Foreigners Try Traditional Nepalese Food (Dhindo) | Mundu to Kyanjin | Langtang Trek Nepal | Day 3
all right so it's 8 41 in the morning we had a much later start than usual but again that's sort of because there's not a lot of time pressure to get to where we're going today two two and a half hours and we enjoyed our stay here at the golden holiday i mean they're really from where we stayed here in these rooms to what they're building here it's a great place yeah the food was good the people were nice the golden holiday so you can kind of see forest has started down the trail and that was because he was a little bit grumpy about it but um not too bad i think he's really just kind of gotten accustomed to riding in that baby backpack carrier and i think we're pretty much tracing the valley i can sort of see the trail right through the right through the split right there namaste kind of a hustle and bustle here that we didn't see um when we were more rural a lot more people you can see much more infrastructure everyone has electricity you've got again a lot of this really cool glass everywhere good construction and these you go around clockwise from what i understand for good luck and it looks like the clouds are starting to open up a little bit too so we should if we're lucky have good viewpoints so in particular uh here in langtang we've seen these guys with these huge rocks on these boards and what are that just for these walls like what are they hauling those rocks for they are uh collecting it to make house construction and they will cut it make it safe and then make one okay so they where are they pulling the rocks from down by the river down by the river or there is a particular places that because it's a nestle park yeah cannot take uh i say rock from random places so they need to have a special permit okay places so they'll take those rocks they'll cut them into something more like what you see here these squares yes and that's what goes into their home construction yes so stone by stone stone based wow how long does it take to typically build a uh average house here uh it depends how many workers are working on it normally one year about a year i see i see wow very cool i mean talk about heavy labor yeah that's right geez you can see i mean the stones are everywhere stones everywhere so one thing i wanted to talk to you about ajun is while we've been hiking we've noticed there's been at least one couple who are basically doing this solo without porters or a support team uh can you talk to me a little bit about that okay i'm like i will just uh explain you randomly don't have any official record but okay what we thought is 85 to 90 percent of tourists they definitely hire guide and powder okay so 10 to 15 of people they just go swallow and it's also depending on the trekking region if you talk about the everest reason maybe very few percent of people only go slow okay if they are in peak season it's also sometimes suffering to find accommodation because most of the tea houses are full i see by people who are with porters and guides and they would have a previous booking i see so if you're here solo during peak season one thing to consider is the availability of the tea houses because people with guides will have those reservations already made in advance yep i see and then are there any other kind of pros or cons to going solo versus with the guide uh a little bit risky without a guide and porter because sometimes they might miss the trail okay yeah i can see even a place like this you're like okay do i go this way this way and so having a guy so just to reduce this type of incident our government now planning to implement the rule that nobody can travel solo i must have to hire a guide or elsewhere okay across most regions yes mostly i mean for us as a family and kelly get out to this maybe a little later but we're all we so we've been in nepal twice and we've used guides on both of those occasions and with the nepal hiking team in particular who are with now it's been so easy and of course you get to hike with a june who's a great guide druba who's holding for us everybody um sundeep and namras who are reporters i mean i would say too that part of the experience not only hiking but getting to know you guys as on a more personal level plus it supports local economy yes more so to come here solo sure fine and you are paying for your tea houses but i think the maximum reach you can have and impact you can have is of course going with the group and with kids in particular as they're kind of getting into a little bit cooler clothes it just makes it so much easier it's just organized not much more to worry about or think about so okay well we're looking forward to continuing on down the trail so we were just talking about the tibetan prayer flags and you were saying which i did not know each color represents uh something yes so this contained with a five different color which symbolize the five different major elements of the universe okay so it's normally start with a blue for sky and white for wind red for fire and uh green for water hello for earth okay yep and then earth yeah and green is for water now how come some of these rocks have uh cloths on them like for example this is a rock that has a uh a scarf around oh okay so this is like just they just collect different type of rocks around the valley okay and these are uh the scarf that people are putting here for their good luck okay it's just random people who will come through okay some people they will just put the prayer flags some people put the scarf so on okay so it's not necessarily like orange versus white versus which rock they're using no no no it doesn't matter okay okay