When it comes to visiting different parts of the world, we don’t want to miss to taste the top ten famous food.

Nepal is multi cultural country and which mean that there are various different foods that are available and trying same or random food during your travel is not a good idea either. Let’s try top 10 food that are famous in Nepal.

Top ten foods in Nepal that you don’t want to miss while you are there are:

1. Best Food In Nepal: Momo

The other name of Momos is also Dumpling in other part of the world but for Nepal Momos are Momos.

Nepal and Nepalese People’s all time favorite food is Momo, and they come in different types, shapes and sizes but they are all made of meat (chicken/mutton/Buff) or with vegetables and typically round in shape.

Momos are served with dipping sauce which is mostly made with tomatoes and other ingredients. They are mostly Hot and Spicy and If you want less spicier you can always ask your server for it.

You will find Momos in most if not ALL cafe and restaurants in Nepal. If Momos are that popular food in Nepal, it must be best, cheap and tasty. Try for yourself and let us know what you think in the comment below.

2. Best Nepali Food After Momo : Chowmein

Chowmein is the Best Nepali Food after Momo in Nepal. Chowmein is pronounced as CHO-MANE. and is a Nepali hybrid of Chinese Lo mein, and Malaysian Mee goreng.

Like Momos, Chowmein can be found in Most of the Cafe and restaurants in Nepal.

Chowmein is made of Noddles and Meat( Chicken/Mutton/Buff/pork) or vegetables and has a lot of other mixed veggies (onion/tomatoes/green chilly/sauces/cilantro/etc) with whole lots of spices.

Mostly Chowmein are going to be spicier but you can always order delicious Chowmein and ask server to make it less or more spicier whatever you preferences are.

3. Cultural, Traditional and Festival Food: Sel Roti Aachar

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Rounded Shaped Sel-Roti is Nepali traditional bread made with Rice Flour, Sugar, Water and Butter/ghee and looks somewhat like Donuts but thinner and bigger in size with a larger hole in the middle.

Sometime to make it more soft and delicious people use milk and add some bananas and coconut to it.

Sel-Roti is served typically with aachar mostly made with tomatoes and spices.

Sel Roti is mostly Nepalese cultural and traditional food mostly served during festivals such as Tihar (Dipawali) and other special occasion.

Although it is mostly festival foods, But you can order it in Cafe and Restaurants. And good thing about this food is that, it’s sweet and no spice.

4. Most Common Food In Nepal: Dal Bhat Tarkari/ Thali Set

Nepalese People have 2 large meal in a day and they are always Dal Bhat Tarkari.

Dal Bhat Tarkari is a typical and traditional food that almost every Nepalese people eat everyday twice.

Dal Bhat Tarkari littrally means “Lentil, Rice, and Vegetables”. Dal Bhat Tarkari comes with Dal Bhat Tarkari and chicken or mutton curry and/or fish curry, aachar (pickle) Papard, Sweet Rice Pudding and yoghurt.

5. A Must Taste Nepali/ Newari Food: Samay Baji

Samay Baji is one of the traditional Newari dishes in Nepal that is prepared during festivals or family get-together or any celebrations and served as starter dish.

Samay Baji is popular among Nepalese people because of its unique taste, unique cooking style and natural spices used in it.

You can order Samay Baji in Restaurants mostly in Valley(Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur). You might not be able to find it easily else where in Nepal besides Valley.

Samay Baji consists of lots of food recipes but not limited to:

Baji(Newari) = Flattened or Beaten Rice Flakes (English)

Very Common snack that can be found in any grocery stores in Nepal.

Samay/Syabaji(Newari) = Puffed Rice(English)

Another Very Common item for Samay Baji and can be found in any grocery stores in Nepal.

Haku Musya (Newari) = Black Soyabean (English)

Black Soyabean fried in mustard oil and mixed with very little salt to prepare Samay Baji.

Bhuti (Newari) = Boiled Beans with Spices (English)

First, Beans are boiled and then they are mixed with different spices (salt, red chili, coriander, cumin, turmeric powder, garlic and ginger paste).

