PF Chang’s Vegan & Vegetarian Menu Options
Dining out can be tricky when you’re looking for vegan options, especially at popular fast-food restaurants. PF Chang’s might not be the first place that comes to mind for plant-based meals, but surprisingly, they offer several vegan-friendly dishes worth trying. While PF Chang’s vegan options aren’t groundbreaking, they do offer some delicious menu items to make for a flavorful meal.
From hearty stir-fries to satisfying appetizers, there’s something for everyone. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the vegan options at PF Chang’s, including tips on customizing dishes to better suit your needs. We know it can feel disappointing when a favorite dish isn’t vegan-friendly or when your choices feel limited. But, at least PF Chang’s does have a few tasty offerings to make your visit worthwhile.
Let’s dive in so you can enjoy your next visit with confidence and a happy appetite!
PF Chang’s Vegan Options
Since some menu items seem to vary by location, we thought it would be helpful to share the official menu items first and then the possible menu items later on in this article. If you’ve encountered new-to-you, fantastic food options, make sure to comment below so we can add them in. Collaboration is key!
Here’s what you can expect for vegan food at PF Chang’s:
Vegan Appetizers
We were immediately impressed with the appealing appetizer options at this high-end fast food restaurant. Order one of each, add a side of steamed rice (either white or brown), and you’ve got yourself a pretty delicious plant-powered meal.
- Vegetarian Lettuce Wraps – Minced vegetables, garlic, scallion, mint, sesame oil, iceberg lettuce, crispy rice sticks, and a lime wedge. (If this is a favorite appetizer, you’ll love these collard wraps with rainbow veggies!)
- House Salad – Ask for no crispy wontons and no sesame dressing (contains oyster extracts and chicken by-products).
- Avocado Roll – Traditional roll with cubed avocado.
Sadly, the vegetable spring rolls and wontons are not vegan—the wrappers are made with egg—so opt for one of the options above instead.
Plant-Based Main Entrees
Three dinner options might be a little disheartening, but we’ve heard that they’re all delicious and worth trying. Take advantage of this Asian restaurant serving their meals family-style and perhaps buy two (or all three!) dishes to share with those around you. Each menu item listed below is unique, so it would be fun to fill up on a few different flavorful forkfuls:
- Buddha’s Feast (stir-fried or steamed) – Five-spice tofu (similar to this Szechuan tofu recipe), savory sauce, green beans, mushrooms, broccoli, and carrots.
- Ma Po Tofu – Crispy silken tofu, spicy red chili sauce, and steamed broccoli.
Sides
You really can’t go wrong with a side of rice, are we right? Although it seems to vary from location to location, you can also ask for a side of noodles made with just oil and soy sauce. If you have your heart set to nosh on some noodles, it’s worth asking the waiter or waitress.
- Avocado Roll – Traditional roll with cubed avocado.
- Chili-Garlic Green Beans – Fiery red chili sauce, fresh garlic, and Sichuan preserves (or try our own recipe for sizzling Chinese green beans!)
- Baby Buddha’s Feast – Stir-fried broccoli, carrots, and sugar snap peas along with a side of fresh fruit. Available in steamed or stir-fried.
- Noodles – Plain (wheat-based) or Korean Glass (sweet potato glass noodles, ask for no egg)
- Rice (brown or white, steamed)
Vegetables & Fruit
Give us all the veggies! The more the merrier for a satisfying out-to-eat healthy supper. Having an option of fresh fruit after a meal is a treat and we appreciate the opportunity to have a sweet if others around us are able to have dessert. Though, it would be nice if they offered at least one vegan dessert item on the menu.
- Broccoli (steamed)
- Carrots (steamed)
- Snap Peas (steamed)
- Fresh Fruit
Drinks & Cocktails
PF Chang’s beverage selection is pretty extensive. If you’re not hungry enough for a full meal, a couple of veggie appetizers and a delightful vegan drink might do the trick.
- Hot Tea – Full leaf tea (ask for varieties)
- Iced Tea – Traditional Black and Mango
- Refreshers – Pomegranate Lemonade, Strawberry Cucumber Limeade, and Peach Boba Breeze
- Lemonade – Regular or Strawberry
- Bottled Water – Dasani
- Coca Cola Fountain Drinks – Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Sprite, Coke Zero Sugar, and Barq’s Root Beer
- Starbucks Coffee
Note: They also offer vegan alcoholic beverages at most locations. Check Barnivore.com to make sure the option you’re choosing is vegan-friendly.
FAQs
A no-go. The green beans contain eggs in the batter. But, the chili-garlic green beans are vegan!
