we vented like two vegan restaurants and
one of them had really good ramen yeah
there's a great app called happy cow hey
guys it's Cathy cat right now I'm here
at Harajuku and Nosa foreigners are here
on if you're vegan or vegetarian you
have a hard time in Japan sometimes so
this time we're gonna go and ask furnace
if they're vegan or vegetarian what the
difficulties are and how they're solving
it so how can you be vegan in Japan how
can you manage to do that let's go and
ask foreigners in Japan
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you want to talk about your so she is a
vegan Oh what was that vegan in Japan
finding hey you want to speak on it it's
been hard but you just have to research
the restaurants in advance and we've
been just like two vegan restaurants and
one of them had really good ramen so you
just have to read the signs and see if
they cater to vegans but yeah research
in advance what pages did you use
because there might be other people who
want to research that too if you just
google it it'll usually show and Yelp is
pretty helpful and happy cow what does
that what is happy cow it's basically
like Yelp but it's for vegans and
vegetarians do you know what Yelp is
okay in that case yes any
recommendations for other fellow vegans
than in that game I mean it's been
pretty hard but like yeah just do your
research the food is very good it's a
little bit smaller which I noticed in
Japan but you mean the portion yeah the
portions are smaller and there's a
little bit less produce but it's pretty
good that's so did you expect that
though before you came to Japan that's
gonna be hard um yeah I did my research
beforehand and I heard two different
sides it was very hard or it was easy in
Tokyo but for me it's kind of an in the
middle too
share with them about your signs because
you don't speak Japanese and how you
were able to communicate with cooks
about whether or not there was a dairy
and meat in it
did you communicate if you can't speak
Japanese how did you explain that you're
vegan we've been using Google Translate
a lot and so I just like typed in that
I'm vegan and I don't want any egg meat
died so I mean dashi okay and bonito and
they'll usually know what I'm talking
about
seems to be working out quite well then
even though it's quite hard to be vegan
vegan that that then I need to ask this
question how hard is it to be vegan in
Japan honestly I think from the middle
really just because I know everyone's
really accommodating by just having
frost meeting labels is quite difficult
and soft so I mean that's the difficult
thing I think if you're a Japanese
Japanese vegan I don't think it's hard
at all because you you can communicate a
lot with the chefs and the people in the
restaurants you've got these options you
can read labels you can do shops and you
can cook your own meals we're in a hotel
so we can't really buy the ingredients
and cook so I think the Japanese people
live in here I don't think it's hard at
all but it can be tricky at first as a
tourist but you overcome that and you
start when you start to know more know
the places I think it's fine like
there's a great place in the so kyoto
station called t's tee tees tan tan
yeah tees tan tan which is amazing and
so you get to know the places and it
makes it a lot easier so it's just do
your research beforehand I would say how
did you research how did you guys with a
lot of googling and vegan kind of vegan
YouTube stuff yet so that's kind of
being very helpful for us favorite vegan
place you can recommend maybe two of us
please ton time that is my favorites in
Sweden too in Japan my favorite
I'm so that does the iron surf went
there last night really good the
chocolate cake
yeah desserts are amazing so definitely
the biscuit yeah everything sometimes
when you're trying to communicate to
explaining to people you're vegan to
people sometimes people like tell you to
sorry you can't have anything in here
the late-night diners and things like
that the late-night sort of places but I
understand it it's still from was
reading still a fairly new concepts
among some people so even the word you
know if you say begin to people as some
of them like get it straight when
they're like yeah yeah we've got this
listen it's some light not sure about it
yeah the little ramen place we went to
options if it's not fully vegan so I
just think yeah some of the late-night
where they've got a set menu and it's a
rigid set menu and it's just like you
order in the kiosk you press the buttons
and then that's what you get you can't
there's not room for flexibility there
so but like I said once you know the
place is you're fine you know but this
is our first time so next time we come
we're going to be set research in
advance any app or any page you can
recommend to our viewers if you're vegan
yeah there's a great app called happy
cow and what it does is wherever you are
in the world it shows you all the
nearest vegan places an order nearest
places new vegan options near you so I
put in the app and it will show me all
the places around and then you can put
the map in and that's what we're doing
the map so happy cow is definitely one I
recommend for sure anything else you can
recommend as well I think just happy
cows that we've refused since we've been
here
- you-sun yeah that's one thank you so
much for your handle I hope you have a
great time enjoy the rest of Japan
so vegan if you're vegan by choice or if
you vegan because you may be allergic to
certain ingredients never mind there are
some things that help you when you come
to Japan though first of all you need to
be careful sometimes there's always
gonna be a thing which my vegetarian
friend called surprise meat so even if
it's a salad that's supposed to be
vegetarian they will whack bacon on it
so always be careful when you eat things
there is a app apart Cal Poly is called
happy cow it also is for free that you
can actually use to find out other
places in Japan that are actually vegan
and similar so that helps you guys to
find the right restaurant so may bring
that with you before you come to Japan
and maybe research in advance because
you might not have Wi-Fi on the go
they're also nicer a ramen restaurant in
Harajuku that's vegan for example we've
been to two of those because more
restaurants keep picking up and they
realized there is a market for that
because in Japan I don't know a single
Japanese person who's vegan and I don't
know a single Japanese prisoners
vegetarian because those thoughts
haven't quite reached Japan yet it is a
cultural thing unfortunately so if you
are you know aware and alternative be
sure that you are prepared before you
actually come here to Japan and don't
get surprised bacon so and that now the
director of astrovan is right now put on
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