{"id":277180,"date":"2026-09-02T08:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:28:08","slug":"local-nepali-restaurant-owner-to-host-disaster-relief-fundraiser-after-deadly-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277180\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Nepali restaurant owner to host disaster relief fundraiser after deadly floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A local Nepali restaurant owner is trying to spread awareness of the plight of his country, following the massive flooding along its border with China.<\/p>\n<p>About a week ago, Nepal was hit with devastating floods thanks to the collapse and recession of glaciers in the Himalayan region. Crews have been searching for thousands of people still unaccounted for, while citizens mourn the more than 1,000 that have died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable, the flood. A lot of people are missing, a lot of houses are gone or damaged, so we are trying to do something,\u201d said Bhrat Bist, a native of Kathmandu and owner of Nepali Momo Kitchen in Spring Garden as well as Mount Masala in Voorhees.<\/p>\n<p>Bist said he was shaken watching video of floodwaters wiping out entire communities. \u201cNever thought, like never, ever thought that was coming. I saw the videos, and it was hard to sleep for two, three days,\u201d he told KYW Newsradio.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant owner has advised people who want to help to donate to the <a href=\"https:\/\/pmdrf.nchl.com.np\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prime Minister\u2019s Disaster Relief Fund<\/a>. He said some Nepalis have lost just about everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of them have no house. A lot have nothing, no clothes. They are wearing just one [set of] clothes, they shower and they wear the same clothes,\u201d said Bist.<\/p>\n<p>Still, he praised the people of Nepal as resilient. \u201cIn Nepal, there are a lot of Gurkhas (soldiers). They are so brave, they know how to survive. They\u2019ve lost, but now they are trying to move on, so they are getting there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bist is hosting a disaster relief fundraiser at Mount Masala next Thursday evening. It\u2019s a $25 buffet and all sales will be donated to flood relief efforts. He said a lot of people have told him they want to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel so lucky. Humanity is there. There are a lot of helping people in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A local Nepali restaurant owner is trying to spread awareness of the plight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[36876,115152,69,71,70,244],"class_list":["post-277180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-disaster-relief","tag-nepal-floods","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}