Zrou x La Pizza: Hearty Italian Cooking From the Old Country, With a Vegan Twist Apr 30, 2021 2:00 pm | 1 comment | 39 reads |
Much to the delight of vegans everywhere, gone are the days when telling someone you have a plant-based diet is met with everything from snide remarks about rabbit food to sheer incredulity and disbelief. Likewise, no longer are vegans and vegetarians relegated to a few items on any given menu, eating at the same restaurants day after day, or having to cook every meal at home. Nay, over the past few years the plant-based revolution has taken the world by storm, and here in China, that revolution is being led by Shanghai-based company Zrou.
Local Gem: The Restaurateur Who Turned Her Eatery Into Her Ideal Living Room Jan 26, 2021 8:30 am | 3 comments | 274 reads
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Eat healthily! This is a refrain that people have chanted since the dawn of medicine, but one that becomes increasingly difficult to enact as we become ever more reliant on quick eats, near-daily
waimai orders, and dishes that are steeped in oil and heapings of salt. It s certainly not impossible to find restaurants offering healthy, light meals, however many of them may turn up bland, uninspired salads of rinsed vegetables, or it ll cost an arm and leg for a minuscule portion that fails to keep you going throughout the day. The happy medium, of course, is buying fresh ingredients and cooking for yourself at hom