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Kina Kind Cuisine is all about the vegan diet and homemade gut-friendly dishes.

The Meaty Beginning

Piyarat Mukura and her husband Sakorn Sae Wong became vegan three years ago.

Raising two daughters, a five-year-old and a three-month-old, the couple today run Kina Kind Cuisine, a full-scale plant-based restaurant near Muang Pattaya in Chon Buri province.

Kina’s menu is strictly vegan, meaning the food is free from animal products, whether it be meat, seafood, dairy or even honey.

Yet it wouldn’t be far from the truth to say their compassionate culinary project was built from a very fleshy foundation.

Piyarat is the third generation of a family-owned 40-year-old eatery where Chinese-style roast duck and BBQ pork were the popular specialities.

After graduating with an art degree from Australia in 2012, Piyarat returned…