At a new popup restaurant in New York City, Nepali spices and hand-wrapped momos highlight the traditions and culture behind the cuisine of the North Face region in the Himalayas, an area many only as
sociate with extreme sports and puffer coats. Nichi Pandey, 22, and Steven Li, 23, childhood friends who grew up in Maryland, wanted their new restaurant, the Orange Peel Cafe, in the Lower East Side to tell the story of the Nepal-Chinese border and its people. The North Face refers to the north side of Mount Everest, also known as Sagarmatha in Nepali.
“We started to realize, number one, a lot of the cooking is the same, but also, number two, in terms of this region, and because Nepal is the country that is smashed in between China and India and has a lot of influence from both, there are a lot of techniques and dishes that even though we call them different things, they’re really actually the same thing — and I think that that’s a powerful and cultural statement,” Pandey said.
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