Category: travel
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Tokyo Vegan Gourmet Festival
Visited my first Japanese vegan festival last year! The vegan festival scene in Japan is truly vibrant, they have more festivals than us (why Singapore why?? We’re supposed to have a bigger ratio of veg/vegan people!). You can see the list for this year here. Most of them are annual events that have been running…
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Vegan eats, tours and cooking classes in Tokyo
In late summer 2019, I had a chance to visit Tokyo again. People have this impression that Tokyo is crowded all the time, but in fact that’s only true for some parts of the city. Tokyo’s spaces are much more diverse and varied than Singapore’s. This time I tried to explore spots outside of the…
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Vegan finds in Saitama & Kawasaki, Japan
In September (late summer) of 2019 I visited my friends and went to a vegan festival in Tokyo. Weather was great, the daily average temperature was 25C (ideal for Singaporeans). My first stop was Omiya, the commercial centre of Saitama Prefecture that’s located north of Tokyo. Usually tourists just flock to Tokyo and give Saitama…
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Malaysian Vegan Festival @ Publika, Kuala Lumpur + Vegan finds in Johor Bahru
Happy 2020 friends! Last year I couldn’t update as much as I wanted, as there were so much going on in my personal and professional life. Now things have stabilised (at work) and quietened down (personal life), I finally have the time to share about my travels. I hope these will be helpful for fellow…
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Vegan in China – Weifang in Shandong
The land of Confucius, Shandong peanuts and mantous. Being a province in north China, the food can be different from what you’d associate with ‘Chinese food’, which is mostly from southern China due to the bulk of emigration from there. Wheat, in the form of bread, buns and pancake items are the staple compared to…
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Vegan in China – Beijing
The capital of China, other than the air pollution, it is wonderful in many ways. Strolling through hutongs you can tell the local residents really love their pets. Perfectly groomed and well-fed, even being carried in their human parents’ arms like babies. In one of the hutongs near Yonghe Lama Temple, there’s a vegan gem…
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Vegan in China – Fuzhou, Fujian
Fuzhou, capital of Fujian – a province of immigrants who brought their culture all over the world. Coming from a country with many Fujian descendants, yet Cantonese cuisine being more dominant, the new dishes were an eyeopening and biggest treat to the taste buds! These are favorites picked from 2 of the best restaurants I…
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Vegan in China – Hong Kong
2 days in Hong Kong is too short to try the 200 over veg food places! Had no problem finding nice places within walking distance wherever we were. Just don’t expect good service from most places – its all about the money! They have an excellent range of smoothies with no additives in every convenience…
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Vegan in China – Macau
Skip the casinos and shiny hotels. Just spend a day at the Portuguese monuments. Stay in a quaint little hostel and get lost in the labyrinth of alleys. Walk, don’t take bus or you’ll miss out. Say hi to the locals because they are now on my top 3 Most Friendly Locals list (together with…
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Vegan in China – Kaiping, Guangdong
A short post from my short stay at Kaiping, a small town in South China with a UNESCO heritage status. These are castle tower clusters from the 1920s built by rich merchants who came back from the West, hence the blend of Chinese and Western architecture. However in my books, these are the type of…
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