On Katti Rolls at Mint

Had a Katti roll at mint eatery which has 'indian' in its name but it's unclear what's so indian about it except...that it's got it in the name. The owners, the workers, the institution, all Nepali. Still, they need to optimize the number of potential customers.

The Katti roll there, it's always pretty impressive. It's not too big nor nothin', pretty small compared to the ones in Baneshwar but the flavor is so so satisfying, and it's curious what's they do with their bread for the cover because it's so fluffy and smoky at the same time. And the insides are juicy, they need to be controlled because they drip all over. Perhaps it's really easy to win me over with some simple sugar-and-soysauce based syrup and some raw onions perhaps. Or perhaps there's more to it I'd really like to know. Regardless, the bread resembles roti canai and the inside resembles authentic Nepali chicken-chilli (oh but this one's tofu because remember I don't eat meat). A dream team it is.

Their momos are extraordinarily bland and not enticing at all in any way. The ones we ordered earlier today came broken which is the worst you can do to a momo because all the juices are gone and it means you really care about the momo because you don't understand what it's all about, you're just in it for the momo just to give people something to put in their mouths because they won't stop yapping about it and asking for it. So, so so disappointing.

What's good about the place, and keeps me coming back over and over again despite their absurdly poorly-thought momos is their free spiced milk-tea. Cardamom and other spices, tea powder in  think milk, with way too much sugar, ooof, that's the pest aperitif and the best digestif. Generally milk messes up with my stomach but no the one they use in their teas which has led me to believe on several occasions that perhaps they don't use real milk at all but milk powder. Which would also explain why it tastes so much like a dessert because with a lot of sugar they're just selling liquid pedas. No complaints there though, great stuff, them pedas.