To celebrate Japan’s Earth Environment Day on July 5th, Shinjuku City Hall, Kitaku City Hall, and JICA Tokyo Dining Hall are serving planet-friendly plant-based meals for a week.
The offered menu is a “Soy Meat Tomato Keema Curry.”
The base is a curry certified vegan by VegeProject, which contains generous servings of soy meat. The dish is topped with a chickpea croquette and comes with a side of salad.
The meal also comes with a 100% plant-based vegan miso soup, that uses a plant-based dashi rather than a marine animal one.
This curry was also used in a previous initiative, the “Spring Vegetable Fair,” held similarly at city halls, where it was hugely popular, selling 2000 plant-based meals in two weeks. In this project as well, the menu was so popular that on the first day launch of the menu, the dish was sold out one hour into lunch time!
We hope this plant-based menu can be an opportunity for people to think about the environment and see its connection to their day to day lives.
As talk of SDGs and ethical consumerism rise to the mainstream in Japan, we are excited to see more and more initiatives that make the connection between environmentalism and veganism.
The Earth Day menu can be found at:
Shinjuku City Hall Basement 1F Restaurant “Keyaki”
Kitaku City Hall First Building Basement Dining Hall “Everyone’s Kitchen Sakura”
JICA Tokyo 1F JICA Dining Hall