Jeeca Uy is a talented and popular recipe developer and content creator best known for sharing vegan dishes that reflect her Asian heritage and travels. Her blog, The Foodie That Takes Flight, started in 2015 and has been going from strength to strength ever since — Uy currently has more than 900,000 Instagram followers, 220,00 TikTok followers, and a further 52,000 YouTube subcribers, giving her a seven-figure outreach. Her debut cookbook, Vegan Asian, was published in both English and German.

Uly grew up in an Asian household, enjoying the dishes that her mom and her grandmothers made. After high school, she started her blog as a passion project, keen to keep track of the wonderful vegan recipes she was discovering. Wanderlust took her travelling in her teens, and she continued to find new recipes, sharing them with her ever-growing audience. Among her most popular recipes online are her saucy tofu dishes and easy chilli garlic oil noodles.

Uly’s profile as one of, if not the most prominent Filipina vegan blogger has seen her featured and interviewed by a range of media outlets, including Chinoy TV, Vogue Singapore, Live Naturally, and Chilly’s. The Foodie That Takes Flight is still very much a passion project for her, but her desire now is to inspire as many possible to take up vegan homecooking through her delicious and easily accessible recipes.