Dear Editor:
Mr Holt notes there are numerous restaurants in Thailand that already cater to vegetarians (Mailbag, Oct 7). That’s certainly true in Chiang Mai where his letter came from. But there are many places in Thailand including Pattaya where vegetarian options are limited. Furthermore, non-vegetarian Thai restaurants have a notorious reputation for sneaking fish sauce into their “vegetarian” dishes.
So I stand by my original argument that judging by the tremendous business some of these restaurants do during the Vegetarian Festival I think it would be to their benefit to continue to serve at least some of those vegetarian dishes all year around. In any case, I appreciate Mr Holt’s kind comments.
Eric Bahrt
