The highest pizza in the world
Fifteen years ago I went trekking in Nepal. Rather then the cliched and busy trek up to Everest Base Camp, we went to a place called Gokyo Peak. Views of Everest, into Tibet, 360°, just awesome. It's so high (5,400m) you can't stay there - you'd get altitude sickness, so you stay at 4,800m.

There was only one hut there then, a folorn place with a sleeping platform for about 14 people, and a strange wizened old Nepali cook who'd picked up strange phrases over the years, 'in a hurry chicken curry' seemed to be one of his favourites.
Yaks are central to their survival - there's no fuel other than yak shit (they dry the patties it on the side of their buildings first) and yak's milk cheese whilst technically edible, is teeth breakingly hard and malodorous.
He handed over a handwritten piece of paper, with 'the menu' on it.
Daal baht takari (get this everywhere, daal potatoes and spring greens)
Pizza

Pizza? Here?
Hmm right - this has got to be worth a go... so, three hours later....
The oven was fuelled by aforementioned yak shit, imparting a characteristic 'smokey poo' flavour to the whole dish. The tomato sauce was imported from a generic strawberry jam/tomato sauce factory in the lowlands (probably supplying Liddel to this day) - it was an odd pink colour, and utterly tasteless. The bread was unleavened, more like pitta bread than anything else, with a few morsels of 'cheese' on top. This was washed down with chang (a weakly fermented popped corn beer). Delicious.
(Countryslicker, Thu 17 May 2007, 15:23, Reply)