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Not a vegan here, but to bolster your point somewhat, there's this huge assortment of South Indian food that is completely meat-free, it's grain and plant based

Not a vegan here, but to bolster your point somewhat, there's this huge assortment of South Indian food that is completely meat-free, it's grain and plant based, and it is ancient cuisine that mastered being delicious. It has no pretense around fake chicken or fake this or that. It does contain a lot of ghee, so it isn't vegan, but my point remains. Once I was taken to a vegan sushi place, and I was given some sort of "vegan salmon roll" that was made with mango slices. It wasn't bad - but the fact that you said it was salmon, and it wasn't, is a turn-off. They'd be better off just saying, we're a vegan restaurant, here's our food to try, rather than calling it something fake. People don't like to play pretend, it feels odd, and it doesn't convert the non-vegans like myself.

Klonoar 4y ago
Speak for yourself. :) I’ve had the opposite experience. I’m not vegan, but my diet has trended that way lately - and I’m totally fine and prefer when restaurants liken foods to salmon/tuna/etc. I want the point of comparison.
cercatrova 4y ago
> South Indian food that is completely meat-free Indeed, I am a meat lover but most of my South Indian meals during the week are meat-free. Our family historically and usually only eats meat on the weekends because meat used to be expensive back in the day in the old country.
tomcam 4y ago
South Indian cuisine is da bomb. Here in the PNW it's picking up steam and I like that trend very much. Stout patriot here, but American cuisine is loathsome. Indian, French, Israel, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Szehchuan, Canton, so many cultures do so much better that the good old US of A it's embarrassing. My Chinese wife finds this bemusing and jokes that I was a Szechuan farmer in another life.
pcthrowaway 4y ago
South Indian cuisine (to my knowledge) does not contain much Ghee. North Indian cuisine is the one that leans heavily on the Ghee. South Indian dishes would be Dosas, Uttapam, Idli, Sambar, Vada. Most of it is vegan, if it's vegetarian.

Klonoar 4y ago

Speak for yourself. :) I’ve had the opposite experience. I’m not vegan, but my diet has trended that way lately - and I’m totally fine and prefer when restaurants liken foods to salmon/tuna/etc. I want the point of comparison.

cercatrova 4y ago

> South Indian food that is completely meat-free Indeed, I am a meat lover but most of my South Indian meals during the week are meat-free. Our family historically and usually only eats meat on the weekends because meat used to be expensive back in the day in the old country.

tomcam 4y ago

South Indian cuisine is da bomb. Here in the PNW it's picking up steam and I like that trend very much. Stout patriot here, but American cuisine is loathsome. Indian, French, Israel, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Szehchuan, Canton, so many cultures do so much better that the good old US of A it's embarrassing. My Chinese wife finds this bemusing and jokes that I was a Szechuan farmer in another life.

pcthrowaway 4y ago

South Indian cuisine (to my knowledge) does not contain much Ghee. North Indian cuisine is the one that leans heavily on the Ghee. South Indian dishes would be Dosas, Uttapam, Idli, Sambar, Vada. Most of it is vegan, if it's vegetarian.