Dal Bhat

Every Nepali eats Dal Bhat every lunch and dinner.  They eat it with their hands (which is somewhat disconcerting since they also wipe their ass with their hand - they don't believe in toilet paper).  It's delicious and deserves its own blog.

Dal Bhat is served on a a silver platter.  On the platter is a mound of white rice and a silver bowl which holds the Dal.  The Dal is a soupy concoction, usually made of lentils but also of beans.  Also on the plate, separated from the rice, is a curry concoction, almost always containing potatoes and some other vegetable, usually spinach.  And finally, also separated from the rice, is a pickled vegetable, usually very spicey.  You can eat it any way you want but most folks usually mix it all up at the start.  I like to mix a little at a time so the rice doesn't go soggy.  The Dal and the Bhat are better at lower elevations (as Nurbu astutely pointed out).  No matter where you go, if you order Dal Bhat, it is all you can eat.  And if you don't tell them to stop bringing the rice and the curry and the dal they will keep filling your plate.  It is perfect trekking food.  And I'm tired of it.  Tomorrow I won't be.