Review – Laughing Buddha Restaurant, Pokhara, Nepal
Highlights of the menu include n enormous spinach and mushroom lasagne, with bread and salad, Swiss Rosti (amazing cheesey/potatoey gooey deliciousness), and the simple breakfast, all costing less than 90 pence. For a real treat, try the grilled fish (a whopping 1.10 pounds!).
Laughing Buddha can be found on the North end of Lakeside, near Sweet Memories and Newari Kitchen. Not to be missed.
10/10
Review – Pushpa Guest House, Pokhara, Nepal
We met some American ladies that had been coming here for the past 10 years and thought it was the best thing since sliced bread. We’d have given it more points, but unfortunately the owners tried to short change us twice when we were checking out. Poor show. 6/10
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Sherpa Lodge, Zhangmu
The best thing about Sherpa Lodge was the attached restaurant. Western food was surprisingly good quality and was exceptionally cheap – a welcome find after several days in the sticks.
Location was good – right at the bottom of the town, just before Chinese customs (although you’ll still need a taxi to get you to the border crossing several kilometres further down the mountain). We’d give Sherpa a much better rating if there was hot water and no builders: 5/10
Review – Snowland Hotel, New Tingri
Toilets were a bit disgusting hole-in-the-floor affairs long-dropping into a slop room on the ground floor, but are probably typical of this part of the world. Enquiries about showers were met with a chuckle and a firm ‘no’.
The attached restaurant was popular with lorry drivers and other passers-by and served fairly bland but filling Tibetan food for a reasonable price. It was a good place to while away the time until the pass between Tingri and Zhangmu opens as the heat from the oven makes the temperature bearable.
There are supposedly 3-star hotels somewhere in town (although we saw absolutely no trace of them) and it might be a good idea to pay a little extra for some home comforts in this inhospitable corner of nowhere, but by all means come here if you are after the authentic Tibetan experience!
Unrated: it would get 0/10 in normal circumstances, but since it is in the middle of the arse-end-of-nowhere, it is a bit harsh to rate it so poorly. From what we saw, there are no alternatives.
