Welcome to Steemit!! @justinparke shared your post in our Discord server, and it's really cool to meet you!! I have been vegetarian since I was 6 years old, well, until about tenyears ago where I had to eat 'happy meat' - (@senorcococonut will tell you about this) for various reasons, but I never find eating vego hard. It's actually frustrating to go to a restaurant and NOT get too many selections - one or two, at most. Last time we went to a family dinner and poor Mum and Dad had a choice of two dishes - chestnut vegan nut roast with roast veggies, and a mushroom burger. They are used to it and don't mind, and to be honest, the meals were good! Melbourne has lots of vegan restaurants and it's getting more popular.

A really interesting post- loved hearing about this particular festival. One of hte cool things about this place is it's really global - love hearing about traditions from the other side of the world.

Oh, and not to overwhelm you, but definitely go for 10 tags if you can (only on Steempeak or other front ends like ours, www.naturalmedicine.io) and 'naturalmedicine' embraces and supports vegetarianism, so we'd love to hear more from you and embrace you into our humble tribe xx Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!! Never be shy - there's always someone around to help, or if they can't, they'll point you to someone who can!!