Kathmandu Restaurant

We were attempting to go to Aahara a Sri Lankan Restaurant on Hutt St that we read about on Web Menu but it turns out it is now a Nepalese restaurant called Kathmandu.

Since we were there we thought we'd give it a go.

We decided to skip the Entree and go for 2 mains and a couple of sides.

We were served poppadoms whilst we made up our minds. The Khasi Tarkari -Traditional Pahadi style goat curry enhanced with whole spices and delicatly blended bahra masala ($21.90) was a definite dish, I'm always a fan of a nice goat curry!

We decided on Seke ko Ko Kukhura - Chicken BBQ style, marinated in fresh ginger and garlic paste, lemon, chilli, timbur and slow roasted in a charcoal clay oven. served with vegetables from the charcoal clay oven(21.50).

For sides we went with Rayo Saag - Authentic Nepalese spinach sauteed in a dash of mustard oil with turmeric, crushed garlic and dried whole chilli($8.90).
and originally we chose Tamre Quantee - Unique Nepalese dish of nine different beans cooked with tomatoes, fresh ginger and garlic, and tempered with fried cumin and exotic lovage seeds ($9.00)
but the waitress came back and explaind that we get a little of the Tamra Quantee with the chicken main so did we want to choose somthing else. We went with the Mismas Daal - Assorted Lentils cooked with freshly chopped garlic, coriander, tomato and tempered with cumin and Himalayan herbs ($8.00)

The chicken came out first and was served on a bed of the Rayo Saag with a tiny ramikin of the Tamre Quantee. The chicken was suculent and well cooked with a lovely spicy coating.

The Goat was next, quite a small portion but very tasty, nice strong flavour adn vert tender meat.

The Daal was disapointingly bland adn quite runny. I'm a thicker daal fan myself. we should have stuck with the 9 bean curry, the tiny bit we tasted was very tasty.

The spinach was nicly crunchy in the stalks and very garlicy.

We ordered rice and Garlic roti, the roti was a single roti which I felt was a little small we like to scoop and eat with the bread. It was very garlicy and could have passed for garlic bread. Lucky we like garlic!

It was expensive for what it was and the Menu was suspiciously simmilar to the Namaste menu in parkside (almostly exact) I think next time I feel like Nepalese I will head to our old favorite Namaste as it has the atmosphere and consitancy that has made it great.
This resaraunt has a sister resteraunt in Glenelg called Kathmandu Palace which seems more established. It was a nice dinner but not my first choice.


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Kathmandu Restaurant

214 Hutt St,
Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8359 2388
Email info@kathmandupalace.com.au

Dinner: Mon – Sat 5:30 pm onwards
Lunch: Wed – Fri, 11:30am to 2:30pm


Sorry for the lack of photos, we discovered the camera batery was flat when we tried to take the first one!

China Trip

From China Trip

I recently returned from a fantastic 5 weeks in China.

We flew into Chengdu and went to see some very cute Pandas!
We got perfect weather for the Eclipse (22 July 2009) and I took far too many photos. We watched it from Tongnan a tiny little village North of Chongqing.
We then took a Cruise from Chongqing to Yichang down the Yangtze river passing the Three Gorges damn, which was very big!
We climbed Wudang Shan Mountain the Birthplace Tai Chi. It had many MANY steps!
Up to Xian to see the Terracotta Warriors and then down to Hangzhou with it's very pretty lake.
Short Train to Shanghai worth it's fantastic futuristic skyline.
up to Beijing for to see Tianamen square and the Forbidden city.
Down to Qingtao for a few Tsingtaos, and a short stop at Shenyang to see a very pretty palace.
Back to Beijing for a few days then Fly to Hong Kong for the most relaxing 3 days of the whole trip!

Fab five weeks!
Just what I needed but it has started that Travel bug gnawing again!