Hi,
I have a friend visiting her sister that is getting married in
Amsterdam soon. After the wedding, she wants to travel with her
family around Europe (total 6 Person)
As a friend and live in here, i will be organising
everything and also will be guiding them for the whole trip.
I had almost all the information in hand, but i'm just told that they all
dont eat pork, religion reason
So We will travel to these cities:
Paris
Rome
Venice
Milan
Zürich (checked)
Lüzern
The whole trip is 9D8N. Yeah! i know what you thinking
Some cities i could handle but Paris and Venice will be difficult one to find
the restaurant without Pork. No?
Any infomation will be greatly appreciated.
You can always opt for vegetarian food. I'm pretty sure almost every restaurant serves one or two of them...
I should imagine Paris will be packed with halal restaurants, once you leave the touristy bits.
If I remember Paris correctly, it's quite simple to find Halal restaurants. A lot of Morrocan places were Halal (and quite yummy).
KFC in France is halal and there are lot of halal restaurants in Paris.
Do they have to eat ritually slaughtered animals - Halal, or they just don't eat pork?
Algerian, Egyptian, "generic Arab", African... I'd say North African food is as normal in Paris as Rösti is in Switzerland - even in the very touristic areas as we had a great dinner in the middle of Montmartre.
Could you mention name one of them?
I'm trying to find The restaurant where these Asian (indonesian, malaysian) group go to eat.
Because i know those groups tent to eat Asian food even though they travel thousand miles away from home.
I will put that as an option, Thanks
Just pork
If you know that you are actually looking not for some halal place, but specifically for an Indonesian restaurant in Paris - why not try google???
"indo restaurant paris" gave me within split seconds lists of places... for example:
http://www.restaurant-indonesia.com/
Now repeat for the other cities you want to visit...
Hi,
For halal restaurants, I always use this as reference.
They are not the most uptodate (not like the local muslims community) but I think they are trsutable.
Ollie
Well, if they just want to avoid pork then you can take them to any restaurant, all restaurants have a variety of meats on their menus, so they just avoid the pork. This way, they can taste most of the local specialities, I'm sure they don't want to visit Europe's capitals to eat their own food, do they? When in Rome, and all that. What do you think?
Hey Thanks alot....... I found it! You just save my day
The meat is, the restaurants aren't.
Halal restaurants are tricky - if there's a permanent "Halal" built into the signage you'll probably be OK. There are a lot of restaurants which serve Halal meat alongside pork - you need to ask each restaurant really.
Kosher is also acceptible to most Muslims.
That was the plan. But some people will leave once they see pork in the display food, in menus or even hanging around in the kitchen that have sight access to the table. My friend would not mind, but this is about her parents
So i thought i have some more option and in the end i will leave it to them to choose.
anyway i've found it. Thanks again Ollie
And thank you guys for the help
For Paris, Zurich or any other city, you can do a google map search like:
Paris, halal restaurants
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...08647&t=h&z=12
I highly recommend double checking with the restaurant and not simply going by the name.
I don't think there will be any around Vatican but i guess they can find vegetarian stuff.
To many cultural muslims, the thought of eating in a restaurant that serves pork is as unpleasant as the thought of eating in a restaurant that serves dog might be to a European.
Pigs, to many people throughout the world (but especially, in my experience, to Malays and Indonesians, presumably for cultural reasons connected with their pre-islamic past) are filthy, abominable creatures, which have no place anywhere near a kitchen. Even people who'd be quite happy to crack open a cold beer on a hot day find the thought of eating a piece of lamb that might have been cooked in the same pan used to cook pork utterly repulsive.
It's a lovely, complex, beautiful world, isn't it?
To the OP, I'd recommend looking for this symbol in the window or on the menu when choosing a restaurant:
It might be overcompensating somewhat, but better to be safe than sorry, eh?
I suspect you'll be fine in Paris, but good luck in Venice!