Mustang Nepalese Restaurant

Delicious, delicious, delicious! I’m a fan of Nepalese and Mustang did not fail to deliver. We had a lovely young male server who was attentive, and gave us somegreat suggestions. Just be sure to do yourself a favour and get the Lal Mohan as dessert. Oh gosh.

I still love this place. The service is great and food is reliably yummy. Whenever I have visitors I like to bring them here for something different!

I’ve never had Nepalese food before, so I can’t say if this food is authentic or not. But accepting the food for what it is, it was quite tasty, and having had a good experience here, I’m rating it a 4 out of 5.
I didn’t do the ordering, so I have no idea exactly what we got. The only name of the dish I remember was the chicken momo, which is basically like Chinese dumplings, but served with a curry sauce. Woo! Besides that, we had (and I’m referring to their online menu as I type this):
— 3 separate dishes of lamb, beef, and goat, which tasted kinda the same, flavor wise. Though out of the 3, I liked the goat the best
— a fish dish that could be the Tarai fish — traditional fish curry from southern (Tarai) region of Nepal. Fiery and delicious it consists of coconut, catered for spice lovers
— a chicken dish that basically tasted like a regular mushroom chicken dish, probably the Chicken Everest — diced chicken thigh fillets simmered in mushroom sauce and Nepalese spices
— prawn curry — king prawn marinated with ginger and curry leaves, simmered in coconut milk
— a veggie dish with something that could’ve either been potatoes or pumpkin (or maybe none of the above)… I vaguely remember someone saying chickpeas but I could be mistaken
All of the dishes were pretty sauce-​y, and our table couldn’t help smothering our rice with the sauces and eating it like that. Yum.
I feel a little confused though — part of me feels like I didn’t really taste anything new. The curries were very similar to Indian food I’d had before, the chicken tasted like a regular mushroom chicken dish, and the dumplings were, well, dumplings. Given Nepal’s location, I guess that isn’t surprising, but I guess I’m a little miffed I didn’t taste anything super extraordinary. But for what you get, Mustang serves really good food, don’t get me wrong.
Service was good, and our meal came to only $ 20.50 per person (without drinks.)

Good food. In fact it is completely reliable so we eat here often. Pretty decent value also.
The stand out is the mustang lamb. We usually get one of the banquets.

Weird international crush #5: Nepal.
Was already well enamoured with this culture before setting foot in Mustang, and am now crushing doubly hard. Went armed with a discount voucher. You know, the kind that normally gets you service like you’re a redheaded tramp whose face offends the paying customers. But here!
Here, the manager (big, long hair, glasses — a benevolent yeti) clapped his hands, smiled warmly, announced «Excellent!» and proceeded to give us a run down of what the voucher included, what he recommended, brought our free bottle of wine over, laughed merrily when I accidentally knocked him causing him to spill some red on the nice white tablecloth, regaled us with stories of chicken momo dumplings and how they can’t use beef because cows are sacred and if you accidentally run into one with your car in Nepal it’s 20 years prison so you’d best duck across the border and hide for a few years until the fuss has died down.
By gum I love these people. And their food. And their incense. And. .. and. .. guh!

As a group of four friends we decided to try something different. There aren’t too many Nepalese restaurants around so I did my research and expected a lot of Indian influence.
The place was not busy on a Tuesday evening and we had perfectly adequate service. We ordered Chicken Momo, Lumb Cutlets and Chilli Prawns for the entrée; Goat Curry, Sherpa Beef, Chicken and a Lamb dish for the mains and found them all to have very pleasant flavours, all well cooked but definitely not as hot as Indian curries, they have a somewhat different take on curries. The chicken dish was the only one that did not have a sauce so felt a little drier by comaprison, however still had a beautiful charred flavour. The goat and beef dishes were nicely tender, the prawns were amazingly soft and the rice was very fluffy and cooked to perfection.
I would like to give this place more stars as the food was fine and well cooked, but it would be nice to have more variety in the flavours of the different curries. I found that the dishes blended together somewhat and nothing really stood out for me.

We decided on Mustang for dinner as we wanted to go local but to try a different cuisine for a change. Having never eaten Nepalese before I wasn’t sure what to expect.
FOOD
From the menu I noticed that Nepalese food seems like a fusion of Chinese and Indian food. No surprise though given the geographic location of the country. We decided to go half Chinese half Indian influence with our selection and picked the Chicken Momo ($ 9.00) and Goat Curry ($ 18.90).
I found the flavours a bit different from the typical Chinese dumplings and Indian curries. The curry was not spicy and hence I thought it lacked a bit of flavour. The dumplings were also nothing special.
SERVICE
It was quite busy the day we went but even so the waiters were quite attentive.
VERDICT
I thought the food at Mustang was average but then I don’t think Nepalese food is something that really takes my fancy. It was good to give it a try though.