Explore local cuisine during traveling

Dive into local cuisine and culture with the local culinary experiences. One of the best thing you can do during your holidays is to merge yourself with the local people and experience the different way of life people are living in other part of the world. And the way to explore the local culture is to explore the local food.

Kathmandu is amazing city! Though the city is disgusting, poorly organized, dust and rubbish everywhere, holes in the street, crazy horns……still have got its charm! Mostly people don’t say NEVER when they think to visit Kathmandu. This small and over-populated city has many things to offer and the kind people are always there to welcome you. Get inside one’s house and ask if they allow you in their kitchen!

There are many places commercially and just-for-fun offering cooking classes. Some of the cooking classes has been quite popular among the tourist. Here I am going to make some suggestion before you choose the cooking class and the dish you are going to make. You are going to have amazing experience for sure but some early preparation can help you to make it a great pleasure.

Shop ingredients yourself:

Spending couple of hours for finding your ingredients is another way to understand the local market. You will get more knowledge about the spices, local vegetables and other ingredients you are going to use. Your cooking couch may offer you basic ingredients available but buying even a small thing like salt, turmeric powder, mustard oil, Sichuan pepper, etc. gives you knowledge about the local market as well. Best fun you are going to have is all about bargaining and bartering while shopping in local market with a local people.

Know your food:

Know the basic information about the food you are going to cook. Also ask your cooking coach about the origin of the food and its health benefit. Spices plays the important role so be careful if you are cooking with the expert. Nepali food is really not popular and there are not fancy verities showcased commercially. You have to find out different verities by asking yourself so that you can know more than Dal Bhat and MoMo.

Stay with your cooking coach:

Ask your cooking coach if you can stay with them for a couple of nights. You can continue learning about their kitchen meal by spending few more time with their family. Better you take at least 2 days packages for cooking class.

Can you cook it again in your home?

If you are not able to try the dish in your home that you learn here, it is worthless. Be sure you will be able to find the ingredients in your place as well. When you can cook it again in your home and feed your friends and family, that is the wonderful souvenir you bought for them.

And, at last I wish you all then best to find the proper cooking class and have great experience in Nepal. 

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