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Yomari Punhi
Festival
A Newar harvest festival centred on yomari, a rice-flour dumpling filled with molasses and sesame, marking the end of the rice harvest.
15 DEC
Kathmandu, Nepal
Yomari Punhi celebrates the end of the rice harvest among the Newar people of the Kathmandu Valley, centred entirely on yomari — a rice-flour dumpling shaped like a fig, filled with a sweet molasses and sesame paste and steamed until soft.
Families prepare yomari together at home as part of the tradition, and the dumplings are also offered to household deities as thanks for the harvest — a genuinely intimate, community-and-family-centred food festival rather than a large public spectacle.
Highlights
- ✓Centred on a single traditional dumpling
- ✓Newar community tradition
Getting In
🆓No ticket required
Some recipe photos courtesy of Openverse and Wikimedia Commons contributors, used under Creative Commons licenses.