Roy Choi Quotes

I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.

I only eat things that you don't have to kill.

I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

I'm a vegetarian; I eat a lot of tofu and soy.

I want kids that look up to me to know that I'm a vegetarian, and I want to help them find alternatives to meat. I'm not gonna tell everyone that they should be vegetarian, even though they should be. I'm more gonna say, 'You don't have to be fully vegetarian; just don't eat meat every other day.'

I think Korean barbecue is very accessible to Americans because it's sort of similar to something we know, but with different flavours.

I pretty much eat all day to keep my strength up. I'm primarily a vegetarian who has an occasional side of fish.

I call my culture 'kimchi and collards.'

I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

All Korean food is not just one thing.

Kogi changed what a generation eats, introducing people to fermentation and different vegetables and flavors.

I try to stick to a vegetarian diet.

I eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables not so much meat and fish. Baguettes and croissants are not an everyday food for me.

I love Korean rice and Korean food in general. Korean barbecues are cool - there's a table with a hole in it with fire coming through, and we throw meat on it.

Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.

There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and produced over such a long period of time that it's no longer debatable.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

What every human being should do is eat a vegetarian diet based on whole foods. Period.

The closer you can live to being a vegetarian the better.

On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now.

I'm a pescatarian, so I don't eat red meat or pork. So my dinners usually consist of seafood in some way. And maybe cookies after!