Food & Drink

Dal Baht (lentils and rice) is eaten most days. Newar cuisine includes spiced vegetables, chapatis and sweet snacks such as jelabis (spirals of batter soaked in syrup and fried). Other cuisine includes thukba (a hearty soup) and momos (ravioli). Meat is commonly goat, pork, chicken or buffalo, as beef is forbidden.

Typical dishes may include:

• Baji (a preparation from flattened rice)
• Bhuti (a preparation of white beans)
• Cheekugu Pukala (small pieces of fried meant)
• Chhakoola (meat pieces in curry)
• Chhou Kwa (bamboo shoot soup)
• Dayekala (meat curry)
• Della (meat placed atop a baji)
• Dhau (yogurt)
• Gorma (white jellied meat)
• Hamoh Kwa (sesame seed curry)
• Hayenla (meat curry with ginger)
• Lainsoo (dried radish curry)
• Pahmaya (curry of green pulses)
• Pharsi (pumpkin curry)
• Sakhah (brown sugar to accompany dhau)
• Simpu (bran curry)
• Sisabusa (raw radish, raw peas and fresh fruit pieces)
• Tahkha (jelly meat)
• Tahkugu Pukala (large slice of fried meat)
• Wauncha Tukan (green mustard vegetable)

The national drink is chiya (tea with milk, sugar, and spices, and sometimes yak butter). Cluing (beer made from barley, maize, rye, or millet) is popular in the mountains. Arak (potato alcohol) and raksi (wheat or rice spirit) are also available. Rakshi is one of the traditionally distilled alcoholic drink of Nepal, and is made from millet.