Video loading...
△ The protagonist of the forty-seventh issue of "A Thousand People's Walk": Han Yi
Hanyi/luckydog
Majoring in Hospitality Management at the University of Queensland, Australia
"Luckydog Lucky Dog Hook" public account manager
Dream of opening a full-plant restaurant in Shanghai from farm to table
Vegetarian for 3.5 years
Getting started with vegetarianism
In 2017, when Han Yi was studying in New Zealand, she suddenly had a sudden problem with acne on her skin for a while, but after trying a variety of methods, it was ineffective, which made her very troubled.
By chance, she saw an article written by Zoey, a reishi girl who is a blogger in nutrition at New York University, which mentions vegetarian food and mentions that Asians are very prone to lactose intolerance, which may cause skin breakouts, or the body has flatulence, gastrointestinal discomfort and other problems.
"The diet in the East and the West is actually very different, and they will consume a lot of milk over there, barrel by barrel, and many times a week." Including they would roast various vegetables in butter to spread bread. ”
It was also because of this experience that Han Yi learned about vegetarian food for the first time.
In that article, the author also shared his own personal experience of improving his skin condition after cutting off dairy products.
Therefore, after reading this article, Han Yi also held the mentality of trying it out, hoping to confirm what he knew through actions.
△ Han Yi (right) and Lingzhi girl Zoey (left)
"In the next three months, I completely quit cheese, milk and butter, which were dairy sources. Then it was really amazing, how to quit sugar before the useless acne was directly good, and then the skin has been very good. ”
At that time, also because of the relationship between dairy products, Han Yi began to turn his attention to finding alternatives to dairy products, including almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, and healthy plant-based products such as coconut yogurt. She is particularly fond of desserts, so she also eats a lot of whole plants, no eggs, milk, and even no white sugar, no white flour cake.
△ Raw vegan cheesecake made with cashews, almonds, and dates
△Vegan birthday cake with different flavors baked by Han Yi (whole wheat, no egg milk)
After that, Han Yi learned about the impact of animal husbandry on the environment, and also 'saw' the real industrial farms through the documentary, which made her think more deeply about food.
"While feeling that vegetarian food is very healthy, I slowly learned that vegetarian food also has an impact on environmental protection, and it turns out that animal husbandry produces a lot of greenhouse gases."
△ By chance, Han Yi saw a graffiti wall about the relationship between animal husbandry and the environment in a vegetarian restaurant in New Zealand, which made her understand the destruction and impact of animal husbandry on the environment, and also made her very touched.
"Later, I watched a lot of documentaries, like Dominion, about how cows were brutally treated, and the chickens we ate raw eggs and the chickens we ate were constantly being injected with antibiotics and squeezed into small cages.
I think humans treat animals very cruelly, and when I eat meat before, I have never thought about where our food comes from and how it comes from.
After watching this documentary, I suddenly realized that vegetarianism is a more peaceful way of eating, (not only more environmentally friendly) and also allows animals to be less abused. ”
After seeing these "food truths" that did not appear in the mainstream media reports at the time, Han Yi's heart was touched and he decided to become a vegetarian.
Share vegetarian food
In 18 years, Han Yi returned to Shanghai after graduating from high school, and she liked to cook vegetarian food, and at a plant-based cooking workshop, she met a girl who also loved vegetarian cuisine.
They often visit vegetarian restaurants together and discuss many ideas about environmental protection and vegetarianism. Once, at the invitation of Shi you, two girls who love vegetarianism and love to share beauty hit it off and founded a public account together - "Vegan Girls VeganGirls".
It was also in that Gap year (interval year) that Han Yi traveled to a lot of cities, went to Kyoto, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and other cities to explore vegetarian restaurants, wrote down vegetarian tips, shared with more people in the public account, and thus made a lot of like-minded friends.
In the interview, Han Yi also shared with us those delicious memories of vegetarian food that she will never forget.
Recommended vegetarian friendly city
That must be Taipei, Taipei is really the most vegetarian friendly city I have ever been to, whether it is dessert or bread, whether it is Hong Kong-style morning tea, or Taiwanese Japanese-style simple meals can find vegetarian versions, and even if you go to the vegetable market below the hotel to look at breakfast, you will find that there are pot stickers, buns, purple rice instead of pig blood "rice blood cake" such food.
In Taipei, I especially like a vegan bakery - Yihetang, which has vegan versions of the delicious bread we eat every day, such as sea salt cream rolls, they will have sea salt soy milk rolls, like pineapple buns, they will also have coconut oil, pineapple buns made of soy milk, and vegan egg yolk crisp, using pumpkin and mung beans to make the egg yolk inside, but I think the taste is very realistic, especially fragrant, especially delicious.
