How to pronounce Choila

Choila is written छोयला where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /t͡sʰoila/. In plain English letters that is CHOY-la, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Choila?

Choila is a main dish of Nepal. Where it comes from: Bagmati. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and on festive days. Its main ingredients are beef. It tastes spicy and smoky.

Where Choila comes from

Choila is one of 15 signature dishes of Nepal on this map. See all dishes from Bagmati Zone.

• Momo म:म: · Street food · Kathmandu Valley

  Momo are dumplings of thin wheat dough filled with minced buffalo, chicken, pork or vegetables, spiced with onion, garlic, ginger and coriander, and usually steamed.

• Yomari यःमरि · Dessert · Newar towns (Bhaktapur)

  Yomari is a steamed dumpling of rice flour shaped like a fig or a fish, filled with chaku, molasses, and sesame seeds, or with sweet milk solids.

• Chatamari चटामरी · Street food · Bagmati

  Chatamari, in Newar chatānmari, is a thin rice-flour crepe from the Newar cooking of the Kathmandu Valley.

• Samay baji समय बजी · Main dish · Bagmati

  Samay baji is a traditional Newar set of foods arranged around baji, beaten rice: roasted meat such as choila, vegetables, black-eyed beans, roasted soybeans and slivers of ginger.

• Kwati क्वाँटी · Soup & stew · Bagmati

  Kwati, from the Newar kwā, "hot", and tī, "soup", is a thick soup of nine kinds of sprouted beans.

• Juju dhau जुजु धौ · Dessert · Bagmati

  Juju dhau, "king of yogurts" in Nepal Bhasa, is the sweet, thick yogurt of Bhaktapur, the most famous variety of dhau, the yogurt made by the Newars in clay pots.

Food of Nepal

Dishes like Choila in other countries

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• Pepián · Main dish · Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

  Pepián is a thick, spicy stew of chicken or beef with vegetables like chayote, potatoes and green beans, in a sauce of roasted and ground tomatoes, tomatillos, dried chillies and toasted squash and sesame seeds.

• Suya · Street food · Northern Nigeria, Nigeria

  Suya is thin-sliced beef or other meat threaded on skewers, coated with yaji, a spice mix of ground peanut, chilli, ginger and other spices, and grilled over an open fire.