Verona, like much of Northern Italy, is known for heavy, meat and butter based dishes or creamy risottos. However it's pretty easy to be vegan in Verona, and I've got a few favourites I'm going to share with you. Over the years, I've gotten fussier about the food I'm willing...

Osaka is often referred to as "The Kitchen of Japan", and it's famous for its street food. One of its most famous dishes is takoyaki. If you've never had it, they're traditionally made with minced octopus, shaped into balls, covered in batter and deep fried. As a vegan traveller, I...

Above the bright, busy streets of Tokyo's Harajuku district there's a cosy restaurant called Vegan Bistro Jangara. To enter, you'll need to find a nondescript elevator next to a subterranean Family Mart. The elevator doesn't look especially inviting, but it's about to lead you to some of the best vegan...

When I was planning my first trip to Japan, I was so excited and had been posting about my upcoming trip on Instagram. An old colleague saw my stories and reached out to me. She'd moved to Tokyo a few months prior and suggested getting dinner while I was in...

T's Tantan is one of the most beloved ramen purveyors in Japan, and for very good reason. An offshoot of the popular T's Restaurant in Jiyugaoka (near the gorgeous Saido, another great vegan restaurant), T's Tantan has been around since 2011 and now has four branches: two in Narita airport,...

Down a dark alley in Tokyo's quiet Jiyugaoka neighbourhood I had the most creative meal of my life. Saido restaurant is voted one of the best vegan restaurants in the world on Happy Cow, and for good reason. The chef, Kusumoto Katsumi, opened his restaurant in 2018 after spending years...

Eating Vegan in Bangkok Being vegan in Bangkok is both surprisingly easy and unsurprisingly delicious. There’s a reason that Thai food is beloved the world over, but until I moved to London in 2010, it wasn’t something I’d ever really tried before. When I was in university, my now-husband and...

It's no secret that the Central Asian cuisine is very meat-heavy. I knew before travelling to Uzbekistan that it’d be hard to find vegan food in Tashkent or elsewhere. I assumed I'd likely be eating a lot of salad-and-fries combos, and had a pocket in my backpack stuffed with nuts...