A Post for the Vegans
Being a vegan and living in Japan is a tough thing really simply because it’s hard to find Japanese food that’s completely without animal products. A lot of the so called “vegetarian” food contains dashi stock, and as we know…one of the main ingredients in dashi stock is bonito and dried fish.
In short, Japanese food is not exactly the most vegetarian friendly kind unless you’re happy just eating Kappa Ma everyday.
BUT…I found a Vegan cafe in Shibuya for you Vegans out there. The name is simple Vegan Healing Cafe and they serve, yes that’s right, only vegan food. No animal product whatsoever. The little gem of a cafe is nestled up on a hill in Shibuya next to NHK.
The one woman helmed cafe serves excellent full course meals from appetizers to dessert. Now, we all know that dessert is usually a disaster in vegan cuisine ..they either turn really rubber, flaccid and just ewwie but reviews for the dessert at Vegan Healing Cafe came far from negative:
The only thing left was dessert—which is where vegan restaurants usually go horribly wrong. Because baking almost always requires milk, eggs or butter as emulsifiers and thickeners, substituting other ingredients tends to yield dry, crumbly and bland results. It was therefore with trepidation that we ordered the soy whipped cream cake (¥490) and the apple cobbler (¥410). Sadly, the cake was sold out—next time we go for lunch, we’ll arrive before 1pm—but thankfully, the pie was not. Soft, gooey and sweet is what we were hoping for, and soft, gooey and sweet is what we got. Finally!
:) It’s a happy thing really. So here’s the map to the vegan restaurant courtesy from Metropolis.co.jp.
Source: Metropolis
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