Nine years ago, a restaurant appeared at First Avenue and 14th Street offering four Nepalese dishes on a mainly Indian menu and, for a long time, that constituted our sole gastronomic exposure to the small, craggy country sandwiched between India and Tibet. More recently, full-blown Himalayan restaurants have appeared in Queens, filling their bills of fare with Tibetan, Nepalese, and Bhutanese dishes. Among other wonderfully inscrutable things, these newcomers have regaled us with la phings (mung bean jellies), ghundruks (fermented mustard-green stews), and momos... More >>>