Best places to visit for a vegetarian family

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Anonymous wrote:Op again. How about Mexico?

I (lifelong vegetarian) had a great time in Mexico City recently.

Just be careful because a lot of places use lard (manteca).

Yeah. If you’re of the don’t ask variety of vegetarian you’ll be fine. But a lot of beans and other veg and even tortillas are cooked with lard or other animal fats. The more chi chi restaurants in Mexico City can cater to vegetarians though.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty much a vegetarian and have never had an issue. Fish is pretty easy everywhere I’ve gone.

Vegetarian is no animals. My 12 year old has been vegetarian (but not vegan) for 5 years. Two sets of family friends went to Japan and loved it, but both said they thought that our family would have a hard time because she’s committed to not eating animals. I’ve heard that about countries like Thailand and Cambodia too because of fish sauce - though in the US Thai food is a go-to for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Japan is easy! There are a lot of soy and tofu products, plus endless ramen which can be vegan if you ask for soy based broth. Japan also has veggie sushi and tempura. If you eat eggs and dairy, you truly have nothing to worry about in Japan. Google Translate is great for communicating with servers or translating supermarket labels.

Guarantee you ate a ton of dashi and didn’t know it.

Yep your “soy based broth” (lol) is made with dashi in addition to the “soy base.”

Even eating vegetarian in the US at Japanese restaurant can even be very difficult. You have to check every ingredient. Even the edamame can be sprinkled with things.

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Greece.

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I am vegetarian (which, yes, does mean no fish!) and the only place that was an issue was Prague. I certainly didn't starve, but I ate mostly potatoes and bread!

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Anonymous wrote:Japan - unless fish isn't ok.
Tons of rice, noodle, veg options

OMG, what a moron. Vegetarian means no animals, dummy. That includes fish.

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Anonymous wrote:Germany. Get the happy cow app.

Outside of Bavaria, maybe.

I was a vegetarian in Germany 30 years ago and managed just fine. I'm sure it's so easy now. Anywhere in Europe will be easy to find vegetarian food, OP. Trust me, if it was easy for me 20-30 years ago, it will be easy for you. now.

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Anonymous wrote:Japan is easy! There are a lot of soy and tofu products, plus endless ramen which can be vegan if you ask for soy based broth. Japan also has veggie sushi and tempura. If you eat eggs and dairy, you truly have nothing to worry about in Japan. Google Translate is great for communicating with servers or translating supermarket labels.

Eh, Asia has a different definition of vegetarian. They think fish is OK. They also think vegetarian means no meat but in liquid form or as a by-product (like stock) is OK.

This is not true across the board in Asia (which is a large and diverse continent). In Taiwan, vegetarians do not think fish is ok, for example, because the type of Buddhism they practice encourages giving up all flesh of creatures of any type.

Interesting thank you

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Anonymous wrote:Germany. Get the happy cow app.

Outside of Bavaria, maybe.

I was a vegetarian in Germany 30 years ago and managed just fine. I'm sure it's so easy now. Anywhere in Europe will be easy to find vegetarian food, OP. Trust me, if it was easy for me 20-30 years ago, it will be easy for you. now.

Not true. There’s a lot of filler in food now. That is usually cheap meat. You probably ate a lot of meat like that in Germany and didn’t realize it.

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Israel was a great place to be a vegetarian, when I studied there in the 90s. Esp with kosher restaurants - because they are either milk (vegetarian) or meat (NOT vegetarian). Plus so much falafel and other great middle eastern food.

You probably don't want to go there right now. But one day. I'd really like to go back one day, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Anywhere in Europe now. Any major city or western-catering resort/hotel anywhere on earth.

Disagree with the Japan rec though. I've been vegetarian since 16, pescatarian since around 25, and you have to be really flexible in japan and assume your meal has beef broth or fish stock or whatever in it. We were just there (have been a few times before) and I've gotten a lot more chill about my vegetarianism as I get older, and it made japan infinitely easier. You can do vegetarian in Japan for sure, but it means you may be trekking across town to the one place that makes vegan ramen, or having to do the buddhist vegetarian restaurant -- rather than just being able to go anywhere and choose the veg option.

+1 to all of the above.

I have family members who are strict vegetarians and recently went. They went with a tour group and they had planned meals and it worked out ok for them. But they didn’t have options, mostly like this is the one veggie thing we have for you. They still loved the trip but food was not the highlight for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Germany. Get the happy cow app.

Outside of Bavaria, maybe.

I was a vegetarian in Germany 30 years ago and managed just fine. I'm sure it's so easy now. Anywhere in Europe will be easy to find vegetarian food, OP. Trust me, if it was easy for me 20-30 years ago, it will be easy for you. now.

Eastern Europe might be tough in some places. Russia for instance has not ever been vegetarian friendly. They are like “oh, you don’t eat meat? You can have a sausage!” So I would not be surprised if places like Romania or even Bulgaria are challenging. Obviously you won’t be going to Russia or Byelorussia now.