Newa cuisine (also referred to as Newar cuisine) is a subset of Nepalese cuisine that has developed over centuries among the Newars of Kathmandu (Kathmandu is called Yen in Nepal Bhasa) in Nepal. Newa cuisine is the most celebrated food variety in the country that consists of over 200 dishes. It is more elaborate than most Nepalese cuisines because the Kathmandu Valley has exceptionally fertile alluvial soil and enough wealthy households to make growing produce more profitable than cultivating rice and other staples. Food is the integral part of Newar culture. Different kind of foods are prepared for different occasions, considering the climate and nutritional needs for body. Newars are renowned for their sumptuous feasting. Dishes served during feasts and festivals have symbolic significance. Lunch and dinner Jā (boiled rice) Meat dishes Choila (ground buffalo meat) Pālulā (buffalo meat and ginger curry) Senlāmu (raw ground buffalo liver seasoned with spices) Vegetable dishes Tarkāri (vegetable curry) Wāunchā (green vegetables) Tukan:chā Palācha Shākechā Chōlechā Soups Ken (lentil soup) Simi (beans) Mi (fenugreek) Aai ka (leftover rice after preparing rice beer) Choohon (tama in Nepali) (bamboo shoot) Relishes losa (relish) Lunch Baji (beaten rice) Chatānmari (rice flour crepe) Chhusyā (parched wheat) Gophuki (puffed rice) Gwaramari (deep-fried dough) Hājā (steamed rice) Jākimari (rice flour pancake) Kani (popcorn) Kheyn wo (fried egg) Musyā (roasted soybean) Sukulā (dried meat) Wo (fried lentil cake) Bara (fried lentil cake with a hole like a donut) Feast foods Meat dishes Dāyekālā (buffalo meat curry) Dugulā (goat meat curry) Heynlā (duck curry) Bandella (wild boar meat) Changrala (mountain goat meat) Khasilā (gelded goat meat) Nyā (fish curry) Sanya (small fish) Chohi (steamed buffalo blood) Janlā (marinated diced with skin raw meat) Kachilā (marinated raw minced buffalo meat) Khāyālā (chicken curry) Me (buffalo tongue boiled, sliced and fried) Pangra Nhyapu (brains boiled, sliced and fried) Nyāpukā (fried fish) Pukālā (fried meat intestine, e.g. liver, heart etc.) Sanyā-khunā (spicy jellied fish soup) Sapu mhichā (leaf tripe bag stuffed with bone marrow) Swan pukā (goat lungs filled with batter and boiled, sliced and fried) Takhā (jellied buffalo meat curry) Vegetable dishes Buba kwā (beans curry) Chhon kwā (curry of bamboo shoots and potato) Kwāti (soup made of nine types of sprouted beans) Mee kwā (curry of fenugreek seeds) Pancha kwā (mixed vegetable curry of bamboo shoots, potato, dried mushroom, dried radish and blackeyed pea) Soups Bullā or ka kwā (soup made of the