Veg-friendly restaurant guide- GOOD NEWS FOR VEGAN

[Guest guest]

FOlks:

Just wanted to clarify something- good news for Vegans.

 

Many Indian recipies call for using Ghee (Clarified butter).However,

*most* Indian restaurants DO NOT use Ghee/Butter but Veg

Oil(Canola/Corn etc) in cooking- mostly due to cost considerations.

 

If you inquire discretly- the owner/chefs will reveal this.

So essentially Vegans can relish Indian food at a lot more

" Vegetarian " Indian restaurants.

 

NOTE: This does not apply to Pakistani restaurants as beef stock/ Eggs

are often used in entrees (tho' they will not use lard-pork products)

 

Tip- Avoid the sweets at any Indian/Pakistani restaurant as they

invariably will be made with Ghee and Milk products

 

Hope this helps

 

Sam

 

 

SFBAVeg , " Nora Kramer " <norakramer@a...> wrote:

> Hey Steve and everyone,

> Veganchallenge looks great!

> Just to clarify, since a couple people have

> asked for more information, we would like to both

> print a guide and have a website. we would

> distribute the guide not only when we're tabling

> but also at hotels, the restaurants featured, at

> colleges in the Bay Area, and wherever else we

> think would be effective. We'd also like to

> create a website. This idea is modeled from

> Compassion Over Killing, which created

> www.vegdc.com, and Mercy for Animals, which

> created www.vegohio.com.

> While vegdining.com is a good national site, it

> doesn't have all that many restaurants listed.

> we'd like to have a much more extensive list of

> restaurants that, though they may not be veg,

> have a lot of veg options, with our goal being

> to people realize how easy it is to go veg in

> the Bay Area--and to make it even easier!

>

> Again, please let me know if you're interested

> in claiming a neighborhood and getting involved!

> Thanks!

> Nora

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 08:51 AM, raosam2001 wrote:

 

> Tip- Avoid the sweets at any Indian/Pakistani restaurant as they

> invariably will be made with Ghee and Milk products

 

 

That is generally true, but only yesterday I noticed a pakistani cafe

in Berkeley (corner of MLK and University) had a note up advertising

vegetarian ice cream. It was all vegan ingredients.

 

 

tony

[Guest guest]

I just came back from India and I can tell you that

they do not know what " no Diary " means.

 

If you ask for no milk you will get cream or cheese

if you ask for no cheese you will get milk or cream

if you ask for no cream you will get butter or ghee

if you ask for no diary products you will get cheese,

paneer, cream or milk, or butter or ghee.

 

So good luck next time you go to an Indian

restaurant... let's hope the cook has been in the US

for a while. Otherwise, you are for sure to be stuck

with something of a diary product.

 

 

 

 

--- Tony Martin <tony wrote:

 

 

On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 08:51 AM, raosam2001

wrote:

 

> Tip- Avoid the sweets at any Indian/Pakistani

restaurant as they

> invariably will be made with Ghee and Milk products

 

 

That is generally true, but only yesterday I noticed a

pakistani cafe

in Berkeley (corner of MLK and University) had a note

up advertising

vegetarian ice cream. It was all vegan ingredients.

 

 

tony