A new restaurant opened recently, just across the parking lot from Fu's
Taste of Japan... Linda and I had noticed it when we had lunch last
month at Fu's, when it was open but hadn't had its Grand Opening yet...

Nepali Kitchen had that Grand Opening last month, on the 24th, but our
fourth Sunday group had already planned to go to the King and I for Thai
food then... so Linda and I decided to go today to check it out... As it
is run/owned by friends/family of Edith's Nepali friend, she wanted to
come along, too... In fact, she insisted on it being her treat, and she
even did the ordering... Linda and I had a little input into it... ;)

First she ordered a plate of each of the three flavors of momo
(dumplings)... they were out of pork so we had two plates of chicken and
one of veggies... looked exactly like your typical steamed dumplings,
but with a fillings a bit different and served with a red chili dipping sauce... the veggie ones were a soft cabbage and I think chopped kale or spinach also fairly soft, and the chicken ones ground chicken mixed with something to make a somewhat solid filling... very tasty and the sauce
spicy enough without being overly so (for the wimpier)... There were
about 10-12 dumplings per plate... Edith was figuring on taking stuff
home at the end of the meal... These came with bowls of a red chili
spiced broth...

Second course was sel roti... Fried bread (possibly with some cornmeal
as part of the batter) in circlets, the bread about an inch or so, and
the circlet about 5-6" diameter... served with a soup that had a little
less heat than the first broth, and a lot of veggies (well-cooked corn
kernals, fresh red onion pieces, potato (or similar, they were more
golden than I'd expect) chunks) in it... we used that partly for dipping
the roti in, along with some of the dumpling sauce...

Edith ordered the dhido set (billed as a Napoli specialty) as the main course... it was on the special order part of the menu, but we assured
the waitress that we didn't mind the extra wait it would be to get it...
we spent the extra time eating the dumplings and the roti, and drinking
our first cup of Napoli tea (quite similar to the Indian masala tea,
with milk, sugar and spices)... What came... a small platter of salad
fixings (a couple pieces of fresh lime, cucumber slices, largish carrot
slices and a pile of iceberg lettuce)... some little dishes of: some
probably homemade yoghurt, some spiced cooked greens, "pickle" (spicy
mix of tomato, cucumber, raw red onion strips, little red hot
peppers)... a basket with a peppadum-like crisp flat bread and a handful
of what looked and tasted a lot like the shrimp crisps recently talked
about here, in various colors but in fat little tubelets... a little
bowl of chicken chunks in a red curry sauce, and the same but with
mutton (the chicken appeared to be chunks of wing bits, the mutton
probably chunks of goat, both with bones to pick out)... yet another
bowl of soup, this time what appeared to be some sort of split pea,
which among other things had some nice little chunks of ginger in it...
and the piece de resistance, a bowl of purplish-brown blob which looked puddingish (and turned out to be more of a Play-doh consistency, sorta)
that you'd pull off bits from, and dip them in the accompaniments that
came with (see above, little dishes)...

We ate most of it in proper Napoli fashion, using our fingers as
utensils (the soups that we shared, we were using spoons, though)... All
very tasty, and we had to each have a second cup of the tea... :) Only
a little food was actually left over, and it went home with Edith and
Linda...

And for dessert, white spongy balls of deliciousness, soaking in a
rosewater sugar syrup....

This month's 4th Sunday group location will be at Nepali Kitchen...

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