Taiwan, absolutely. There are a lot of vegan restaurants because of the Buddhist culture, and even though many Taiwanese people aren’t vegan I met a lot of people who are part time vegans (meaning they eat vegan on a certain day of the week) which I heard was sparked by a government programme promoting veganism/healthy eating some years ago. And, even if you’re not in a vegan restaurant, you can get white rice and water spinach pretty much anywhere! How about you, Stefan?

Yes! It’s just soak almonds overnight and blend with water (can’t remember the quantities, google will know lol!) and then straining. Then you are left with almond milk and almond meal (the leftover pulp). I tried baking granola using the pulp but found it was too dry… More experimenting to be done!

Ooh, no, we’ve not tried making it from scratch. Is it easy? We might have to give it a go!

Oh I love almond milk so much!! Have you tried making it from scratch? It’s good but then you have all this almond meal leftover and I’ve never found a good recipe for it… I see a lot of recipes about baking it into muffins and biscuits…

Definitely agree! We’ve been using new ingredients that we’d never even trued before. We’ve both developed a bit of an obsession with almond milk – so tasty!

Oh that is so awesome to hear! And I always love to hear about experimenting with veggie foods in the kitchen. The UK is an excellent place for sourcing exciting ingredients to play around with for sure. Now that I’m back home, it’s so exciting to have millet and cranberries and things like that which you are much harder to get hold of when travelling to try new combinations with.

We aren’t vegetarian but while we were in Asia, particularly in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we discovered a real love for vegetarian food. By the end of our travels we were barely eating meat and actively seeking out vegetarian and vegan restaurants. We very quickly realised that we didn’t miss meat at all and actually preferred our new diet.

Since we’ve been back in the UK, we have kept up this dietary change and are eating vegetarian meals probably about 90% of the time. It’s made us a lot more adventurous in the kitchen and we’ve discovered so many new recipes that have become firm favourites!

Thanks for reading Priya. Haha! Yes, totally, a little research goes a long way :)