{"id":1678,"date":"2010-10-12T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.experiencesoutheastasia.com\/?p=1678"},"modified":"2022-04-19T14:50:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:50:39","slug":"thailand-vegetarian-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/thailand-vegetarian-food-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Vegetarian Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1680\" title=\"picture2256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/picture2256-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"picture2256\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/picture2256-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/picture2256-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/picture2256.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>We&#8217;re a bit late reporting on this one but it&#8217;s still worth mentioning for those of you visiting Thailand this week and next (and in the weeks following too). From October 10th to October the 18th, Thailand has a nationwide vegetarian food festival. The Phuket Vegetarian Food Festival gets most of the publicity, with it&#8217;s iconic images of religious devotion and human mutilation (and some very fine grub!).<\/p>\n<p>The Vegetarian Food Festival with coincides with the 9th Chinese calendar month, in which the local Thai people of Chinese ethnicity undertake a ten day vegetarian diet, abstaining from all forms of animal meats and by-products. Various merit-related rituals are performed at Chinese temples, as well as processions of ascetic devotees performing remarkable feats such as fire-walking and climbing ladders with knife-edge rungs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1681\" title=\"phuket-veg-fest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/phuket-veg-fest-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"phuket-veg-fest\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/phuket-veg-fest-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/phuket-veg-fest-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>However, few people outside Thailand realise that this is actually a nationwide festival, with special vegetarian dishes available from restaurants and street vendors across the country. Look out for the yellow flags hanging above street food stalls and shop-fronts &#8211; this flag symbolises the fact that special vegetarian dishes are on the menu. Many of the dishes will use soya and other bean-based products as imitation meats, whilst other places go for a full range of vegetable delights.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a bit late reporting on this one but it&#8217;s still worth mentioning for those of you visiting Thailand this week and next (and in the weeks following too). From&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,13],"tags":[88,1371],"coauthors":[917],"class_list":["post-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-news","category-thailand","tag-food-and-drink","tag-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2982,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.experiencetravelgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}