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| 08.06.2023 | Green Monday Launches OmniSeafood Dishes and Discounts to Celebrate World Ocean Day | In support of World Ocean Day, Green Monday has partnered with restaurants and supermarkets in Hong Kong to offer OmniSeafood dishes and product discounts for a month.
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| 08.03.2022 | IWD 2022: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 166
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The two biggest plant-based protein startups in the world are run by men. The majority of the rising cell-based protein startups are also run by men, alongside most of the vegan investment groups that fund them... |
| 13.10.2021 | Green Common Doubles Down on Chinese Market with 2 New Shanghai Stores | 1
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Green Common, the plant-based grocery and eatery concept launched by Hong Kong’s Green Monday group, has just opened two new locations in Shanghai. It comes after Green Common introduced its first Shanghai store last y... |
| 05.10.2021 | Hong Kong Vegan Retail and Dining Leader Green Common Opens New Rebranded Flagship in The Heart of Central | 1
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Green Common, the plant-based dining and retail store concept launched by Hong Kong’s Green Monday, has just unveiled a new rebranded flagship location. Situated in the heart of Hong Kong’s Central district, the new tw... |
| 08.09.2021 | The Week In Food Tech: Green Common’s Plant-Based Bar, Plus Bio-printed Cuts Of Cultured Steak | 1
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Just a few short years ago, it was unusual to get more than a handful of stories each week about meat analogues, dairy alternatives, and other alt foods. Nowadays, the opposite is true. In fact, there are so many devel... |
| 22.03.2021 | Green Monday Launches Vegan Ice Creams in Hong Kong | Plant-based platform Green Monday has launched two vegan ice creams in Hong Kong. The ice creams are available at Green Common, the organisation’s plant-based cafe and grocery store, as well as hundreds of 7-Eleven stores in the city.
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| 18.03.2021 | Green Common Hong Kong Unveils First Vegan Ice Cream Series Created With Plant-Based Milk | 3 Mins Read
Hong Kong-based Green Monday just launched its first vegan ice cream series at Green Common, its plant-based café and grocery store concept, and the frozen desserts will also be available at over 500 7-Eleven store, the ‘Go Gree... |
| 08.03.2021 | IWD 2021: Celebrating the Queens Of Alt Protein Who Are Forging The Future Of Food | 15 Mins Read
Editor’s Note: This list is the result of hours of work, and no doubt we have missed some amazing queens. We will do our best to keep adding. On the startup side, we focused on founders, but many of these startups have incredib... |
| 03.12.2020 | Plant-Based Meat Shopping 2.0: Guide To Alternative Beef, Chicken & Pork Brands in Hong Kong | 5 Mins Read
Fancy beefing up taco Tuesday? How about a loaded hotdog with all the toppings, a hearty lasagne, or even a “Spam” musubi in your (reusable) lunchbox? With alt-meat rapidly gaining popularity worldwide, vegans and veg-curious fo... |
| 29.11.2020 | A Very Plant-Based Christmas: Food & Dining Guide For A Vegan Festive Season In Hong Kong | 1
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Season’s eatings! We’ve got all the sweets, treats and delicious vegan eats you need for a very merry plant-based Christmas, all wrapped up with an (upcycled) bow. From vegan catering options, to the best festive menus... |
| 21.08.2020 | Where To Find The Best Vegan Mooncakes In Hong Kong | 234 1
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It might feel surreal, especially given the strange year we are living through, but we are only a weeks away from this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival! Despite all the hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic... |
| 06.08.2020 | Where To Eat (Plants) This August: New Vegan Restaurant Openings, Menus & Food News | 0
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As always, we’ve got loads of exciting news coming up in the city’s thriving plant-based food scene, so despite the ban which at the moment limits dine-in to 2-person tables and a pre-6PM curfew, there’s lots to discover. So m... |
