
The new menu features fresh, seasonal vegetables and ingredients inspired by temple cuisine.
Korean Air has introduced vegan inflight meals to cater to vegans and eco-conscious travellers who want to reduce carbon emissions.
These Korean-style vegan meals are inspired by traditional Buddhist temple cuisine and will boast natural flavours using fresh vegetables and seasonal ingredients.
Although the airline already offers six types of vegetarian meals, this new meal is crafted specifically for vegans.
Starting this month, the new meals will be offered to all passengers and will include options like steamed barley rice with burdock, roasted shiitake mushrooms, and roasted tofu with plum sauce. First or business-class travellers will have a better variety, including ginkgo nut porridge and roasted yam with soybean paste.
Passengers have the option to pre-order their meals up to 24 hours before takeoff through the Korean Air website, mobile app, or service centre. However, the inflight meals will depend on the specific route and time of year.
Vegan friendly airlines
Airlines are increasingly offering better plant-based meal options in order to meet the growing demand from passengers.
Recently, Alaska Airlines added a “Soy Meets World” salad option on flights over 1,100 miles, while Emirates reported a remarkable 154% increase in vegan meals served onboard between 2021 and 2022.
In 2021, Qatar Airways also announced that they would add gourmet vegan dishes to their à la carte menu for business class passengers on all flights out of Doha and select flights to Doha.
Worst vegan inflight meals
Despite the efforts to make inflight meals more inclusive, there are some airlines that haven’t got the memo.
Recently, a Japan Airlines business class traveller was served a single banana for breakfast.
Kris Chari, on a trip from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Tokyo, requested a vegan breakfast and shared her experience in a post on FlyerTalk.
“Before take-off today, my flight attendant confirmed that I ordered VGML (Vegetarian Vegan Meal) and that my breakfast was a banana, by which I mistakenly assumed she meant that breakfast included a banana,” Chari explained.
“When she served the banana after takeoff, I thought it was just an underwhelming appetizer, but it was in fact the entire meal service!”
After the somewhat disappointing breakfast, Chari claimed she was then served ‘barely seasoned spaghetti’ for lunch.
In another instance, an American Airlines vegan passenger was served cookies with eggs and a granola bar with honey.
“The paper bag it came in said vegan on it, and it was different from the breakfast that everyone else got (dairy yoghurt and a vegan cookie),” he wrote on Reddit.
“They ended up giving me a fancy fruit platter from first class. This is the second time this has happened to me on American Airlines, except last time they forgot my breakfast entirely and just gave me a slice of melon.”
Share this story: Korean Air introduces vegan inflight meals.
Lifestyle
Vegan culture, food, beauty & more
Puma ditches kangaroo leather for ‘better’ vegan fabric
- Mohsina Dodhiya
- 3rd March 2023
Puma’s King soccer boots are made with vegan K-Better, a new animal-free upper material. Puma SE is officially phasing kangaroo leather out of its soccer boots this year. Instead, it will begin using a vegan fabric following rising consumer opposition to animal-made products. The German sporting goods company has redesigned its legendary KING football boot …
Continue reading “Puma ditches kangaroo leather for ‘better’ vegan fabric”
More than a third of Brits intend to reduce animal products this new year
- Mohsina Dodhiya
- 10th February 2023
Research from The Vegan Society showed that an increasing number of people are looking to reduce their consumption of meat and dairy for environmental reasons. More than one-third of Britons plan to cut back on their consumption of meat and dairy in 2023, according to a survey by the Vegan Society. The world’s oldest vegan …
Continue reading “More than a third of Brits intend to reduce animal products this new year”
VEGAN MEMES
NEED A LAUGH?
QUIZZES
All the quizzes you love to binge!
QUIZ: If you score 11/12 on this quiz, you’re a verified vegan food expert
- Marlon Farrugia
- 10th January 2020
How much vegan knowledge do you have stored away? Do you have to Google your way through a shopping trip, or do you have all the bad E-numbers memorised? Find out now with this quiz. Marlon Farrugia Marlon Farrugia is a freelance writer from Brighton. He has been a dedicated vegan for many years, and …
Continue reading “QUIZ: If you score 11/12 on this quiz, you’re a verified vegan food expert”
QUIZ: What is your perfect Vegan Halloween Costume?
- Marlon Farrugia
- 13th October 2019
Spook Season approaches. There will be ghosts, goblins, ghouls, and glucose. You need a costume, and you want to it to show off your personality, which means VEGAN. But what to choose? Take our quiz to find out your perfect outfit. Marlon Farrugia Marlon Farrugia is a freelance writer from Brighton. He has been a …
Continue reading “QUIZ: What is your perfect Vegan Halloween Costume?”
QUIZ: What kind of vegetable are you?
- Marlon Farrugia
- 26th September 2019
“If you were a vegetable, what kind would you be?” A question that has tormented humanity throughout the ages – until now. Read: QUIZ: If you score 19/20 on THIS quiz, you’re a Vegan God Marlon Farrugia Marlon Farrugia is a freelance writer from Brighton. He has been a dedicated vegan for many years, and …