Our Kathmandu Food Tour starts andends in Thamel, including sightseeing of Kathmandu Durbar and Patan Durbar Square. This One Day Kathmandu Food Tour is a unique mix of street walking, day tour sightseeing, and traditional and unique cuisine of different ethnic groups in Nepal. This food tour includes street walking in the narrow trails of Kathmandu to Patan with golden spoon testing of food, drinks, and snacks. The adventure of street walking in Kathmandu, tasting street foods, and seeing many heritage sites will make this food tour the best one for food junkies and street lovers.
Why Mix Food and One-Day Tour In Kathmandu
The open border between India and Tibet, mixed religions and cultures, and differences in climatic conditions and adaptations to different foods make Kathmandu the best place for food and day tours. Likewise, Nepal does have distinct food and cooking styles, even for the same food items. However, food habits differ depending on the regions and areas. Most of the Nepalese dishes, whether popular or not, have the influence of Tibetan as well as Indian foods. It might be in the cooking process, spices, or ingredients. While authentic Nepali taste is found in Newari and Thakali cuisines.
There is no use of cutlery in Nepalese food and eateries. Most Nepalese food used to be eaten with hands. The most common Nepalese meal is Dal Bhat Set. Which is a platter of Bhat (boiled or steamed rice), Dal (any kind of lentil or bean soup), and Tarkari (dry or fresh vegetable curry). Furthermore, Dal Bhat Tarkari Set (also called Nepali Set or Thakali Set or Khana Set) comes with other hot spicy Aachar (pickle), yogurt, and Papad (crispy thin bread). Meat curry is very popular but is saved for special occasions traditionally, as it is relatively more expensive. However, almost all of the Nepalese meat items come with bone, skin, and a mix of all until you visit the big store or order separately.
Most Popular Food Items of the Kathmandu Tour
By mixing popular food items and the Kathmandu tour of one day with the trekking trail in Nepal, you will experience a day as local food junkies. Most importantly, our Food One Day Tour will focus on the top 10 foods you should try in Nepal. Here we are listing some food items:
- Mo:Mo (steamed or fried dumplings) deserves a mention as one of the most popular snacks among Nepalese. It's almostcalled Fast Food of Nepal. It comes in varieties as veg or non-veg in 4 styles: Hot C, Half Fry, Stem, and Deep Fry.
- Nepal / Thakali Set or Dhedo Set: This set comes with rice, lentils, curry, and other items. While Dhido is boiled flour as hard porridge, it is also made into meals in some homes. This used to be a traditional food in remote areas. Your choice should be either dhido or rice. However, Dhido is not available everywhere.
- Thukpa: Soupy Noodles comes with Vegetables, Eggs, or even Meat
- Sel Roti: Ring-shaped rice bread, cooked with deep-fried oil.
- Chowmein: A different type of fried noodle with a mix of meat, egg, or vegetables.
- Bara: A Newari Dish, Made as a Pancake Made of Black Lentils.
- Sukuti: Traditional dry meat, mostly buff items.
Additionally, we will enjoy 5 of the best Newari foods in Kathmandu, which everyone wants to taste. These 5 items are
- MO:MO Cha: Newari Mo: Mo (Nepalese Dumpling with Ghee on Top).
- Chatamari: Nepali Pizza.
- Juju Dhau: King of Yogurt
- Newari Platter: For Best Taste and Newari Food Set
- Choyla: The most popular hot and spicy Newari Meat Item
Why Choose One Food Tour in Kathmandu?
The unique mix of walking adventure and all popular food items, which you must try in Kathmandu, Nepal. We hike not only in the streets of Kathmandu and Lalitpur. But we walk through the popular as well as narrow streets between Thamel andKathmandu Durbar Square, via Ason and Indra Chowk, Jhoche to Khichapokhari, to Sundhara, and to Thapathali via Kalmochan Mahadev Temple. As we continue our food and walking tour, we reach Pulchowk via Patan Durbar Square. Before we soak in the heritage of Patan, we will eat traditional as well as typical foods in narrow streets, busy stalls, and crowded food hubs. If possible, we will walk a little bit in the Kingsway for ice cream and waffles, which will make our belly full of tasty foods.
We focus our One Day Food Tour in Kathmandu on Newari food and snacks. However, we will explore all other popular street food items today in our food tour in Kathmandu, Nepal. Lastly, we will enjoy a Nepali National Set Dinner (Thakali Set) with a culture show before we end our Food Day Tour.
Must Know for One-Day Food Tour In Kathmandu
The cost of a food tour in Kathmandu is 154 USD. Why So Expensive?!
The Trekking Trail Nepal One Day Food Tour cost per person is USD 154. It seems expensive, but if you compare our food items, local drinks, and other cost inclusions, this is a fair price. Furthermore, the quality of food in breakfast, lunch, and dinner is worth USD 154 for this food tour in Kathmandu. Additionally including of all entry fees of temples, museum and heritage also makes the food tour seem expensive, but this is best price.
