In Japan, a friend of mine who was vegetarian, ordered a salad. She confirmed that there was no meat in the salad, no fish, nothing, said that she was vegetarian, that she was allergic to meat, that she absolutely couldn't have any. She spoke Japanese, so she was able to be very clear.

Waiter said fine, yes, he understood. No, he'd make sure they left off the tuna, it was just lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber.

The salad came. It had baconbits on the top.

She always checked when we went traveling for Indian restaurants in whatever city we visited, because she knew that she could get vegetarian stuff there.