Dimplw wrote: "Probably ashuji's palate is used to French food but the smelly goat cheese for appitizer and sweet duck and tasteless lamb shank scattered with potato bits for dinner." No. I like food all right and like to sample all sorts of cuisines, but I am NOT one of those who takes pride in eating food he cannot pronounce the names of!! So, Give me daal, bhat, aalu-tama, gundruk ko jhol, kukhura ko masu ko, and kakro ko achar for dinner anyday, and I could die and go to heaven as a gastronomically sated man :-) oohi ashu