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Issue 183 | February 2017

What’s On Your ‘Bucket List’?

Climb to the top of the highest point on earth and descend safely to sea level with all 21 digits intact. - Joe Patterson at www.bucketlist.org <Climb Everest...

Patan's Power Breakfasts

Patan's Power Breakfasts

Breakfast should be everyone’s favorite meal of the day, it feels almost criminal when it’s not. Your breakfast pretty much decides what your mood for the whole day will be...

Temptations at Temptino

Temptations at Temptino

Newly opened Temptino makes quite a first impression. This restaurant is a new franchise of Ghangri Café serving Italian, continental and many more. Its chill ambience and great selection of...

Blast from the Culinary Past

Blast from the Culinary Past

It’s no longer news that Nepal’s eating scene has changed, and drastically so. There are new restaurants everywhere, so many that it’s now become impossible to eat at all of...

Delectable BBQ Nepali Style at Bajeko Sekuwa

The cheerful logo of the Bajeko Sekuwa chain of restaurants can be seen more and more around town these days. That’s because they now have eight outlets around the city,...

Food City Kathmandu 25 Reasons Why

Food City Kathmandu 25 Reasons Why

These days, Kathmandu can rightfully be called a “Food City”. Along with diversified culture and tradition, one can also find a large variety of cuisines—whether it's local Newari,...

Batuk A Magar Delicacy

Batuk A Magar Delicacy

Magar is one of the indigenous ethnic nationalities of Nepal. They mostly inhabit the districts of Palpa, Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, Syangja, Baglung, Parbat, Myagdi, Tanahun, and Gorkha in the western region,...

Food of a Different Time

Food of a Different Time

Satya Mohan Joshi has never been shy in admitting that he is partial to a nip of alcohol before bed. “I’ve been open about the fact that I used to...

The Third Eye, Taste that's Close to Divine

The Third Eye has been a Thamel mainstay since 1989, serving up some of the best Indian and continental food in the city. And you don’t jut have to take...

Rejuvenating the Festive Spirit

Rejuvenating the Festive Spirit

It’s when the shopping begins that you know that the festival is now really and truly on. It’s not the shopping for clothes, decorations, and such that I’m talking about,...

Delicious, Crunchy Kanchamba

Delicious, Crunchy Kanchamba

Kanchamba is a food that you should not judge by its outward appearance, because it tastes so much more spectacular than it looks. Sometimes called ‘Thakali finger chips,’ this buckwheat...

The Thangka Guru

The Thangka Guru

A four-storey commercial building at Hattisar is the last place you would expect a thangka school to be. Still, when I visited the school, I expected to find a doorway...

Close to My Heart

Close to My Heart

From time to time, I love to have a fulfilling meal in a bhojanalaya, one of those very local eat-all-you-can restaurants where they serve you piping hot meals of daal,...

Hopeful Mornings

Hopeful Mornings

It is 5:00 a.m., and I am shivering as I look out from my terrace. “It’s so cold, who wakes up this early?” I mumble, and then run towards my...

The Many Blessings of Saraswati

Come Vasanta Panchami, the 5th day of the bright fortnight of the lunar month ofMagh, the temples of Goddess Saraswati will see flocks of devotees of various age group, all...