Vegetarian Living Snippets

Confessions on vegetarian living at home and away from home.

Vegetarian living in a world full of carnivores and omnivores is a a bit of a challenge but not difficult. Being surrounded by flesh eaters and animal carcasses, you have to think about what you put in your mouth.

It's so easy to get side tracked eating vegetarian junk food or simply stuff that look like food but has no nutritional value whatsoever when you are on the go. So watch your vegetarian lunch box for your sake.

It takes conscious effort trying to stay away from those greasy doughnuts, dead bread and greasy fried foods that they serve at the airports.

Here are some experiences I've come across traveling the friendly skies, road trips eating at local restaurants and abroad.

At restaurants, if you don't ask questions they'll sneak bad food into your good food while you're not looking. So what's a veggie to do? That's easy.

What's it like to eat vegetarian living in New York City?

In Queens, New York City we ate at a Colombian restaurant... the menu was down right scary with all those meat and steaks and it was just a lunch menu... so I settled for - Watercress salad and some fried plantains on the side. I won! Swoon worthy!

Delicious watercress salad with lime and fried green plantain on the side.

Watercress Salad with herbs and lime. The fried green plantain on the side was simply awesome!

Offered as a stand alone item on the menu but it goes great as a side dish with the salad.

What's it like to to be a veggie in Japan?

Traveled to Japan from New York to Sasebo, Japan. It's a long 16 hours plane ride non-stop to Sasebo. Guess what my favorite airport food. Mochi!

Japanese sweet rice cakes with sweet beans filling.

Mochi Rice Desserts with sweet beans filling

Japanese Rice Balls wrapped in Nori with a choice of filling

Onigiri Rice Balls with Plum Filling seen at Airports in Japan

From New York to Narita International Airport, Sasebo was our final destination. Upon arrival to Sasebo Station we were greeted by mouth watering aroma of Japanese cuisine.

Without an interpreter I can't possibly know what I was eating. So I settled for amazing Japanese Bowls of Ramen Noodles!

Onigiri has become a favorite!

Ramen Noodles with Onigiri on the side

Piping Hot Ramen Noodles eaten Sasebo Park under a canopy in the pouring rain.

What's it like to be vegetarian on a warship aboard an Aircraft Carrier?

We took the water Taxi to the ship and it was pouring like cats and dogs. We ate and slept on the ship for 4 days. What's it like to live like a sailor? Click the photos below and stick around.

Sailors eating at the chow hall on the Aircraft Carrier

Sailors eating at the Chow Hall a.k.a. Mess Hall

Fruit display in one of the sections of the ship's mess deck.

Fruits aboard the Aircraft Carrier

Eating vegetarian on an airplane?

John F Kennedy International Airport to Hong Kong International:

Bound for the Philippines I made a delicious fruit smoothie before I left. I brought some walnuts for the plane. Guess what they served aboard Cathay Pacific - here's their idea of a vegetarian entree!

Cathay Pacific Vegetarian Entree - Ain't just yummy?

Manila International Airport - a vegetarian's nightmare!

The layover was exhausting and the food at the airport was quite too foreign for me now. Everything was meat based. I settled for some siopao for my Vegetarian Lunch Box.

This is Filipino rice cake called 'Puto'. This is sweet and filling. They're eaten as a snack or as a dessert.

This sweet treat is made with purple yams called Ube. It's sweet, delicious and it is filling.

After 32 hours travel time, I've reached my destination. Unfortunately, my brother was in the hospital which was my reason for my travel. I was longing for local food I grew up with. Luckily my sister -in-law brought me some 'laing' which is taro leaves with coconut milk along side a bowl of locally harvested rice!

I took a photo of a Taro plant living wild in a farm. This plant is edible from root, to stem, to leaves. They make the Filipino vegetarian dish called 'laing'.

That's me! I'm pretending to climb the coconut tree. Filipinos cook almost everything with coconut milk.

While staying for a very short couple of days, I ate lots of authentic Filipino food. Rice dishes were a staple including desserts.

Guess which one I ate. I can still feel that yummy taste in my mouth - binut-ong!!! That's sweet rice wrapped in banana leaves infused with coconut milk and steamed to perfection! A vegetarian traveler's special treat for someone who missed native foods from their motherland.

Vegetarian Filipino Food

Kamunggay Leaves

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