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Tacloban

Buutan: all vegan café in Tacloban, must visit in Tacloban!

"Coco Ice Cream" stall at Save More (shopping centre), Tacloban

Randomly saw this vegan coconut ice cream stall. Piolo Pascual (Philippine ultra-popular famous guy and coconut heartthrob.

Plant-based doughnut-related sweets at Dunkin' Donuts at Save More in Tacloban. These plant-based options are rumoured to be vegan. Someone confirmed the rumour yesterday (but no official info yet). I've already seen these plant-based options adverstised at quite a few Dunkin' Donuts stores - which seem to be everywhere in the more central locations of the NCR. Many are no just called "Dunkin' ", rather than "Dunkin' Donuts".

Some vegan edibles from the breakfast buffet at meat-centric Hotel Alejandro, Tacloban

Metro Manila (NCR)

Cosmic

100% vegan restaurant in Makati.

Philippine favourite: fried "chicken"

Ensalada (with smokey aubergine and plenty of raw onions)

Pancit (Philippine noodles)

I would recommend ordering the kare-kare.

Daily Veggie (Santo Domingo Ave, Quezon City)

Ovo-lacto vegetarian restaurant with many vegan options. They have another "picture book" style menu. They also sell some dry good (e.g., soya chunks, soya mince, etc.) and frozen food. Make sure to check the ingriedients or ask as not everything is vegan - some of the grain milk powders may contain cow's milk. Some drinks contain honey. Walking distance (I would say) from Santo Domingo church.

Ever Gotesco Mall, Quezon City

Also called "Ever Gotesco Mall Commonwealth Center", Commonwealth Avenue (north of Quezon Memorial Circle)

Fake Vans from a stall downstairs at the mall; price: 500 PHP (real Filipino price is probably 300 PHP). No leather, of course: upper barely resembling suede.

NAIA = Manila airport (MNL)

Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Terminal 3. Caffé-Té-Ree-Ya. They have several vegan savoury (fake meat) options by (all vegan company) Greenery Kitchen. Great for when you arrive at the airport "starving".

Next to Café-Té-Ree-Ya (to its right) is a Dunkin' Donuts, which also had the three newly launched plant-based options. These plant-based options are probably vegan - see above.

Quezon Memorial Circle (public park)

One of the few green and (more or less) quiet spaces in Manila/NCR. In the centre, you can find the Quezon Memorial Shrine monument (the tall pillars), which houses the Manuel Quezon Museum (Museo ni Manuel Quezon). Entry is free. Apparently, Quezon had hats made of pumpkin:

Sandigan market (Commonwealth Ave, Quezon City)

November is not durian season anymore, but by a stroke of luck and friendly market vendors, a delectable durian still materialized. Price: about 600 pesos (about 10 Euros).

Shaka, BGC (Burgos Circle, Forbes Town Center, Taguig, Metro Manila)

100% vegan. In my ignorant foreigner opinion, the best vegan restaurant in Metro Manila (or the best I know).

SM City San Mateo mall, technically in Rizal province, not the NCR

Several Airwalk shoes, all synthetic. I had not seen this brand around in decades.

The 2024 version of the Tony Hawk (around 1990) logo

Australian soya milk in the supermarket at SM San Mateo

Beware: NOT VEGAN, not all tableya is vegan, apparently - check the ingredients. The supermarket at SM San Mateo only had these two non-vegan brands.

Vegfest Pilipinas 2024

The Spine, Blue Bay Walk, Pasay City, Metro Manila

16-17 November 2024, 9 am to 10 pm

One of the OG vegans in the Philippines, Nanay Nona, giving a talk. She's been vegan since 1991, originally motivated (as far as I understood) by health reasons to stop consuming dairy and eggs. She said the term "vegan" only started being used in the Philippines from aroun 2011.

Vegan for the animals

Animal Rights March, Manila:

Taft Avenue to Roxas Boulevard; Saturday, 7 December 2024, 2 to 5 pm

Vegan kwek-kwek

Stray cat eating vegan cat food

Coconut yoghurt drink

There were three hardcore bands playing on Saturday night (16 November): Arcadia, N4S [not for sale], and Shockpoint.

N4S is a Hare Krishna community and band (?). They started their set with chanting the "maha mantra", Srila Prabhupada's name, etc. From my understanding, this Hare Krishna community is promoting vegan eating, rather than the traditional lacto-vegetarian practices associated with the "Krishna" movement. They also seem to have regular vegan (!) Vegfests with free food at the "Krishna Balaram Ashram - Manila East".

N4S