Green and fresh: Vegetarians in China

A recipe from vegetarian cook Xiao Bai. [Photo/amazon.cn]

Xiao Bai, a post-1980s vegetarian cook, attracts 30,000 followers on Douban and around 40,000 followers on Sina Weibo.

From 2011, she began sharing on Douban the photos of the meat-free dishes she made. The food was aesthetically featured in the pictures, which soon attracted a lot of attention. One year later, her first cook book, Record of Vegetarian Xiao Bai, was published.

The book includes eight categories of vegetarian food, which include soup, dessert and beverages. Many of the recipes are inspired by foreign cuisine, such as Thai and Japanese food.

The young cook was not content with promoting her healthy lifestyle only through books. In 2013, she and another investor opened their first take-away vegetarian food restaurant "Have Fun" in Beijing.

Now there are a total of four "Have Fun" in the capital city that only provide take-away meat-free food and beverages.