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| I wish scrolling map would update listings The most intuitive way for me to search for new restaurants is to bring up a starting location and then pan and zoom the map. For example, if I'm on a road trip, I might want to scroll along the highway I'm taking. This doesn't really work though: once you scroll beyond the initial search city, no new listings appear. Maybe it's just me, but I find this terribly annoying, and it's awkward to go back to the previous screen, choose a new city for the next search, etc. this seems to be a problem on the Phone app (iOS) too. Maybe I'm missing something? Post Date: 07/17/14, Replies: 2 | ||
| Is HappyCow going into overdrive? Mr. Webmaster Eric, I have a note that - on May 16th, 2007 - when I joined HappyCow there were 1,840 Members registered. Today we have just passed 5,520. That is a 200% increase in less than 10 months - or an average increase of more than 11.5% per month (compound growth). Wow! "Happier Cow's" - so many plants being eaten! - as people / businesses work to get over their addiction to "cruel dairy" the cows will become happier still! Let's have a celebratory lunch today in "Long Man Lou" in Kowloon - a big "thank you" from me to whomever submitted it! Love. JohnnySensible Post Date: 08/03/10, Replies: 4 | ||
| link to happycow android app from email i've installed the pro version of the android app on my phone. i also subscribe to email updates from happy cow. when i click on the links, either through my browser or the email app, it redirects me to a browser page that says "get the happycow app", with the only options being "get it on google play" or "go to happycow website". how can i skip this step and be immediately directed to the happycow app which is already installed? i'm using android 5.0 on an asus zenfone, if it helps. Post Date: 09/17/16, Replies: 1 | ||
| Links to video media I would be interested in finding links to free video files concerning vegetarianism and how meat-eating contributes to the slaughtering of animals. The files I have found at www.peta.org have been very effective getting friends to take the subject of vegetarianism seriously. If HappyCow could provide links to other sources, this would be very helpful. Post Date: 09/13/08, Replies: 5 | ||
| Listing Veg-Friendly Restuarants Greetings, This is my first post. I hope I have entered this in the right forum area. This is how I found this site. My wife and I maintain a vegan diet. I saw a mention of the Veg-Out iPhone app in the magazine VegNews. I downloaded the app (costs 2.99). The app gets all of its list from this site and points out the site in the "details" section of every restaurant listing. I recently went on a business trip to Ann Arbor, MI and used the app/this site to find local vegan and vegetarian restaurants. I was happy to find really great restaurant there, Seva. This was great when I was eating alone. When I needed to find a restaurant in mixed company with meat-eating business partners, the site was not of that much help, and happycow.net does not appear to want to list such restaurants that bridge the gap with numerous pointedly vegan offerings alongside meat (usually noted as sustainably farmed, organic, etc.). Can somebody tell me more about happycow.net's stance in this regard? Can somebody also tell me where to go to find listings that might be more forgiving on this account by including truly veg-friendly that also serve meat? Post Date: 07/29/10, Replies: 4 | ||
| Listings for transport operators Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to add a train/plane/ship company on HappyCow? SJ, the Swedish state railways, now have vegan breakfasts and hot lunches and dinners in their buffets, and these can be ordered in advance when buying the ticket in advance to guarantee there will be enough in stock. The German national rail company has also advertised recently that they are introducing a vegan menu. I thought this could be useful for international travellers, but wasn't sure how to add this to HappyCow. What do you think? :) Best wishes, Amy1274 Post Date: 01/14/16, Replies: 1 | ||
| Login as a restaurant Hi there, everyone ! I'm a little bit dissconcerned because I don't know how to upload pictures from the restaurant. At the main page, I can only upload the profile pic. Also I cannot download the HappyCow app because my phone has not the right version to get it. Maybe someone can help me? Sorry if this topic shouldn't be written here, I'm new on this page, but I'd like to share the vegan dishes we make. Hope you like it :) Post Date: 07/23/15, Replies: 1 | ||
