Orange Peel, New NYC Chinese-Nepali popup restaurant, honors culture of the North Face region

At a new popup restaurant in New York City, Nepali spices and hand-wrapped momos highlight the traditions and culture behind the cuisine of the North Face region in the Himalayas, an area many only associate with extreme sports and puffer coats. Nichi Pandey, 22, and Steven Li, 23, childhood friends who grew up in Maryland, wanted their new restaurant, the Orange Peel Cafe, in the Lower East Side to tell the story of the Nepal-Chinese border and its people. The North Face refers to the north side of Mount Everest, also known as Sagarmatha in Nepali. Over 50 million people live in the…