Just eat according to this map! A list of 100 green restaurants in the "Green Food and Beverage Guide" has been released to collect gas and eat a sustainable environment.

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Green catering is ramming, more than a hundred green restaurants, follow the map to eat! The Taipei Cultural Exploration Association launched the Green Food and Beverage Guide in 2018 to establish an exchange platform for consumers, farmers and green restaurants. Within two years, it visited hundreds of green restaurants in the country, built maps of various regions, and compiled books. So that consumers can follow the clues to find, to "eat" to practice green consumption.

Step into green restaurants from farmers' bazaar to gather green productivity and consumption power

The Taipei Cultural Exploration Association used to handle organic farmers' bazaars in Shuihua Garden. In view of the increase in the number of channels for selling organic agricultural products in recent years, and the decline in the turnover of organic farmers' markets, the current Secretary General Huang Chun-Cheng says that for many years, the sales situation of organic and friendly small farmers has not improved, while the proportion of Chinese people eating out has increased, so restaurants have also played an important role in conveying food concepts.

"at first, I wanted to go to the green restaurant and ask them to buy more food from the farmer, but I found that the green restaurant was also very hard." Huang Chun-Cheng said frankly that organic, friendly farmers and green restaurants are all facing a survival crisis, which shows that Chinese people's dietary literacy is not yet popular, so he wants to establish a green catering guide to gather organic and friendly farmers, access roads, and green restaurants.

Green Restaurant Guide makes maps of restaurants and organic farms (Photo Source _ Green Catering Guide) Green restaurants blossom all over the place and continue to be added.

In the past, the Agriculture and Food Department has set up organic heart gourmet restaurants, and the Environmental Protection Department also has a list of restaurants that are rare. How is the guide to green food different?. He Jiaying, the current commissioner of the Green Food Guide, said that at present, the Green Food Guide has 108 restaurants distributed all over Taiwan, including not only restaurants, but also organic, friendly farmers, organic farms and other paths. in addition to collecting restaurants to make maps, they will also connect restaurants with different ingredients, dishes and activities.

In particular, the Green Food and Beverage Guide does not start in the form of logo or certification. He Jiaying said that the diet social movement first won the recognition and trust of consumers, and then introduced the logo to make sense. At present, the Green Food and Beverage Guide has four conveners all over Taiwan who are responsible for visiting various restaurants to join the platform.

"every restaurant has the potential to become a green restaurant, and the green food guide just speeds up the process." He Jiaying said that the cost of using organic ingredients is as high as 5% to 10%. In fact, the key to the change lies in the operators' awareness of green consumption or not.

Huang Juncheng said that at present, Taiwan's green catering guidelines adopt a trust system, and there is no cost at all. Restaurants that use organic and friendly ingredients are free to join, and the production process must be based on not harming the environment.

Huang Yuxin, the operator of the Sunshine Restaurant, joined the Green Food Guide (Photo Source _ Green Food Guide) not only the restaurant map, but also the diversification of "Green Media" and "Dou Festival".

The Green Food and Beverage Guide also set up "Green Media," visited various restaurants and wrote articles. Lin Mei-hui, the director, said that the painstaking efforts of green restaurants, organic and friendly farmers should be seen. In addition, green buildings and green media elements are also the themes of green media planning, such as the introduction of domestic bamboo and the application of bamboo to the layout of market stalls.

The Green Food Guide also plans activities, such as this year's "edamame bean festival". As a result, the Yunlin high-speed railway caused the local strata to sink, and farmers planted edamame beans in order to improve, so they asked various restaurants to design different edamame bean cuisines to connect consumers, and the chefs tried their best to serve edamame bean stinky tofu and edamame bean ice cream. and edamame bean nine-story cooking, full of creativity.

Lin Mei-hui says that after the soya bean festival, the next ingredient activity is the water chestnut festival and organic rice dumplings, which will continue to create the sound volume of a green diet through simultaneous online and physical activities in the future.

In response to the Green Food Guide, the store will put the Green Food Manifesto (Photo _ Lin Yijun) in the store, following the example of the British Sustainable Catering Association, and even Uber Eats asks for a list of green restaurants.

Huang Juncheng explained that the green food guide is still in the stage of social movement, and consumers' trust in the green food guide must be established before it can be identified as a logo in the future. or the classification standard of green food and beverage, "the most ideal stage is to become a green Michelin, and the restaurants recommended by the green food and beverage guide all make delicious dishes with good ingredients."

Huang Juncheng says that green food has been practiced abroad for many years. For example, the Green Food Association (GRA, Green Restaurant Association) in the United States and the Sustainable Food and Beverage Association (SRA, Sustainable Restaurant Association) in the United Kingdom are all organizations that promote green food and connect with green restaurants.

Mr Wong explained that both GRA and SRA had many standards and classifications. however, GRA adopted a strict demerit points system, while SRA adopted an additional points system that encouraged restaurant progress. After evaluation, Huang Juncheng and the team believe that SRA's