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Ian_Lee -
If you are a vegetarian in Hong Kong and choose to eat Chinese food, you have to make up your mind
on whether you choose it based on moral-religious reason or just health reason.
For the former, there are quite a lot of vegetarian restaurants in the city which is affiliated
with Buddhist or Taoist foundations. Nothing in the restaurant is related to animal (In fact, you
are advised not to bring in any meat since it will pollute the premises.)
You can rest for sure that no food served carries animal stuff, i.e cooking oil or broth.
You can also eat at those temples or monasteries but they are at outlying areas.
If you just dine on health reason, then go inside any restaurants and order from the vegetable
column. Usually no meat is attached. But the broth they use as gravy may be distilled from ham and
stewed chicken.
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Kristyx -
I was reading this thread with interest, as I'll be spending a year in Beijing (next year). I'm
not vegan, but I am a strict vegetarian. Just the thought of eating vegetables that have been
cooked in meat stock makes me feel ill.
Are there many vegetarian restaurants in Beijing? I'll be living in halls, I'm not sure if I'll
have facilities to cook my own meals.
Gary Soup -
Here's another website of interest:
Vegetarian in China
Major cities have great vegetarian restaurants, like Gong De Lin in Shanghai. I think a restaurant
of the same name is in Beijing, too. These Buddhist vegetarian restaurants have developed dishes
that are widely enjoyed by non-vegetarians, too, like kaofu and mock goose.
I used to scoff at vegetarians, vegans and tofu. Then I married a Shanghainese woman who seemingly
has hundreds of ways of using tofu in its various forms. We're far from vegetarians, but so many
of her tofu-based dishes could easily be made vegetarian/vegan that I could easily become one and
still enjoy eating.
Kristyx -
thanks. I'm going to check that web site out now.
hughitt1 -
You should be able to find bhuddist vegetarian resteraunts and buffets that have a lot of good
food, also alot of people will leave out meat if you ask.
Keith
Kristyx -
I've been to China last year but only for a short holiday. I spent a week in Shanghai, and ate at
a fantastic vegetarian restaurant called Vegetarian Life Style (77 Songshan Rd). however, in
Beijing we couldn't find anywhere to eat (we couldn't speak Chinese and didn't have friends in the
city). Since then I've made a couple of friends from Beijing but they can't think of any
vegetarian restaurants. maybe because they aren't veggie??
tlevine -
I just gave up being vegetarian while I was in China. I normally didn't like the meat, so I didn't
eat much of it, but I didn't try to get dishes without meat; I just ordered things that didn't
have that much.
If you're staying for a while, you could just cook your own food and avoid all of this.
johnd -
There must be vegetarian restaurants in Beijing. Take a look at Lonely Planet, or is it Rough
Guide or both? They always has a vegetarian section.
I remember a shop somewhere around Wangfujing that sells vegetarian products - mostly fake meat
stuff. It was supposedly famous for selling to the royal court. Can't remember exactly where it
was though!
Kristyx -
I've pretty much decided, for mainly financial reasons, that I'll be spending a year in Xiamen.
The university doesn't offer vegetarian food, and I've been told that there aren't facilities for
students to cook their own meals, but Nanputuo Temple is close to the university and I can buy
meals from their restaurant. Has anyone been here, and if so, what are the prices like?
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