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December 4, 2017, 6:52pm
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Walked another half block and found myself staring at the Nepali menu at Himalayan Kitchen, which has a bunch of interesting stuff on it that is fairly uncommon. Figured what the heck, and popped in for a vegetable and egg chatamari. This turned out to be fine foodwise, but in time spent, not so much. The item itself was nice when it came out–a crispy rice flour pancake topped with peppers, onions and an egg with a tasty sauce with black eyed peas in it on the side. The satisfying nature of this offering was an indication that I’d like to try more stuff here from this menu. But here’s the rub: getting this pancake to me took, well, 25 minutes! It sure shouldn’t take that kind of time to get out a pancake to customer waiting in their tiny seating area with only one other table of customers. It didn’t seem to be just an issue with me, though–a driver who I assume was from one of the myriad food delivery services came in for a pickup and was told it’d be twenty minutes until their stuff was ready.
You jogged a nice travel memory for me…we went to Nepal a few years back and our food in restaurants always took a while to get to us, which we didn’t care about since we were on vacation. But at one joint, the cheerful guy waiting on us said, “you’re on Kathmandu time now!” That sentiment has stuck with me ever since.
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