| make chat easier to find? Hi -- So glad you've brought back chat (I hear, from a couple chat friends) -- but -- where is it?? I'm loooooking..... /me wonders if blue turtle or beatnik or anomaly have found out how to get there yet.... THANK YOU!! Post Date: 06/03/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| Make forums searchable It'd be great to have a way to search the forums by keyword. Like for this suggestion - no clue if someone's already submitted it! I scrolled through 1 page of suggestions, but stopped there. That's probably pretty typical of how people search for information without an option to plug in keywords. Post Date: 12/07/16, Replies: 2 | ||
| Mapping Places It would be very useful to be able to get up maps to restaurants, hotels etc. and to have them alongside the other information so it can all be printed off together. It would also be great to have maps or other ways of grouping together restaurants that are nearby each other/​in the same section of town. Country maps would also be useful showing the towns with places listed on the site. Post Date: 06/20/07, Replies: 1 | ||
| MINOR technical suggestion for Login page When logging in, it would be nice to set the focus to the "Username" textbox, so one wouldn't have to click on it first. I often clear my browser cookies so I have to login everytime I visit HappyCow. Post Date: 11/11/08, Replies: 4 | ||
| Mock Meat Restaurants I have a problem with the 'mock meat' vegetarian restaurants that abound in many large cities and also on Happy Cow. It is truly unnerving to stare at the menu with descriptions and pictures in many cases that reflect meat, fish and the like. It is really disappointing that teh owners of these restaurants who otherwise seem to be enlightened, have to resort to the very items that they do not serve, to describe their menu items. I have never eaten any animal product in my life, and I do not wish to see or know what they would look like on my plate. Today I ate at the TeHe Veg Bistro in Jakarta, and its menu read among other things, fried fish belly, fried frog, and all the other usual culprits like beef, steak, etc. Honestly, it was very disgusting, and today I vowed that I will never again eat in one of these 'mock meat' restaurants even if I have no other vegetarian choice. I would like and hope that other members take a stand on this and also request HappyCow to exclude these restaurants from their listing. Cheers, Pradeep Post Date: 07/06/10, Replies: 3 | ||
| Most Profile views Dear WebmasterEric, On HappyCows stats page, www.happycow.net/reports/happycow_stats.html i think it would be cool if you could list who has the most profile views. Post Date: 02/16/10, Replies: 2 | ||
| My dad's birthday...ruined My dad wanted to go to a BBQ restaurant for his birthday. I said sure. Get off work, come home, change clothes, leave house. Go into the restaurant. Everything is ok, seems like it would be fine to eat there since I am used to watching them eat meat in front of me. Pick up menu, nothing healthy except fries and a salad. Waiter comes over, asks for drinks, etc. Mom orders, dad orders, I order fries and a salad with dressing on the side no meat. Waiter comes over with food, gives me french fries and salad. But wait. Wtf is this? White stuff? Parmesan cheese? I decide not to waste it, just give it to mom in a doggy bag. Feel guilty for trying to go out to eat with parents, since everytime I go out with them I can never eat anything because I eat so [censored]ing weird. Start to wimper, take a sip of water, run to restroom. Go to a stall, bawl my eyes out silenty for 10 minutes against the wall. Sitting, thinking, what am I doing? Why is life have to be so difficult? Go back to tabel, mom and dad are asking where I was, tell them I was in the restroom. Grab salad, walk outside before they do, stare into sky and keep pondering and still trying to hold in the tears that I have about this. Mom asks if I am crying, I tell her I am not. Get into car, they apologize for asking me to come out, I tell them it's not their fault "I am so [censored]ing weird and obscure". Go home, keep silent the entire drive. Get into house, run upstairs to my room, shut my door. Brushing off the salad would be an option. Still wouldn't eat it. I am lactose intolerant. Not being able to eat anything with my family is the worst feeling in the entire world. I hate it. Every goddamn family reunion and gathering has all been the