It's about time I wrote about our visit to a Nepali restaurant.
I found that the word "Nepalese" slides off my tongue easier than "Nepali". Looking these words up online, I found that the general word for someone/something from Nepal is "Nepalese", but the Nepalese themselves prefer to use "Nepali".
This place is called Momo Hookah, and is situated on the first floor of Golden Triangle. I didn't know what food they served, but a friend went there and told me that their momo (Nepali dumplings similar to "sui kow") are good and authentic.
So we went there and ordered their momo, together with two other rice dishes.
This was good, with crispy skin. The skin was different from the Chinese "sui kow". The filling was minced meat and was flavoured with spices. After some thought, we decided that it looked like "sui kow" but tasted like murtabak.
The thakali khana set is rice with a round pappadam on it, and a few side dishes around it. In the picture below, clockwise from top left, we have raw cucumber/carrot/radish, some brinjal (which we liked), some pickled thing that we didn't like and suspect was a kind of melon, and some stir-fried leafy veggies which were not much different from Chinese cuisine.
The pork came in a separate bowl. Some pieces were tougher than others, but the taste was good. It was also very oily; there was a thick layer of oil on the gravy.
If not mistaken, the pork set costs 50 sen more than the chicken set.
The khaja set was also with dishes around the plate, but came with flattened rice instead of regular rice. So the mound of rice was a lot smaller. Clockwise from left, we see the same raw vegetables, the same kind of pickle, some potato dish that was rather good, some groundnuts, and the chicken which was a dry stir-fry and quite good too, but not as good as the pork. And an egg with runny yolk on top of the flattened rice.
We weren't very sure that it was flattened rice at first; adding the soup that came with the thakali khana did not seem to make much difference. But in the end we found that we had to add a lot of soup! It turned out that the soup was refillable. We weren't even sure whether the soup was actually supposed to be paired with this khaja set instead of the other rice set.
After that we ordered another momo set, buffalo this time. (there were four of us, and we had ordered three items first, to see whether we would want another one of any of them)
The shape of the momo was different. Somehow it didn't taste as good as the chicken variety, although it wasn't bad, either.
Actually the rice sets were quite filling because there was a big portion of rice for both. In the end, the last momo set was probably not necessary to fill us up.
I found that the word "Nepalese" slides off my tongue easier than "Nepali". Looking these words up online, I found that the general word for someone/something from Nepal is "Nepalese", but the Nepalese themselves prefer to use "Nepali".
This place is called Momo Hookah, and is situated on the first floor of Golden Triangle. I didn't know what food they served, but a friend went there and told me that their momo (Nepali dumplings similar to "sui kow") are good and authentic.
So we went there and ordered their momo, together with two other rice dishes.
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| chicken momo, RM7 |
This was good, with crispy skin. The skin was different from the Chinese "sui kow". The filling was minced meat and was flavoured with spices. After some thought, we decided that it looked like "sui kow" but tasted like murtabak.
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| thakali khana with pork, RM9.50 |
The thakali khana set is rice with a round pappadam on it, and a few side dishes around it. In the picture below, clockwise from top left, we have raw cucumber/carrot/radish, some brinjal (which we liked), some pickled thing that we didn't like and suspect was a kind of melon, and some stir-fried leafy veggies which were not much different from Chinese cuisine.
The pork came in a separate bowl. Some pieces were tougher than others, but the taste was good. It was also very oily; there was a thick layer of oil on the gravy.
If not mistaken, the pork set costs 50 sen more than the chicken set.
 |
| khaja set with chicken, RM8 |
The khaja set was also with dishes around the plate, but came with flattened rice instead of regular rice. So the mound of rice was a lot smaller. Clockwise from left, we see the same raw vegetables, the same kind of pickle, some potato dish that was rather good, some groundnuts, and the chicken which was a dry stir-fry and quite good too, but not as good as the pork. And an egg with runny yolk on top of the flattened rice.
We weren't very sure that it was flattened rice at first; adding the soup that came with the thakali khana did not seem to make much difference. But in the end we found that we had to add a lot of soup! It turned out that the soup was refillable. We weren't even sure whether the soup was actually supposed to be paired with this khaja set instead of the other rice set.
After that we ordered another momo set, buffalo this time. (there were four of us, and we had ordered three items first, to see whether we would want another one of any of them)
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| buffalo momo, RM7.50 |
The shape of the momo was different. Somehow it didn't taste as good as the chicken variety, although it wasn't bad, either.
Actually the rice sets were quite filling because there was a big portion of rice for both. In the end, the last momo set was probably not necessary to fill us up.
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