EMONG'S JOURNALS

B inondo has been known as Manila's Chinatown - in fact, the oldest one in the world established in the 1594 by the Spaniards as a settlement for Catholic Chinese. It is the center of commerce and trade of Manila, where all types of business run by Filipino-Chinese thrive. And of course, also popularly known as host to many restaurants that serve vegetarian food. My family, especially my children, are big vegan fans. We are always on the lookout for new vegetarian chow spots in the metro. So, when our schedules finally permitted us, we visited the New Quan Yin Chai Vegetarian Restaurant located along Ongpin Street in Binondo. The Vegan Diet To those unfamiliar yet, a vegan diet is the practice of abstaining from consumption of any animal meat and their by-products like eggs, milk and cheese. The diet is basically vegetables, soya products (like tofu, tempeh, texturized vegetable protein, soy milk), wheat, brown rice, nuts and seeds. According to Wikipedia, vegan ...

V egetarians (specially vegans, too!) will definitely love this! The Quezon City government just passed a resolution that urges all restaurants not to serve meat on Mondays to help promote vegetable consumption. The resolution was already approved by the city's 32-member council which was authored by Councilor Jessica Castelo Daza of District 4. The move will be called "Luntiang Lunes," a local version of the meatless Monday advocacy in the United States of America to improve the nutritional requirements of the city residents. Daza noted that there is a need to strengthen food security and minimize environmental problems attributed to livestock production. If every QC resident would leave out meat for one day every week for one whole year, this would translate to a significant reduction in one’s carbon footprint and would help save precious resources like trees, water and fossil fuel, according to Daza. “It is like taking 12,800 cars off the road or having...