Namaste friends...
There are so many bad tourist trap restaurants here...
...that I wanna make a video showing you how to find good home-cooked authentic food here in Nepal.
And these tips will work for India as well. So let's start right here; The first thing I look for is a sign like this.
This sign says:
And a Khaja Ghar in Nepal means snack house. The language is different to Hindi.. this is Nepali.
And then here, it says:
So this means, Here you will find Chai, breakfast with Roti and Parantha.
And then you have a bit of Chinese as well and also in English. This is what you're gonna understand right?
On this side, it says...
So, they're saying, We cook pure vegetarian food.
Now the second thing I look for... you can just look down here and you should see someone smiling and it should look like a home kitchen.
That's what I look for. I look for that home kitchen vibe.
When I look down there I can see this lady rolling Rotis and Paranthas and it looks exactly like a home kitchen.
That's probably the most important thing that I look for actually. There's a lot of these Khaja Ghars all around.
And, um, I really fell in love with this lady. I looked in, she gave a big smile and she also looks like a woman from Haryana.
She is so strong. She looks like a Jaat. She looks like my family members back in Haryana.
So I really took a fancy to her straightaway & I'm like, This is the place that I'm going to eat.
Let's go inside and let's see what they're cooking. And then I'll take you back and show you how you can eat at a Khaja Ghar as well.
She is cooking an Aloo Parantha here.
She is putting potato filling inside it and she's gonna roll it out on this pan and fry it just like that.
And so the food that is available here - you're gonna find a potato curry.
This is Chaap -It's soyabean.
You're gonna find a mixed vegetable. You're gonna find eggs... you can have eggs if you want it.
And my favorite, this is... Chana. This is black chickpeas and they're just delicious. I like it better than the white chickpeas.
And this is their restaurant.
Two paranthas in the same place? Wow.
They have to make what space they have work, you know.. So, they have seating here.
And we're gonna go outside here next and see the outdoor seating. I'm gonna show you exactly where you can eat and sit.
So these Khaja Ghars... they are generally family-run like you can see here as well. It's just so nice.
They started this Khaja Ghar because Ramesh wanted to spend more time at home with his young daughter.
So he quit his job at Etihad Airlines and he and his wife Renu started this business together.
And I just love they took this risk. I find it very inspiring.
Alright, let's go to the seating area. It's down through this little gateway, ok?
And I think you guys just saw how incredible that family is and you saw how fresh the food is and how it's home-made food literally.
I just love these two people and yeah, we have been eating here every single day basically.
I just had to show you guys how to find these Khaja Ghars because there's something special.
Let me give you a quick tour around here.
So this is their home courtyard, ok. Family room there.
The meat is cooked here - they won't cook the meat with the vegetarian food.
Here you have - it's an indoor eating area and then we're gonna sit out here, smoking area.
We don't smoke but we're gonna sit there and film.
You can wash your hands here. This is for washing your hands and we have...
...where the water is coming from that's being used for cooking and don't worry that water is boiled and so it is clean.
I've seen a lot of restaurants here in Nepal using the tap water but as long as it is boiled it's gonna be fine.
Good morning..! Everyone around is really sweet here.
She has two (or three?) other beautiful daughters; they come out of here every morning on their way to school.
You can just see, like, this is ancient, right? You look up there?
Food is coming...
Alright so let's check out the food. Here we have- this is an egg parantha. It is just flat bread fried in an egg.
That's my favorite parantha to order (order this when you come here). Then we have a plain parantha.
It's not really plain - it has bit of a potato in the middle and some spices and this is delicious too.
We've got two coffees. I don't drink coffee - that was my wife. She asked for coffee.
So you're gonna have to drink both of 'em Manu. And here we have, this is mixed vegetable plate, ok.
You can have a mixed plate of different types of vegetables or you can just go for one plate.
I usually just go for one plate of these Chana, of these black chickpeas.
Then we have potato, soyabean and he told me this is a type of Achar- A type of pickle and it's kinda like...
...a sweet, sour and tangy vegetable curry basically.
This will cost you about like 300 Rupees something like that and this is enough for two people, ok.
And you can eat with your hands, ok? Use the bread... to pick up the vegetables like that. Then just in your mouth.
Actually I got one more tip. So if a restaurant has people standing outside it... it has hustlers tryna get you in the door.
My friend David told me this tip. David says, This is a sure sign that the food is not gonna be good.
A good restaurant does not need hustlers outside trying to bring you in, right?
Pretty simple tip. I think it's so true for anywhere in the world.
I'm gonna link to this place in the description. Come and eat here.
I pay for every single meal. I don't take freebies ever on my YouTube channel.
Pay for everything and I just feature people that I love that I like.
And I really like this family and I really love this food. So, you know, it's so easy to recommend you guys to come here, eat here.
Try all the Khaja Ghars as you go around Nepal, okay?