Helpful Illustrated Food: How much it cost for meals on Langtang Trek?

You can buy meals for breakfast on Langtang Trek around USD$3-USD$4. Meals for Lunch around USD$4-USD$5. Meals for Dinner around USD$4-USD$5. Drinking water around USD$2 and USD$6 for beer.

The typical meals for breakfast are Bread and chapatti, Fresh Soup, Eggs, Pancake, Porridge. The typical meals for lunch and dinner are same. They are Rice, Pizza, Potatoes, Noodles, Chowmein, Spaghetti, Nepal set Meal/Dal Bhat, Pasta & Macaroni, Momo, Vegetable Pizza and salad.

All these foods served by teahouses along the trail.

Breakfast start at 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., Lunch 11 a.m. to 1 noon 7.30 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. The portion were very generous. It make me full more than enough

Here are average cost per meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner during the trek in Langtang.

*USD$1 equal to 121, 52 Rupee Nepal.

Meals and drink	Lower Altitude	Higher Altitude
Breakfast	USD$3-USD$4	USD$9-USD$10
Lunch	USD$4-USD$5	USD$10-USD$11
Dinner	USD$4-USD$5	USD$10-USD$12
Drink	USD$2	USD$6

 

The typical foods in the Himalayan trail is vegetarian food. The food is nutritious and filling.

The cost of the food in higher altitude, become more expensive compare to lower altitude. It because need many days to bring the raw foods from the city to the mountain.

They need to use mules or helicopter to bring up logistic to the mountain, due to lack of transportation.

The lower regions at Langtang like Syabrubesi, the gateway to the popular Langtang Trek, a meal cost between USD$3-$4.

But, in higher altitudes you need to pay more for food and drink, it could be $9-$10 for the same plate of food.

We need to walk for 5-7 hours every day when you trek in Langtang. We need around 3000 up to 4000 calories, so we can get full energies to do a lengthy walk up and down the hill.

Meals for Breakfast on Langtang Trek

Bread and chapatti

Tibetan Bread and chapatti are great golden puffs of fried dough. The dough made from whole-grain flatbread, baking powder, sugar, vegetables oil and water.

Enjoy Tibetan Bread by dip it in Nepalese honey and sprinkled with salt. To enjoy chapatti, torn off chapatti and used to pick up meat or vegetables from your plate.

Use chapatti to scoop up more liquid dishes like curries.

Bread and chapatti	NRs	USD$
Tibetan Bread	280	3
Bread with jam, peanut, honey	330	3
Bread with single omelet	390	4
Bread with Yak Cheese	390	4
Plain chapatti	250	3
Chapatti with Jam, honey, peanut	300	3
Chapatti with single omelet	370	4
chapatti with Yak Cheese	350	3

 

1 meal Tibetan bread has around 922 calories. To fulfil your calories’s need before you start the trek, you must eat enough calories.

Having Tibetan bread and 2 boiled egg will give you around 1200 calories.

You will walk 3 to 4 hours before your lunch time, so eat carbohydrate complex and high protein to make your body feel full longer.

Fresh Soup

It’s good to eat garlic soup in high altitudes. Many Sherpas recommend garlic soup to prevent altitude sickness.

Garlic soup made from fresh local garlic, unsalted butter, onions, cloves garlic, Dutch cream or Nicola potatoes, Sea salt and ground black pepper. It served with bread and taste good.

Another recommendation for food in high altitudes is Sherpa stew soup.

Sherpa stew soup made from vegetables and meat, combine with thick noodle soup. Dough roll become flat noodles called cumin.

Vegetables and meat are stir-fried with cumin. It cook with onions and garlic, then simmered.

 

Fresh Soup	NRs	USD$
Garlic Soup	300	3
Cheese Soup	350	3
Potato Soup	330	3
Onion soup	300	3
Vegetable soup	330	3
Sherpa stew Soup	400	4
Mixed Soup	430	4

 

Porridge

Tsampa Porridge are good, nutritious, breakfast cereal.