all right and then are these mostly local people who are doing this or is this mostly tourist no mostly local okay wow what do you guys think yeah nice to see yeah that's really cool yeah good hike so far yeah it's a much much nicer day the weather's really opened up we all have our sun hats on all right so beyond all expectation what did you guys find strawberries can you show us that see they're little teeny strawberries all right go ahead and give them a try mmm a little bit sweet and sour yeah a little sour and sweet what do you think cedar oh yeah a whole bunch of them in there at least two anyway cool yummy i got a sweet one nice i can't believe it's strawberries nice our strawberry is fairly common around here yep this is the good elevation temperature and the season of the year to find and when the happy monsoon come it's getting increasing oh sure of course of course we're getting closer and closer to the monsoon so that's cool yeah what do you know so exciting we've gone all of uh a couple miles and maybe one maybe one cedar and i have identified at least 10 different colors of flowers wow anything really cool yeah well looking like this right here right here these light purples these guys you have dark she was looking for red which is how she found this one that's how you saw the strawberries yeah of course white ones yellow ones this is cool we'll find out keep an eye out for the strawberry so that's cool neat little opportunity to pick some strawberries out here in nepal it's just the other plants beyond those strawberries that were right there uh wild garlic and rhubarb so here's a little teeny one but we saw huge rhubarb plants closer to town and it doesn't look like anyone's really doing anything with them so i was trying to explain about rhubarb like baked rhubarb and sugar desserts and uh you know there's plenty to be had out here of the rhubarb wow fascinating yeah i'll give that one to mom so you can see oh my goodness definitely a little strawberry there's still more that's good yeah sour sweet a little sour but not too bad identifiable as a strawberry when you eat it yes okay yes all right well i'm the only one who's not eating one so if everyone else starts tripping out i'll be able to uh maintain control oh she'd found more maybe dad could eat that one okay well everything i just said go ahead and scratch it yeah definitely strawberry flavor yeah mint sour but good and some wild mint yep you can't smell it but it smells good i can smell it smells really good ah it does smell good mint with strawberry i feel like you have a drink coming yep that would be tasty so yeah this is great what a fun stretch yeah hey cal the hard rock cafe it's not quite the same as the one in bali no not quite the same as one in bali but pretty awesome very cool anyway which i love it's the hard rock cafe oh yeah yeah maybe maybe this was the authentic game the for the original hard rock cafe right built right into the side of the rock too bad they're closed huh yeah i'd go for a real organic coffee right by now and it is definitely cool topography through here all rock steps yeah i'm very thankful today's a shorter day cedar struggling a little bit you know not like uh so at breakfast she didn't want to eat a lot just kind of tired which then adds to lower energy for the hikes but after two big days an easy day is nice you can see in the distance a couple of stupas so we're definitely getting towards the end of our hike it's about 10 30 in the morning now so it'll be nice to just have a total chill day in town we've got these little what would you call those a dune this is like the spinning wheels yes spinning wheels okay it has to be always rotate by clockwise okay so they give a little bit uh yeah i can see they've got that the water is flowing and there's a propeller that's pushing them uh clockwise that's very cool and why are these here just because or is this a spiritual place in particular well they're just building here for good luck people who for us sure and you can see some yes there's two supers there for luck and i can see another third super way up on the hill out there wow yeah very nice and what is that made out of are they made out of any particular materials or just what's on what's available that uh it's a special material we call it tama tama okay but i don't know it looks like copper jamaica copper okay okay copper kind of get the idea they're really spinning and they've got that water flow pushing three water flows pushing the propellers spinning those copper spindles clockwise with the stupas the flags this structure here yeah good spot says we're at 3755 meters but to go around the path of the stupa it's a clockwise direction peace begins with a smile that's what that sign says kind of cool all right so around the super we go you can see a lot of tibetan writing all over the stones and there's two more in viewpoint from here and those typically are located in uh spiritual places the three are not necessarily connected together these particular three but there it is all right we've got about half an hour or so left in our day and we're just getting peaks of long tongue it's obstructed towards the top by clouds but you can see glacier and snow right over there and if we're real lucky that'll blow out i think the plan is to hike this peak tomorrow assuming uh weather cooperates but there's you can see glacier there huh that is awesome yeah first real shot of it yay yeah i'm so funny so that's cool yeah yeah it's just you're starting to break up a little bit you can see more of the peaks um should be uh very beautiful when that all blows out all right oh my goodness welcome to kansing goomba wow yeah it's a great looking town