LeonieGwen

Hi all

I am off on my second os trip since being diagnosed this time for stop overs in KH, and time in UK, France and Italy. I've done lots of research already about the issues in each of these and have found the CS websites in France and Italy. What I am hoping for is names of specific places to eat especially in Hong Kong (we'll be at Kowloon) and any others that people know elsewhere.

many thanks

Leonie

Ken in a post recently you said that you coudl recommend some restaurants in Japan that are gluten frienly-I've been after this information since I joined this forum many months ago to no avail-if anyone knows any such restaurants in Sapporo, Neseko or Osaka or Kyoto I'd be really grateful for this information

thanks

LeonieGwen -I am leaving in 4 days time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  kenlove said:

Depending on where your boyfriends family is from, it may be very easy or very hard to find gluten free soy sauce or a health food store.

Can't hurt to bring a bottle with you so you can enjoy sushi with shoyu. You can have some things like karaage if they are "breaded" with katakuri -- 100% potato starch. You just have to be very careful that new oil is used and that the starch really is 100% potato.

Many of the onigiri or rice balls that people take for granted as being only rice and fillings, also contain some soy sauce and other wheat fillers.

Creative chefs in small restaurants will go out of their way to fix you something special though. If you've never been there, your in for a great treat and experience.

gambatte!

Ken

Hi Beloved

I'm going to Japan for 3 weeks in Jan-Feb and have been trying to get my head around eating there for a while now-I've had various suggestions from people that I've compiled into one document that I'd be happy to email you if I had your address but it is probably too big to put here. When and where are you going? If you trawl back through the responses on this site you should be able to find what everyone said to me.

The general message is that eating out is quite difficult as there is little understanding of Coeliac's Disease and very many items contain wheat (such as soy sauce and most soba (buckwheat) noodles). Apparetnly Tamari (wheat free soy sauce) can be found in health food shops but then again health food shops are not so easy to find so proabably best to bring your own.

Some Misos also have barley in them. According to some posts ifood tems are not labelled well so even in the company of a competent translator packaged foods could still present a problem. People recopmmeded taking a lunch box with you if you need to accompany others to restaurants and taking some gluten-free snacks with you for emergencies-naturally many foods (rice, corn/maize, nuts, seeds, fish, meat, fruit, veggies, eggs, are all gluten free) but care is needed with contamination in cooking water, oils, pots and so on.

I plan to send myself a box of food before I go with soups, snacks, nut bars, protein bars, maize torillas, tinned fish for example and then will be cooking where I'm staying most of the time-will take my food with me to restaurants so my family don't have to miss out completely on the experience of eating out

hope this helps

LeonieGwen

  Beloved said:

I'm going to be in Japan for a month and a half. Obviously I'm going to be eating alot of rice, but are there any foods I should specifically avoid? Are there anything you would suggest (snacks, meals) that I can definitely eat?

How do you say 'Gluten' in Japanese?

Thanks!

Hi has anyone flown China Air? Wondering what it was like and if gluten-free meals were a problem or not. Also having to spend a night in Taipei-would love any tips for gluten-free eating there

thanks

leonie

Hi Missy's mum

thanks for your posts about the situation in Japan-I'm still hoping to find ways to eat out sometimes

cheers

Leonie

  missy said:

Hi,

I`m actually in Japan right now and have had a successful gluten-free trip. I`m headed back to the U.S. soon and will post when we get back(in a week or so) on my experience and list a source that we used to obtain gluten-free food.

Take care and check back in.

Hi I've been reading with interest everyone's posts about gluten free eating in Japan. I am going there to visit my daughter and Japanese SIL in February 2008 and it will be my first time to Japan and my fist time international travelling since diagnosis.

I am wondering if anyone has heard of any Japanese people themselves having Coeliac's? If so can anyone put me in touch with them or their society. also after understanding restuarants in Sapporo and Osaka. My daughter and Yasu wil be helping me with ingredients on food thankfully but it is the restaurant and snacking thing that worries me. I wil have the gluten-free cards to give restauranters etc

also having stop over in Hong Kong and need simialr restaurant advice for there.

thanks

LeonieGwen