Celebrate Kin Jae with Camile
KIN JAE! This year, Thailand's Nine Emperors Festival runs from October 4th to 13th. While it has Taoist roots, this festival has transformed into a vegan carnival of sorts, with plant-based food stalls filling the streets of most Thai cities. The festival begins with the raising of nine lamps to welcome nine gods. Chanting, praying, and ritual practices commence. To mark the end of the festival, the lamps are lowered, and the gods are sent off by waterways until the next year.
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The festival has many rituals to cleanse the mind and spirit. Plant-based eating and abstinence from alcohol (called jae in the Taoist tradition) are central components of the celebrations. Vegan cooking is a natural way of life for many Thai people. The Kin Jae Festival is a time for these skills to take centre stage and be celebrated. If your travel plans this year don't include Thailand, enjoy Kin Jae at home with Camile!
If you find yourself in Thailand during the Kin Jae festival or anytime, look for this red and yellow symbol. It's the Thai equivalent of the vegan V and is helpful for finding plant-based foods. You can also specify vegan foods in restaurants by using the word jae. Jae and Veganism are not identical practices, however if anything Jae is more restrictive than veganism, so you won't go wrong by ordering this way.
Kin Jae!
Vegan Pad Thai
Our vegan Pad Thai is a bit of a revelation. We've swapped chicken and prawns for fried tofu, with extra veg & crushed peanuts in place of egg.
Kin Jae!
Vegan Pad Prik Haeng
Tofu, cashews, scallions, fine beans, and peppers with your protein selection in a smoky seasoning sauce.
Kin Jae!
Vegan Chickpea Green Curry
Our homemade green curry paste simmered with coconut milk and served with fine beans, onion, chilli and sweet basil.
