Good morning from Lombok in Indonesia.
It's one of my favorite islands in Indonesia which makes it one of my favorite places in
the world basically.
So today I want to show you what you can eat here on a vegan diet.
I recently decided to start eating plant-based foods so I don't wanna call myself vegan because
I'm learning and there are a lot of really good options here in Indonesia, so today I
wanna show you what they are starting with breakfast.
Check out the book on the table.
It's true.
I don't know if I'm really controlling because I like to drink cappuccino.
What do you think?
Male: It is almond milk, cacao powder, little bit of sugar and beetroot.
Awesome. Thank you.
Okay, so I bought this really beautiful beet and cacao powder latte and the chia pudding is so pretty.
So it's mixed berries on top and then the chia is soaked in soy and coconut, I think?
Then it has almonds and granola.
It's not too sweet.
It's really nice and creamy.
I'm obsessed with this smoothie too.
It's avocado, dragon fruit, banana, coconut milk and spinach and some other stuff.
Oh, I spilled.
I always spill, like every time I eat anything.
So full, so delicious.
So now I've basically been chilling out because it's really hot out which is so normal around
here.
What else is new?
Quick word on Indonesian food because I'm definitely gonna go get some local food later.
But you can get really delicious local food which will be like rice and beans and tempeh.
This is like the epicenter of tempeh, and veggies and it's all vegan basically, not
even on purpose.
It's just the local cuisine.
And you can basically pick and choose what you like.
The only thing you have to be careful of is some foods have a shrimp paste base.
And some of the sambal which is the hot sauce also has a shrimp paste base, so maybe don't
get the sambal if you don't know what's in it.
But otherwise being vegan here is not that hard.
So I'm really excited because I'm gonna go get some jackfruit tacos now at a Mexican
place in town which initially I was very skeptical of, and then over to the beach, it's one of
my favorite things to do here.
Are tacos in Indonesia delicious?
It's actually really, really, really good.
Much better than what I tried to make at home the other week.
I'm usually really skeptical about eating Mexican food abroad because it's so good in
California and it's really authentic, but apparently the owner here is from Mexico so
we have authentic tacos in Indonesia.
They're really good.
There is literally always roadwork in Lombok.
Okay, last meal of the day.
What is my hair doing?
Last meal of the day is some local food.
I didn't wanna only be eating food that is in Indonesia.
And so this is called Kukus.
So this costs like $1.50 whereas the other stuff I was eating costs more like $5, $6,
$7 so it's nice to have a mix.
Every stand is gonna be different but this one is a Javanese style and I really like
his tempeh.
So this is what I got.
The usual way you eat it is actually with your hands.
So you like, I'm probably not doing this that well, but you like push it down and kind of
bunch it up into your hand and you use this like as a lever to push it into your mouth.