same: no one makes anything that I eat because I am just a picky eater. Really, I have no sense of why I do this sometimes. What am I doing this for? Then I look outside, at my dog, at the flowers, at the birds, squirrels, insects.....I realize what I do this for. I want to end all of the things that people think as being healthy. I have read a bunch of short stories but they were Star Trek. One story was of people that couldn't stand Earth, so they go develope their own planet free from their ignorance. I want to do that. It's what I want is to be with people as weird as me who don't eat any animals or anything from them. And then I will tell my grandchildren of how people used to eat brutally killed animals for nutrients and they would think I was telling a horror story and think of these people as ignorant and stupid people or they would think I was fibbing or telling a lie. Unfortuneately, I only dream of this and the present can only change if I do something but there is nothing for me to change. I cannot change any others for being ignorant. I know now, that although I may be ignorant for not eating animals, I still feel happy being who I am and no one can change me for that. Post Date: 07/08/13, Replies: 2 | ||
| new famous vegetarian I have discovered a new FV: Dr. Richard Bartlett Founder of Matrix Energetics. www.matrixenergetics.com/ Post Date: 01/14/10, Replies: 4 | ||
| New location-setting-procedure not works. The new location-setting-procedure for registration of new restaurants does not work properly. After setting the marker on a place on the map, the system automatically moves the marker (to an other street). So for example for the restaurant "Casa Natural Lugervit" in El Vigia, Venezuela. Post Date: 06/14/16, Replies: 3 | ||
| No html links? I can understand blocking out some HTML, but links as well? How are we supposed to link to vital stuff both in this website, and other websites? Many sites make a mistake by not allowing linking in their forums. They feel it will make their visitors go elsewhere while in reality, it improves the websites value in the webiverse. Search engines don't like websites very much that keep to themselves... they like websites that are linked to, and websites that link out. Highly recommend allowing the ability to link and creating headings, otherwise its all just the same text and not much possibility to quickly scan a piece of content to see if its relevant. peace Post Date: 06/27/08, Replies: 1 | ||
| Phone use Using Happy Cow on phones is something I have never done. However, I am up to get a new cell phone and since I have never connected to the web w a phone b4, I figured I should ask y'all happycowers if there is something I need to look for as far as compatibility or if there is a kind of phone that works best w your site. Also, is it free like the web version? Any tips for someone who really only wants a phone to make calls and is tech ignorant would be appreciated. [sorry if this is not under the right heading, it seemed more appropriate than others] Post Date: 11/29/09, Replies: 12 | ||
| Please Bring Back Chat Many people are voicing their sorrow that the chat room has disappeared from Happy Cow. The chat room was a fantastic avenue for vegans and vegetarians to share their experiences, recipes, and simply a place for people who don't have many others who share their values to commiserate. It was a valuable resource for new vegans and vegetarians to get real-time information and support. It would be a shame to see it not return. Post Date: 06/06/16, Replies: 11 | ||
| please use the update facility. hi, i don't know about everyone else, but before a trip i print the the front pages of each place i am visiting from the website. often i struggle to find somewhere, and when i do i update the details on happy cow. can everyone do the same please, as it will make all our lives easier. people often put details on their review, however this will not be updated to the front page and unless you have access to the web, it makes it difficult to find. Post Date: 08/13/07, Replies: 2 | ||
| Po Tai Vegetarian Cafe - veggy heroes! HappyCow spices up the experiences that you get when "veggy traveling". Terese made me smile this morning with her Jan, 1, 2009 review - I thoroughly enjoyed reading her experience of the tiny "Po Tai Vegetarian Cafe" in East Kowloon. See - happycow.net/reviews.php?id=11010 18 months ago I had a wonderful meal / experience in Po Tai - it is great to know that the little place is still buzzing. I found "Po Tai" as I was riding a bus one day to the old Hong Kong Airport site - I noticed the Chinese character for "Vegetarian" above the storefront & jumped off the bus to try it out. . . Please list / review even the beatest veggy eating places as you stumble across them. Post Date: 01/01/09, Replies: 0 | ||
