LAPHING: Tibetan street food

Laphing, super easy to eat, palatable in taste, range of different flavours, the most try food.

A cold jelly noodle dish - originally called liang fen is Sichuan cuisine which wouldn't traditionally be made at home. It is cool and spicy dish, especially refreshing in summer. It looks like a soft noodly dish served usually with a sour taste soup but there is also a dry version of it. This is not a noodle actually. Laphing itself is a very bland but the entire dish is full of flavors, really spicy and sour. We can get a hint of garlic, chilli,vinegar and salt, not to overpowering but the entire dish gives a spicy taste inside the mouth; it's tsunami of flavors.

Laphing is actually a Northern chinese cuisine known as liangfen, which literally translates to cold noodle. Liang means cold and fen is a jelly like eatable substances. This dish travelled to Nepal with Tibetan and Chinese people who later setteled in Boudha. There are plenty of eateries around the hidden valleys and streets of boudha that serve laphing. You will see many eateries and stalls serving white and yellow laphing. In weekends, all these eateries are packed, with largely young people, eating laphing.

Therefore, Spicy cold mung bean noodle is a street food that can be eaten with red pepper, chilli, ciantro and green onion sauce. Noodles  have a slippery texture and served with a soy sauce gravy. It is the most try food. Those who hasnt try this yet, should try it at least once!!