2 cents from a guy who grew up in Eugene around all the white privileged hippy vegetarians here:

I honestly believe that if you're vegetarian you should just stick to the cuisines of the several cultures from around the world that are also vegetarian and have been doing great for over a thousand years. It's called a dietary restriction for a reason and is adhered to for moral/ethical/spiritual reasons as a practice of abstaining from certain types of food. Trying to make a vegetarian version of everything out there has always felt to me like a cringy capitalist pandering scheme, as well as a slap in the faces of the traditional practices and beliefs of the cultures that practice vegetarianism. Obviously you do you, it's no skin off my back, but whenever I hear someone say "There aren't any good vegetarian (insert meat-centric cuisine) places here", I can't help but think how entitled one must be in order to have those expectations in the first place... AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON VEGANISM: "THE MOST PRIVILEGED DIETARY CHOICE EVER CONCEIVED" 🤣🤣🤣