So it's been 4 days here in Nepal, so far it's a been good, lets see. The people I work with here are like millionaires, the company I work here is like reliance in India, needless to say, they have a lot of money and I get what I want( plus they are negotiating a $ 3000 deal/month if a I sign a year contract with them)
Forget work, Lets talk abt something else…
In Nepal you have a sect of people called Newari's, they are the traditional people here, my colleagues here took us to one Newari restaurant to taste the traditional food. It was a very small joint and we had a very traditional welcome.
They served us some starters, called Buff… and it's a tradition is to eat it with fried rice kind of a thing before they serve you a drink cslled "Piyala". They serve Piyala it in small clay pot. We finished eating the Buff Stuff and it was time for Piyala…
Piyala is nothing but a 100% stronger thing than Tequila!!! Shoot, it was just 5 ml but it was burning the whole time in the throat and in the stomach… It's such strong alcohol in 5 ml, and they say even kids drink it, its tradition to do it before eating Newari food.
Finally we started eating… they served too many things including a rice pizza… it was all fine… too many meat, I asked them if it was beef or dog… they promised me it was not beef or dog, as it's a crime to eat beef in Kathmandu.
So I ate a lot of this Buff thing… I asked one guy, this thing taste a lot like beef… he said, no its not beef… Its buffalo….
My god… We ate Buffalo… plus the fried meat was a wild boar!!! Pinky was so helpless… Lucky she didn't eat the Wild Boar at least.
However the food was really good and I don't know if I would taste this kind of food anywhere in the world. We also met a couple of guys who do Documentary films for WHO and Nat geo.
If everything goes well, we might even go to Tibet for a day or 2 with the guys here, Plus Bungee jumping is on the cards too… soon.
(* internet is quite expensive here and the bandwidth is also very low as I use a Wireless connection, so cannot post pictures… Sigh!)
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