Indian food in hippie trail

Indian food in hippie trail

Indian Food Hippie Trail blog introduces you to food cultures in Kathmandu. Freak street, the hippie trail during the 1960s to 1970s because of the government-run hashish shop. Hippies from different parts of the world travel to Kathmandu, searching for natural cannabis. Still, Freak street has its charm for travellers. If you walk through the alley and narrow road, you will find several café, restaurants and shops where you can taste the local and Nepali souvenirs.

Today, I passed by Freak street, and I saw the small local café where locals and foreigners enjoyed Indian foods. The place is known as Janakpur Janaki Litti Bhandar. I also became inquisitive and went inside. The people from Janakpur opened this place a year before. Janakpur is located in the Eastern Terai of Nepal and is one of Nepal's historical and religious sites where the Hindu goddess Sita was born. The main focus of the Janakpur is the Janaki Mandir, which is one of the important Hindu pilgrimage sites.

Though the most famous food in Nepal is all, Bhaat and Tarkarri.  We have a lot of influence on Indian food, and Nepali food is much less spicy than Indian food, but the Indian food you find in Nepal has intense flavours. The Indian influence was only confined to the Southwestern part of Nepal.  But now, in Kathmandu, there are many local café and restaurants where travellers can find cheap and tasty Indian foods.

In Janakpur Janaki Litti Bhandar, you can find the Samosa Chat, Pani Puri, Aloo Chop, Chickpeas and so on. The food is really delicious and very cheap. Many local people and foreigners gave positive feedback about the food, and the people from the shop are very much conscious of the service.

Duke Nepal highly recommends you go and have cheap and delicious food in Freak Street.

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