After a fireside gin and tonic and a dinner of dal bhat, or lentil soup and rice.

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Lunch was a single piece of bread, and dinner was a small serving of rice, lentil soup and occasionally vegetables.

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The Strand is still there, but totally renovated as a top-of-the-range hotel, where a bowl of spicy lentil soup and a bottle of Mandalay beer will cost you as much as a room once did.

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