Yes, it is! Very happy to share that this option is indeed vegan. You can order it with white or brown steamed rice, as well as extra steamed veggies on the side.
Sadly, the fried rice cannot be made vegan. It’s cooked up with eggs, milk, and shellfish ingredients. Substitute for steamed white or brown rice instead.
Unfortunately, the spring roll (or wonton) wrappers are made with eggs, so they are not vegan.
Another no. Sadly, the cookies themselves are made with egg whites, so they are not vegan-friendly.
How to Use the PF Chang’s Allergen Menu
Check out the PF Chang’s Nutrition and Allergen Menu page to make sure that you are purchasing a vegan-friendly item. The menu items offered at PF Chang’s don’t seem to change very often, but you may want to double-check before you visit.
- Browse the PF Chang’s menu before ordering.
- If ordering PF Chang’s online or through a delivery service, make sure you clearly specify any substitutions you would like. If you’re worried that your request may not be honored (or seen by the server at PF Chang’s), it might be a better idea to go there directly to order.
- Be careful when new and exciting seasonal products are offered at PF Chang’s. Double-check the allergens and ingredients to make sure the item is vegan before purchasing.
- A gluten-free guide is also available, but none of the items are also vegan-friendly.
NOT Vegan at PF Chang’s
- Edamame – Includes egg and fish ingredients.
- Cold Cucumber Salad – Contains fish ingredients.
- Dim Sum – All of the Dim Sum items contain eggs and, with some, also milk and meat as well. So, none of these options are vegan.
- Fried Rice – All of their fried rice dishes are made with egg and some also with milk or fish ingredients.
- Dessert – Every dessert on the menu contains eggs and/or dairy in the form of cheese, caramel, or ice cream.
- Sushi – Every sushi roll contains milk, eggs, and animal products. There are no vegan-friendly ingredients here.
- Wonton Wrappers – All menu items that include wontons contain eggs.
- Soups – Even though it would seem like soups without meat would be a great choice, it’s easy to forget that the broths are almost always animal-based (chicken, pork, or beef). Ask if they offer a miso or vegetable broth for any of their soup options, as a last resort. At the moment, this does not seem to be a vegan option at PF Chang’s.
Make Your Own At-Home Plant-Based Chinese Take Out
If you’re not able to find a decent vegan Chinese takeout restaurant in your neighborhood, make your own tasty takeout from scratch in your kitchen. You’ll have complete control of the ingredients and can adjust the spice level perfectly to your liking.
These recipes are not only pretty simple and easy, but they’re incredibly delicious, too!
Creating a Kinder and More Accessible Vegan PF Chang’s Experience
Although PF Chang’s has a long (long) way to go before their menu meets even the most basic plant-based standards, we can still hope that our vegan voices will be heard. Since there are so few Asian-inspired vegan restaurants on the fast food front, we’re trusting that PF Chang’s will soon take up the challenge to provide more mouthwatering meals free of dairy, eggs, and animal products. Wouldn’t it be excellent if they found a way to make an entire section of their menu vegan-friendly, even a tiny one? In the meantime, we can always write to, call, or contact the managers of any location to make our requests.
Have you found any other vegan options at PF Chang’s? Did you find something amazing that we missed? Let us know by tagging #worldofvegan and sharing your favorite vegan-at-pf-changs creations with all of us!
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This article is not sponsored and we are in no way affiliated with PF Chang’s. At the time of this article, the menu items mentioned above are vegan. Since restaurants constantly update their menus and add or take away items, please keep this in mind when ordering your food. There may be new PF Chang’s vegan options that are not listed or items listed here as vegan, which are no longer vegan. Take care to double-check.
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No, no, and no. NOTHING at P. F. Changs is vegan. Nothing. All of the entrees or sides you cited contain oyster sauce or fish sauce. I have spoken with P. F. Changs’ management and they have confirmed this.
Thanks for your comment! We’ve double checked with the P.F.Chang’s allergen and nutritional facts and the items we listed (along with our ordering suggestions, which are numerous) are vegan-friendly. We have links for both of the allergen and nutritional facts charts for P.F. Chang’s in the article, if you would like to take a look 🙂
Love to have all the possibilities! This is so good!
Learning which menu items are vegan-friendly at PF Chang’s was really interesting! I thought there would be nothing there to order, but I was happy to find a few dishes that sounded delicious. I really hope they have more vegan options in the future, though!
Thank you for this awesome guide. Comes in handy while traveling.
Love this guide so much, Gina! I’ll feel confident ordering there for next time!
Thank you, Andrea! So happy you liked the guide!
Yum! I haven’t been to PF Chang’s in a very long time but glad to see what vegan items they’re serving up these days!