Newari food

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dry mashed rice krispies, referred to on the menu as 'bitten rice'

soy beans, fried till they're hard

hot water and lemon juice

dry lentils, not soaked or fresh, just hard and dry - flash burned in a dry pan

free battery acid

picled potato, which I can't spell, apparently, should I try to tag it

hot spice, to help remove the taste of the dry hard stuff and the buffalo

letter to jatb

same over-priced menu they have at all the other cheap caffs

Newari food by digitalia.

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Taken in Kathmandu, Central (See more photos or videos here)

27°40' 37" N, 85°25' 47" E

... you get a free glass of wine with it.
Tastes like acid.
But.

Newari food is so disgusting it's necessary.

Sorry. But it is. Blegh.

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	s_st says: Lentils? Oh yummy! Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )
	LukePDQ says: Always one of the challenges with rough travel. Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: Wish the prices had been 'rough', too. Blegh. Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )
	pragati tuladhar says: It's the best food!!...only that you aren't used to eating it..... It is not disgusting at all!!!...MAY BE WHAT YOU EAT WILL BE DISGUSTING TO OTHERS ...sorry it's true..!!! it's culture difference !!! Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: And may be not every single person in the entire world will agree that the food you like is great? Try BEING tolerant while you are shouting at other people to be tolerant, and perhaps one day more people might listen to you. Who cares if another country finds my country's food disgusting? I'm British, our food IS disgusting. So I should go round shouting in captial letters at the world? No. That would make me a total idiot. Are you? Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )
	prsthapit says: Hey who the hell you are to comment that “Newari food is so disgusting it's necessary”. What do you know about that food as if your country food is good enough? Dam you never comment like that on such a delicious food. I had tried those lot and they are delicious. Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: And may be not every single person in the entire world will agree that the food you like is great? Try BEING tolerant while you are shouting at other people to be tolerant, and perhaps one day more people might listen to you. Who cares if another country finds my country's food disgusting? I'm British, our food IS disgusting. So I should go round shouting in captial letters at the world? No. That would make me a total idiot. Are you? Posted 12 months ago. ( permalink )
	sukarmacharya says: hahahahaha.. I came across this page when I was searching recipes for newari food. After I read your comment I had to go through your entire collection of pics. Pretty Cool!! Cynical but honest. Oh ya.. for the tag.. Why the fuck would you pickle the potatoes? Its just the term that Nepali uses for all the tangy side dishes (Achar). In western term I would call it a potato salad newari style. And about food. No food would be disgusting when you are hungry. Mashed potato or pickled potato.. its a potato.. you prepare and eat it the way makes your senses happy. I say Potato.. you say Potato I say Tomato..you say Tomato.. Tomato ..Tomato... Tomato... Tomato.. Lets Call the whole thing off.. Cheers!!! Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: Thanks for the tolerant comment. I came to Nepal and got sick. For a full month. After 3 and a half weeks in a hotel room, with no language skills to even buy water properly, I decided to hobble around Nagarkot and Bhaktapur, in a slightly delirious daze - desperately trying to get some strength back into my body for a trek in week 5. This MIGHT have something to do with the cynicism and shock: I didn't really know what any food outside of tourist cafes in Thamel was like at that point. And having never known one could eat buffalo, then watched one being slaughtered outside a little earlier, my shoulders were a little crumpled in fear at the idea of eating it. This, I've found, is a feature of travelling alone - strange food can get to you. If you're with someone else, you can jsut raise your eyebrows and laugh it off, but alone you tend to let your gorge rise higher till you feel weird. Actually, Bhaktapur was my favourite (ish, there's a LOT to choose from!) place in a really incredible country. And I still have three good nepali friends I made there. When people ask me what are the prettiest, most amazing places in the world, I always put Nepal in the top three. So I do apologise if the one thing I wasn't so hot on was the newari food. I like dhal baat, if that's any excuse?! Thinking about the tags, I now live in Peru (they invented the potato!), and fried hard lentils, a dish entirely foreign to me back then, is now very similar to one of my favourite foods ever, here. Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )
	sukarmacharya says: Hi Digitalia. I can totally understand. No worries. I am from Nepal and I have been travelling a lot too. I am currently in US. I have tried food from lots of different nationalities. Some I like some I don't. We are all entitiled to that.. :> It is certainly not easy to travel alone to new places. Especially when culture is so different from what you are used to. Its kind a opposite for me. But I had lots of media info about western world. Still we come across things that shuts me up..hehe. kudos to you!! And have fun travelling!! Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: Hey, it's a testament to the inquisitiveness and openness of nepali people that anyone even comments. Nobody in Vietnam cares when I post photos of rat on a stick..... Enjoy your travels, and if you come to Peru, let me know! Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )
	Credence Trend says: Apparently, you've tasted battery acid, eh? ;-*) And, by the way, the Newari food I've tasted in Nepal was great. Maybe we went to different restaurants ... ... and stayed at different hotels. See, I didn't get sick. A cliche comes to my mind... "you get what you pay for." Hmm, I don't even know why I'm posting this comment... or viewing your picture sets. Well, I just got done looking at a whitewashed wall for two hours from a 3-ft distance. Boredome sure does test people's patience. And, I've just failed. Thanks to you. Have a good life. Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: Credence, it says acid, not battery acid. Credence, I never said I went to every restaurant in Nepal. I'm not the Lonely Planet, I'm someone entitled to an opinion on what I eat. Credence, I stayed at upmarket hotels in Nepal. I'm not a backpacker who believes it's a good thing to deprive the locals of a fair income, so I avoid fleapit dives and stay at hotels that charge fair prices. So why are you snapping "you get what you pay for" at me?The restaurant in the photo is a well to do restaurant, in a good area, with high prices. Credence, I didn't get sick from a hotel. How on earth would I get sick from a hotel? I got sick as a direct result of doing something stupid, traveling from a country with average 34 degree temperatures (Laos) directly to the Himalaya. I didn't even learn from it, because I then moved on to Kolkata, and of course got sick there as well. I didn't get sick because of Nepal, I just incidentally got sick, as human beings often do. Credence, I think you have just decided that I don't like Nepal and blame it for everything. Credence, it's not true. Credence, it's not even what I said. Nepal is one of my favourite places on earth, But Credence, there's no law that says I have to like the same food as you. Not even if I stare at a wall for several hours does hippy tourist illiberalism come to be law. Good luck with the wall. Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )
	Credence Trend says: I snapped because you ate a 'Newari meal' and heaped a bad judgment on 'Newari food'. Of course, you are entitled to your opinion as long as the opinion is expressed without denigrating a whole food culture. But, then again, you are even entitled to denigrate a food culture, as long as you don't mind getting criticized for it. I love Newari food. But, yes, I've had Newari meals that were crappy. Same goes for filet mignon at Lumiere in Vancouver. I don't have to give Newari food a bad rap just becuase I didn't likesome Newari meals. I'm glad you like Nepal. So do I. At least, that's something we have in common. Enjoy Machu Pichu. I've got friend from that area that went to school with me in Durham, North Carolina. Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )
	digitalia says: I'm answering the criticism, aren't I? :) It would be easy just to delete it. But man, people need to stop being so precious. I'm British, and nobody gives a damn about slagging off our food... it's practically a European habit. www.flickr.com/photos/digitalia/48825994/ I live in Peru, not in Macchu Pichu, in Amazonas (around 1500km north). If you ever visit, I'll be happy to show you some peruvian food, and you can say whatever you like about it. :) Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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