When you see their very tiny cages in animal shops, or eating octopus alive (“but they don’t feel anything”).
It is a bit like if they still live in the 90s (though it’s an amazing place! Like the 90s were).
But my point was that pretty much all asian countries love meat.
I mean, food in South Korea and the Philippines is 90% chicken.
Meat consumption is everywhere, because it provides the calories people need, easily, and tastes delicious.
People don't want to (and sometimes can't!) eat the stuff we feed to cows and chicken, anywhere.
I agree that it's not necessarily easy to find dishes with no meat at all in Asian countries, though.
It's probably a better strategy to try to convince people to eat less meat per dish (as in many Asian preparations) than to go vegetarian, anyway. At least it would be easier to convince me, that's for sure... if my country had the hawker stalls that they have in Singapore, I would already be eating less meat.
In Japan many dishes are what you describe.
In Korea and the Philippines, many dishes are pure meat.
I have no strategy or intent to control peoples diet though.