The menu

Fried paneer tossed with onion and pepper in a chilli sauce.

Steamed dumplings filled with vegetables.

Stir-fried noodles with vegetables.

Rice stir-fried with vegetables.

Vegetables in gram flour batter, fried to order.

Spiced mashed potato, battered and fried.

Spiced mashed potato, battered and fried.

Fried pastry triangle filled with spiced potato.

Fried pastry triangle filled with spiced potato.

Hollow crisp shells filled with potato and tangy spiced water, eaten whole in one bite.

The same crisp shells, filled with potato and topped with yoghurt and chutney.

Puffed rice tossed with onion, chilli and lemon. Kathmandu street food, served dry.

The same tossed puffed rice, served wet rather than dry.

Crisp fried pastry strips tossed with spiced potato.

A samosa broken open and dressed with chickpeas and chutney.

Ground lentil batter fried flat into a savoury patty.

Coils of batter fried crisp and dropped straight into syrup.

Flat bread pulled and folded into thin layers.

Puffed fried bread, by the piece.

A small fried pancake, soaked in syrup.

Milk-solid dumpling served in sweet syrup; the kala jamun is fried darker.

Soft cheese balls in sweet syrup, or a laddu rolled from reduced milk solids.

Dense milk-solid sweet cut into pieces, plain or in the darker gudpak style.

Round sweet of roasted gram flour and ghee.

Round sweet of roasted gram flour and ghee, boxed by the ten.

Crisp fried pastry strips, salted. Keeps well.

Crisp fried pastry strips, salted. Keeps well.

Milk reduced slowly to solids, sold by weight to cook with or eat as it is.

Milk reduced slowly to solids, sold by weight to cook with or eat as it is.

Wheat haluwa, cooked down in ghee until dark.

Wheat haluwa, cooked down in ghee until dark.

Semolina haluwa, lighter than the wheat.

Semolina haluwa, lighter than the wheat.

The breakfast we are named for: syrup-soaked jeri beside layered swari bread.

Syrup-soaked jeri with puffed fried puri.

Warm haluwa served with swari.

Warm haluwa served with puri.

Puffed fried bread with potato curry.

Samosa served with curry.

Lentil papad rolled around a spiced filling and fried.

Lentil papad rolled around a spiced filling and fried, as a set.

Steamed rice-flour parcel pinched to a point, filled with molasses.

The same steamed parcel, filled with reduced milk solids.

The Newari feast plate, built around beaten rice with sides.

Bhaktapur's “king of yoghurt”, set thick and sweet.

Round fried breads of soft leavened dough, crisp outside and soft within.

Potato and fermented bamboo shoot, sour and slow-cooked.

Potato and fermented bamboo shoot, sour and slow-cooked.

Green peas cooked down with tomato and spice.

Green peas cooked down with tomato and spice.

Nepali milk tea.

Yoghurt blended with mango.

Bottled soda.

Canned soft drink.

Imported Mexican soda.

Imported Mexican soda.

Chilled almond drink, lightly sweet.

Chilled pineapple juice.

Bottled water.