Course Meal | ||
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Main ingredients rice, chicken, burnt feathers, Damlapa flower Similar Rice, Chicken meat, Sapu Mhicha, Dhindo, Kinema | ||
Wachipa is a typical Kirat dish made with rice, minced chicken, and powder made out of burnt feathers of a chicken. The powder gives a unique bitter taste. Vegetarian wachipa is made by replacing meat with leaves or flowers of a plant called Damlapa, which is also bitter. It is eaten on special occasions. It is believed that consumption of wachipa cures body aches. It is called Wamik in Lohorung.
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