Vegetarian-Eating Out

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I'm wondering if anyone could offer advice on this as this has happened quite a bit:

- Restaurants, particularly Chinese and fast food places will cook meat then not clean the pan out and cook vegetarian dishes.

-I've ordered things labeled "vegetable" or "vegetarian" and discovered that they have bits of pork or chicken floating around in them.

-How do you know when a french fry/chip is fried in lard?

- Getting to a restaurant and discovering there is nothing on the menu that doesn't contain meat.

Ask them - unless they're jerks or it's a busy fast food place, they're usually happy to help you find something vegetarian (though in Chinese restaurants it's hard since some of them cook almost everything with lard). Almost every restaurant has something without meat (though sometimes it's limited to some sort of pasta or salad) and you can always ask them for one of the regular dishes with meat excluded. Some places have their menu online and the fast food places typically have the menu and the ingredients online so you can look those up before you go.

Do some searches locally for veggie restaurants?

I don't know that there's anyway to avoid this. It depends on your reasons for being vegetarian. If you're an ethical vegetarian, you can rest assured that no money-for-meat transaction is occurring, in that whatever is in your food is merely traces.



That's unacceptable. I'd send them back and explain to them what "vegetarian" means. Complain to the manager.



I go to their website and research the ingredients, or ask.



I've never experienced this. I'm a vegan, and have always been able to find something to eat at every restaurant.