SHANGHAI -- After decades of rising meat consumption, associated with rapid economic growth, China is starting to focus on vegetables again -- especially in Shanghai, often the source of new trends and fashions that spread nationwide.
Celebrity Chinese American chef Ken Hom says there is "growing interest in vegetarian/vegan," food in China, triggered in part by media coverage of issues associated with eating meat. "The Chinese in the past have never been huge meat eaters -- rather, meat was more of a garnish to vegetables," says Hom. "That, of course, changed with the advent of the economic boom."
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