| 19.05.2020 | Omnipork Launches World’s First Plant-Based Spam | Green Monday has revealed Omnipork Luncheon Meat, the world’s first plant-based luncheon meat, to take on the enormous consumption of pork and SPAM style products in Asia, the biggest meat market on the planet, with over 400 million cans of... |
| 05.05.2020 | Where To Eat (Plants) This May: New Vegan Restaurant Openings, Menus & Food News | 112 1
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No doubt the F&B industry has been hard hit due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but the plant-based food scene in Hong Kong hasn’t come to a standstill. There are still new plant-based bites to try out ... |
| 26.02.2020 | Where To Eat (Plants) This February: New Vegan Restaurant Openings, Menus & Food News | 1
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Despite the challenging circumstances Hong Kong is currently facing, the plant-based food scene in the city isn’t showing many signs of slowdown. To help you keep up with the growing list of plant-based bites, we have ... |
| 06.02.2020 | Unlimeat: Korean Plant-Based Beef Made From Upcycled Grains Launches In Hong Kong | 129 1
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Unlimeat, a 100% plant-based beef product made from upcycled ingredients that would otherwise be thrown away, has just launched in Hong Kong. Made by South Korean food manufacturer Zikooin, the vegan beef altern... |
| 19.12.2019 | #VEGAN Hong Kong Christmas Guide: Restaurants, Groceries & Catering | 67 1
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Restaurants Serving Vegan Christmas Dinner, Brunches & More
Nectar: Nectar will sadly be closing its doors December 27th- don’t miss a last hurrah at Peggy Chan’s award-winning and boundary-breaking restaurant... |
| 05.11.2019 | Green Common Launches Plant-Based Future Bar Concept At K11 Musea | 14 3
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Hong Kong’s plant-based grocery and café chain Green Common has just launched brand new concept Future Bar at Tsim Sha Tsui’s eco cultural destination K11 Musea. With a mission to offer a space for family bonding,... |
| 12.09.2019 | Green Common Debuts Animal-Free Chicken Nuggets & We’re Lovin’ It | 13 1
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Hong Kong’s plant-based grocery and café chain Green Common has rolled out Alpha Nuggets, a vegan take on fast food favourite chicken nuggets, across all its locations in the city. This marks another step forward ... |
| 03.09.2019 | Where To Eat: Guide To Vegan & Vegetarian Food In New Territories | 18 0
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You might be surprised at the slew of vegan and vegetarian restaurants and cafés located in the New Territories – in fact, there’s plenty of great plant-based hotspots to discover. If you’re feeling like a local C... |
| 25.07.2019 | Where To Eat (Plants) This August: New Vegan Restaurant Openings, Menus & Food News | 5 Mins Read
Never thought we would say this, but it’s getting hard to keep up with Hong Kong’s vegan scene- there is just so much going on! From groundbreaking fine dining to the largest Western cuisine fast-casual vegetarian restaurant, it... |
| 25.07.2019 | Bite For What’s Right: I Started A Vegan Chocolate Company & Here’s What I Learned | 0
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Can a zero-profit activist vegan chocolate startup intent on price accessibility and uber-transparency convince the masses to change their snacking habits AND rally other would-be vegan entrepreneurs to take the plunge? Bite S... |
| 07.03.2019 | 25 Green Queens Fighting For A Better Hong Kong & A Better World | 9 Mins Read
To celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 (#IWD19), the Green Queen team wanted to showcase the women we admire the most in this crazy city we call home. Women who, on top of being incredible moms, friends, sisters, daughters ... |
| 13.09.2018 | Hong Kong: Vegan Pioneer Yeung Calls for Meat Renunciation for Environmental Reasons | David Yeung, co-founder of the vegan food chain Green Common and the Green Mondays campaign in Hong Kong, recently spoke at the Sustainable Foods Summit in Singapore about the negative consequences of continued high meat consumption in Asia... |
| 25.06.2018 | Where To Taste Omnipork, Asia’s Brand New #PlantBased ‘Pork’ | 35
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Menus featuring plant-based pork alternative, Omnipork, have begun sprouting across Hong Kong. Launched earlier this year by Asian foodtech startup, Right Treat (backed by David Yeung & his Green Monday team) th... |
| 14.06.2018 | The 6 Best Places To Eat A Beyond Meat Burger in Hong Kong #PlantForward | 4 Mins Read
