Himalayan Recipes

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Greetings from Gangtok, Sikkim.

DUST BINS--Garbage cans.

The following would be included in a web food dictionary of mine, but I am required by law to do parking tickets ten hours a day in a room with no air.


HIMALAYAN RECIPES
INNER WHEEL CLUB OF DARJEELING
No page numbers, no date

MOMO OR TIBETAN DUMPLINGS
THUKPA
TSU-LA-TSE (Chilli in Oil)
JHINGE ACHAR-SUKHA
QUASI (Tibetan Cookies)
DALO KHORSANI (Round Red Chilli Paste)
KWATI (Mixed Pulse and Beans)
SIDRA (Small Dry Fish Achar)
TOMATO ACHAR
SIMI-ACHAR
BOILED BUFF MEAT
YAMARI
POTATO ACHAR
ROASTED/GRILLED BUFF OR CHICKEN OR MUTTON
BAMBOO FIRST SHOOT
KINAMA (Fermented Soya bean)
PAKKU
CHURPI DIP (Fresh Cottage Cheese Paste)
MISS-MASS
ALU ACHAR
BHUTA KO MASU (Dry Fried Beef/Mutton)
BLACK GRAM VADA
SEL-ROTI
TIBETAN GYAKO SOUP (Chimney Soup)
PORK AND SAAG
TROTTER ACHAR
SEKUWA
CHUTNEY OF GUNDRUK
GORKHALI ALOODAM
DALO KHORSANI (Round Red Chillies in Oil)


SKIIKIM, DARJEELING, BHUTAN:
A GUIDE AND HANDBOOK
by Rajesh Verma
New Delhi: NBC Press International
12th edition March 2004

Pages 16-17:
Momo
Thukpa
Sael Roti
Niguru with Churpi
Gundruk
Chang (Thomba)


NOW!
TRAVELMATE: YOUR GUIDE TO THE SIKKIM EXPERIENCE
issue 1
Tadong, East Sikkim

Pg. 8: Calling all foodies
...low traditional seatings called "bodens" and stools called "mooras."
(...)
The "soucha" is a specialty soup brewed from the local nettle plant with a hint of butter. (...) Also try the tender fern-shoot "kicho" or what the Nepalese call "ningro" that is fried with "chu" or local cottage cheese. You will find Sikkimese are fond of eating "rokyu" or fermented bamboo shoot. Another specialty is the rich "phelu" or syrupy yellow cottage cheese that is devoured with rice.
(...)
..."momos" and "thukpas"...
The "gyakho" is a traditional meat stock enriched with slices of boiled beef, pork, carrots, seaweed, "soru" or meat/veg fried in flour batter, vegetables, mushrooms and "tofu" arranged very meticulously over which the meat soup is periodically refilled.