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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Japan - unless fish isn't ok.
Tons of rice, noodle, veg options[/quote]

How is eating fish being vegetarian?[/quote]

I ate at a Japanese restaurant and told the waiter I couldn’t eat meat ( vegetarian), I was offered crab stick sushi, they told me it’s not meat nor real crab so I ate it, it turned out to be made of fish. It’s best to stick to cucumber/avocado roll and vegetable tempura, also tofu (without fish flake).[/quote]

^ This is the problem I also had eating in Japan. It leads to what I think of as "defensive eating" = basically you end up getting the same couple of things over and over because you feel reasonably sure that you can eat them, when it's too hard to navigate the rest of your choices. I've done it, so so many times, and I don't regret going to all the places I went to where I did have to eat like that. But it's def not what I'd recommend for someone who says they are a vegetarian family looking for places where they will be able to travel comfortably. In Japan, I wasn't always traveling comfortably - and I did have to live with some uncertainty about whether the food I was eating was actually vegetarian.

Again: I'd 10000% recommend traveling in Japan. But it's not a place I'd pick for a family looking for a comfortable time eating a vegetarian diet, unless they were happy being quite restricted in what they ordered and tried.

A tip, if you do go: 7-11 in Japan has a great prepared food section where you can pick up stuff like tofu sushi. Good for little snacks or light meals on the go! But odn't eat on the subway.[/quote]

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