Sanya (Newari) = Fish Fried (English)

Fish is first Dried and it can be either smoked or just fried with mustard oil and salt.

Chhoyla (Newari) = Marinated Broiled Meat (English)

Chhoyla is made of mostly buffalo meat. Buffalo meat is either grilled or boiled and marinated using different spices (corridor, cumin, salt, red chilly, ginger and garlic paste and other spices as required).

Khen (Newari) = Boiled-Fried Egg (English)

Boiled egg that is slightly fried with little salt.

Palu (Newari) = Fresh Ginger Rhizomes (English)

Ginger is cut into small pieces and mixed with salt and mustard oil for preparation of Samaybaji.

Lava (Newari) = Fresh Garlic Rhizomes (English)

Like ginger, garlic is also cut into small pieces and mixed with salt and mustard oil for preparation of Samaybaji.

Wo (Newari) = Lentil Patties (English)

Lentil Patties are round in shape and is made of mostly Black lentils (Black Lentil’s cover is washed away). Black Lentil is grinded/grounded to thick paste and Various spices (salt, cumin powder, garlic, ginger paste, and others) are mixed to the thick paste of lentil and cook it on the pan using mostly mustard or vegetable oil.

Alu Wala (Newari) = Boiled Potato Marinated with Pickle (English)

Peeled boiled potatoes are chopped into quarters and marinated with sesame seeds or Teel , turmeric, cumin and some red chili.

Wauncha (Newari) = Green Vegetables (English)

Green leaves such as spinach or lettuce is boiled and crushed and then is mixed with mustard oil, salt, red chilly, garlic and ginger and others.

6. Sukuti or Dry Meat or Jerky

Sukuti or Jerky is nothing but a dry meat mostly out of Buffalo meat.

Sukuti is another popular snacks in most of the Cafe and restaurants in Nepal and mostly served as chewy appetizer.

Sukuti can be served as is or can be mixed with other dishes such as Chowmein and Thuppa.

When you order Sukuti, you will get either deep fried or smoked or roasted jerky with delicious spices like salt, pepper, cumin, red or green chili, some fine cut onions and cilantro on top, and others.

7. A Most Have Appetizer : Sekuwa

Sekuwa is made of either chicken or Pork or Goat or Buffalo meat. While Meat is raw, it is mixed and marinated with all kinds of spices and ingredients and then it is roasted in natural wood fire until fully cooked.

Sekuwa is traditional Nepalese dish mostly served as appetizer and with alcoholic beverages commonly.

Since it’s Transitional dish for Nepal, you can find in each and every restaurants in Nepal but famous places are in Kathmandu and Dharan. One of the famous Restaurants for Sekuwa is Bajeko Sekuwa.

Bajeko Sekuwa is so famous that it’s franchises are not only in all around different cities of Nepal but also in different parts of the world including US.

8. Traditionally Newari Food For God – A Dessert Food : Yomari

Yomari or Yamari is a traditional Newari Food and is served to God during Festival of Panchal Nagar / Panauti.

Yomari is a steamed dumpling like Momos, but Yomari is made of rice flour from outside and delicious sweet called Chaku from inside. Thus Makes a perfect dessert food.

You can order Yomari from any Restaurants in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur but to find and order Yomari outside Kathmandu Valley might be very hard.

9. Bara

Bara looks similar to pancake. Bara is made with Lentil’s paste and egg on top.

Bara or Lentil Pancake are round in shape and is made of Lentil that is grinded/grounded to thick paste and Various other spices (salt, cumin powder, garlic, ginger paste, and others) are mixed to the thick paste of lentil and cook it on the pan with mustard oil.

Bara goes well with Potatoes Curry and makes a best combination.

10. Gundruk

Gundruk is one of the most transitional food and severed as either aachar or curry on Dal Bhaat Tarkati/ Nepali Thali.

If you like a drink you should know that the famous local alcohol beverage is called Tongba.