11/28/2025
Curry Without Worry
Curry Without Worry® In November 2010, we added our first global chapter, Curry Without Worry Kathmandu, Nepal serving 350 meals every Tuesday.
Curry Without Worry® was founded in December 2006 by Shrawan Nepali to provide healthy, soul pleasing Nepalese food to hungry people in San Francisco and beyond. www.currywithoutworry.org
Curry Without Worry® serves a warm meal (free of charge) accompanied by a dignified and rich Nepalese cultural experience to hundreds of people in San Francisco’s Civic Center/UN Plaza every Tuesday. No one is d
11/28/2025
08/13/2022
Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement: “If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please come to the gate immediately.” Well — one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian embroidered dress, just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing. “Help,” said the flight agent. “Talk to her. What is her problem? We told her the flight was going to be late and she did this.”
I stooped to put my arm around the woman and spoke haltingly.
“Shu-dow-a, Shu-bid-uck Habibti? Stani schway, Min fadlick, Shu-bit-se-wee?” The minute she heard any words she knew, however poorly used, she stopped crying. She thought the flight had been cancelled entirely. She needed to be in El Paso for major medical treatment the next day. I said, “No, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just later, who is picking you up? Let’s call him.”
We called her son, I spoke with him in English. I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and ride next to her. She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her? This all took up two hours.
She was laughing a lot by then. Telling of her life, patting my knee, answering questions. She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies — little powdered sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts — from her bag — and was offering them to all the women at the gate. To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the mom from California, the lovely woman from Laredo — we were all covered with the same powdered sugar. And smiling. There is no better cookie.
And then the airline broke out free apple juice from huge coolers and two little girls from our flight ran around serving it and they were covered with powdered sugar, too. And I noticed my new best friend — by now we were holding hands — had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing, with green furry leaves. Such an old country tradition. Always carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.
And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that gate — once the crying of confusion stopped— seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too.
This can still happen anywhere. Not everything is lost.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
11/11/2020
Curry Without Worry celebrating Loveland move with free Nepalese food, music and dancing After nearly 15 years of serving the homeless and hungry of San Francisco, Nepalese chef Shrawan Nepali has a plan to bring his vision of healing, healthy meals to Loveland.
11/06/2020
Namaste Everyone!!, I’m here in Loveland where we are launching our service on November 16th!! We will be back in beautiful San Francisco soon!! Snow or sunshine :)
09/16/2020
Happy tuesday everyone!!!! We have been very busy lately, through the street of San Francisco and beyond!!We will come to you with more news and pictures soon!!
09/01/2020
Curry Without Worry’s volunteer team led by Shrawan Nepali, founder President returns back to San Francisco after spending 5 days delivering much needed 9-sprouted beans soup to first responders and hungry friends of Vacaville, California in the aftermath of big fire there! Let’s help keep Vacaville Strong!
08/19/2020
Happy tuesday!!! 9 beans healing soup as always and new friends and neighbors helping!! @ San Francisco, California
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