Yisha

Yisha (@yisha.) is from Kathmandu and shows Harry around it. She chooses where they go, and Pashupatinath — the visit that anchors the video — was her suggestion rather than his; he says at the end that he wouldn’t have gone otherwise.

She is Newar, has been to both Pashupatinath and Varanasi, and is a considerably tougher critic than Harry: through a six-course tasting menu she rates courses one to two points below him every time, and he keeps needling her about it. The detail he finds most impressive all evening is that she can taste that the rice is Nepali rather than Indian.

She also handles the parts of the day he can’t — translating, correcting his pronunciation, teaching him kati hoyo for “how much”, and standing by while he negotiates a taxi down from 700 to 400 with, in her assessment, room to spare.

Appears in

• Nepalese Girl Shows Me Kathmandu🇳🇵 — takes Harry through Pashupatinath and to dinner at Dwarika’s.