population around 200 or so give or take on pig or off-peak season that's pretty disgusting i think we're all getting a little slapstick a little slapstick cedar didn't actually seem all that impressed by your joke i thought it's hilarious nothing wrong with a good poop joke every now and again every once in a while every once in a while so listen here's the deal this is really our furthest point out on this trip and to end here i think it's not bad no it looks cool it looks like a cool town yeah i love the colors can be fun to explore yeah it'll be fun to walk around there's uh yeah we had already mentioned there's a yak cheese factory whatever that is gonna be there is a monastery and just the general vibe of the town yeah it's a nice place certainly a lot of yaks i've been waiting the whole trip to really see a bunch of them up close looks like this town will give me that opportunity and you can see a lot of hot water tanks on roof so i think we'll have a nice comfortable stay now we'll be here for two nights oh cedar you took a poop on the trail nice the joke did stick i'm glad to know generation after generation will continue to pass on the squat over a yak poop pile and pretend to poop excellent excellent so i feel so proud and happy right now tada we made it okay so this is home for the night namaste guest house wi-fi i assume hot showers hi forest hi juba hi how was the hike yeah good forest did good yeah did you get hot or did you stay nice in uh nice and cool forest no cole you were cold okay what about drewba kept you nice and warm your face is cold well how about you warm me up it's not cold now it's gonna fall okay so earlier it was cold well let's get in there yeah we'll get settled we'll show you the room tour and then take an awesome epic tour of the town so we'll start of course getting into the room okay so we have a few options when it comes to rooms in this place there's a few available this is one option go ahead and hop in there granted okay so we have two double beds so kelly forced to take one i'd probably sleep there we'd pull the table down here to this one plug stage it here and do all of our electronics here it has a pretty nice bathroom okay standard western toilet looks like it's a flush toilet shower head here so this is option number one this is option number two i thought you guys would take this one same same thing you know you got the two beds no table here though for electronics this is why i don't think kelly and i would take this one the toilet here is like the squatty potty yeah okay so you know whatever it actually looks really clean there's no smell or anything like that which is nice big windows it's a bigger room you can spread out a little more yeah we can slide this table this little like bed table here use the plug and then here's the bathroom here what do you think of this bathroom okay now now that i'm thinking about it maybe mom and i of course will take this room oh come on all right so you would want this room over the squatty potty rooms yeah all right so two western toilets all right well either way it looks like for sure we're gonna take number nine and number eight so we ordered lunch we're gonna because the yak cheese factories in this town we went kind of cheese heavy we got a cheese pizza a cheese macaroni with like the marinara sauce we ordered snickers momos we ordered french fries the whole nine yards okay so a nice spot things for sale a little prayer area which we see in all the t-huts all right how are you doing calvin forrest oh we're doing good no food yet but it'll come soon okay so this is the uh the lady who runs the tea house she actually went to the cheese factory to buy the cheese for us for the lunch today from factory wow yeah how much would a block like that cost 1180 rupees okay 1180 so it's a little over eight dollars for the big chunk and i can't wait to go to the factory see what it's all about yes so da bot yup okay got the rice big bunch of uh big bunch of bot yeah a lot of cheese for the family today oh there's your flour for that that's the flower for the pizza crust huh so again the best thing about these tea huts is the food is all made from scratch it's not like there's some frozen pre-made crust so uh she's gonna make the pizza she's gonna buy grate the cheese that you just bought at the factory uh you guys are going to all enjoy it this will be great um wow very cool so as she gets to cooking our show a little more but again the typical look of the tea house and it's going to be good we also ordered i forgot snickers momos so that's a pretty exciting way to see what that's all about we have seen those on the menu or other places but some of them have been out of snickers bars so we haven't had that chance so we're pretty pumped to uh to do that she's making the pizza crust from scratch it's going to be so good so good mom yeah uh the kids and i there's a big debate the kids think they're getting our room and that we're getting there oh they told me they have number nine uh they don't have number nine with the three beds yes well it remains to be seen all right well oh check this out that is the first that i've seen in all the t-huts 400 rupees we might have to experiment with the oreo shakes but all right we're gonna get saddled show you the lunch this is going to be very good oh she's making the crush right now i'll just show you that real quick so a very nice looking crust it looks so yummy yummy yes delicious what how do you say delicious uh what is it all of it mitosa all around so again the fact that the food now does she own the tea house and how long has she run this tea house uh there was a small tea house before okay after earthquake it's all gone