vegan restaurants?

[blackrabbitz 0]

hi I will be coming from Bangkok to Pattaya next week and I would like to know if you have any suggestions about some good vegan restaurants...thanks!

[MM 6,562]

hi I will be coming from Bangkok to Pattaya next week and I would like to know if you have any suggestions about some good vegan restaurants...thanks!

 

Have you tried this? CLICK HERE.

[joekicker 53]

Have you tried this? CLICK HERE.

 

To the OP: Thais aren't into vegan. If you really, really detest searching for things on Google, then find a Hindu temple... or probably the tailors can steer you to something vegan. Some Indians are into vegan, more than Thais for sure. Vegan joints are VERY thin on the ground. Even total-vegetarian isn't easy; you'll generally have to take the word of the smiling cook or owner of a "we also have vegetarian dishes" that he never used that wok for cooking meat, and he'll usually be lying, although he probably washes all the woks quite well.

 

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[Regyai 414]

[joekicker 53]

(You Tube video)

 

That is vegetarian tourism, not vegan at all. Don't bother, everyone, posting the piercing videos, thanks a lot.

 

For a week every year, vegetarian is everywhere, and it's quite good - and it's cooked in the dishes that cooked the roast beef and the fried chicken last week, too.

 

In fact, for carnivores, omnivores and all people who are NOT vegan or uptight vegetarians, I'd highly recommend the right hotel buffets during vegetarian days every year. All veggies and superb, too. It's a terrific change from breaded pork, and like all hotel buffets goes on and on.

 

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Edited September 24, 2011 by joekicker

[Big_Brian 179]

A few trips back I kept a vegetarian BG for a couple of weeks. I was quite surprised to learn that chickens were vegetables. Prawns too.

[jacko 8,778]

As Joe says there are vegatarian weeks in Thailand, and judging by availability and price it is now!

My friend who was a vegetarian said he just used regular restaurants and ordered specific plates he knew, also using the Thai word for vegetarian. They seemed to handle it ok for him.

[joekicker 53]

As Joe says there are vegatarian weeks in Thailand, and judging by availability and price it is now!

 

Yep. It's on! Phuket is booked out. Get braced for the pierced people pictures.

 

My friend who was a vegetarian said he just used regular restaurants and ordered specific plates he knew, also using the Thai word for vegetarian. They seemed to handle it ok for him.

 

Yeah, you always can get dishes with veggies, there's no problem -- unless you are a PICKY vegetarian, as in "you can't use a wok or a bowl that ever had meat in it" and so on. That's tough. And picky-vegan is very, VERY tough.

 

But if you just really like veggie dishes all the time, and if you like tofu, Thai cooking is very, very good at that. And this week it's terrific.

 

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[Lantern 193]

Went to a good Vegan restaurant in Pattaya, a couple of times last trip.

 

Rode down Third Road from Pattaya Klang untill we saw a hit of lights.

 

We turned right at the lights and first right again where we parked the bikes.

 

We walked back towards the lights and the restaurant was about the second or third shop

before we got to the lights.

 

I had this, it was fine.

 

 

My mate had this, he eats here a lot.

 

 

Not expensive, in face excellent value for the $$$.

 

Run by Indians if I remember rightly.

Edited September 29, 2011 by Lantern

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

As Joe says there are vegatarian weeks in Thailand, and judging by availability and price it is now!

My friend who was a vegetarian said he just used regular restaurants and ordered specific plates he knew, also using the Thai word for vegetarian. They seemed to handle it ok for him.

 

While eating a decidedly non- vegan meal (Thai omelet stuffed with pork) in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, I met a Swiss guy who was a vegan. He said he just told the cook what to prepare for him and it was fine. He ate in that restaurant every day. He didn't eat any sort of animal product (no dairy or eggs as well as no meat or fish), but he only cared about the dietary aspects, not the spiritual side. He wasn't concerned about the same utensils being used for meat and vegetables, nor was he concerned about a splash of fish sauce. He said he wanted to eat more raw vegetables, but he had to be very careful about that in Thailand because of the pesticides and fertilizers. He bought fresh vegetables himself, then soaked them in a special solution he brought with him from Switzerland and finally peeled them. He didn't trust restaurants when it came to raw vegetables.

 

So as long as you're not too strict a vegan and don't primarily eat raw food, it's not hard to mostly tow the vegan line in Pattaya restaurants.

