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Kathmandu Valley Festival CalendarTwelve festivals that own the valley's streets, in calendar order — chariots, lamps, colors, and processions, with confirmed dates for the coming year.
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Yomari Punhi
The Newari full moon of sweet rice dumplings — the valley's most delicious festival each December.
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Yomari Punhi is a Newari full-moon festival centered on yomari — steamed rice-flour dumplings filled with chaku (molasses) or khuwa, shaped like a fish. Households make them fresh, offerings are made at shrines like Annapurna's at Ason, and in some neighborhoods four-day-old yomari are ritually eaten as part of Dhan Yatra. It is the valley's most delicious festival to simply walk through.
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