since being a vegan it has been very hard to keep up such diet. not due to my lack of discipline but to the lack of avaiable eaterys. i have been very creative on my trips, booking hotels with a kitchenette so that I can prepare my own foods or surfing the net for vegan restaurants. as i travel from city to city the search becomes hard and i have been forced to change my diet and incorporate fish (not everyone serves tofu anymore, shocking, i thought our society was moving to a health conscious society). for how long is the question i ask my self. in the meantime as i await the answer, i say, comer bueno...... i was going through my pictures from my philly trip and came across my bottomless pit lunch picture. i was so hungry that day. i drove through allentown, pa trying to find a vegan friendly restaurant and came across ichiban (which anywhere you go in the USA, there is a ichiban. i use to think it was a chain but come to find out it means number one in Japanese, don't quote me on that). i know the picture above can only paint the potrait of a starving person who has just won the lottery and decided to buy out the restaurant to fill her empty stomach, but folks, i was hungry, what is a girl to do? besides i didn't eat everything, i saved some soy sauce.... first i started out with a bowl of salad (which i am not a salad girl, but hunger called) drissled with ginger dressing, to my surprise miso soup came with it. as an appetizer (hey the soup and salad was a complete surprise, and i don't like waste food) i had a spicy tuna roll, delish and yes, super spicy. shortly after my entree came, everything was so timely (i guess they saw the hunger in my face as well). for the entree i had teriyaki tofu on a bed of vegetables with rice, it taste as good as it looks, trust me. i was eating like i was going into hypernation and needed to fill up for the winter. my advise, never eat on an empty stomach. visit ichiban in allentown if ever in pennsylvania, you won't be disappointed.
since being a vegan it has been very hard to keep up such diet. not due to my lack of discipline but to the lack of avaiable eaterys. i have been very creative on my trips, booking hotels with a kitchenette so that I can prepare my own foods or surfing the net for vegan restaurants. as i travel from city to city the search becomes hard and i have been forced to change my diet and incorporate fish (not everyone serves tofu anymore, shocking, i thought our society was moving to a health conscious society). for how long is the question i ask my self. in the meantime as i await the answer, i say, comer bueno...... i was going through my pictures from my philly trip and came across my bottomless pit lunch picture. i was so hungry that day. i drove through allentown, pa trying to find a vegan friendly restaurant and came across ichiban (which anywhere you go in the USA, there is a ichiban. i use to think it was a chain but come to find out it means number one in Japanese, don't quote me on that). i know the picture above can only paint the potrait of a starving person who has just won the lottery and decided to buy out the restaurant to fill her empty stomach, but folks, i was hungry, what is a girl to do? besides i didn't eat everything, i saved some soy sauce.... first i started out with a bowl of salad (which i am not a salad girl, but hunger called) drissled with ginger dressing, to my surprise miso soup came with it. as an appetizer (hey the soup and salad was a complete surprise, and i don't like waste food) i had a spicy tuna roll, delish and yes, super spicy. shortly after my entree came, everything was so timely (i guess they saw the hunger in my face as well). for the entree i had teriyaki tofu on a bed of vegetables with rice, it taste as good as it looks, trust me. i was eating like i was going into hypernation and needed to fill up for the winter. my advise, never eat on an empty stomach. visit ichiban in allentown if ever in pennsylvania, you won't be disappointed.