The itinerary of the food tour in Kathmandu will not be in standard format. Depending on the season, days, and local shops, our timing will be different. There are not actual breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. We offer you a lot of food in every corner and street, which you can enjoy with every taste and bite.
Do not waste food: we do not promote or support food waste. Trekking Trail Nepal provides all foods and snacks, even local drinks, from breakfast to dinner, but here we request you to not waste any. We request you to look, ask, check, taste, and make a big order.
Some streets in which we need to walk on this One Day Food Tour are more crowded. We request you to follow our guide and his instructions to get more experience of One Day Food Tour in Kathmandu.
One-Day Food Tour in Kathmandu Itinerary
Our guide will pick you up from your hotel to start our one-day food tour in Kathmandu. This tour will start before your breakfast, or even a cup of coffee. We care for your needs, so we provide all food, drinks, and snacks for your day.
We take short walks in the Thamel area, and we offer at best organic coffee in our coffee house. This will make you easy to move in our narrow streets. Further ahead, we will try to take another stop for Nepalese tea with milk and GOLMARI. Golmari is a Newari tidbit, which goes with tea early in the morning. We understand this will not be enough, but we have other Newari items to give you a full appetite as a big breakfast.
In Ason, next to the Annapurna Temple, we have Newari live cooking and selling stalls. We spend our time here observing how they cook and offering different kinds of Newari cuisine.
We will spend about an hour here to get a close look of how these food items get prepared. Here, we can taste the following food items in our food tour in Kathmandu. Newari Set, Bara, Yamori, Mo:Mo, Choyla, Bajji, Aalo, Swan Uuka (fried goat lungs), Aalo Tama Curry, Juju Dhau, Selroti, etc., are available here. We taste as much as possible and continue towards Asan Chowk, a junction of New Road and Kathmandu Durbar Square. Here we drink lassi, which is a creamy yogurt mix with banana, sugar, milk, and dry nuts.
Aakash Bhairav Temple is one of the attractions of Indra Chow, which we can enjoy with a cup of lassi. After this part we continue our visit of Kathmandu Durbar Square. This is one of the biggest heritage attractions of Kathmandu. Here we explore Kumari Ghar (Home of Living Goddess KUMARI), Kastamandap Temple, Gaddi Baithak, Mahendra Museum, Hanuman Dhoka Durbar Museum, Hanuman Statue, Shwet Ghairab, Stone Vishnu Temple, Mahadav Parvati Temple, Degu Taleju Temple, Kaal Bhairav, Indrorapura Temple, Jagannath Temple, and many more.
Moreover, we continue our walking towards Freek Street (JHO CHEA). This is the area where hippies used to live in the 1960s with weed and hashish. Here we enjoy the traditional coffee, and we move to Khicha Pokharai and Sundhara. On the way we enjoy the local soda (Nepalese carbonated drink) and some sweets at Tripureshower. We entered the complex of the Kalmochan Mahadev Temple for a short visit. This is the area where you can enjoy Paneer, cream, and tofu. Mo: Mo.
After here, we continue our street hike, crossing over the Bagmati River towards the Patan Durbar Square. This is the fun part of our one-day food tour in Kathmandu. Patan Durbar Square is a very popular tourist destination. We mixed the attraction with Newari food for food junkie travelers.
OUR FOOD ITEMS IN PATAN DURBAR SQUARE and AROUND
We have many popular Newari food stalls and restaurants around Patan. Everything that comes with Newari culture and traditions in Kathmandu, we can get here. We are presenting here all the Newari meals, snacks, tidbits, and others:
Traditional Bitten Rice, Bhatmas and Peanuts items, Chilly Aalo, Aalo Tama Curry, Hakku Choyla, Jalaa, Dyakula, Duck Choyla, Sukuti, Sanya Khuna, Kachilla, Pickle, Bara, Chatamari, Boka ko masu, Nalli, Takhha, Sanya Khunna, Swan Puka, Sapu Micha, Yomari, Newari Set Platter, Jhuku, Nyaphu, and Bone Soup are popular food items we should try to complete our One Day Food Tour in Kathmandu. We will not forget our Patan Durbar Square sightseeing; we will do it after this big lunch.
After visiting all our attractions of Patan food and heritage, we will drive back to Kings Way, Durbar Marg. Here we spend our time on shakes, ice cream, waffles, and other desserts. At last we make a round of Durbar Marg and Thamel and start our Nepalese dinner with a culture program. Here you will get the opportunity to taste the traditional food item called Thakali Khana Set, which is also called Nepali Set.
At last we will transfer to your hotel, where the one-day food tour in Kathmandu comes to an end with Trekking Trail Nepal.