Vegan dim sum and bread in Taipei
Impressive tasty vegetarian food
One of the dishes that impressed me was when I was in Kyoto, where there was a gluten-free vegan Western restaurant with their vegan cashew fermented cheese.
They will not only have a piece of cold cheese, but also make cashew cheese into a cashew cheese hot pot, in the winter they melt the cheese into a sauce, dipped in rice bread, vegetables, gluten-free crisps (etc.), the cold weather is particularly warm, very rich, really a very healing food.
Kyoto JUICE cashew cheese hot pot
Loved the vegetarian restaurant
The restaurant where I worked in Brisbane, Australia, when I was in college, was a very sustainable vegetarian restaurant with Indian, Southeast Asian and Western cuisines.
All of the ingredients come from local Brisbane farmers and don't have to be organic, but locally sourced ingredients that significantly reduce the food's carbon footprint. It is also very seasonal fresh, not the vegetables in the greenhouse, so the dishes served by the restaurant every day are different, and the owner will be free to play, for example, today is a spice roasted cauliflower, and the next day may be broccoli.
Its dishes are also very distinctive, such as bean paste balls, using different beans, such as chickpeas, lentils to make balls. Every day is different from the unique salad that I really enjoy very much. The owner will blend multi-national cuisine to flavor, and the taste is also very innovative.
Brisbane's vegetarian restaurant Bond Street Eats
Hanyi's healthy vegetarian plate
As a vegetarian blogger, in addition to sharing the delicious vegetarian food she eats with everyone on social platforms, Han Yi also likes to learn to make various vegetarian dishes on weekdays, and cooks at home, cooking and baking healthy and delicious vegetarian food.
"My plate will definitely have these elements, starting with leafy greens (in season), which are very important sources of vitamins and fiber. This is followed by healthy oils, including nuts, avocados, and seeds such as flaxseed.
There is also the staple food, I am not a carb quit people, but I will not only choose white rice, will choose whole grains, because the whole grain it is processed to retain more nutrients of the grain, such as brown rice, black rice, quinoa, are all I will choose.
Plant protein, I choose to eat some chickpeas, shellfish, and even plant meat that is now very popular, and I will add it to my plate. I also eat fermented vegetables, such as kimchi and sauerkraut, and increase the B12 (intake) in my food. There is also sea vegetables, because we do not eat seafood, so (can) eat kelp seaweed and other foods to increase the intake of trace elements. ”
Get out of your attachment to vegetarianism
When talking about the topic of "trouble caused by vegetarianism", Han Yi said that in the first two years of starting to eat vegetarian food, he often refused the invitation to eat from non-vegetarian classmates and partners because he felt troublesome, and thus limited his social scope.
"Even if our way of eating or thinking about green living is different, everyone has their own shining point, their own thoughts, everyone has something that we are very worth learning, but when my social circle is limited to vegetarian food, I find that I missed a lot of meaningful things, a lot of interesting ideas." 」
However, with the passage of time, more and more partners have been encountered on the way to vegetarianism, and now Han Yi's understanding of vegetarianism has also changed at more levels.
Gradually get out of the attachment to "vegetarian food", feel that in daily interactions, more tolerance and understanding with family and friends, more peace with people may be more important than sticking to their previous "pure vegetarian blogger" label.
"There will be all kinds of situations in life, you can't guarantee some accidents, so I hope we can all be more natural, more comfortable to eat vegetarian, as long as we don't forget our original intention of vegetarianism, as long as we are for a more peaceful way of eating, I think this is enough." 」
Because vegetarianism is never the only purpose, love is.
Vegetarian at the same time, but also to become a purer and more loving better girl!
WISHES
Han Yi's three wishes
Hopefully, in the future I can open an all-plant whole food, farm-to-table, healthy and delicious vegetarian restaurant in Shanghai.
I hope to cooperate with Wu Lei, an actor I like very much, in the field of vegetarian food and environmental protection! (I hope he can see this article~)
The third wish, I hope that more people can eat better quality, more cost-effective, more environmentally friendly plant-based products in more places.
Hopefully, Han Yi's wish will come true
Also wish there were more people who could
Take care of your body and mind by changing your eating habits
Take care of those around you
Take care of our planet
/ Venue Acknowledgements /
Green Friday Grocery Restaurant
(PBF International Plant-Based Food Experience Center)
No. 50 Puhuitang Road, Xujiahui District, Shanghai