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In my experience vegan food tend to mostly belong to a single food culture with its own blend of spices, taste and textures. It is as different to meat based fo
by belorn 3y ago
In my experience vegan food tend to mostly belong to a single food culture with its own blend of spices, taste and textures. It is as different to meat based food cultures as Indian food culture is to the food culture in Greenland.
A typical vegan dish when I see it presented at a restaurant or conference is usually one that is primarily based on beans, chickpeas, lentils, and Couscous, usually with minimal spices. On the side there is usually several dips, often variations of Hummus.
There are exceptions. If I see a vegan dish in a Thai restaurant I would assume a different taste and culture, hopefully one based primarily on seaweed and mushrooms.
- seba_dos1 3y agoAs a picky eater who's not very fond of most vegetables, for most of my life I thought it would be impossible for me to enjoy vegetarian or vegan food just because whenever I'd seen some vegan options available somewhere they were just like what you described. Eventually it turned out that there are many more options out there than what you get when a meat-based restaurant needs to come up with some non-meat dish to not lose some orders and that if you find places where people know what they're doing you can easily discover vegan dishes that you find on par or even preferable to their meaty alternatives merely because of their taste and texture. Turns out there's a variety of "sub-cultures" there, but if you don't actively look for them all you get to see is bland mainstream filled with vegetables that I used to pick out from my plate as a child.