- The food of the Sikkim people is a mix of Nepali, Tibetan, Lepcha and Bhutia cuisines. Indian, Continental and Chinese cuisines are also found around the city. Vegetarian and non vegetarian are easily available here. The people of this region are very much fond of Dumplings, noodles, rice items, fermented foods and bamboo shoot.
- Some of the popular Nepali cuisines are Saelroti prepared from fermented rice mixture which is deeply fried in a ring shape and consumed along with potato curry or meat or just by itself, Pakku a Nepali mutton curry served with rice, til ko alu a Nepali-style potato curry with sesame seeds and sishnu, a nettle leaf soup.
- Tibetans are famous for Momos or dumplings, Thukpa or Gyatuk a noodle soup, Tibetan shapale a meat pie and thenthuk, a homemade style noodles sliced into bite sized pieces.
- Taste of Tibet, 9'Ine Native Cuisine, Snow Lion Restaurant and Arthur's Multicuisine Restaurant are some of the restaurants where you can savor these cuisines.
- The people also make a variety of fermented alcoholic drinks like The Chaang a fermented cereal-based alcoholic drink which is sipped from a bamboo container making use of a thin bamboo pipe and Raksi a clear wine distilled from fermented rice.
