Welcome and Namaste.
Namaste
At Hungry Buddha our morning starts early. The menu is decided daily according to what is available and what is fresh. Fresh is our mantra and our mediation. I trawl the Moor Market with Loki, Chef’s Assistant, enjoying the conversation and banter with the local traders, picking our produce for the day.
In Nepal we would haggle and barter as part of the fun of buying and selling. It’s the blood and upbringing of a Nepali and is expected in the markets. Here in Moor Market life is a little different, they would wonder what we were doing if we went around haggling on price. It is however a good friendly community, with traders helping each other where they can.
Community, that is the other mantra for Hungry Buddha, to create a feeling of belonging through food. A community where you can eat fresh, quality food you love, with a regularly changing menu, all provided with good conversation and pleasant friendly service.
My country, Nepal, is a country where community is at it’s heart. Travellers return from Nepal ‘changed’. Despite the harsh environments they encounter and physical challenges, somehow they carry the experience of warmth, spirituality and kindness in their hearts, which touches people at the level of spirit. Food is always offered in Nepal to the visitor or traveller, no matter how little a person has, they will always offer food. This won’t be a sophisticated fancy banquet, but a sincere and honest offering, usually traditional Dal Bhat, which is lentils and rice and tarkari (curried vegetable) served with achars (chutneys) otherwise known as the ‘holy trinity’.
As a Nepali living in the UK I missed that sincere and humble offering and the community which sharing food creates. Hungry Buddha hopes to bring a little pocket of that spirit to the people of Sheffield, with an honest offering of flavoursome, subtly spiced, fresh Nepalese food giving you the real Nepalese food experience. I hope you agree with us in saying that food is a great connector. Wherever you are from, wherever in the world you go to, you are knowingly or unknowingly looking for a connection that transports you to a good and safe place.
Our food is not heavy because we don’t use butter, ghee or cream in our cooking and it is is free of preservatives, additives and colouring.
Produced by
Dev Gurung
Chef and Founder of Hungry Buddha
