Our new favorite restaurant

It has been a few weeks in coming, but we having finally (I hope) started our weekly date night out. This was so Will could add it into his Outlook so he wouldn't forget and to be home earlier enough to try a new restaurant around town. And so Will actually has a chance to get out and see the city every now and then. Take off the chains and put on the ball and chain. Not sure if he feels like there is a difference...but since we're newly weds still, I figure I have the upper hand (or back hand) for a few more years. :)

So off to Nepali Kitchen. I went there last week with a few tai tais and I knew immediately that Will would like it. Nepalese food is a lot like Indian. It is a small cozy little restaurnt with prayer flags - J(eff it kind looks like your old apartment). Cool tables and we decided to go upstairs where you can sit on cushions, etc. Our waiter was actually from Nepal - not surprising, but cool. He said most Nepalese speak English now. He started learning English when he was 15 (he was probably mid 40s) but said most children start it when they start school. There were cool pictures up of Mt Everest and of the city of Katmandu.

We asked him how the situation was in Katmandu - safe for travelers? He of course said yes, Katmandu is fine, no problems. If you go outside along the trekking circuits you can run into trouble with those pesky Maoist Rebels. But he said the government is in peace negotiations with them now and they should have elections soon. The other thing we found out - as with Tibet - is that it doesn't get all that cold in the major cities (Katmandu and Lhasa) - in winter - down to 10 degrees C, uh around 50 F. Didn't anyone else see the Golden Child? I'm thinking big puffy furry coats, freezing my butt off. Heck, all I want to do is go to the monestary and spin one of those prayer wheels and shout ... "I I I want the knnniiffffeee......pllleeeaaasseeee" Sorry for all of you who haven't seen Eddie Murphy in the Golden Child. But I know my sis out there has my back and is laughing just a little. I swear I see the same little man without his hat on as in the movie - this time at the metro station collecting paper for recycling. I need another camera and I'll show you to compare.