Luang Prabang still caters to backpackers, but also to the 5 star hotel crowd. That means there’s a lot more upmarket eating, which is sometimes disappointing and sometimes wonderful, but usually exciting. My manner of backpacking these days means I still have income and I like air conditioning sometimes, so…
Restaurants & Businesses
Reviews of vegan and vegetarian friendly restaurants and businesses.
Tamarind’s Vegan Cooking Class in Luang Prabang
I’m trying so hard to refrain from talking about how great Luang Prabang was eleven years ago. I don’t want to sound like that tourist, sorry, I mean traveller, who waxes lyrical over how cool they are for going to a place before most people heard about that place. By…
Vegan in Vientiane Laos
My most recent visit to Vientiane was in 2003, and I recall little more than a delicious sandwich shop followed by the days of severe food poisoning that ensued for my travel companion. Most of my time was spent in the luxury room we splurged on ($15 USD used to…
Makphet: supporting a good cause while eating in Vientiane
Part of the TREE Alliance, a group focussed on hands-on training for young people to give them employable skills in the hospitality industry, Makphet Restaurant in Vientiane is hit and miss for vegans but most definitely worth a visit. From what I’ve heard, when it’s on it’s really on. After…
Vegan in Old Bagan, Burma
After an eventful bus trip from Nyaungshwe (outdoor toilet break, cloth for door, massive hole in cloth, enough said) that involved many hours literally (hey look, this is how you use that word) sitting in the middle of the road while a broken down lorry was fixed, I arrived in…
Vegan in Bangkok: Malls and Supermarkets
If in doubt, a Bangkok food court is a good place to look for vegetarian eats. Most large shopping centres will have at least one option, even if it’s tucked away and you have to spend four trips looking because you are too stubborn to give up. Not that this…
Western Vegan Bakery in Bangkok
Bangkok has long since practiced a cultural tradition in veganism and it’s not as if vegan sweets have ever been off the table, but with the opening of Veganerie cake is firmly in the centre ring. Decadence is an understatement. Plan your day according to sugar highs and crashes, because…
Unsorted bangkok vegan eats
When I’m in Bangkok I eat a lot. I walk, I eat, I walk some more, and I eat some more. I never write about everywhere I dine because, well, there are too many places, but here are a few more spots I thought worth a mention. The vegan menus…
The best known vegetarian restaurant in Bangkok
May Kaidee, a popular restaurant just off Bangkok’s infamous Khao San road, is one of the area’s favoured eateries, both by vegetarians and omnivores. May runs the Bangkok end of the business, while her sister runs May Kaidee in Chiang Mai. Both branches offer a variety of cooking classes from…
100% Vegan Food Court in Bangkok
Chamlong’s Asoke Vegetarian Restaurant Chamlong’s Asoke vegetarian restaurant is less a restaurant and more a food court den of brilliance so delicious I can easily wile away a few hours sampling what’s on offer while making small talk with the inevitable diners who will ask how I even found out…
Vegan Fine Dining in Taipei
Yu Shan Ge is an upmarket vegetarian restaurant with locations in Taipei and Kaohsiung. It’s a fancy place, but I went at lunch dressed like, well, myself. Remember as a kid when a grown up would say “that’s what you’re wearing?” You were only five and were really proud to…
Heaven in Taiwan
Being vegan is a smart option for me, if not to save my bank account from excess macaron consumption, but I will still go to the ends of the earth for vegan variations. I visited Jiaoxi for one reason and one reason only: vegan macarons from a vegan bakery rumoured…