broken oh wow they built this one so she lost everything during the earthquake almost almost everything in terms of her structure and they rebuilt this wow this place is really big still not 100 yeah it's a work it's a work but i mean it's it's you know it's um i imagine it's a multi-year you know finish but this this looks great i mean it's clean the rooms look good uh certainly a popular destination you've got some some signed t-shirts on the wall this of course nepal hiking team we recommend them they're great we have had a wonderful experience with those guys and wow this is a great tea house one of my favorite spots so far yeah i like it i would say pretty good you all right there cedar yeah you need a drink all right well oreo shake will help the cough oh i guess forrest needs a real shake too oh yeah i'll send him too okay all right well we'll settle and i'll show you lunch here as it's served okay so lunch was delicious and we ended up not recording it i kind of honestly just sort of forgot about it and for the last about two hours everyone just crashed so i think we were catching up on some much needed sleep but right now it's a bit cold um it's kind of trying to rain a little bit but we are gonna walk around town uh june is with us so we're gonna head over to the cheese factory first hopefully get a little tasting there of the yak cheese learn about how they do the process you excited i'm excited i'm excited yeah i'm pretty uh interested in learning about the process i mean the idea of like milking a yak i've i've been to dairy the cheese factories from dairy farms and like wisconsin but i don't know anything about how it would work with a yak while they were walking around yeah i don't see them now hopefully we bump into a few yaks along the way that'd be awesome but you can see the weather just is constantly changing today it was really a combination of hot cold windy wet i think that's one of our biggest things in hiking is just trying to regulate your body temperature right making sure no one gets overheated or too cold and so with the sun out it's really hot and then as soon as the wind picks up or the rain comes out because it's chilly so yeah constant stop start put your all your gear on take all your gear off and uh that's just part of the process proud of the process for sure but these guys are wearing their katmandu jackets that we bought for i think like a thousand rupees so pretty inexpensive ultimately but you can see the town it's really cute there's a number of shops i mean this uh bakery i don't know if they're actually open right now but i did see some signs that it's on tripadvisor and all that so if they are open i might have to hit it up might have to hit it up it looks looks closed at least from this side yeah the town goes all around oh yeah it's up in the mountain oh so yeah i don't think the gopro there's definitely a white yak up there yeah two yaks up on the on the hillside see it cedar up there i see the white one one black and white and one's red yeah there might be one right there underneath the supers yeah so quite a few yaks actually hopefully we'll uh get a closer look i think i see a horse up ahead too oh but just a misty i was saying hey misty morning but like i missed the afternoon really all right well we'll continue on we'll get there i believe there's a monastery up here uh as well that might be uh might be worth checking out at some point while we're here now we're in town for two days so tonight we'll uh go to bed early we have a hike let's see oh is the cheese factory closed oh here we go this one ah okay okay so organic yak cheese production center organic yet cheese available we sell butter and curd boy that might be kind of funny they have like cheese curds as i what kelly references like a wisconsin cheese curd but yak okay what's going on here government of switzerland between switzerland and nepal hello hello hey how are you good good good is it okay if i record of course yo yes thank you thank you cool excellent well this is we're excited to learn about the yak cheese yes this is nepal is fastest factor now in nepal you know excellent because he started from the 1952 1952 wow that's awesome and so you have run by three years and then have to go to the ball governments okay have they're going to run by nepal governments i see i see and you can kind of see some of the photos they have the decorations again a bit about switzerland yeah very nice all right you're gonna head in it looks like of course so to see what the inside looks like and i guess this is right where they do it what time of the day do you actually make the cheese it will be come to like nine ten o'clock will be counter milk okay every day every day okay and then we have to start to probably the eleven eleven ten fifteen two three o'clock i see so mostly between uh nine a.m and three p.m is when this is all really up and running okay all right wow looks good and how much cheese do you make every day is every day now is that we are going to start decision okay uh in the house we're going to make like each day like uh 20 25 kilos something like that wow and one month after we're going to like 35 kilo of like uh 40 kilos each day okay wow and then who buys the cheese is is it just the community here or do you sell all over nepal london uh long time so we will save to in the kathmandu oh okay i'm going to kept me a deal and uh we have not locked down we have now we said to here okay all the logic people and local people are the who come to the trekkers come to atlanta area they buy to some uh many from tigers i see i see and then are there many yak cheese factories in nepal or is this the only wine uh first in the for long