| Prison Food PETA does it again! Great story! So can we now please have a HappyCow section on where it is best to commit crimes / get arrested? (I am joking Guys). . . . Top 10 Vegetarian-Friendly Prisons! . When we announced our top 10 vegetarian-friendly ballparks, part of the idea was to encourage more people to check out a game or two at those stadiums and sample their vegetarian fare. Same sort of deal with our top 10 colleges—one effect of publicizing their veg-friendly cafeterias was that more people would want to go there. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if this latest top 10 list gets you all amped about the prospect of going to one of these prisons, you may want to set some slightly more ambitious goals for yourself … but for the people who—through bad luck or poor planning—are on their way there, this will come as some very good news. . We get calls all the time from inmates who want to make a positive change in their lives by going vegetarian, and in the course of responding to these individuals, we've assembled the following list of the top 10 vegetarian-friendly prisons in the United States as a tidbit for curious citizens, a resource for prisoners' rights groups, and, well, a menu for future inmates. Whichever category you fall into, I hope you enjoy it. . Go here to read Newsweek's coverage of the story . www.newsweek.com/id/74327 . , and check out the top 10 below: . Idaho offers a lentil shepherd's pie, vegan pizza, vegan Mexican pie, soy patties, soy sausage, veggie loaf, veggie lasagna, veggie meatballs, vegan hot cakes, vegan biscuits, cookies, cakes, pies, and puddings. . Massachusetts offers meatless chicken macaroni casserole, vegetable bologna, veggie burger, veggie meatballs, meatless chicken cutlet, meatless chicken nuggets, vegetable chop suey, vegetarian chicken stew. . Pennsylvania offers tofu cacciatore, soy BBQ, tofu stir fry, veggie burger, soy Salisbury steak, soy meatballs, tofu scramble, soy croquette, soy sausage patties, soy loaf, soy pasta casserole, soy stuffed cabbage and soy stew. . Georgia offers vegan BBQ, meatless deli slices, veggie patty, vegan breakfast patties, vegan chili, baked macaroni crumble, stir fried vegetables and oriental sauce, tofu scramble, vegan cornbread, vegan cookies, vegan cakes, vegan pies, vegan brownies, vegan muffins, vegan peach cobbler. . New Hampshire offers chili with texturized vegetable protein, chop suey with texturized vegetable protein, shepherd's pie with texturized vegetable protein, veggie links, lentil meatballs, grilled tofu sandwich, vegetarian pot pie, veg stir fry, hummus, veg tacos, veg chow mein, veg stew, and several veg soups. . Utah offers sweet and sour tofu, tofu taco rice casserole, vegetable and tofu chow mein, veggie burgers, veggie dogs, veggie meatballs, tofu ala king, lots of tofu dishes. . Hawaii offers vegetarian shepherd's pie with texturized vegetable protein, vegetarian stuffed cabbage with texturized vegetable protein, vegetarian stew with texturized vegetable protein, grilled tofu slices, vegetarian teriyaki burger, vegetarian long rice with tofu. . Tennessee offers texturized vegetable protein ala king, vegetarian sweet and sour, veggie burger, veg chili, veg stir fry, texturized vegetable protein country gravy. . Kansas offers a veggie burger, taco crunch, burrito, meatless pasta, meatless chili, loaded baked potato, vegetable rice soup. . North Dakota offers a veggie burger, meatless sloppy joes, veg fajitas, veg noodle stew, veg potato soup. . blog.peta.org/archives/2007/12/top_10_vegetari.php Post Date: 06/18/08, Replies: 10 | ||
| Profile, Religious Path How about adding "freethinker" to your list of choices? I'd like to list that on my Profile. Post Date: 01/24/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Publish your avatar dimensions for new use Hi there I'm new here and can't upload an avatar - a message the dimensions of my image are wrong. Don't know what the dimensions should be? How does anyone ever upload their photo? The image I'm trying to use is tiny as well. Thanks. Post Date: 01/13/17, Replies: 2 | ||
| Recipe Section Quick question... is there a way to save recipes found on the recipe section of this site rather than copy & paste? Thanks! :) Post Date: 11/23/08, Replies: 4 | ||
