Top-rated 🌱vegan food 🌱 in Seoul 🇰🇷 | Plant Cafe, Itaewon

This one’s for the vegetarians and vegans 🌱 traveling to South Korea. 🇰🇷
Here’s another vegan restaurant recommendation. 🤍

This is Plant Cafe in Seoul. 🌱

It’s worth noting that you won’t find any Korean food on their menus BUT (and it’s a big but) everything I had there was delicious. 🤤

If you’re wary of spicy 🌶️ Korean foods or are vegan/ vegetarian and want a taste of home (think vegan pasta 🍝 , a mushroom 🍄 burger 🍔 or cauliflower wings) Plant Cafe is the spot for you.

➡️ What I ordered and paid at Plant cafe in 📍 Itaewon: Sesame Peanut 🥜 Soba 🍜 Bowl for
💸 ₩14,000 | £8.58 | $10.73 | R196 (would 1000% recommend this!!) and a passion fruit raspberry lemonade 🧃 for
💸 ₩7,500 | £4.59 | $5.57 | R105.

📝 Good to know before you visit Plant cafe:

🍴 There are two branches: One in Yeonnam (연남) and one in Itaewon (이태원). Both are great!

🐝 Both branches of Plant are busy. Sometimes, you’ll have to leave your name and wait for a table. 🪑

☑️ They offer take-out and dine-in.

💸 Let’s talk prices. 💸 Dishes at Plant [like most other Western food in Seoul (excluding fast food)] cost more than what you’d pay than at a Korean restaurant but: All so good and they have big portions. ⚖️

🌱 All the meals are vegan, many are gluten free and they have a wide selection. 🤤

💬 Plant mostly caters to foreigners so there’s no problem speaking English or Korean 🫡 (there’s a Korean and English menu).

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Among the food culture of Korea, special things that distinguish it from the food culture of other countries. //
1. Perfect lacto-vegetarian food represented by Korean Buddhist temple food. And this diet began in AD 372.
2. An endless variety of soup dishes represented by ‘Sinseollo’, Korea's finest cuisine
3. Kimchi: Vegetables fermented with animal protein represented by cabbage kimchi. In the past, only Koreans made and ate it. There are over 800 types of kimchi.
4. Jeotgal: A fermented animal-based sauce made from seafood. In Korea, there are more than 140 different types of salted fish.
5. Ssam: It means wrapping all the ingredients you want to eat in various leafy vegetables represented by lettuce. You have to swallow them in one bite, so you need to adjust the amount of ingredients to be wrapped appropriately. And there is a record that around the 5th century, Koreans grew lettuce, made 'ssam', and ate it.
6. Herbal Medicine Ingredients : Herbal medicine ingredients are not only eaten for special diseases or health, but are also often used for general home cooking. For example, as ingredients for Samgye-tang, Mulberry, Tree Aralia, Eleutherococcus Sessiliflorus, Mongolian Milkvetch, Korean Angelica, Ginger, Jujube and Korean Ginseng are used.
7. Namul : South Korea is the country that eats a lot of dishes made with only vegetables without meat and seafood protein. Namul are foods made with one edible plant as the main ingredient. Do not mix other vegetables. Examples of the types of Namul include Shepherd's Purse, Stringy Stonecrop, Korean Angelica-tree, Korean Wild Chive, Butterbur, Bracken, Doellingeria Scabra, Bamboo Shoot, Chamnamul and Cirsium Setidens.
8. Cold Noodles: Korea developed the world's first cold noodle dish, and it is the place where the whole nation began to enjoy eating. The reason is that the summer is hot and the water in valleys, rivers and wells is clean.. According to literature, the history of Naengmyeon goes back to the Goryeo Dynasty(918~1392). Besides Naengmyeon, Kong-guksu, Mak-guksu, Milmyeon, Kimchimari-guksu, Bibim-guksu, and Jjolmyeon exist in Korea.

// Etc... Korea shows a distinctly different food culture from neighboring countries in Far East Asia (China, Mongolia, Vietnam, Japan).