reviewrestaurant: Most of the nepali were either poters or taxi dirvers and waiters in the boarding schools around those area and I am sure they had their plight and struggle and wanted their won identity. RR Did you hang around mostly at clubside, barracks, ghoom stand, momo hangouts? Because that would surely explain why you only saw nepalese as either porters, drivers and waiters. FYI, although Darjeeling in India, it is RULED by Nepalese :) who come from all walks of life - lawyers, doctors, teachers, and yes drivers, waiters and porters. " The peopel would say - Nepali ma bolnus!" Bolnu ta parcha ta!!! Speak the common language...and yes, Nepali does happen to be the common thread in Darjeeling amongst Tibetans, Madhises (madhes bata aeko lai aru k bhanney ta...don't go postal on me coz I use that word!)and everybody else.