Have you tried everything in Kathmandu?

Grab this ring-shaped rice doughnut fresh off the fryer and go soggy-crispy in your chiya.

Flattened rice piled with whatever's around - curry, yogurt, pickle - is the everyday grab-and-go.

Find a chiya pasal already crowded with locals arguing politics for NPR 15-30 a glass.

Neighborhood temples fill with marigold offerings and tika paste while the city still smells of incense.

Push through 1000-year-old lanes of spices and brass while locals do their actual daily shopping.

Browse the glass bead necklaces that symbolize marriage, then loop past Akash Bhairav temple.

It's illegal but still real - listen for how names quietly shape who sits where in a room.

Extended families share one kitchen and grandparents get absolute respect shown by touching their feet.

Pay NPR 400 to sit under 1920s neo-classical pergolas while couples nearby do the same on a lazy afternoon.

Learn to fold momos and balance a full dal bhat plate the way a Nepali household does it daily.

When India plays Pakistan, restaurants fill wall to wall with locals glued to the screen over dal bhat.