Festivals in Nepal involve large gatherings of family and friends and no-one has enough plates to go round; instead women make plates from leaves, pinning them together with tiny twigs. The food here is typically Tharu: on the right is potato pickle (boiled potato, sesame seeds, turmeric, chilli, lemon juice and mustard oil); in the middle is dikri (steamed rice flour – can be long and thin, like these, or round with an indent in the middle); on the left, karria (spiced black lentil patties, steamed and fried in mustard oil).