Thursday, May 29th, 2008...7:38 am
Food. Dang it. (File Under: Unconvincing Whining)
On a minor note of inconvenience, we are having a tough time finding good food, cheap. Kitchens/restaurants in these parts seem either to be of the supremely grubby, guaranteed-to-make-you-sick kind, or of the backpackers’-delight-rich-and-fatty-comfort-food-and-a-little-too-expensive-to-boot variety.
We’ve got a modest budget for our daily consumables, and our hotel provides a great breakfast spread. Lunch and dinner are putting us near our wits’ end. We just want to find clean, cheap local food–Nepali or South Asian (aka ‘Indian’) is fine.
We’ve been trying restaurants around, and while they’re uniformly decent and occasionally outright grubbin’, we’re spending on average eight-ten bucks for a meal for two.
Cheap, to be sure, but not quite cheap enough to keep us in budget, plus we don’t need all the french fries and stuff they love to feed tourists, particularly given we are pretty much off salads (leafy foods being the worst offenders for foodborne yuckiness).
We seek humble, local grub. Steamed greens, rice, a little chicken. Some eggs maybe. Nice soups. All of these we know are served here; none that we’ve been able to find in restaurants. We expect once we find the key, we’ll be eating well for five or six bucks a day for the two of us. We want to let that LSF money go to educate little girls, not feed us Chicken Sizzlers at Helena’s!
(And don’t even get me started on the weather! Turns out it’s hot here in summer. Who knew??)
4 Comments
May 29th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Ahhh,
So good to be reading your stories… and the photos - fantastic. Amy, I was thinking about you the other day while I was meditating (sitting really, apparently it is only meditating if your mind is free of thoughts - I’m working on it). Have a new acquaintance from nepal I will see if he has any food suggestions!
Love you both,
K
May 30th, 2008 at 7:38 am
weee! IT worked. Praise jesus. The hunt for humble food - where to find the kusheri equivalent? A good challenge. I am so so glad you are back in blogging territory. I just love waking up and checking the blog every morning. I can’t wait to hear about the girls and the mud huts. Man, it makes you realize how little people really need. And yet, how much difference it could make in their lives to have one girl become educated. It must be such a sweet contrast to be around kids who recognize what a huge blessing it is to go to school. The things we so took for granted! I am thinking of you all the time (please, please be keeping an eye out for seedy back-pocket bomb carrying types. That story freaked me out). I am holding a little prayer in my heart for your mom and sister (and of course the bride and groom) that all goes smoothly - or at least, with good humor and appreciation for one another all around. SO glad Ems and Wendy will be there to buffer. Ginormous hugs. XOXO Ele
May 30th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Sounds like you are having some fun since we left. You sure the bomber only lost a cheek? Hopefully he lost other parts and we don’t have to worry about his gene pool anymore.
I have a favor to ask. I am trying to find a photo I can share of the Vandal banner at the top of Mera. There is one on your CD, but it is locked up in read only mode. I didn’t have my camera that day so I am out of luck and Phil had better sense than to waste film on a Vandal. Any help you can give me?
Thanks and keep trucking over there.
Jack
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 am
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