time first okay then after we start to from in the like now is nepal have the actual factory is like uh nine nine factories nine factories you know the pulse yeah very cool very cool and where do you store the cheese we stir season up there you can see that here oh wow okay okay this is uh this is great oh yak cheese oh and i can smell the cheese smells so good wow oh you really want to touch it though is this all is it all the same type of cheese or are there different types of the hard cheese the hard cheese all heart cheese and how old are these all recently made or these what so this is all about one month old and is that normal so you make the cheese it stores for one month and then you sell it now we have to when we're going to work from the store we're putting the salt water to here and so here that's in here okay and then after we put keep it in the store of three months three months then after we're going to sales okay so it does age for about three months and then do people buy one wheel or do you cut it individually uh if you is like people who like to use the like wheel that we sell to like this okay and we have to they like to one kilo a half kilo oh so you can buy by the kilo half kilo i see and how much does one wheel sell for what we sell to is like five to ten clues okay okay that's the way yes how much in rupees does one kilo is uh this is not where nepal government price is uh 1700 rupees okay about 1 700 rupees for a kilo this is like almost it's like eight eight kilos so this would be something like eight thousand nine thousand something like that to buy the whole wheels okay all right wow right and where do you cut the cheese do you have a shop in the fridge hello how are you oh this is all yeah that's great thank you sir okay all right a little sample of the cheese just cut i mean to me the flavor is more similar to parmesan than say mozzarella yeah that's kind of nice it's good yeah very good did you get a little taste your cup what do you think it was good to me i was just saying to me it tastes more parmesany than it does mozzarella you know what i'm saying i like it it tastes like a harder cheese it's very good yeah wow what a look fantastic and so you make cheese every day every day we are we we started from in the may september i think two months yes of course almost we run by three or six months i see i see yeah for all to support peter's season of trekking and hiking well very nice well i appreciate you taking the time to teach us about the cheese yeah very oh i should ask one more the milk the how do the farmers bring the milk do they bring in bags of milk yeah oh i'd love to see that so the cans about ah okay so farmers will bring in cans of milk then we have to like this you know like these cans almost oh oh my goodness so the farmers bring the cans on their back yeah okay and then it goes through the process and do you boil or honey we have to going to boil up the 65 to 70 uh degree of the okay all right so it reduces down down wow and then from the time the farmer brings the milk yeah to the time you sell the wheel that's about three or four months yeah yeah okay so from the the milk the process awesome wow it is uh definitely a distinct cheesy flavor we get to make from yex oh well we have titan there's lots of yak up in the mountains they get milk from and then they're brought in here every morning are are the yaks wild or are they domestic okay and so somebody an individual farmer will yak will milk the yaks and then they bring in that supply get owners from here yeah we have a particular places to live up in the mountains okay i see normally per person yeah okay and do they they must melt them every day yes every day wow one monsoon season it's a breeding season okay oh breathing seas so right now it's the beginning of the breeding yes i see of course five thousand hybrid we're going to make a disease of deer okay bring to keep it still here okay and when somebody places the grass penis then farmer says though from your house moved to another place okay so they wrote rotate basically ourselves yes then we got back to big ten then we're going to make the cheese up there okay wow that's so cool i'm going to make two is the good quality of the make to cheese yes we need to fresh milk you know right of course of course yeah of course of course so from the time the farmer melts the yak they bring it basically immediately in here they're not like waiting for a day or two or something like that morning they milk and then they come in oh by 10 o'clock wow very cool so guys what do you think what a process yeah yeah i didn't know no i didn't either i've only seen the cow dairy big factory farm the fact that this is inorganic just by default absolutely because it's just all these kind of free roaming yaks very cool guys did you enjoy that yeah i learned a lot that was cool and again you just kind of come here you meet this sir and he'll walk you around and get a little sample of the cheese so what a fun time do you think i can get a photo oh yeah totally okay we'll do some photos check those out on instagram again kelly works hard to build that up and uh want to support that as well all right so granted you were just saying that that cheese is amazingly delicious and that we should buy some yes okay now can we buy buy the can we buy like a hundred or 200 or 300 grams it didn't you sell less than a year okay so you can buy smaller wedges you don't have to buy a whole kilo um because we're traveling so what do you reckon what would be the right gram for us to have like a budget uh let's do like 250 grams okay yeah okay two hundred two hundred fifty dollars okay all right so we'll buy we're gonna go back in just because