 

Evil

[joekicker 53]

nor was he concerned about a splash of fish sauce.

 

Then he is not a vegan.

 

He said he wanted to eat more raw vegetables, but he had to be very careful about that in Thailand because of the pesticides and fertilizers.

 

Not too smart, either, if he thinks pesticides and fertilisers disappear in the COOKING part. Dear Mr Faux-Vegan: They disappear in the washing, or they don't disappear. Eating only vegetables so often seems to dull the brain and make you fantasise about health. Remember poor Linda Eastman and how vegetarians didn't get cancer?

 

The natural toxins in veggies that will kill you deader than a hammer will disappear in the cooking, not the fertiliser. Ever notice how many people died this year of bean sprouts and cantaloupe as compared with, say, burgers?

 

They didn't die from the pesticides.

 

So as long as you're not too strict a vegan and don't primarily eat raw food, it's not hard to mostly tow the vegan line in Pattaya restaurants.

 

As you just wrote right in this post, it is almost impossible, exactly because of "a splash of fish sauce". You're a vegan or you're not. A vegan who is not too strict is a vegetarian, not a vegan. Or maybe an omnivore like normal people if he doesn't mind a splash of beef juice on his tofu.

 

And ultimately, with all their stories about pesticides and special solutions, they are some of the most boring and annoying people on the face of the Earth. Better you than me having lunch with this boring person, Evil. Yucko.

 

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[nus01 305]

A few trips back I kept a vegetarian BG for a couple of weeks. I was quite surprised to learn that chickens were vegetables. Prawns too.

when i was at Uni their was a time when being a vegeterian was "cool" so their were lots of vegeterians about , by vegeterians i mean people that didn't eat 10" t-bone steaks

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

Then he is not a vegan.

 

That depends on whose definition of vegan you use. There are ethical vegans who shun all types of products that come from animals whether edible or non-edible - leather; honey; items made of animal horn, bone, etc. Many of them take their inspiration from Jainism and won't even swat flies or stamp on cockroaches. Others, who at least call themselves a type of vegan, basically eat a vegetarian diet that excludes dairy products and eggs. Just like not all Muslims are Salafists, not all Christians are evangelicals and not all Jews keep kosher, not all people who consider themselves vegans follow the strictest interpretation.

 

Not too smart, either, if he thinks pesticides and fertilisers disappear in the COOKING part. Dear Mr Faux-Vegan: They disappear in the washing, or they don't disappear. Eating only vegetables so often seems to dull the brain and make you fantasise about health. Remember poor Linda Eastman and how vegetarians didn't get cancer?

 

He thought cooking hurt the nutritional value of some vegetables. He didn't trust Thai restaurants to wash raw vegetables properly, so he did it himself..

 

I don't agree him and I'm not personally worried about pesticides or fertilizer, nor did I explore the idea in any great depth with him. I'm just reporting what he told me. His premise was that you don't have to go a vegan restaurant to eat a (basically) vegan diet. If he is faux or not, that's between him and the orthodox vegans. I REALLY don't care. I was just relating one person's solution to eating (sort of ) vegan in Pattaya.

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Evil

Edited September 29, 2011 by Evil Penevil

[MONKEY01 2]

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He wanted good vegan restaurants I thought that was what the forum was for to help and inform people about pattaya maybe i'm wrong

[nus01 305]

He wanted good vegan restaurants I thought that was what the forum was for to help and inform people about pattaya maybe i'm wrong

agree, might as well close the forum down because google will have the answer for everything.

 

Google can tell me a good hotel, good places to eat good bars , how much a baht bus is etc etc , so if i have to search google whats the point of posting here

 

might as well link these as well as google

 

www.pattaya-addicts.com/

www.pattayasecrets.com/

[Sailfast 503]

I would be described as a lacto-vegetarian.

 

If you are staying at the Residence Garden, the cooks will hook you up nicely. They do not stock tofu, but, will order the good stuff (dry tofu), and use it as a replacement to meat in many of their dishes. Once the wait staff figures it out they will help you with the ordering. I email them a reminder that I am vegetarian and they have the tofu in stock when I arrive, usually. Keep in mind, this is not a vegan place, but in my situation, they have been very helpful.

 

The only place truly vegan place I know of is the one Lantern suggested, they are not open that late.

 

Stay at a place with a kitchenette and stock up at the store. You won't find a big variety and you won't be able to find food 24/7 unless you get creative.

 

Have fun.