Last year, when social enterprise Green Monday first introduced Hong Kong to Beyond Burger by Beyond Meat – the vegan patty that looks, cooks, and tastes like meat without sacrificing on taste or juicy satisfaction – the 852 wel... |
| 28.05.2018 | Hong Kong Healthy Food News Summer 2018: New Restaurants, New Menus, New Vegan Eats & More | 41
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2018 is already shaping up to be another incredible year for Hong Kong’s healthy food world. From innovative foodtech news launching right here in our hometown to our favorite local haunts adding a second venue, new... |
| 26.05.2018 | Kind Kitchen, Green Monday’s New 100% Vegan Cafe Concept, Opens this June in Nan Fung Place | 4 Mins Read
Popular plant-based retail and deli chain Green Common has just unveiled its newest F&B concept, Kind Kitchen, a 100% vegan full-service cafe that replaces the previous OVO Cafe and Green Future Bar at its Nan Fung Place dig... |
| 23.04.2018 | Right Treat Asian Foodtech Startup Launches Omnipork, Plant Pork Analog To Address Rising Meat Consumption | 39
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We eat a lot of meat in this city. But before the explosion of beef and the proliferation of poultry, pork has traditionally been the most popular choice in Asia. From Cantonese char siu to Taiwanese lu rou fan to F... |
| 19.03.2018 | Where To Eat: Central’s Best Vegan Restaurants | 7 Mins Read
As the energetic epicenter of Hong Kong, Central is crammed with towering skyscrapers, plush malls and fancy hotels. The center of trade and finance, this frenetic neighborhood is home to piles of paperwork, power lunches and en... |
| 28.01.2018 | Revolutionary Vegan JUST Scramble Mung Bean ‘Egg’ Launches in Hong Kong Ahead of NYC, LA | 5 Mins Read
Do you like ’em poached, scrambled, over easy, or sunny-side up? Breakfast-famous, eggs are arguably the most abundant animal protein in the world, with one trillion eggs laid globally. Considering the domestication of chicken (... |
| 11.01.2018 | Green Queen’s 2018 Eco Wellness Predictions | 13 0
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It’s that time of the year again: when I sit down and think about what I believe is going to be big in terms of trends and movements in the eco wellness world. Trend forecasting is definitely one of my favorite pa... |
| 27.11.2017 | Healthy Snacks On The Go: Our Favorite Picks From Broccoli Chips To Acai Almonds | 16
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Eating a snack or two between meals is a great way to curb hunger and can also help you get the nutrients you need. But on the flip side, grazing on foods of little nutritional value may result in eating too much, p... |
| 05.11.2017 | Where To Eat: Sheung Wan Vegan & Vegetarian Dining Guide | 263
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An eclectic mix of old and new, Sheung Wan is a perfect hub for all the good eats Hong Kong has to offer. And with our fair city getting more health conscious by the day, this gateway district is becoming a destin... |
| 20.10.2017 | Hong Kong Healthy Food News October 2017 – New Healthy Lunch Spots & Veggie Burgers | 3 Mins Read
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Grassroots Pantry and Green Common are finally teaming up – starting October 23, Chef Peggy Chan’s Hollywood Road eatery will serve up the world-changing Beyond Meat Burger with a Sichuan mala twist and a side of lo... |
| 16.10.2017 | 5 Plant Proteins To Keep In Your Fridge/Freezer At All Times | 20 1
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As convenient as it is to eat out in a city like ours (and boy, do Hong Kongers eat out a lot!), there is something to be said about cooking your own meals from time to time. Sometimes we’re just over the foods we... |
| 18.08.2017 | Green Queen Guide: Hong Kong’s Best Vegan Grocery Stores | 1
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With more and more people looking to lead a plant-based lifestyle, Hong Kong has progressed leaps and bounds in terms of offering conscious consumers vegan grocery options: green grocery stores have been sprouting up a... |
| 11.04.2017 | The Beyond Burger Launches In HK: A Closer Look At The Vegan Patty That Wants To Change The World | 5 Mins Read
Stepping into the Kind Kitchen at Green Common’s Central location, the aroma of hamburgers wafts through the air. The chargrilled scent of juicy ground beef is so enticing, I find myself longing for a Protein Style burger with A... |
