Location: Nepal - BARC, Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025
Travel Note Summary: BARC, a bar in Nepal that made Asia's 50 Best Bars list for 2025. Meeting an old friend in a foreign land. I spent the whole day busy in the hotel. In the afternoon, I ordered room service and had the local Nepali dish Thili delivered to my room. I also had an online meeting and researched the current developments in AI Agents. I even opened Cursor, which I hadn't used in over half a year, to vibe code some new ideas. In the evening, I met up with my painter friend from Taiwan, Shihong. It was my last night in Kathmandu, and Shihong had just returned to the city after traveling around Nepal, so it was a rare chance for us to meet up. It's especially interesting because we both left Taiwan without knowing the other was coming, and yet we managed to meet thousands of miles away in Nepal. Naturally, we had to have a few drinks. We met at BARC, a place Shihong had been to several times, which has won the honor of being on Asia's 50 Best Bars list for two consecutive years. We started with a set of drinks corresponding to five different spices/ingredients (rice, dried ginger, star anise, bay leaf + clove, orange peel)…
