Mohamed’s Restaurant

For all the Bodhgaya wallas that could not make it this year I wanted to enclose some photos of our favorite restaurant which is also in so many ways our refuge from the crowds while we are here. The guys at Mohamed’s restaurant have been fantastic as always, looking after our nutritional needs, giving us a good laugh and satisfying our out odd cravings for western food. The restaurant is temporary constructed for the season, with mud walls and a blue tarp roof over bamboo poles. All the meals are cooked over open wood fires which have been built into a mud and brick counter. It is really quite ingenious as the fire can be stoked without moving the pot off the stove. Anyway dishes served include, garlic potatoes home fries, sesame tofu with spinach and potatoes, veg dal curry, finger chips, tomatoes vegetable pasta, momos, banana and honey pancakes, nutella chapattis, coconut lassi, apple pie, chocolate balls, oat porridge and eggs cooked the way you like em! You ever go hungry at Mohamed’s, the food is clean and the dishes washed well but you do learn the menu by heart. News this year from Mohamed’s; Umesh got married, Mohamed’s baby turned one and his wife and other 2 kids are doing well, he also opened a new guest house this year. Prem’s boys are doing well in school and Prem is now working at the new guest house. Mumtaz was sick for a wee while with some stomach bug but is ok now, Sky showed up to help out for Kalachakra and is now off to work as the new owner of the Trek and Dine in Dharamkot. New to waiting tables is Sonu who got promoted from the kitchen and has done a great job. The small army of cooks in the kitchen rarely comes into the restaurant but I see the same faces in the kitchen and they are always happy to see their regular customers. Most of the guys have been with Mohamed since he began the restaurant in 1995. If you remember the TV show Cheers, well Mohamed’s is kind of the same thing but without the booze. Thanks guys could not survive Bodhgaya without you.