Bimala Hamal Shrestha's Nepali Kitchen is located just outside the subway on Roosevelt Avenue, 74th Street, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, USA. Not only Bimala Didi's kitchen has been included in the world's top 100 restaurants by the New York Times, a prestigious media outlet. Bimala Didi said that when she started the kitchen in 2015, she never imagined that it would become so famous in the country and abroad. However, she says that she has never stopped promoting Nepali food, which reflects its originality. She says, 'Food and its various dishes do not only establish ethnic and regional identity. The diversity of dishes identifies the civilization and originality of any country.' She has experience that many Nepali restaurants opened in cities like America and New York are expanding the profile of Nepal along with the taste of food.

Hamal's restaurant, known as Bimala Didi Kitchen in the Nepali community, has won awards several times in the Ma:Ma competition held in New York City. The Nepali community here also considers her as a leader and guardian.

The most popular dishes at the Nepali Kitchen, which was opened 11 years ago, range from Nepali favourites like sala roti to ma:ma, chowmein and Bhutanese sukuti. In the early days of the kitchen, she served Nepali sala roti to customers as a 'complimentary'. She has experience that the same sala roti helped attract customers. Now, Nepalis who come to her kitchen prefer thali. She said that even those who like to eat with their hands come to her restaurant.

She said that she felt very proud to be able to promote Nepali cuisine from the opposite hemisphere and to expand Nepali identity along with Nepali taste. She said, 'Nepalese like us have to suffer a lot to start a business in America. You also need to have great courage.' She reached America in 2008. All these hardships gave way to her perseverance, honesty and hard work.