Bhaktapur II, The street food tour

We spent a few days back in Bhaktapur before heading off to the next workaway.

I thought it was about time I shared some photos and opinions on the street food. So here it is...

This is called Roll (not the real name but that's what the seller called it)

It's a cigar shaped food that's part sweet and part savoury. There's another one similar called Haluwa and that's totally savoury.

This one has a sweet, potato like filling inside a crape style wrap.

It's not overly interesting to eat. A bit bland and empty and deep fried. 

Pakoda. 

An assortment of vegetables mashed together with potato and flour dough. Mixed with curry and other spices then deep fried. I eat these a lot. 

Bara- aka Nepalese pizza. 

Almost exactly the same as a falafel and deep fried. One of my favourites. Especially nice when it's hot and fresh. 

Local Fish.

Marinated in a red curry and fried. Not overly spicy. They're grown in a pond nearby and fished out then sold by the pond owner. It's a little hard to eat at night because of the little bones but tasty. 

Potato cake. (Not the Nepalese name)

Mashed potato with onion and cabbage. slightly spicy and rolled into a fat ball. It came with a light brown tasteless gravy. I enjoyed these too. And as usual, deep fried. 

Buffalo sausage

...Photo missing...Just like a Frankfurt in size and shape and tastes exactly like the sausage in a Dagwood dog. And yes it's deep fried and eaten on a stick. 

Buffalo skewer. 

Chunks of buffalo meat coated in the same marinade as the fish. Tough to chew after being deep fried. 

Samosa.

It's as you would expect a Samoa to be. It's bigger in size than what you would get in Australia. Contains Peas, lentils, potato, chilli, curry and onion. The good and fresh ones are great. 

Jerry. 

A sweet snack. It's doesn't have a lot of flavour and it's piped into the deep fryer. Its made with cornflour, sugar and butter. 

Shell (the name the seller gave it)

Another sweet snack. almost tasteless. Made with sugar, flour and ghee. I gave mine to a street dog. The second time I ate this (in another village) it was much better. Much like a donut. 

Ghero

A flat, crispy deep fried cake. It contains flour, green peas, chick peas, salt and pepper. Very boring to eat. 

Puripuda

The first time I tried these I was disgusted. Mainly because of the dish washing water that accompanied them. Take two was without the "sauce" and they were great. They're a flour puff ball filled with chilli, potatoes, spring onion, coriander, onion and peas. They're really cheap at $.65 for 6pc

Chatpad

This snack was really tasty. Served in a  paper cone with small scoops made from a magazine to eat it with. 

It's a mix of puff rice, fresh and dried chilli, two different salts and peppers masala, peas, onion, tomato and coriander. I hoovered it down and 500metres later I had to use the loo desperately. 

These are called fruits

bananas, oranges, grapes, pomegranates and apples. 

You may already know some of these.

They all pretty much taste the same as you would expect.

The apples are soft and a bit bland. Definitely not sweet.

The oranges are typical oranges with heaps of pips.

The bananas are lacking in flavour but are still nice.

The pomegranates are great and bitter.

As far as cost goes, the deep fried food is about $0.10 to $0.30each.

The bananas are the cheapest fruit and sell for about $0.10 ea.

The oranges, apples and pomegranate start at $0.20 and go to about $1.25 each in that order.