i'd hate to leave here without actually buying some of that cheese now it's available everywhere like at most of these um tea houses but buying uh straight from the factory that's something special and let's see so he's got his bag he's got this cut piece here and let's just see what this weighs in that might be the piece we're actually taking into the bucket and we got his old-fashioned scale oh sorry 100 300 on the dot so that's a nice chunk what do you guys think is that the chunk we want yep all right cool so 300 gram piece looks about like yeah that looks about the right size i think can i carry it sure okay very great yes 300 grams all right and how much is 300 grams there five five hundred ten rupees five hundred and twelve rupees do you have a five hundred dollars yes sir oh did great all right so that is uh oh namaste thank you what a look into the cheese factory we are going to take that back cut it up certainly going to enjoy okay so that is about 300 grams or so plus you know like the rinds we could chew on as well all right granted how's the [ __ ] how's the piece good yeah tasty well worth it for us what do you think ah thumbs up nice yummy go for another one here perfect little cube it's so good pretty good yeah it's tasty now cedar is not your favorite no no definitely has a nice flavor kind of distinct a bit strong and uh enjoy that aged drier cheese right that's that's right kind of age dry i like that yeah it's good description so while we're back here waiting on dinner it's going to be another hour we were kind of sitting around by a fire and so they're making yak milk tea right now fresh and this is the first place we've had fresh milk tea and it's the yak milk so everywhere else we've stopped has mostly been like powdered cow milk so the fact that this is fresh is something special compared to what you might find at another tea house so again kudos to the uh the fresh yak milk so it's been a yak milk cheese day the yak milk tea and this is the tea this is the tea wow black tea huh black tea yes sir do just in a ghost boils and then i imagine there'll be some kind of straining process add a little bit of water yeah because this will be very thick okay very thick yeah so we'll add a little bit of water i see and these are your hot boiled waters here yes actually this is hard water into the tea it goes oh i can see they have the strainers right over there so yeah i'm pretty excited by that they got a little pressure cooker going there or something that's about to pop so yeah where did where did where did he swim just down there yeah so we're just discussing how so how water actually stayed here so uh you know harold i hope you're doing well and uh this is the update on uh on the place so the yak melty right through the strainer this is going to be uh something very good with the yeah so there's a harold swimming and uh that was talked about about how this crazy guy came up here in the winter and did swimming so quite the impression yeah and those look uh just creamy and delicious yeah this milk if you put like two three minutes on the table yeah oh the skin the top the skin yeah yeah very good oh that's all right i'll follow i'll follow you yeah yeah okay you can kind of see everyone's just with of lounging around right now enjoying a little down time so granted hey cal fresh yak milk not the powdered stuff on fresh water you want some sugar no then you want some cheese yeah yeah cheese quite indecisive this guy what is your good name what's your name your name's what's your name what's your name forest forest wow which country are you from say america america where in america new york yes colorado denver yeah the los angeles wow yeah this is your father blogger youtube blogger huh put me down he says all right well the fresh yak milk tea granny want to get in on this one for me yeah it's for you well that does taste nice immediately it does taste different than the powdered milk tea we have for sure yeah thicker like um creamier creamier that's the word yeah definitely creamier what do you think granted it's pretty good now you can add sugar if you want you want to sweeten it up a little or is it just fine yeah go for it so all the tea huts have a little canister of sugar like that all right there you go yeah that's good that's good of course you want to try no i'm sorry sir this is local vegetable yeah from the garden from not the garden from we brought that this morning from mundo oh wow okay today curry this one oh good i'm glad we're so yeah tonight's dinner is going to be something special stick around for that because it's going to be a very local even beyond doll bot a local nepalese dish so we're pretty excited to give that a try and show you that dish what do you guys yeah so they got the wood stove going bring my tea over i think it's pretty good yeah yeah it is pretty tasty and nam ross how long have you been a porter one year nice i hope our stuff's not too heavy it's a big load but not the biggest like that normal yeah yeah it's a little uh surprising how much stuff one brings well normally like one quarter two triggers carrying a two lock it is yeah pretty much like everest yeah yeah okay good yeah a lot of weight well we'll enjoy the tea sit by the fire and uh show you a very traditional nepalese dinner so tonight we have a very traditional nepalese meal very special you don't see this often on the menu but this is dindle and dindle is made from buckwheat flour it's served with curry of course you'll recognize dollbot at this point uh cedar obviously went for the cheese spaghetti granite the chicken noodle but dindle is the star of the evening and uh ajin you've been eating this this is a traditional childhood