United Arab Emirates
United Arab
Emirates is a fairly “new” country founded on the 2nd of December 1971 and contains
7 Emirates. The most well-known of course is Dubai, although the capital and
second most well known is the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. A Newcomer under the UAE’s
holiday destinations is Ras Al Khaimah, which is spoken about as the second or
new Dubai due to its massive developments in recent time and amazing future
development plans, so watch out for it!
UAE is a
country that is constantly changing and if you would visit Dubai once a year,
you would every time discover a new city as its getting permanently bigger and
better. UAE is a country that thrives to be a leading example with its constant
effort to become greener, smarter, safer, happier and more advanced then every
other country https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/smart-government-and-the-uae-the-happiness-of-citizens-is-the-ultimate-goal-1.681584 .
Especially the
announcement of Dubai hosting Expo 2020 https://www.expo2020dubai.com/#together-h kick started a whole new level of developments. UAE
selected the theme "Connecting Minds, Creating the
Future", sub-themes being Sustainability, Mobility and Opportunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2020 .
Big investments flowing
into affordable housing, the expansion of the already amazing Dubai Metro
network (one of the cleanest metros in the world), smart Government, the
Happiness initiative, sustainability and much more.
Coming to the food and
restaurant scene in the UAE, most of the healthy and vegan eateries you will
find in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Apart from pure vegan restaurants like Super
Natural Kitchen in Gallery Lafayette, The Dubai Mall https://www.snkitchen.com/ , Healthy Patisserie https://www.healthy-patisserie.com/ and Tidjoori http://www.tidjoorirestaurant.com/ , there are meanwhile plenty of restaurants who have
vegan friendly menus including few till plenty of vegan options like Icons Coffee Couture http://meeticons.com/ , Sophie’s
Café http://www.sophiesme.com/ and Urth by
Nabz & G http://nabzandg.com/. Also in
other Emirates you will find more and more vegan friendly menus. As the
majority of citizens is from India, you will find plenty of Indian restaurants
and usually they have a vegetarian section in the menu. They like to use butter
and Ghee in their food, so better double check if it’s really vegan.
Apart from the
restaurant and café scene in UAE, there are plenty of food delivery services
like Eat Clean https://eatcleanme.com/ , meal prep
companies like lovefood.me https://www.lovefoodme.com/menu and online shops with delivery like Coco Yogo http://coco-yogo.com/ and Pure Vegan
Love http://pureveganlove.com/ . Organic
Foods and Café https://organicfoodsandcafe.com/ is an organic supermarket chain with few organic
restaurants featuring organic vegan food and regular vegan brunches. A new trend are online supermarkets, which
deliver all your groceries convenient to your home, https://gogoguy.com/ae-en has a huge variety of vegan meats and https://www.kibsons.com/ gets you all organic stuff you need.
UAE got big in
markets, with Ripe Market https://ripeme.com/the-ripe-markets/ and The Farmer’s Market http://www.bakerandspiceme.com/farmers-market/ which always features a bunch of vegan friendly
stalls.
Well, UAE is fun and
has plenty of options, but mainly in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, while the other
Emirates are yet to catch up with the future! Apart from the food scene UAE has
so many events, adventures and shopping possibilities to offer, that it never
gets boring!
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