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
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
same over-priced menu they have at all the other cheap caffs
27°40' 37" N, 85°25' 47" E27.676839 85.429687
... 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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Lentils? Oh yummy!
Posted 29 months ago.
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Always one of the challenges with *rough*
travel.
Posted 29 months ago.
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Wish the prices had been 'rough', too.
Blegh.
Posted 29 months ago.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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