# @thekoreanvegan on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C5UZS4BP-e8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13701509-thekoreanvegan-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/c0a1bd1f87.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-04-04T00:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Joanne L. Molinaro, The Korean Vegan (@thekoreanvegan) — https://gondola.cc/thekoreanvegan

## Caption

Ciao everyone!

So happy with all the lovely feedback I’ve received on my most recent newsletter and the Longevity Recipes! As you probably already know, though, I like to schedule little “breaks” in my nutrition to allow for nostalgic foods—i.e., the things that remind me of growing up. This Korean Fried “Chicken” is right up that alley.

In writing the copy of the voiceover for my recipe instructional video, I debated whether I should even call it “chicken”—after all, I’m just using mushrooms, here. But, a couple things: (a) there are recipes out there that have “fried chicken” in the name even though they’re not chicken at all (like “fried chicken steak”), as the “fried chicken” refers more to the way the food is being cooked and not the particular protein; and (b) I DO want vegans—particularly newer vegans—to know how excellent a vegan alternative these oyster mushrooms make to chicken.

It remains a total mystery to me why non-vegans constantly badger us for, on occasion, wanting something that tastes like meat. When I cut out Pepsi from my life, I went straight to DIET Pepsi—which tastes a lot like regular Pepsi (kinda the point). When I stopped buying actual leather handbags, I switched to apple leather handbags. Some vegans hate the taste of meat, kinda like I hated the taste of tuna, and thus, they have no use for things like “chicken-y mushrooms,” like I have no use for “vegan sushi.” But I daresay most vegans aren’t like that. They like their vegan sushi and may also have a hankering for vegan fried chicken on Sunday afternoons.

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#veganfriedchicken #koreanfood

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koreanfood, veganfriedchicken

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