Bedrock, what is that you have to bring up my mom and her cooking? Come on! I have realized whenever we Nepali talk about something that might conflict with someone's idea, we have to bring up other person's whole family. For example, "Say that to you sister or mother," "Will you do the same thing to your sister and mother?" "Try treating your mother and sister the same way," blah blah blah. Can not we put forth our arguments without bring up the entire family? Such a childish behaviour. <1%. Interesting observation. God knows where that number came from. I guess.. it's just made up from one's judgement. In such case the numer is meaningless. Anyway, yes I grew up eating nepali food. Just because you eat something doesn't mean that you have to like it. And you don't always eat things you like. That is why most of us don't eat food to enjoy but to fill ourselves up because we are a poor country and we don't have enough choices on food which sometimes may be expensive, and thus we don't experiment much with our food in fear of spoiling it. Otherwise we wouldn't be eating same Dal-Bhat twice a day everyday if we really wanted to enjoy than to fill up our stomach. So you know what, from my judgement on this thread, it should be "Food you Miss," than "Favourite Food". Honestly when you were in Nepal, did you not crave for Pizza, Burger, Chowmin even though they were expensive? Didn't you dream about having a meal in Wimpies or Nirulas? Probably then they would have been your favorite food. But now since you get too much of Burger and Pizza you crave for Dal-Bhat, and other nepali food.