yes it's a very traditional and old so i can remember when i was a child my mom used to make dinner but not with buckwheat we have a different type of things like millet or corn wheat such a type of things yeah and she used to make dinner and not only one like many portion on size vegetable dal okay and spicy pickle oh yeah so yeah and then you used to eat it that's excellent so a very traditional food that somebody might grow up with oh yeah sure the okay i'm going to butcher the name again see seabuck thorne the traditional and hot chocolate and a hot shot of course a hot chocolate okay previous order if you want to we can make it again okay let's let's let you know but let's try let's try the dindle now who wants to get in on this all right so you so this is it with the hands type meal and we just break off a chunk dip in the curry yes so that's like a really soft texture yes almost like a play-doh yeah curry bit sticky mashed potato texture okay all right so into the curry and this one's buckwheat but wheat so the buckwheat the the the the dindle itself is a fairly mild flavor so that the curry really uh stands out but it has a very um i guess you call it like earthy or wheaty flavor would you say yeah yeah voice you want to pee or kelly see do you want a piece yes cool do you want um you know break up the piece jimmy dip it in the curry too it's a mild curry it's like a hearty yummy curry but not spicy it's really good yeah just warm nice warm foreign powerful energy okay so dindle one would eat before hiking and treks and so forth sorry for breakfast no i want ketchup you want ketchup and eggs yeah i like it me too that's pretty good and it's pretty easy you just break it off and you talk a little bit more all the way up really okay jump the whole thing get in there and you're really it doesn't matter yes that's so good of course you want to try i have not seen that at all on menus this is the first time that i've seen it and it's really good how long does it take to make is it a quick little process or five to seven minutes maximum oh okay first they just boil the water and then put the flour on it and smash it and you will just keep squeezing it until it's become dull okay this is the other star of the night not necessarily traditional nepalese but the old snickers momo so at least one maybe two stickers bars in there uh and that one's fried it's fresh that'll be nice that'll be really good all right so the next uh feature of tonight's evening is the doll bot now this doll bot is a little different uh how would you describe that well this one has chickpeas and little potatoes with it um last time they had like pickled vegetables right right so each place is always a little their own little spin looks good nice and brothy good and then you can just mix some greens and these are the fresh filled greens they brought in today oh that basket that we saw oh that's great and then then you just dig in perfection i think so oh good really good and granted how are the uh kind of the brothy noodles there really good really good nice well i don't know which one was better the one at the lunch or here uh okay i think they're equal it's the same thing where like the dabat kind of the broth noodles each house is gonna have its own and you'll definitely find ones that you like more than others i think they're equal okay fair enough cedar how is the yeah you like it cool i said easy eating food didn't it's pretty nice that's going to give you a lot of energy for tomorrow one more bite of the dindle this very traditional nepalese dish into the curry it goes that's a great meal i can see where that will like this is kind of dense so it'll pack in those calories so when you're hiking it'll be up pretty good all right we will continue eating through the meal what are you going to try cedar chicken go for it yeah i'd love to know what you think they have flavor but they're not spicy spices you like that one cool yeah this this particular uh tea house has a food that everyone's been very very happy with so we will uh continue eating and we'll uh touch base with you as we get into that snickers momo you know one nice thing about the nepal hiking team is the added fresh fruit dessert so basically every night on the trail we've had fresh pomegranates fresh cut apples and the kids in bananas yeah you know for the first few days but the bananas and the pomegranate have the lasting power and it's just a great way to i think in the meal however i did promise you a look at these snickers momos and as you can see they're hearty snickers bar right in there steamed or fried so fresh food and a deep fried snickers your choice all right i wanted just to show you a little bit of our sleeping arrangements before we go to bed for the night so over here hello of course this is where these two little buddies are gonna sleep and these sleeping bags these big down bags are provided by the nepal hiking team so we didn't have to bring those at all which is great because that saves a lot of weight for our travel the only thing that we brought in terms of sleeping were these little um silk cocoons uh we have four of those so uh granite seeder kelly and i each use one of those cocoons and the way we staged the room these are the duffel bags again provided by the nepal hiking team and we just store our kind of the stuff we don't need in our day packs in here and then we set up a little technology table so pretty much looks like you would expect so that is pretty much how we sleep kids are in their own room and those two single beds so we ended up in the big room after all they were quite disappointed but either way here we are
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