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The Plant-Based Pinoy: Manila Vegetarian & Vegan Eating Guide
Being healthy and traveling doesn't always go hand-in-hand, let alone being a vegan traveler. Us plant-based folk do often struggle when trying to find nutritious, delicious food abroad. During a recent stint in Manila, I was happily…
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Hong Kong’s 10 Fastest-Growing Healthy Food Chains
People are always telling us wistfully that Hong Kong is so behind cities like London, Sydney or New York when it comes to healthy eating. A couple of years ago, we would have nodded our heads in agreement but today, there really is…
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Vegan Bibimbap: Our #PlantBased Twist On This Korean Comfort Food Classic
Our first bowl of bibimbap was over 15 years ago during college in Philadelphia. Us college gals were looking for an alternative to the deep fried, sugary junk the university cafeteria specialized in. We had this idea that Asian food was…
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We Taste Our Way Through Vanimal’s Vibrant Vegetable-Forward Menu in Kennedy Town
March 2017 Update: Vanimal has closed down.
We had the pleasure of tasting our way through Vanimal, Kennedy Town's hip, veggie-forward eatery and we came away seriously impressed. The space and the decor make for a paradoxical first…
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Made in Hong Kong: The Best Local Artisan Food Brands
We just love local food products. The Made in Hong Kong mark means a great deal to Green Queen, who is a proud born and raised Hong Konger herself. There's something so comforting about eating a product made lovingly in small batches by…
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Our Favourite Locally Made Nut Butter Brands
Here at Green Queen Headquarters, we are just nuts for nut butters (sorry!) and put it in/on everything from smoothies to cake batter to toast. We have waxed on regarding these healthy snacks, spreads and dips and are tickled pink that…
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Best Of Healthy Hong Kong: Our Favourite Salads & Veggie Bowls
The recent bounty of healthy lunch choices in the +852 means the city is awash with healthy veggie bowls and scrumptious salads. With so many new entrants on the wellness scene, we wanted to round up some of our favs below.
Curried Mixed…
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5 Facebook Pages You Need To LIKE: The Best Plant-Based Video Recipes
If you frequent Facebook, then you've probably seen one of the many recipe videos that auto-play on your feed. There is something so engaging about these one minute videos. They are little packages of goodness: visually entrancing,…
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Chef Anthony’s Recipes – Jackfruit Carnitas AKA Vegan Pulled Pork
Editor's Note: Move over tofu. Step aside tempeh. There's a new vegan meat replacement in town and it's pretty awesome. Jackfruit, a large, spiky, durian-like fruit that is popular all over South-East Asia for its sweet, juicy…
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Green Queen Eating Guides: Hong Kong’s Best Veggie Burgers
Ok so burgers don't always qualify as super healthy but...who doesn't love a good burger? Life's too short not to enjoy what many feel is the perfect sandwich once in a while. There are no shortage of places to go if you love your carne,…
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The World’s Best Vegan Apps & Online Resources
There's no doubt that making the switch to a totally plant-based lifestyle can be incredibly rewarding. It can also present some significant challenges. Basic living becomes more complicated: What restaurants to eat at? Which hotels to stay…
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Hong Kong Healthy Eating Scene Update – Summer 2016
When it comes to all things healthy food, the city's eating scene is evolving at such lightning speed that we thought it was time to start a regular update on openings, launches and general happenings. Welcome to our first Hong Kong…
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iHerb Shopping Guide Series: Loula Natural’s Top 8 Tips for iHerb Beginners
If you are unfamiliar with iHerb.com (where have you been?), it is a vast online shopping website that sells a wide range of health & wellness products including supplements, cosmetics, bath & beauty products, groceries,…
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Hong Kong’s Best Online Healthy Grocery Stores
Time truly is our most valuable commodity: it's the one thing you simply can not buy more of. Which is why here at Green Queen, we really appreciate companies that make life just that little bit easier. Below we round up the best…
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Meat Without Cows? These Game-Changing Food Tech Startups Are Revolutionizing The Way We Eat
Three years ago, Bill Gates famously stated that by 2050, global demand for meat will increase significantly as the world’s population balloons to more than nine billion people. This is not tenable: the livestock industry is responsible…
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Everything You Need to Know About Aquafaba aka Miracle Bean Water
Any vegan cook worth their salt will have war stories when it comes to vegan baking: replacing eggs is no easy feat. Sure there's apple sauce and flax seeds, but let's face it, they are hardly ideal solutions. Turns out, there's a…
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Green Queen Recipes: The Perfect Mediterranean Tabbouleh Salad
In our household, we live on tabbouleh. It's the kind of thing we make in bulk and always have in the fridge. This Middle Eastern salad makes for an ideal lunch, a light dinner and it even works as a filling savory snack. These days,…
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Perfect Smoothie: Where To Find The Best Protein & Superfood Powders For Your Daily Boost
Remember when you didn't understand what all the fuss about smoothies was about? It used to be that smoothies and blenders were the purview of health nuts. Today, a breakfast smoothie is commonplace, everyone's got a Vitamix and smoothie…
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Green Queen Guide To Raw Vegan Resources In Hong Kong
As the healthy dining options in our fair city continue to grow at an exponential rate, the raw vegan culinary scene has been blossoming of late. This once niche cuisine is becoming more mainstream thanks to efforts from some fantastic…
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HOME – Eat to Live Menu Lowdown: What To Order At The Plant-Based Mecca
July 2017 Update: HOME has now closed down.
HOME - Eat To Live officially opened its doors just a few days ago and it's already the most talked about restaurant in town. No surprises there: HOME - Eat To Live heralds a new era of…
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Hong Kong’s Best Vegan &Vegetarian Dim Sum Spots
There is no place like Hong Kong when it comes to yum cha madness. The diversity, the authenticity, and the sheer number of dim sum restaurants, aka tea houses, is astounding to say the least. But if you think that you are excluded from the…
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