| Regional Editors - a very good idea - Eric thank you for your email - yes I fully agree that having an informal /​ formal group of active Regional Editors will really help to keep the listings on HappyCow more up to date - "chefmoz" have 2,600+ volunteer editors to update /​ list in their restaurant directory. OK - my offer - until further notice /​ death /​ insanity I will work on Hong Kong SAR & Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam. For other provinces /​ areas of Viet Nam I will ask friends around the country to regularly check on the listings in their areas /​ join HappyCow themselves. Any suggestions from other members on how best to do it will be most welcome - to get started my method is phoning around /​ visiting the listed places at least twice a year to weed out closed businesses /​ collect new email addresses & website details /​ asking them to become "Friends" etc. Other veggie Internet Directories featuring Hong Kong /​ Viet Nam are almost useless - all the ones that I know of are many years out of date. Post Date: 03/03/08, Replies: 5 | ||
| Restaurant Listing Debate: Not 100% Veg In order to continue our discussion regarding Happy Cow listings of Veg-friendly restaurants (http://www.happycow.net/forum/travel/view_topic.php?id=83), the webmaster asked that we start a new discussion. While adding a section that says old listings or Veg-friendly places that don't meet HC criterion is a good idea, it really is a bad idea. In doing so, you're going to get rivalry from restaurant owners or people partial to the restaurant, so why not let the reviewers do this part for you? Here what I would do: List the restaurant at the very end of all listings, I believe the non-100%-veggie places are in a light pink color now, so why not list those other ones in grey. Add a disclaimer within the description basically stating "Warning: This is not a 100% Vegetarian/Vegan place. Happy Cow does not support this restaurant as meat/dairy contamination is very likely" (or something close to that) – this solves the issue with preference and owner rivalry. If it's a bad restaurant, it will be clearly reflected in negative reviews by HC members. And when the owners read what the consumer has to say, maybe they'll clean up their act. By keeping only the good restaurants on the site, I think, only does more harm than good. Like I had said previously, how will we know if a place is good/bad? If I find a place that has Vegan options, I want to find out about it and possibly try it. I understand that if a place is not listed on the site that it probably doesn't meet HC's standards, but how do we really know if that place meets HC's standards??? What if it's a new place? Or a place that no one has discovered (the webmaster can't be out everywhere scouting these restaurants out)? A lot of places don't advertize; and I know a lot shy away from the word Vegan, especially in the Midwest where the term is still unfamiliar to many. For example, there is a place called Sweet Cakes Bakery that carries about 50% Vegan baked goods, if you ask they will tell and assure you of the Vegan items …but they don't advertize things as being Vegan – same with Bleeding Heart Bakery (well they have the words Vegan posted in the store). I'm so lucky I found those places via word-of-mouth; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to enjoy these wonderful Vegan baked goods. My overall point is that I don't thing being one-sided does any good. It also comes across as being elitist to others; I feel that this tends to shy others away from Veganism. I truly wonder how many people are scared off due to this; we're essentially being counterproductive when it comes to helping people become Vegetarian/Vegan. And another point I'd like to make, what about new Vegetarians/Vegans or those thinking about going that route? I'd think the unknown would be scary to some; when I was just vegetarian (for almost all of my life) and had never even known about these special Veggie places…I was weary. I remember being 18 and weary about going to Chicago Diner (which is one of my favorite places now). For the newcomers, I think having those places (with some veggie options) listed helps to ease them into Vegetarianism; the familiarity of what they knew is there while they're free to explore the unknown, become more interested, and then begin to explore fully Vegetarian/Vegan places. What does everyone else think? Post Date: 09/07/10, Replies: 62 |
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