{"id":26739,"date":"2012-08-21T06:42:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T10:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=26739"},"modified":"2018-03-28T23:49:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T03:49:58","slug":"ill-make-it-myself-cafe-mojo-veg-out-in-kanazawa-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/21\/ill-make-it-myself-cafe-mojo-veg-out-in-kanazawa-series\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ll Make It Myself!: Caf\u00e9 Mojo (Veg* Out in Kanazawa Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller <\/strong>(CIR Ishikawa<\/a>-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of <\/em>The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight<\/a><\/strong>. A writer and web administrator for <\/em>The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa)<\/strong><\/a>, ze also writes <\/em>I\u2019ll Make It Myself!<\/a><\/strong>, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates The Rice Cooker Chronicles<\/strong><\/a>, a series of essays by JETs and JET alumni on the theme of cooking\/eating and being alone in Japan. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

New Rice Cooker Chronicles submissions always welcome. Just e-mail it to\u00a0jetwit [at] jetwit.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

One thing I dislike about eating out in Japan is \u201csecret meat.\u201d For whatever reason, the Japanese concept of meat and the English one are quite different: if you chop up meat small enough, it\u2019s no longer considered meat; fish\/seafood aren\u2019t meat; there\u2019s fish-based dashi<\/em> stock in miso soup; some shokupan<\/em> (white bread) contains lard; and, even if you\u2019re really good at Japanese, clearly labeled menus are a luxury. For example, if I order a pizza margherita, I expect it to be vegetarian, and yet some places will throw bacon on it. If I order a \u201cvegetable soup,\u201d there might be chicken in it that wasn\u2019t listed on the menu.<\/p>\n

Luckily for me, I\u2019ve found a lot of great restaurants in Kanazawa that specialize in or offer vegetarian\/vegan fare. In Kyoto and Tokyo, there are vegan and vegetarian guidebooks<\/a> being published, but Kanazawa and Ishikawa don\u2019t have their own yet. I can\u2019t be the only one out there who hates secret meat, so I want to highlight my favorite veg* restaurants in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, and Japan here in addition to my other restaurant reviews. I\u2019m including a quick overview to the restaurant (location, type, veg* type) before the longer review so you\u2019ll know at a glance if this place is for you. If you have suggestions about the reviews or for more restaurants, please leave a comment!<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to kick off this series with one of my favorite cafes in Kanazawa, Caf\u00e9 Mojo.<\/p>\n

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Caf\u00e9 Mojo (\u30ab\u30d5\u30a7\u30e2\u30b8\u30e7)<\/strong>
\nLocation: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa pref.
\nType: Caf\u00e9, Lunch
\nVeg Status: Primarily vegetarian and vegan fare; meat options (bacon)
\nLanguages: Japanese, English<\/p>\n

Click HERE to read more.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L.M. Zoller (CIR Ishikawa-ken, Anamizu, 2009-11) is the editor of The Ishikawa JET Kitchen: Cooking in Japan Without a Fight. A writer and web administrator for The Art of Travel (formerly The Art of Japan: Kanazawa & Discover Kanazawa), ze also writes I\u2019ll Make It Myself!, a blog about food culture in Japan, and curates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,70,396,368,6],"tags":[745,748,750,746,471,747,749,453,399],"class_list":["post-26739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-food-drink","category-ill-make-it-myself","category-traveltourism","category-writers","tag-cafe-mojo","tag-coffee","tag-fairtrade","tag-ishikawa","tag-kanazawa","tag-lunch","tag-restaurant-review","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-6Xh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26739"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42785,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26739\/revisions\/42785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}