World Travel 2013-2014, Nepalese Food

Breakfast

We ate a variety of different foods for breakfast. In one accommodation we had breakfast included (not so nice) but when we had accommodation that didn’t include breakfast, we went out and hunted for whatever we felt like that day. Most restaurants and cafes do a breakfast set – typically western style with toast, eggs and coffee or tea. They are typically priced at 150 rupees ($1.5 AUD) for the basic set, anywhere up to about 500 rupees ($5) for the works.

Here is a photo of our 150 rupee breakfast set in Pokhara which included toast, two eggs, hash brown and cooked tomato

Breakfast Set, Pokhara, Nepal
Breakfast Set, Pokhara, Nepal

and of course the coffee!

Coffee with Breakfast, Pokhara, Nepal
Coffee with Breakfast, Pokhara, Nepal

We also tried out something different for breakfast one day. Called sakshuka, I had no idea what was going to turn up at the table, but it turned out to be a tomato mix with an egg on top, served with bread, mayonnaise and a salad. A very filling breakfast for about 200 rupees ($2 AUD)

Sakshuka, Pokhara, Nepal
Sakshuka, Pokhara, Nepal

Lunch

We rarely ate lunch as we generally had a pretty filling breakfast, so instead we’ll move onto the dinner options

Dinner

Most of the restaurants in Nepal serve the same menu (or pretty close to) with variations in price, and sometimes what is added to the dish on the side. Obviously, if you visit a speciality Korean or Japanese restaurant (we did see these around) you would see different dishes, but we typically went to the small restaurants on side streets which generally had pretty consistent menus. Of course, being Nepal we had to try the Nepali set that we kept seeing on the menu everywhere. Typically around 150 rupees ($1.5 AUD) for a vegetable version, they contain rice, vegetable curry, salad and a few additional dishes.

Indian Set, Pokhara, Nepal
Indian Set, Pokhara, Nepal

Another favourite for Takeshi for dinner was the chow mein on all of the menus. This dish is generally around $1 or $1.5 AUD and can be vegetable, egg, chicken or some other topping on top of the noodles.

Egg Chowmein, Kathmandu, Nepal
Egg Chowmein, Kathmandu, Nepal

Finally one of my personal favourites for a filling meal was the vegetable or chicken manchurian. We found a restaurant in Thamel, Kathmandu named the Ace Cafe which sold an incredibly delicious vegetable or chicken version of this dish with rice for around $1.2 or $1.5 AUD (slightly more expensive for the chicken). Super yummy!

Vegetable Manchurian, Kathmandu, Nepal
Vegetable Manchurian, Kathmandu, Nepal

And a few more photos of food we munched while in Nepal. Most of these dishes would be around the $1 or $2 AUD mark, making Nepal a very affordable place for food. Pokhara was a bit more expensive than Kathmandu (we found Thamel to have the cheapest food), but Takeshi and I could enjoy several dishes with milk tea and feel very full for around $5 AUD in Thamel, or around $6-7 AUD outside of Thamel in Pokhara or other areas in Kathmandu.

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