The vessel for cooking rice from Nepal, according to a recent crossword clue answer from the New York Times on October 1, 2025, is called a "PAELLAPAN." However, this term seems unusual as it is more commonly associated with Spanish cuisine (paella pan), not traditional Nepali rice cooking vessels.
In traditional Nepalese cooking, rice is typically cooked in metal pots called "handi" or aluminum pots, although these specific terms did not appear in the crossword context. The crossword answer might be a playful or cryptic entry rather than an exact traditional vessel name. If the inquiry is about authentic Nepali vessels for rice, these would generally be metal cooking pots used in everyday kitchens rather than something called "paellapan," which is out of cultural context for Nepal. Thus, the crossword offers "PAELLAPAN" as the answer, but for genuine culinary practice in Nepal, ordinary metal cooking pots or handi are more realistic rice-cooking vessels.
