Posted by Tom/Jim Goldrup on May 29, 2000 at 15:42:06:
In Reply to: Bar snacks in the hills posted by Carl on May 29, 2000 at 04:48:40:
Tom's favorite "bar snack"---if you can call it that---is Garlic Soup,
better known as Lasoon soup in Nepal. Good stuff for us old hippies.
But Jim's favorite is the green herb that grows wild along the trail.
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: Seeing as I seem to be the resident dipso within this community I thought you might like to know my recommendations for accompaniments to a 'Tuborg' or 'Carlsberg' beer (personally I prefer 'Star' beer which is less strong and therefore more can be consumed).
: Remember kids - altitude and alcohol do not mix. But when you've crawled over the Thorong La and into Ranipauwa then you can fill your boots.
: The number 1 snack for me is 'sukkurti'. This is dried goats meat (usually). Septic Tanks could compare it to Beef jerky. The South Effrikans have biltong. It is very similar. The dried meat is chopped into manageable pieces with a kukhuri and then fried with chillis (korsaani). Plonked on a dish it is the ideal snack. Far better than say, pork scratchings. Let's face it - anythings better than that.
: You will not see it on a lodge menu. Ask. Be aware that the taste from a goat that has been castrated is less gamey than one that was slaughtered with it's wedding tackle intact.
: Snack 2. One for the veggies as well this is. Your noodle soup is prepared from little packets of dried noodles with a flavour sacket included. Just add water right? Well - Nepalis (and many trekkers who have tried it) just eat the dried noodles with perhaps the flavouring scattered on top. You have to break up the noodles of course or else you are going to look really stupid. Delicious - and just the thing with a beer or two.
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