Shojin 100% Vegan (dairy and casein free)Restaurant

Last month, Quarrygirl posted an eyeopening article about an investigation of 17 so-called vegan restaurants in Los Angeles. Surprisingly 10 out of 17 vegan restaurants found that their food item contains certain non-vagan ingredients such as casein,egg, and/or shellfish.

If you have not heard this story, please visit Quarrygirl.

Quarrygirl: Operation Pancake: Undercover investigation of LA vegan restaurants, June 28, 2009

As a vegan restaurant, we take it very seriously. Even we didn't intend to use non-vagan ingredients, it is not excusable if we provide food with non-vegan ingredients by selecting wrong products.

So we contacted vendors or manufactures, and the following "vegan" products that we use are 100% vegan (dairy and casein free).

• Tempeh
  Lightlife Organic Tempeh
• Vegan Mayonnaise
  Follow Your Heart Vegenaise
• Rice Cheese
  Galaxy Natural Foods: Rice Vegan Slices

We also believe it is important to tell our customers what and how we cook menu items, so our customers feel safe what they have at Shojin.

I will continue to post who we are in this blog.