Tsampa Porridge made from Tsampa Tibetan staple food made from barley grain. Tsampa Porridge cook with honey, water, tea, or milk and butter, and stir well.

Porridge	NRs	USD$
Oat Porridge	300	3
Tsampa Porridge	300	3
Tsampa Porridge with Musli Apple	350	3
Tsampa Porridge with Honey	350	3
Hot Milk Musli with Honey	350	3

 

Other variation of meals for breakfast

You also can enjoy other food for breakfast like eggs, noodle soup and pancake.

Doubled Eggs	NRs	USD$
Cheese omelet	380	4
Potato Omelet	350	3
Vegetable Omelet	350	3
Mixed omelet	400	4
Scrambled Egg	380	4
Cream of packet soup
Chicken soup	350	3
Tomato soup	330	3
Mushroom soup	330	3
Noodle soup	300	3
Vegetable noodle soup	380	4
egg noodle soup	400	4
Tomato noodle soup	400	4
Mushroom noodle soup	400	4
chicken noodle soup	420	4
Pancake
Plain Pancake	350	3
Pancake with Jam/Honey /peanut/Butter	350	3
Cheese Pancake	420	4
Potato Pancake	460	4
Apple Pancake	450	4
Chocolate Pancake	420	4

 

Meals for Lunch on Langtang Trek

Nepal set Meal/Dal Bhat

Nepalese set Meals. Dal bhat  contains lentils or dal in Nepali, and white rice or bhat.

It served with vegetable curry called tarkari, a mixture of spicy vegetables as pickles and greens from spinach.

Dal Bhat served with papad, a thin and crisp, round flatbread.

Combination of Lentils, grain and vegetables provide a sizeable amount of vegetable protein.

This Nepalese set meal is a favorite of Sherpa and guide, because the portion is big and its balance healthy food.

Rice	NRs	USD$
Plain rice	350	3
Vegetables fried rice	430	4
Egg Vegetables Fried Rice	480	4
Vegetables cheese fried rice	500	5
Mixed Fried Rice	520	5
Rice with Vegetables Curry	550	5
Rice with Egg Curry	520	5
Nepal set Meal/Dal Bhat	500	5

Vegetables Curry

Vegetables curry is vegetables cooked with curry. Nepalese curry compound of Turmeric, cumin, and coriander as three prime ingredients. It combine with different fresh and dried spices. Curry is good for heath.

The ingredient of curry known to be anti-inflammatory. It cleansing and detoxing our body.

Vegetables curry and rice is healthy food that are satisfying and fulfilling. It healthy and good food to give hiker nutrition.

Special Local Food	NRs	USD$
Vegetable curry	520	5
Potato roll soup	520	5

Chowmein

Chowmein is an easy Nepalese noodle stir fry. Chowmein cooked with garlic, cabbage, carrot, onion, bell pepper, soy sauce and Nepali spices. The calories for 100 gram is around 458 kcal.

Chowmein & Spaghetti	NRs	USD$
Vegetables Chowmein	450	4
Vegetables Egg Chowmein	490	5
Vegetables Cheese Chowmein	490	5
Mixed Chowmein	520	5
Spaghetti with Vegetables/Tomato Sauce	490	5
Spaghetti with Egg/Garlic Sauce	520	5
Spaghetti with Cheese Sauce	520	5
Mixed Spaghetti	550	5

Other variation of meals for Lunch

You can enjoy other food for Lunch such as Mashed Potatoes with cheese, Mashed Potatoes with cheese and Vegetable cheese pizza.

After lunch you still need to walk 3-4 hours, so make sure to choose healthy and fulfilling meals.

