality part of it is just simple meditation, right living, positive thinking, and the only thing I have ever found off-putting besides the personality and wacky crafts of the s.m. herself it the sort of one-upmanship between disciples over who is most pious. Part of the whole cult thing is just cultural, in the asian tradition of discipleship to a spiritual teacher. I’ve never detected anything sinister emanating from any of what I’ve observed.

African wild dogs, Antinous.
brandonwardlaw

This group proclaims to have an environmentalist agenda…yet they attached 5-page, glossy fliers to *every single bike in sight* at my university, once. And we’re talking about literally thousands upon thousands of bikes (we have ~55k students).

Somehow, I don’t think that use of paper seems quite in line with their goals. I have to say that the flier itself was quite entertaining, though.
Stronzo

Why is BoingBoing always so quick to call any group (other than Apple) with passionate followers a cult? Cult is a pretty serious allegation. This is the one area that I think BoingBoing fails to live up to the thoughtful and intelligent writing one expects from them.

Just because a bunch of people are passionate about something that Xeni thinks is weird, doesn’t make it a cult.
- Enormo
  
  Um… “Supreme Master?”
- Anonymous
  
  It probably has something to do with how similar this seems to other cults, right down to the supreme master thing. Anyone up for kool-aid!?
- monkeywidget
  
  I’m not defending Boing boing explicitly, but Supreme Master Ching Hai definitely runs a “cult,” according to most definitions. Her followers worship her specifically. Watch any of her “talks” if you are interested in learning more.
Anonymous

The best vegan restaurants in Seoul are all SM Ching Hai sponsored- there are even a couple of buffets. I have always found them nice, and even though the SM TV is distracting, the staff never seems to try to convert you, which makes it better than Seventh Day Adventist restaurants.
Van Diemen

Just wanted to say by chance we went to one of these restaurants for the first time the other week.
We live in Perth, Western Australia.
They work off a ‘pay what you feel’ system, so there were plenty of uni students there.
The big screen projector and loud music was freaky and hypnotic.
This restaurant was total vegan, not just vegitarian.
Anonymous

I am so sick from the cloying, nauseating sweetness I cant eat my chicken dinner! A job well done, Supreme Master?
monkeywidget

My favorite is the episode where she tells us about speaking with the people on Mars. It’s not a news clip, but it should still be on some web site or other!
kaini

click for large size? already looks pretty large to me.
Xeni Jardin

You’re right, Stronzo, there is nothing cult-like about this organization at all.
jollyinebriate

I live right around from the corner and it’s the best vegetarian food I’ve ever tasted.
thequickbrownfox

They have been running an ad on Australian TV for some years now.

I always thought it to be an offering from an environmentalist group as it mainly discusses global warming.

Only recently I noticed this Supreme Master logo at the end of the ad and looked them up.
wrybread

Parenthetically, does anyone know if they have a veggie restaurant in San Francisco?
thevegancollection

I’ve been to Golden Era in SF, Alice & Friends in Chicago, Loving Hut and One World in the LA area and all were pretty great. If you can ignore the crazy religious aspect of it, the food is fantastic.