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(Image: https://live.staticflickr.com/3834/9930517215_aa7b62f337_m.jpg)Enjoy savings up to 75% off, including more amazing daily deals, from your favourite fashion and lifestyle brands. Cue a fierce debate in the Time Out Abu Dhabi office, with a guacamole line drawn down the middle of the carpet between the two resident plant-eaters (one on #TeamAvo, the other on #TeamBee). Soy products such as seitan and tofu, pulses and legumes such as lentils and beans, and grains such as quinoa and spelt are just a handful of the high-protein plant products vegans have in their arsenal.

I think in the short term, you will see many vegan dishes being introduced to Abu Dhabi's restaurants as operators try to capture the new emerging segment in the market. Le Royal Méridien's @District by Amalfi and Al Maryah Island's Roberto's have both launched exclusive vegan menus, while pubs such as The Sportsman's Arms in Zayed Sports City now have specially curated vegan sections on their menus, as do multinational chains Carluccio's and Wagamama. Where once vegans might have been offered a side salad, or the meat taken off“ the plate (how very gracious, you really shouldn't shirt printing dubai have) unless they dined at one of Abu Dhabi's few exclusively vegan eateries, numerous restaurants, pubs and cafés have now begun introducing whole vegan menus.

Nevertheless, says Shakespeare: There's so much more available now, places like The Body Shop and Lush have lots of vegan products, even vegan perfume. But as many warak enab-weary vegans will know, eating hummus (complete protein though it may be) every day is not an expression of living your best life. We've covered vaganism before here at Time Out Abu Dhabi, but it's worth delving into again.

I have been to Dubai (and Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah). Come 2020, when an expected 25 million visitors will descend on Dubai for Expo , the city is set to become an even more robust force in global tourism.