indian junk food

Bhu came back this week and brought back junk food for us all!

nepal II

Some other interesting pictures on the trail. Here's a woman processing millet.


One of the teahouses we stopped for lunch.


After lunch they just lie around enjoying the sun


The hills and mountains are all terraced up and grown with all kinds of stuff, veggies, wheat, barley, millet, mustard, etc.


Chicken wiht this weird tuft under its eyes.


kerosene heater under the table for nights when it gets really cold.


All the different agents that patronise theis outlet


Chainis?


Another kind of heater. made of mud, you burn wood in it and the heat is felt in the whole room.


Drying millet


Cleaning a chicken for dinner.


All the teahouses have similar looking menus with exactly similar things inside. Only diff is the price. It goes up as you gain altitude.


Whats in the menu you ask?


drying corn for flour in winter and seed in spring.



Buying oranges. Earlier on it was 2 rupees for one orange, then it became 5 rupees for 2 oranges. In Kathmandu, it was 10 rupees for one orange. Businessmen...

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.