Restaurant review: Thali Nepal Restaurant, Cork

Thali Nepal is on Pope’s Quay, a charmingly random riverside thoroughfare.

I think Nepal may well be my most favourite ‘country-I’ve-never-been-to’ and with no prospect anytime soon of a gap year for some global trekking, it will remain thus, a class of amour de la patrie solely fuelled by wistful online browsing or nocturnal readathons.

Especially those harrowing tales of Himalayan high-altitude jinks on the perilous slopes of the world’s highest metaphor, Sagarmatha (Mount Everest), the latter best ‘survived’ while cocooned deep inside my tent of blankets.