halaal food

Traveling as a Muslim: How to Find Halal Food Abroad

published by M.Saeed on 6 May, 2025 - 16:07

Traveling can be one of life’s greatest joys — experiencing new cultures, meeting new people, and tasting local cuisines. But for Muslim travelers, one challenge often stands out: how to find halal food abroad. Whether you’re vacationing, studying, or working in a non-Muslim-majority country, ensuring your meals align with your faith takes a bit of planning. Always remember to check halal or haram status of restaurants and products before consuming to stay confident in your choices. Here’s a guide to help you navigate halal food while traveling.

 Do Your Research Before You Go

Subways Chicken Teriyaki contains alcohol?

published by You on 4 February, 2016 - 12:32

Now this is something I didn't expect to encounter - when subways states that their meats in the store are halaal, that is precisely what they mean - the stuff on them might not be.

Someone at work mentioned that Subways Chicken Teriyaki ay not be halaal due to the addition of alcohol. A quick google search leads to this webpage with an email from subways that contains the following:

Is Cadbury's chocolate haraam? ("Cadbury's Jihad")

published by You on 8 June, 2014 - 01:08
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There seems to be a lot of rumour going around at the moment and its important to look at the facts.

Since a few days there has been word of mouth information being passed arouns about Cadbury's chocolate being haraam. Some word of mouth has developed further - "all those chocolates found with a red dot on the packet are haraam, those without are allowed", and stories of "Muslims declaring jihad on Cadbury's".

As always, there is rarely smoke without fire and all these stories must have started somewhere.

The smoke is from a story in Malaysia. In Malaysia, a Muslim country, there are tests carried out on products to confirm their suitability for Muslims.

Domino's Pizza scraps halal menu

published by You on 16 August, 2010 - 14:50

Domino's Pizza, which was among the first fast food outlets in Britain to serve halal-only takeaways, has ditched the menu after poor sales.

The chain enraged customers 18 months ago by completely removing pork from its pizzas in favour of halal-only meat at its branch in Hall Green, Birmingham.

But the pizza firm have been forced into an embarrassing U-turn back to their original menu due to poor sales.

Read more @ The Telegraph

ooh, the french are really going to hate this!

published by You on 19 February, 2010 - 15:17

A leading French fast food outlet (the article calls it "the french answer to McDonalds" but its called "Quick Hamburger" which may make it sound suitably "foreign" and upmarket over there...) has decided to trial halaal meat only in a few of its outlets (well, 8 ).

Do you think people who cannot stand other women to have the right to wear a veil will be able to stomach (literally!) halaal meat in their burgers?

Or will they say "non" ?