TESCO Cares About Vegans and the Environment

We occasionally head down to Johor Bahru for shopping and with the OPC scheme having been tweaked recently to include full-day use on Saturdays, we went over last Saturday. Our usual haunt is JUSCO Tebrau City located just after the junction of Tebrau Highway and Pasir Gudang Highway, and recently a TESCO shopping centre was built next to this.

The food court at TESCO has roti canai (whilst JUSCO does not) and is primarily the reason we started to patronise the former.

However, we have come to realise that TESCO does indeed have quite a bit to offer the vegetarian and vegan. First off, it supports environmental consciousness and has put in place some energy saving mechanisms (the first time we have come across this level of sensitivity in Malaysia).

Next, the labelling of the house-brand (i.e. TESCO Value) products is rather comprehensive and informative - a welcome change from the typical hard-to-find-and-more-difficult-to-decipher scant ingredient lists that are normally found on most food packaging.

Notably, my wife even let out a yelp when she noticed the labelling includes a 'suitable for vegans' tag - something we'd be hardpressed to find even in sophisticated Singapore! Needless to say we were/are highly impressed with TESCO and hope one day they'll open an outlet here in Singapore.