when we eat

It is always a room like this, in every lodge along the way, panels, long tables, the exact same menu...who figured this out, I wonder.

 For high altitude there is garlic soup and a new invention:
beet juice.  But better than beet juice is powdered beet juice in hot milk...we call it creamy beet.  Everywhere in Kathmandu there is dal bhat, and also the thali plate.

On the hike, there is always Sherpa stew.

 the chocolate cake celebration in Lukla, and the hot chocolate, always a gift from the bakers at Hermann's in Phakding.

Best of all, is to shop in the early morning markets for eggs, spices and tomatoes.