Overlooked, guarded, backdropped by the Himalayas, Nepal has got it going on when it comes to cuisine. Much like London, it’s booming with influences from all over the shop and nowhere is this more apparent than in London’s rich and varied Nepalese restaurants. First off, from the people who live around the Himalayas in the north to the folk who live in the southern lowlands, the people of Nepal are diverse in terms of ethnicity, culture and the weather they have to put up with. Second, up until as recent as the 1950s, the Nepalese borders were pretty much completely closed off to outsiders. The combined result of both these things means that Nepalese cuisine has traditionally been built around home-grown produce, and the Nepalese people, with all their diversity, had to get very creative indeed in terms of creating dishes. As such, Nepal’s culinary identity today is strong and the Nepalese restaurants of London do a damn fine job of representing it.