Literally pure vegetarian food is vegan food i.e. food made of vegetation or from the plant source. Probably word "vegan" would be needed to coined when animal sourced food like dairy products included in vegetarian food. I am not much aware what vegetarian food is in most of the countries but unluckily in my country, India vegetarian food has become a joke and dairy products have become an integral part of so-called "Pure Vegetarian" food.
Today I went to dine out with the family in a newly opened pure veg Punjabi restaurant. I was knowing that it would be difficult to find some vegan dishes among lots of pure vegetarian dishes but, I just want to see how their vegan dishes are?
As per my expectation menu was full of paneer (Indian cottage cheese) dishes because in India so-called vegetarian people are obsessed with paneer. I can say 99% vegetarian's dine-out do not complete without any paneer dish.
If any dish does not have paneer then there is a chance that it might contain curd, butter or ghee. I just overlooked the menu and ordered a pre-decided dish "Chana Masala", plain Nan(oven-baked flatbread) and roasted papad for that I am sure it does not contain any dairy product. But still, I did not want to take any chance so I confirmed before order that there should not be added any dairy product in it.
My wife and children are not vegan but we only order vegan food whenever go for dine-out.
The ambient of this newly opened restaurant was traditionally Punjabi but waiters are not well dressed and wearing casual instead of any particular uniform.
There were some nice 'Punjabi idioms with their literal meaning and their use' framed on the wall. Also there was nice Punjabi painting.
There are limited choices for vegans in such "Pure Vegetarian" restaurant but overall we enjoyed our food.
