Travelling to veg unfriendly area

Zebra3

Hi folks,

Off to a very veg unfriendly area for a couple of weeks. Just looking for some advice on bringing some sort high energy snacks to keep me ticking over during the day.

Any advice much appreciated.

Mellor

Asia is veg unfriendly?

What gives you that idea. Tofu is a standard option in all meals in the thai places I've been to. Easy to ask for no fish sauce etc.
Maybe i'm missing something obvious (not a vegetarian so apologies if so)

schemingbohemia

where you going?

flikflak

Hmmm where are you going? surely they have a market/shop you can buy some fresh fruit, bread, some kind of carb (bread/crackers), veggies.

si_guru

Where are you going? Texas?

tricky D

Make sure you know how to communicate 'vegetarian, no meat and no fish' in the local language. Walked out of a spanish restaurant last week after my veg pizza came with fcukin anchovies on it. How no onion became with anchovies still puzzles me.

Mellor

Wit, did you edit the OP since my post, or did I read AREA as ASIA

sweet-rasmus

You read it wrong

cosmic

As has already been said, fruit and bread are great. Also, popcorn and cereal bars are favourites of mine to bring places

I find swotting up on local veggie options helps.
Will you have cooking facilities?

flikflak

si_guru wrote: »

Where are you going? Texas?

I went to Texas as a veggie! Had no bother there were lots of things I ate.

sensibleken

Moonbaby wrote: »

I find swotting up on local veggie options helps.
Will you have cooking facilities?

this. i went to prague recently. first time i was there i existed soley on cheese, second time after a bit of looking i found out there were 19 veggie restaurants

TooManyDogs

flikflak wrote: »

I went to Texas as a veggie! Had no bother there were lots of things I ate.

I visited family in Texas for a couple of weeks and did most of the cooking as they're not veggie and I'm raising a veggie baby, talk about a nightmare!!!! Went into the supermarket and it was bigger than anywhere I've seen in my life but the section with veggie basics took up about 2 feet wide in one of the aisles. It was really hard to find fresh basic ingredients, most things were processed to within an inch of their lives.

And in the restaurants the waiting staff kept suggesting I have a steak when they heard I was a visitor by my accent, when I told them I was veggie their response was "but it's Texas!! We're the state of beef, you have to try some" :eek:

PurpleFistMixer

http://www.happycow.net/ could be of use. Though when I went interrailling I just used lonely planet for vegetarian restaurant recommendations and it was fine (except for Serbia, we don't speak about Serbia).

PurpleFistMixer

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

(except for Serbia, we don't speak about Serbia).

Serbia was fine for me. Ok it took a bit of menu reconnaissance to find some veggie options in the traditional style restaurants.
But there were loads of Italian options, pies if your on the run or a night out and tasty saladys thing everywhere.
The fruit and veg were so fresh. I had really lovely food there.

PurpleFistMixer

I was only really there for a day, and happened to get a very meat-happy restaurant. It's probably fine on the whole.

PurpleFistMixer

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

I was only really there for a day, and happened to get a very meat-happy restaurant. It's probably fine on the whole.

Ah no the cuisine is very meat happy. It is still not so bad though, when you have the time to work around it.

Zebra3

Mellor wrote: »

Asia is veg unfriendly?

Central Asia, yes.

Still got meat on food at times despite it being explained (even at times by our local guide) that I wanted no meat (or fish) in (or even on) my food.

Survived anyway.

schemingbohemia

Thanks for not bothering your hoop responding to this thread until it was too late!

Zebra3

Zebra3 wrote: »

Central Asia, yes.

Still got meat on food at times despite it being explained (even at times by our local guide) that I wanted no meat (or fish) in (or even on) my food.

Survived anyway.

Glad you hear you survived Zebra.

Scarinae

I brought my own stock cubes with me to Namibia, they don't appear to sell them there Not the most veggie-friendly of countries I have to say.

I was in Norway on a work trip in September, even though I'd said in advance I was veggie I ended up eating mostly bread while I was there as bloody well everything seemed to be fish!