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Buffets are terrible places to eat for a vegan or even vegetarian. Options are typically limited to simple salads, various types of potato (fried, baked) and oc
by gradstudent 7y ago
Buffets are terrible places to eat for a vegan or even vegetarian. Options are typically limited to simple salads, various types of potato (fried, baked) and occasionally pizza or pasta: i.e. cheap tasteless carbs.
Besides limited variety, the other problem is you need to choose very conservatively. Lots of options have animal-derived ingredients and the staff are either clueless or there exists commonly a significant language barrier.
- colanderman 7y agoException: Indian buffets. Almost always, veg items are kept separate from non-veg, and of that, what's vegan is usually easy enough to discern (or ask about), the two major ingredients to avoid being ghee and paneer.
- Spivak 7y agoIndian buffets are wonderful for vegetarians, they're a nightmare for vegans since American-Indian resturant cooking is loaded with every kind of dairy imaginable: yogurt, butter, ghee, and cream is in everything. Like you can't even have the naan at most places. I will say it's an improvement on most restaurants simply because you can actually find naturally vegan options that aren't a sad salad but its tough otherwise since every place is different and uses wildly different recipes for a given dish.
- gnicholas 7y agoThe buffet we go to most often is Sweet Tomatoes. Not all vegetarian, but most dishes are. In fact, the only way to get much in the way of meat there is to go fishing in the chicken noodle soup tureen.