Yes, when it’s about food, the title comes to me in French.

Do you know anything about Nepalese gastronomy?

For me, there are 3 things you need to know about it.

• Fist and best of all : the Momos!

What to say about momos? that they look like any ravioli/dumpling you can find in a lot of places in the world. that they are so much better than those cousins of them? You eat them one by one with a great sauce and you enjoy every piece of it? yeah, ok maybe you enjoy it all the more after a long trekking day… but still, if you can, just try good momos, it’s awsome!

• Second but not less famous : Dal Bhat

I think it’s the national favorite meal. So famous that, in any guesthouse you can have refill of your Dal Bhat for free. That’s the best if your starving : good, free refill and cheap. It’s rice with lentils’ soup and potatoes and curry. You won’t starve after that.

They even have a saying about it :

Dal Bhat Power

24 hours

No toilet, no shower

Smile like a flower

That’s an old mountain saying to explain that even if trekking can be hard with poor accommodations, you can always have good food.

• Last one and my favorite for breakfast : Gurung Bread (or Tibetan bread)

Some say it’s like chapati but I think it’s just so much better! It’s fried and sweet (so it’s better for breakfast than for regular meal). It’s… soft, sweet and filling.

Yummy yummy yummy!

Those are my favorites but they also have nice gustative experiments like the Snikers roll: some sort of roll with Gurung bread paste and filled with snikers and fried. Don’t expect to be up and about after eating that sort of deserts but it’s nice to try it after a walking day!