Monday, December 11, 2006

Nepal food


Lets start on the Nepal leg of my trip, and there's no better way than to start with FOOD, the 4 letter F word! Food on the trail was pretty decent, especially after you see what the kitchen looks like. They can make speghetti and pizza on a firewood stove.


Tibeten bread and omelette


'Momo' aka dumplings. This one is veg. Didnt taste taht good. Yup candle light dinner. No electricity at that place.


That puff thingy is called a spring roll to my surprise. Next to it is very starchy veg soup. Most of the meals on the trip was vegetarian. Meat is scarce on the not so tourist-y route. At the main tourist circle, you can find chicken meat.


So little filling in the spring roll!


Lousy mushroom soup and fried noodles.


Good veg soup and fried chicken. Pretty tough meat. I guess they slaughtered the oldest one around.


What I half heartedly ate at 4130m above sea level. A bowl of veg soup and some potato thingy they call 'rossi'. Its fried mashed potato mixed with some vegetables.


Macaroni with cheese that got too cold and tomato soup. Didnt enjoy this one.


Mushroom soup with wild mushrooms! and good noodles. This one was lovely. Good food and warm sun.


What the locals always eat. They call it Dal Baht, i.e. rice with a type of bean called dal made into a soup. Normally the colour of the dal soup is green but some have the yellow version. They have lots of rice and some sour weirdish tasting radish pickles. There will be one or two side dishes. The one above shows some mix veg dish and at the background is fried dried buffalo meat.


Another dal baht version. They have fried veggies with potato and curry buffalo.


Chicken soup and speghetti. So-so tasting.


Blackout when it was dinner time hence the candles. Veg soup, dal baht with western salad, dal soup, fried veg, and curry chicken that was full of tomato and not a hint of chilli.



Dal Baht with curry chicken, veg and potato, and of course the dal soup with a papad.

3 comments:

J said...

Is that last pic from Chhomrong??

samsam said...

no, that one is Tikhedhunga, the last night on trek. The following day i exited from Naya Pul. They all have the same heavy bronze plates.

J said...

Ah ok. I dont think i stayed there. Its just that not so many of the guesthouses had huge clean wood tables without some plastic covering it. :p