{"id":40,"date":"2007-12-28T06:17:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T06:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/food-and-drink-in-nepal\/"},"modified":"2007-12-28T06:17:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T06:17:18","slug":"food-and-drink-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/food-and-drink-in-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and drink in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nepali<\/strong> <strong>food<\/strong> and <strong>drink<\/strong> is a little dull, but away from the trekking lodges, where is a massive choice of good quality food and drink to choose from.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important<\/strong> : don&#8217;t ever drink the tap water in<br \/>\nNepal.&nbsp; It is&nbsp;OK if treated, and most restaurants boil and filter their water.&nbsp; Tea is safe.&nbsp; Bottled water is everywhere, but check the seal.<\/p>\n<h2>Nepali&nbsp;food<\/h2>\n<p>Daal bhaat (lentil and vegetable curry) is eaten twice a<br \/>\nday by 95% of Nepali people. It is a cheap and filling meal, but can get boring quickly. It is often the only meal available in trekking lodges, but you wont mind if you have been trekking for 6 hours that day. At a restaurant expect to pay NRS100,&nbsp;less at a trekking lodge and as little as NRS25 at a proper Nepali eatery.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>                       To eat daal bhaat the local way, pour the soupy daal<br \/>\n  onto the rice, mix it into balls with your fingers, add a bit of pickle and<br \/>\n  vegetables and shovel it into your mouth with your right hand.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<li>                       Don&#8217;t eat with your left hand, that is reserved for<br \/>\n  toilet duties.<\/p>\n<li>                                         Ask for a spoon if you want one.&nbsp; Nepali people often use a spoon if they cannot wash their hands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tourist food<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>In all tourist friendly areas in <a href=\"\/travel-guide\/asia\/nepal\">Nepal<\/a>       (Kathmandu and Pokhara) you will find a massive selection of Italian, Greek, Indian, Mexican and other foods, such as hamburgers.  Meals are cheap, about NRS200 (US$2.85), but this can be three times price of eating local food.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>MoMos<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>No trip to Nepal is complete without trying MoMos.  Tibetan vegetable (and sometimes chicken) dumplings carefully wrapped and normally steamed (the best) and sometimes fried, served with a medium spicy sauce.  MoMos are a great snack or even a meal.  You should try them at least once.  A  plate of 8 or so cost NRS70, and are served everywhere, even if not on the menu.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Drink<\/h2>\n<p>Tea is served everywhere in Nepal and costs about NRS10.  Beer is heavily taxed and costs a whopping NRS190 for a 650ml bottle.  Here are a few examples prices:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tea &#8211; NRS10\n<li>Filter coffee &#8211; NRS30\n<li>Fruit juice &#8211; NRS50\n<li>Lasse (yoghurt drink) NRS100\n<li>Beer &#8211; NRS190\n<li>Wine (bottle) &#8211; NRS600<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Eating on the cheap in Nepal<\/h2>\n<p>Here is an example of how to get good food at minimal cost in Nepal<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>Meal<\/td>\n<td>Food<\/td>\n<td>Cost<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Breakfast <\/td>\n<td>Fruit or pastry <\/td>\n<td>NRS30 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lunch <\/td>\n<td>MoMos and tea <\/td>\n<td>NRS80 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dinner <\/td>\n<td>Daal bhaat or curry with tea <\/td>\n<td>NRS110 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Total <\/td>\n<td>   NRS250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Eating like a king in Nepal<\/h2>\n<p>Eating well also doesn&#8217;t cost a lot in Nepal, but it<br \/>\nwill drive up your daily costs a lot.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td>Meal<\/td>\n<td>Food<\/td>\n<td>Costs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Breakfast <\/td>\n<td>Set breakfast <\/td>\n<td>NRS120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lunch <\/td>\n<td>Curry, MoMos, soup or sandwich with fruit juice <\/td>\n<td>NRS170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dinner <\/td>\n<td>Pizza, steak, burger or mexican <\/td>\n<td>NRS220<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Beer <\/td>\n<td>NRS190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Total <\/td>\n<td>\n<p>    NRS700<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Mexican     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepali food and drink is a little dull, but away from the trekking lodges, where is a massive choice of good quality food and drink to choose from. Important : don&#8217;t ever drink the tap water in Nepal.&nbsp; It is&nbsp;OK if treated, and most restaurants boil and filter their water.&nbsp; Tea is safe.&nbsp; Bottled water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itravelabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}