A staff member of the Chinese Noodle Restaurant is handing over a meal box to a traveler in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
KATHMANDU, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Nepal has been under lockdown since March 24 in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19. Hundreds of thousands of travelers from various countries have been stranded in the country after international flights were suspended.
With the help of his Chinese friends in Nepal, Li Liang, owner of the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Kathmandu, has been offering free meals to the stranded tourists for the past one month. More than 6,000 meal boxes have been distributed to tourists from over a dozen countries and regions.
A staff member wearing a protective suit is waiting for travelers to pick up the meal boxes at the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
Li Liang, owner of the Chinese Noodle Restaurant, is checking the rice cooker at the restaurant in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
A staff member wearing a protective face mask is holding a meal box at the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
Photo taken on April 12, 2020 shows the notice set up at the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
People queue up while waiting to get the meal boxes outside the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
Pan Bei, a volunteer wearing a protective suit with face masks in hand, asks people for their choice of the meal boxes and reminds people to keep a distance from each other outside the Chinese Noodle Restaurant in Thamel, center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu, Nepal, April 12, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping)
Cai Jun, a volunteer, is bargining at a booth at the largest wholesale vegetable and fruit market in Kathmandu, Nepal, in the early morning hours on April 16, 2020. He comes to the market with his colleagues every two or three days to purchase vegetables and fruits for the Chinese Noodle Restaurant. (Xinhua/Zhou Shengping) ■
