Long Shot - Prague?

[FutonRevolution]

Alright. I'm from New York, and I'm spending the next four months in the Czech Republic. Is there anyone on here who knows where I can get good vegan ingredients. Not only can I not read labels (language barrier), but I really can't find anything. Help?

[Pirate Ferret]

I can't be of any help but I'd loooveee to go to prague. its so pretty

[shineonyou]

It seemed to me that every ingredient list in the Czech Republic was in several languages. I guess the issue is whether or not one of those languages is English or a language you can read.

I take it you may not have been to the Happy Cow Prague listing. There are 10 health food stores listed. Hopefully at least one of them is what you're looking for...?

http://www.happycow.net/europe/czech_republic/prague/index.html

[insan0r]

I've been to the shop and the restaurant "Albio" (listed in link above) it's really tasty and has some nice vegan products. I haven't took a closer look to the products selled in the store (at the time I vistited I was an Omni), so I just know there are some general vegan products (Soy milk, Tofu etc.) but I don't have further details...

[MrFalafel]

Its been a few years since I've been to Prague but its extremely easy to find vegetarian food there and now it looks even more commonplace.

Prague caters to tourists from everywhere and English is fairly widely spoken.

The Country Life Health Food shops have all of the stuff you are looking for ingredient wise: http://www.countrylife.cz/index.php?id=120#stores

You'll be amazed at the high quality and flavour of fruit and veg in the street markets as well. You'll also find TVP is available in some mainstream stores as well.

I remember eating some really good meals in Prague. I'm sure you'll have a great time.

[Clarita Osita]

I wasn't veggie when I was there, but I remember, as shineonyou said, that most things had more than one language on it (hopefully you can read one!).

[irie]

I went there when I was 16, but I remember I had problems finding resturants with any veggie option. never went to any grocery stores or supermarkets when we where there.

[FutonRevolution]

Thanks a lot. I'll check everything out this week. Thank you so much for your help. Also, the market fruit is delicious.

[Nickle00]

Alright. I'm from New York, and I'm spending the next four months in the Czech Republic. Is there anyone on here who knows where I can get good vegan ingredients. Not only can I not read labels (language barrier), but I really can't find anything. Help?

You could try PMing VegBunny83. She's in my friends list if you go into my list of friends. She spent time in Prague and might be able to help you. Good luck!! Peace & Love!!

[Lazarus]

Or PM me, I actually happen to live in Prague. For vegan ingredients there are quite a few health food shops (my personal favourite is Country life because all their shops seem to be at pretty convenient places for me, but there are plenty of others). Most food should be labeled in English as well as Czech (I actually usually read both ever since I discovered I was buying nachos that only mentioned that they contained whey in one of the languages) although sometimes with imported stuff the Czech version is written on a sticker which rather inconveniently covers up the English version. Generally speaking you probably won't have the same variety as in New York, especially if you're into faux-animal products (if your into vegan cheese, your screwed). Most larger supermarkets (Tesco and the like) have some vegan products such as soymilk, veggie burgers etc. and even smaller shops have TVP, but if you want stuff like tofu, tempeh, faux-meats etc. you'll have to hit the health food shops.

Restaurants I generally avoid like the plague (except the precious few veggie ones we have here), but that's mostly because I just feel uncomfortable bugging the staff about every last detail of what I'm eating. If you are going to eat out than I recommend you either stick with really simple hard-to-screw-up stuff like salads because in my experience the staff hardly ever know what a vegan its hard enough to convey the concept in Czech, let alone in English (and they'll likely screw stuff up anyway).

And of course feel free to PM me with any other questions.