From: "Edith McKlveen"
To: "Nancy Backus"
Subject: Nepali Kitchen review and echo greeting to forward
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2019 08:09:50 -0400

Dear Echo-ites (Echoists?) . . .

Greetings from a lurker with fond memories of my one picnic. I asked
Nancy to pass along what I consider truly heavenly news.

Richard and Nancy and I have found that there is a parking lot in
Henrietta that is the threshold to the divine realm.
On the one side of it is Taste of Japan, and on the other is a new
restaurant, Nepali Kitchen, just opened by a Nepali family that ran a successful restaurant in Nepal. I wrote the following comments about it
on Facebook. I have been writing speeches and promotional materials for
a "new American" of Nepali background, and as a result, my decade-long relationship with Rochester's Nepali community has gotten deeper and
tastier and expanded into Henrietta.

To be precise, the restaurant is run by folks who are Nepali-speaking Bhutanese. Their ancestors, along with many other people, left Nepal in
the 1600s to go work for the King of Bhutan building Buddhist temples,
and they returned to Nepal beginning in the 1980s. After many years
living in a refugee camp, they emigrated to the U.S. and ended up, by
God's grace, in Rochester.

Richard and Nancy deemed the Nepali Kitchen worthy of Fourth Sunday
visitation. It really is wonderful.
Below is a review of it that I posted on Facebook.

I have given up directly posting on the echo because, like so many
things, proficiency requires daily practice, and I have not been able to
chip away at the needed 10,000 hours.
From January to now, life has revolved around coping with unexpected yet
boring physical realities: falling off a treadmill at the Y in January
and wrenching neck and right shoulder, being sick with a virus in
February, and wrangling with medical people from February until now about getting a date for umbilical hernia repair surgery (still TBD, grrr).

Have heard that life is progressing for, as some of my kin might say, all y'all. So glad the northern hemisphere is pointed toward spring; that's
some pretty foundational progress for sure.

Edith

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#NewAmericanDreamer #CityCountyCollaboration #TooFullToThink #MoMoForever

Bijaya Khadka For City Council is my favorite FB page because I am among
other things a volunteer. Bijaya-ji (or Councilor-ji) increased my
appreciation when he posted information about the grand opening of the
Nepali Kitchen in Henrietta.
I was invited to that but sadly was unable to attend.
All I can say is, "This restaurant must continue." Jagat Gurung, whose background is Nepali-speaking Bhutanese, is the owner who has taken the traditional food that Dadi (grandmother) cooks and made it even more
beautiful.
I have been privileged to eat the food of several Dadis over the past
nine or ten years, right in their homes. So Jagat-ji obviously has worked
the typical Nepali schedule of 48 hours a day to create dishes that
properly honor his own grandmothers.
When he visits them and kisses their feet as a sign of love and respect,
surely they will also kiss his feet.

The Nepali Kitchen serves dishes that will be strangely familiar to people
who have never had Nepali food but who have had Chinese and Indian food.

Momo is the cousin of the Chinese dumpling, filled with chicken, pork,

or vegetables. A vegetarian variety is available. The spices are different,
the dipping sauce is different. But the experience of eating is soooo satisfying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUJ888EK0Jc
Yummy Nepali Kitchen--Chicken MoMo

Biryani is like Indian biryani--a dish made with chicken, pork, or goat, vegetables, and rice. A vegetarian variety is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7fYSx9Uie8

Yummy Nepali Kitchen--Chicken Biryani Nepali Style

Nepali milk tea is a definite first cousin to Indian milk tea.

Everybody knows that lovely hot, sweet flavor. Jagat-ji is number one chai-wallah. Do not buy from anyone else. :-)

The Nepali name on the menu escapes me [edit: the name is rasmali,

which is apparently Hindi], but there is a dessert which is very simple
and very elegant and very like ladoo, an Indian holiday treat made of
spongy round little cakes drenched in rose-water flavored heavy sugar
syrup. One is enough to last six months. Heaven in a bowl. (It's possibly precisely the same thing as the Indian dish, but I am in a sugar coma,
and I just cannot remember.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70TkbFz6-P4
Aarti Madan--Nariyal Ladoo

Sel roti is a type of funnel cake made with rice or rice flour. It

looks like Amish funnel cake, but it is definitely something I think of
as pure Nepali food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_R-w7_ngzM
Yummy Nepali Kitchen--Sel Roti

The BEST experience of lunch at Nepali kitchen is being served by Deepa-ji.
She explains dishes very well, serves dishes very well, answers questions
very well. She also seems to have the Nepali habit of working 48 hours a
day to make life better for friends, family, co-workers, and strangers.

My lunch at Nepali Kitchen was a blessing, an adventure, and a lot of fun.
If you want to try Nepali Kitchen, don't wait. This spicy, exotic cuisine
is not for everyone. But go there now while it's simple to walk in. In six months, you may have to call for reservations!


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