Hi There! We are back from our whirlwind adventure throughout Vietnam & Cambodia! As promised, I will highlight our favourite spots to eat & do my best to make it easy being vegan in a foreign land! To ensure this post isn’t too lengthy, I will only showcase the best of the best!
FRUITY COLOURS!
My absolute favourite thing about Vietnam & Cambodia was the wide range of juicy, colourful fruits! Due to the tropical climate, the fruit remains seasonal all year round and so refreshingly delicious on hot days. I can honestly say I did not go one day without eating a big plate of fruit or drinking natural fruit juice so here are some of my favourites!
VEGAN IN VIETNAM
First of all, I would like to thank Cici who is a Vietnamese Vegan & provided a wonderful translated guide that helped us immensely. With this guide, we were able to ensure all our meals were 100% plant based.
Print this guide off and take it with you everywhere you go! We found that a lot of Vietnamese don’t understand what vegan means, presuming it is the same as vegetarian so this guide allowed us to point to ‘No Egg & ‘No Dairy.’
I would also like to thank Happy Cow! If you don’t have the app, make sure you download it. With one tap, you can find all the vegan friendly restaurants in your area which is super handy when navigating uncharted territory. I have left reviews & photos all over the page!
HO CHI MINH CITY
PHO 2000:
HUM VEGETARIAN:
HUONG SEN VEGETARIAN:
BONG SUNG:
HANOI
GECKOS:
ZENITH YOGA CAFE II:
BACKPACKERS MOON:
AUBERGINE:
LOVING HUT:
CRUELTY FREE IN CAMBODIA!
Okay so once you get to Cambodia, throw out Cici’s guide as the language spoken here is Khmer. Unfortunately we didn’t have a translated guide for Cambodia so I just used Google Translate & pointed to the following pictures on my phone which worked a treat! It really helped the flow of communication!
SIEM REAP
PEACE CAFE:
CHAMKAR:
TAJ MAHAL:
PHNOM PENH
THE VEGETARIAN:
THE CORN:
EVERGREEN VEGETARIAN:
I hope you enjoyed the yummy & colourful variety of vegan foods we discovered. As a vegan, I don’t ever want travelling to discourage anybody. There is so much help out there including blogs like mine & Happy Cow! Anybody can eat at the first restaurant they see but it is much more adventurous to pick up a map & seek out plant based restaurants. We ate with Buddhist Monks & families. We walked down hidden alleys & discovered tropical cafes & yoga studios. We went to places that hardly anybody knows about so don’t be afraid to travel anywhere. As long as you have translated guides & a map, you will never go hungry!
I will put up another blog post soon related to all the natural wonders we encountered so stay tuned!