Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Pickled Ginger

Pickled ginger is one of the foods that I like to add to my jok(rice congee) along with soy sauce for breakfast.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Marmite

The joys of Marmite are difficult to come by in Bangkok. I recently saw some at the Tops supermarket MBK.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Cooking Book

I went to Asia Books today and saw among their stock a splendid book-Thai Vegetarian Cooking
Sangdad Publishing, October 2008. ISBN 978-974-05-8934-1

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Bangkok Adventist Hospital

Mission hospital, to give it the name it is known by in Bangkok, is a place that is vegetarian. It has a cafeteria that serves vegetarian food and a shop that sells vegetarian products. The shop sells the hospital's own brand of peanut butter.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Namdharis

The white flag of the Namdhari Sikhs.
The Namdharis practise strict vegetarianism as part of their religion.There is a large Namdhari community in Thailand.

Monday, February 16, 2009

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Dosa King

Bangkok restaurant
North and South Indian Vegetarian Food

Friday, February 13, 2009

Lug Yor

Some years ago a craze swept through Bangkok,people
started buying an expensive new health drink- Noni.
People were paying 1000 baht for an imported bottle.
The strange thing was the Thais had grown the fruit
for a long time.Thai Noni (Yor juice) is now widely available.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Mangosteen juice

One of my favorite fruits.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009

Sathya Sai School


A vegetarian school located in Lopburi Thailand.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

IVU Congress Chiang Mai


The International Vegetarian Congress in Chiang Mai was held a decade ago.
A report about it is at- http://www.ivu.org/congress/thai99/

Happy Cow

Excellent site, lists many vegetarian restaurants, health food stores and has other information.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Vegetarian Yellow Flag


Green Tea



Oishi Green tea has the 'Jeh' vegetarian symbol on the middle of the bottle-the small yellow triangle with Thai letters written in red.
The Genmai Flavour is particularly good!

Baked Beans


Ayam Brand baked beans are clearly marked with the word vegetarian on the can. Good for making Yaki Soba or for just plain beans on toast.
Ayam also have cans of lite beans-sugar and salt reduced, as well as plus pizza, beans with parmesan cheese and Italian spices.

Batam

Full details of the 4th Asian Vegetarian Union Congress at

http://www.avc2009.org/

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Asian Vegetarian Congress

The 4th Asian Congress will be held on Batam Island Indonesia near Singapore from 6-10 November 2009.

http://www.ivu.org/avu/congress/registration.php

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

HealthyMate

Natural organic products from-

http://www.healthymate.com/index_eng.jsp

The Sesame Paste, Almond, and Peanut butter are great!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Yota

Good vegetarian products to look out for in the supermarkets and markets in Thailand are made by the Yota company.

http://www.yotavegetarian.com/indexeng.html

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Cookbook

Walk into any bookshop and you may find a book on Thai vegetarian cooking. It is unlikely that such a book contains authentic recipes. For anyone seeking the real taste of Thai vegetarian food, the book to buy is-The Best of Thai Vegetarian Food by Sisamon Kongpan, Sangdad Books ISBN 974-7162-94-6