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3 Mins Read Hong Kong restaurant stalwart Café De Coral has announced that more than 160 QSRs now offer vegan comfort food. The latest chain to partner with OmniFoods, it will use OmniPork Mince to recreate the staple Southern Chinese comfort dish claypot rice. OmniPork Claypot Rice is the result of two Hong Kong domestic giants collaborating for […]
4 Mins Read Green Monday’s OmniFoods arm has announced double-digit price reductions for its OmniPork line of plant-based pork alternatives. It comes as the brand expands its international presence to 40,000 point-of-sales across 20 markets, achieving greater economies of scale and enabling its vegan analogues to compete at price parity with its real animal-based counterparts. OmniFoods is reducing […]
5 Mins Read 7-Eleven, the biggest convenience chain in Hong Kong, has announced the launch of a new range of vegan ready meals across its over 700 stores in the city in the latest bid to make plant-based eating more accessible to consumers. Partnering with Green Monday, the Hong Kong-based group behind the much-loved plant-based alternative OmniPork, 7-Eleven […]
3 Mins Read Crystal Jade, the iconic Singapore-headquartered chain famous for its Shanghainese noodles and dumplings, has just launched a new standalone plant-based menu that will be rolled out across Hong Kong, Singapore and Guangdong. Called “Crystal Green”, the menu developed in partnership with Hong Kong’s Green Monday will feature fifteen meatless dishes made with OmniPork, Beyond Meat […]
5 Mins Read Fancy beefing up taco Tuesday? How about a loaded hotdog with all the toppings, a hearty lasagne, or even a “Spam” musubi in your (reusable) lunchbox? With alt-meat rapidly gaining popularity worldwide, vegans and veg-curious folk now have an abundance of animal-free alternatives to make dinners quick, easy and delicious. Below, we’ve listed all the best […]
3 Mins Read Just a day after Green Monday made headlines for its long-term collaboration with McDonald’s Hong Kong, launching an industry-first vegetarian menu across locations in the city and in Macau, the plant-based group is expanding its presence yet again. This time, Green Monday is rolling out its OmniEat vegan ready meals across all 800 locations of […]
7 Mins Read Despite the fact that we still have a 4-person dine-in rule (thanks, Covid-19!), Hong Kong’s plant-based food scene is not going anywhere. There are so many new vegan bites and eateries to try out across the city this month, and as always, we’re more than happy to dish out the latest happenings in town to […]
3 Mins Read After a series of partnerships with mainstream F&B brands, Hong Kong’s Green Monday, the group behind the famed Omnipork, is now joining hands with the city’s dim sum chain Tong Kee Bao Dim to launch four new vegan-friendly dishes made with the pork mince analogue. The new dishes will be available across all 100 locations […]
6 Mins Read Dumplings for change: price parity on plant-based version of Asia’s comfort food Wanchai Ferry, Hong Kong’s leading frozen packaged meal brand famous for its dumplings has just launched two new plant-based dumplings made with Omnipork, the vegan pork mince developed by Green Monday. As one of the most recognisable brands on supermarket shelves across Hong […]
4 Mins Read Beijing-based plant-based meat startup Zhenmeat is now seeking US$ 2 million in funding from global investors in order to capture the growing demand for plant-based meat alternatives in China. This follows the latest news from Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods, who debuted two new plant-based pork products at CES in Vegas earlier this month in a […]
3 Mins Read According to intergovernmental agency World Organisation for Animal Health, the spread of the African swine fever (ASF) epidemic will wipe out a quarter of the world’s pig population. Since last year, Asia has experienced mass escalation of ASF, with the world’s largest pig producer – China – bearing the brunt of the deaths while the […]
3 Mins Read Malaysian-Hong Kong food tech startup Phuture Foods will launch a vegan pork meat alternative in Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian destinations in the coming months. The company is eyeing the Asian market especially given the recent epidemic of African swine fever, which is causing a major pork shortage as millions of diseased pigs across […]
3 Mins Read After multiple successful collaborations with Hong Kong’s most iconic food service chains, including Tsui Wah Restaurants, Fairwood, Teawood and Maxim’s Treats Food Hall, Green Monday’s plant pork alternative Omnipork will now also be served on Cathay Pacific flights. This marks the first time that the vegan minced pork analogue will be available to passengers on […]
4 Mins Read The country that eats more pork than any other could be looking at a pork-less future. As China battles the African swine fever that has wiped out millions of pigs domestically and across the wider Asian region, the alternative meat movement has taken off. A plethora of plant-based and cellular meat startups, including both local […]
2 Mins Read Hong Kong’s plant-based grocery and café chain Green Common has rolled out Alpha Nuggets, a vegan take on fast food favourite chicken nuggets, across all its locations in the city. This marks another step forward in the accelerating market for plant-based meat alternatives, which have grown in popularity across the world and particularly in Asia. […]
2 Mins Read Starting this August, dishes featuring Omnipork are now available across all of Tsui Wah’s 28 branches. The Hong Kong restaurant chain, which is an integral part of the city’s local cha-chaan-teng culture, will use the all-purpose plant-based pork alternative to offer diners a vegetarian spin on cult classics. Launched earlier last year by Green Monday’s […]
4 Mins Read Playing a transformative role in the future of a greener, cleaner world, Hong Kong’s award-winning social sustainable organisation, Green Monday, has launched another strategic partnership, thus expanding its mission to tackle climate change, food insecurity and public health issues – this time, in neighbouring Taiwan. With a large and longstanding Buddhist population, the East Asian […]
3 Mins Read Menus featuring plant-based pork alternative, Omnipork, have begun sprouting across Hong Kong. Launched earlier this year by Asian foodtech startup, Right Treat (backed by David Yeung & his Green Monday team) the all-purpose pork analog made of pea protein, non-GMO soy, shiitake mushroom and rice boasts a high nutritional profile – more fiber, calcium, and iron; lower saturated fat […]
8 Mins Read 2018 is already shaping up to be another incredible year for Hong Kong’s healthy food world. From innovative foodtech news launching right here in our hometown to our favorite local haunts adding a second venue, new openings and projects are sprouting up all over the city all celebrating the wonders of veggies and health-forward menus! […]
4 Mins Read Popular plant-based retail and deli chain Green Common has just unveiled its newest F&B concept, Kind Kitchen, a 100% vegan full-service cafe that replaces the previous OVO Cafe and Green Future Bar at its Nan Fung Place digs in Central. The brand new menu highlights a bevvy of exciting Asian dishes like vegan banh mi, vegan […]
4 Mins Read We eat a lot of meat in this city. But before the explosion of beef and the proliferation of poultry, pork has traditionally been the most popular choice in Asia. From Cantonese char siu to Taiwanese lu rou fan to Filipino lechon, pork is one of the most versatile meats around and the star ingredient in so […]