Plating up
Sustainability in
ASIA
Hotels
around Asia
launch more
mindful food
initiatives
Hotels and resorts across Asia are choosing to tread more
lightly when it comes to their food footprint. From forming
partnerships with nonprofits focused on food stability and
opening new organic, sustainable restaurants to cultivating
their own pesticide-free veggie patches on-site and rolling
out new creative vegan menus, these hotels -- in Taipei,
Vietnam, Bali and Tokyo -- are taking more conscious steps
forward on the green food front.
CULTIVATING MONDAYS FOR HEALTH
As Taipei grooms its reputation as one of the top
destinations in Asia for vegetarian cuisine, the Grand Hyatt
Taipei has repurposed the Monday blues as an opportunity
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to go green. In a new collaboration with Green Monday,
a social enterprise that encourages meat-lovers to give
up their beloved steak for one day a week to combat
climate change, many of the hotel’s nine restaurants have
introduced omnipork, a 100% plant-based pork alternative,
in their meat-free meals. Yun Jin Chinese restaurant
and Pearl Liang Cantonese seafood restaurant have also
completely revamped and upgraded their existing vegetarian
cuisine. Taipei has a reputation as Asia’s most vegetarian-
friendly city. Global animal rights organization, PETA
(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), named the
city the most vegan friendly city in Asia, and according to
CNN over 13 percent of Taiwanese are vegetarian.