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So excited to journey along your travels to Europe!! I have a feeling you're going to find some tasty things along the way 💗✨!

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how exciting that you get to travel for several months! I've never heard of the vegetarian festival but given how amazing Thai food is, it does not surprise me at all that they would do a food festival well!

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I am sooo hungry now! I got to visit Thailand right before Covid and one of the best things I did there with my family was take a vegetarian cooking class! The food was incredible but now I want to go back to experience this festival. Thank you for sharing and have so much fun in Europe!

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Great information about Thailand and vegetarian (vegan) Thai food!

Enjoy your travels...I'm a bit envious. Feel free to look me up or let me know if you make it to Zürich - I would be happy to share a vegan meal with you...unless it's between Feb and March when I will be traveling around Australia and Tasmania...

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Thailand is very much on my mind right now <3

On a lighter, attempted note, I am already swooning over this adventure (and my own, precious memories of visiting Thailand for the festival in years past) and utterly looking forward to hearing/seeing your tales from the coming months...and lands!!!!!

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I was told Thailand was a great place to enjoy spicy food, and I had read a line or two about the Vegetarian Festival. However, your article has convinced me I have two food-related incentives to visit this country (beside learning about the local culture and history).

Regarding this:

> I’m sure we’ve all had an experience where we ask for something vegan and we get given chicken clear soup (no chicken pieces so MUST be vegan), cheese, or eggs.

Yes, definitely yes. I remember ordering at a tiny takeway-only noddles restaurant in Tōkyō, glad that they had vegetarian options (I hadn't switched to vegan yet back in those days). I had asked "watashi wa bejitarian. Bejitarian desu ka?" and was confirmed it was. On the second day, I was reading their leaflet while they cooked, and discovered they took pride in cooking their own dashi, the staple Japanese fish-based stock. And my noodles were soaked in this stock, which they understood as vegetarian. Sob.

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