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Another 10 has been added
is has been over four
to make it 34 ... and plans
years since opening in
are hopefully for even larger
April of 2001 ... after
quarters.
experiencing a business
It has been featured local-
drought that could only make
ly on public television, FOX
the owners wonder if they had
2 and Channel 4, with
bitten off more then they
Rocky cooking in the studio
could chew by presenting a
... and workers going gaga
cuisine so very different ...
D ANNY
over the food he made.
After all, here was the food of
RA SKIN
There is something about
a culture that very few per-
Se
nior
Nepali
cuisine that boggles
sons had ever heard about.
Col
umnist
the
imagination
... It is also
The only thing known
very tasty, extremely healthy
about Nepali cuisine was,
... nothing is deep-fried, and there
perhaps, that a gourmet meal might
isn't a can to be found.
consist of a plate of buffalo meat, a
Everything is made as people order
side of lentils, a tough roll and tub of
their food ... Even the dough used for
yak butter.
Nepali flat bread, called Rothi, is
But that was, perhaps, a short num-
mixed,
rolled and cut at the restau-
ber of years ago ... Today, however,
rant.
the food of Nepal ranks up there with
Everest Express is now open seven
the higher-regarded types of ethnic
days a week ... Monday-Thursday 11-
fare.
9, Friday 11-10, Saturday 4-10 and
Everest Express on Orchard Lake
Sunday 4-9 in a quaint atmosphere
Road, south of 10 Mile in
with its mini-temple of about 20
Farmington has been acclaimed as the
flickering candles in colorful glasses,
first truly authentic Nepali restaurant
white
walls covered with pictures and
in the United States ... There are some
reviews.
other Nepali restaurants in the coun-
Where else can you experience the
try, but, for the most part, they are
elegant tastes of things like Chara Ko
not the real thing ... usually one-half
Chow Chow, cubed chicken breast
Indian or one-half Tibetan.
sauteed with roasted tomato sauce
Owner Pradip "Rocky" Poudel,
and fresh herbs, Mashu Naunee,
came here in 1989 from his birth-
chicken
breast sauteed with pistachios,
place, Kathmandu, Nepal ... He had
almonds,
cashews, coconut, cream
been the food and beverage manager
and tomato, or Gandaki Tarakari,
at a Sheraton Hotel in Nepal, but
boneless lamb sauteed with roasted
after arriving here was happy to get a
tomato sauce and fresh herbs ... Or
job as a dishwasher in a Waterford
restaurant ... Then came stints as ban-
quet setup person at Southfield's
Embassy Hotel, which he left in 1994
as its banquet manager, his own
Downtown Cafe restaurant in
Farmington and then Holiday Inn of
Southfield.
After meeting Nadhal Gorges in
2000, they decided to open Everest
Express ... and might have called it
quits if not for their perseverance and
great confidence in Napali food ...
with the realization that once people
had it, they would return with others.
How right they were ... Once
Nepali cuisine was discovered, the
throngs who came through the doors
of this small place wanted to know
where it has been all these years.
Pradip "Rocky" Poudel
Original seating was for 24 ...