The company

The Everest Pride

Chatta Sitan is made by The Everest Pride LLC, a small company in the United States built around one Nepali snack we could not find on a shelf here.

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PhotoFounder holding an unopened pouch at a home kitchen counter, afternoon window light, no styling, hands and pouch sharp

How it started

A snack we kept carrying from home

In a Nepali house, sitan is the savoury side — the spiced meat or vegetable eaten with chiura, the flattened rice that fills the rest of the plate. It is afternoon food. It is what gets handed to you when you arrive, before anyone has asked whether you are hungry.

We grew up eating it that way and kept looking for it after we moved. Nothing on a US shelf came close. The nearest thing was a bag of jerky next to a box of crackers, which is two products and not one plate.

So we put the plate in a pouch.

PhotoA steel plate of chiura with sitan spooned beside it on a home table in Kathmandu, shot from directly overhead, midday light

The kit, in numbers

One product, held to a few figures

We sell one thing at one price. We would rather make a single product properly than a shelf of products approximately. Everything below is printed on the pouch or verifiable on the what's inside panel.

31gprotein per pouch
$11.99one kit, one price
30stear, shake, eat
0preservatives
12 moshelf life, printed on each pouch
4.9/5from 2,148 reviews

The decision

Seal it, don't dilute it

The easy version of this product exists. Mild the spice down, add a preservative, print a mountain on the front and hope. We were not interested in that pouch.

The heat is the heat a Kathmandu kitchen would actually serve. The chicken is halal-certified. It is cooked and packed in a USDA-inspected facility in the United States, in batches small enough that we taste them. The chiura is packed dry, which is why it is still loud when you open it.

Nothing is preserved with additives. The 12-month shelf life comes from how the food is dried and sealed, not from something added to it. No refrigeration, no cooking, no compromise. Where each part comes from is set out on the sourcing page.

PhotoTwo hands shaking a sealed pouch at chest height, hard side light from the left, slight motion blur at the pouch edges only

Taste the thing we made

Real Nepali spiced chicken sitan and crunchy chiura, sealed in one pouch. 31 grams of protein, 30 seconds, no cooking. Free US shipping over $35.

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