 

Potatoes	NRs	USD$
Boiled Potatoes	400	4
Boiled Potatoes with cheese/butter	490	5
Roasted Potatoes	450	4
Fried Potatoes	430	4
Fried Potatoes with Vegetables/Cheese	520	5
Finger Chips	450	4
Mashed Potatoes with cheese	490	5
Mixed Fried Potatoes	540	5
Pizza and Sandwich		0
Vegetable Pizza	450	4
Vegetable cheese pizza	490	5
Tuna Fish Pizza	500	5
Mixed pizza	550	5
Egg Sandwich	400	4
Vegetable cheese sandwich	420	4
Tuna Fish Sandwich	500	5
Snacks
Popcorn	350	3
local cheese	390	4
Prawn chips	300	3
Momo
Potato Momo	450	4
Vegetables Momo	450	4
Cheese Momo	480	4
Vegetables Cheese Momo	500	5
Mixed Momo	520	5
Tuna Momo	550	5
Salad
Vegetables salad	350	3
Tuna fish salad	500	5
Mixed salad	450	4

 

Meals for Dinner on Langtang Trek

For dinner, you can try another Nepalese cuisine like Momo.

Momo is Nepalese dumpling has various fillings such as chopped vegetables or also chicken and buffalo meat. Momo serving with sesame yellow and red garlic chilli sauce.

There are two ways to cook Momo, steamed and fried after it steamed.

Momo	NRs	USD$
Potato Momo	450	4
Vegetables Momo	450	4
Cheese Momo	480	4
Vegetables Cheese Momo	500	5
Mixed Momo	520	5
Tuna Momo	550	5

 

The meals for dinner quite similar with meals for lunch. You can order something that help your body feel warm after a day of trekking.

Potatoes	NRs	USD$
Boiled Potatoes	400	4
Boiled Potatoes with cheese/butter	490	5
Roasted Potatoes	450	4
Fried Potatoes	430	4
Fried Potatoes with Vegetables/Cheese	520	5
Finger Chips	450	4
Mashed Potatoes with cheese	490	5
Mixed Fried Potatoes	540	5
Pizza and Sandwich		0
Vegetable Pizza	450	4
Vegetable cheese pizza	490	5
Tuna Fish Pizza	500	5
Mixed pizza	550	5
Egg Sandwich	400	4
Vegetable cheese sandwich	420	4
Tuna Fish Sandwich	500	5
Snacks
Popcorn	350	3
local cheese	390	4
Prawn chips	300	3
Salad
Vegetables salad	350	3
Tuna fish salad	500	5
Mixed salad	450	4

 

Drinking Water on Langtang Trek

Most teahouses provide drinkable water. They boil the water and filter the water.

You can use your purify water bottle or Aqua tab to purify the water.

If you want mineral water, they also sell mineral water. Teahouses also sell other drink like canned juice and coke.

For boiling drinks, they sell coffee, ginger tea, lemon tea and black tea. Some of them have chocolate drink.

Many teahouses also sell alcoholic drink like beer. But it’s better to avoid alcoholic drink and caffeine in high altitudes.

It is always great to drink enough water to stay your body hydrate during the trail.

Chilly Drinks	NRs	USD$
Apple, mango, orange, pineapple juice	250	3
Coke/Fanta/Sprite	300	3
Mineral Water	200	2
Beers
Beer Everest	600	5
Tuborg Beer	650	6
Sanmiguel Beer	650	6
Local Wine (Rakshi)	150	2
Mustang Coffee	250	3

 

How they prepare the meals during the trek?

Not so many foods options serve in the trails. But they serve fresh, organic and local vegetables meals. That’s why you need to wait for long for the food cooked before you enjoy your meals.

If you do trekking with a guide, he will help you get the food faster and order as soon as you reach the teahouse.

Final Thought

Many teahouses using local product and local peoples working at teahouses. Foods in the trail is vegetarian food and expensive compare to meals in the city.

For breakfast you need to spend around USD$3-USD$4. Meals for Lunch around USD$4-USD$5 and meals for Dinner around USD$4-USD$5.

It because the transportation to carry the food logistic is difficult. It need many days to bring up the food to the mountain.

They use local vegetables and local chicken to make sure they give you fresh and healthy meals.

It will help your body to have nutritious food for complete the trek.

Buy and finish your food will help the community and create sustainable trekking that have contribution to local community, culture and environment.

 

 

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