Newari foods

Food is very important part of the ritual and religious life of the Newars. The food items served to the guests during festivals and feasts have own symbolic significance. Different sets of ritual dishes are placed in a circle around the staple rice flakes to represent and honor different sets of deities depending on the festival or life-cycle ceremony.Newa cuisine consists of over 200 dishes. It is more elaborate than most Nepalese cuisines because the Kathmandu Valley has exceptionally fertile alluvial soil and enough wealthy households to make growing produce more profitable than cultivating rice and other staples, especially after Tribhuvan Highway opened in 1956 and staple foods could be cheaply trucked into the valley from India and the Nepalese Terai. Food and feasting are a central part of Newar culture.^[1] This has given rise to a proverb, “Parbate bigre mojle; Newar bigre bhojle” ("Nepalese hill people bankrupt themselves with sexual amusements; Newars bankrupt themselves with feasts.")

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