Food in Nepal

While we are at the orphanage we eat breakfast and tea at the motel. They don't have a restaurant. The meals are just supplied for us volunteers. Breakfast is milk tea, two slices of toast and an omellette. Amanda and I have both dispensed with the omellette and we just have the tea and toast. The toast is sweeter than Australian bread. The butter is OK some days. For dinner we have rice and dahl. Dahl is a thin lentil soup. Usually there is a hot pickles, some spinach and a serve of curried vegetables. You can eat as much as you wish.

The rice and dahl is a standard food across Nepal and is eaten by the locals with their hands. At some places we have had momos. These are the shape of fortune cookies but are soft dough, steamed or fried and filled with vegetable or meat. I like the chicken or buff (buffalo, as they don't eat beef), but Amanda only risks the vegetable. Other meals, usually when we are out, have been noodle soup, curry and a thing that looks like an apple turnover but had meat in it.

Everywhere we drink milk tea or marsala tea. The coffee tastes like weak chocolate. But every second shops serves tea or coffee or hot chocolate. Most also serve alcoholic drinks and soft drinks.