Eat vegetarian,
your way.
An open map of where to eat and shop vegetarian in Malaysia, tuned to exactly how strict your practice is. Vegan, zhai, pork-free, or lunar-calendar days.
Less me. More you.无我，有你。One meatless meal at a time.
Vegetarians and flexitarians in Malaysia cannot reliably answer two everyday questions: where can I eat or buy vegetarian near me, and is this dish actually suitable for my practice? Tools built for Western vegan norms miss the local spectrum: zhai (allium-free), pork-free, and religious-calendar eating on the lunar 1st and 15th and during festivals.
Nizen answers both. It is a dataset first and an app second: a trustworthy, provenance-tracked map of vegetarian venues and products, filtered by exactly how strict your practice is. The code is open source and the data is openly licensed, so the community owns what it builds.
We measure success one way: every time the platform nudges one more person toward one more meatless meal, the mission compounds. No hard conversion push, no anti-meat message. Addition, not subtraction. One meatless meal at a time.
How it compounds
A flywheel, not a funnel
- 01
Useful tools
A strictness-aware directory and label scanner people actually reach for every day.
- 02
People contribute
Using the tools adds data: a check-in, a correction, a verified dish.
- 03
Merchants get found
Richer data surfaces community vegetarian shops beyond their existing circle.
- 04
More options grow
Merchants that survive create more places to eat, which brings more people in.
Why the rabbit
The rabbit on the moon
In the Jataka tale, a rabbit offers its own body so a stranger will not go hungry, and is placed on the moon in honour of that selflessness. It is the opposite of self-grasping: an act for others, for animals, the Earth, and each other.
That is what Nizen means. Not purity, not pressure. Just a little less me, a little more you.
What we are building
A dataset first. The app is a view on it. No launch over a thin directory.
- A directory with strictness filters as the hero feature, and a zhai-day reminder that tells you which stalls are open today.
- A label scanner that reads an ingredient list and flags what does not fit your practice, from gelatin to allium.
- A contribution game where adding and verifying places is the point, in the spirit of how the best community maps get built.
Built slowly, by a community.
Open code, open data, funded by people who care. Help it grow.