Can I just ask, about the Italian, doesn't pasta contain egg or milk or something diary related, cause when I look in the supermarkets they all have something in them, so I have to go looking for the vegan pasta.
Bruschetta in Australia might be vegan, but in Italy the bread is usually made with lard ("strutto"), ie. pig fat. Italy is one of the hardest places in the world to be vegan.
Fresh pasta is made with eggs, including gnocchi (which often contains ricotta cheese too). Dry pasta is often vegan though, likewise some gnocchi (made from dehydrated potato flakes and rice flour). Check the ingredients. If you're at a restaurant though, Italian pasta is unlikely to be vegan.
I second Ethiopian. Although, with the giant-pancake thing - my local Ethiopian will include a kind of spinach-and-cheese-dip-thing with the pancake, which they put in the middle. I just ask for it to be put on the side so others can eat it, or just ask for it to not be included.
Also, a lot of Indian and Nepalese dishes are vegan, just be wary of ghee, which is a type of clarified butter. From my own personal experience (both in Australia and in India and Nepal) dahl (lentil 'soup') is vegan, and dry curries are more likely to be vegan than those with sauce. With sauce, tomato based sauces are more likely to be non-vegan than others. At a lot of places, though most of these 'non-vegan' things can be made with coconut cream if you ask.
With Italian you ALWAYS need to ask for no Parmesan. It may not be on the menu, but it'll be on the meal!!
I was so surprised! this caught me out twice (different restaurants). I assumed they might leave it off given the customising of the meal in the first place... but I assumed wrong! Ate around it though.... rather than having it thrown in the bin.
That's funny. I've never been to an Italian restaurant where they've put parmasan on it. I think most realise that people can be intolerant so they offer it afterwards. If it's a particular restaurant, may be worth contacting them?
Bruschetta in Australia might be vegan, but in Italy the bread is usually made with lard ("strutto"), ie. pig fat. Italy is one of the hardest places in the world to be vegan.
Fresh pasta is made with eggs, including gnocchi (which often contains ricotta cheese too). Dry pasta is often vegan though, likewise some gnocchi (made from dehydrated potato flakes and rice flour). Check the ingredients. If you're at a restaurant though, Italian pasta is unlikely to be vegan.
Yep, most "dry" pasta is vegan, however sometimes fettacine will contain egg, so I never order that just to be safe.
And you'll always know if the restaurant uses fresh pasta as they will have it written on the menu as a "selling point" so then you'll have to ask them how they make it.
