Eleven Sometimes Surprising Facts about Tibetan Food Test how much you really know about Tibetan cuisine with the list below. Give yourself a point for every fact in the list below you already knew, and please tell us in the comments below how well you did, or if you know any other facts [...]
Tibetan Food: A Visual Guide
April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Tibetan food, which evolved to sustain a hardy people living at an average elevation of 16,000 feet, is like no other food in the world. Who else but Tibetans have a great time drinking salty tea and eating sweet rice in the same sitting? Or grow up on a steady diet of roasted barley flour [...]
Your Insider’s Guide to Losar Eating — Part 2
February 17, 2012 By 5 Comments
This is the second of a two-part series on Tibetan New Year food traditions. In part one, we explored the traditions of the days leading up to Losar, including the preparation of Losar cookies (khapsay), the Eve of Losar Eve’s soup (guthuk), and the chemar bo. In part two we will look at the Losar holidays [...]
Po Cha: Tibetan Butter Tea
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
« Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next Page » For most people, Tibetan butter tea is an acquired taste, since it is savory rather than sweet, and has a completely unexpected flavor. Many non-Tibetans don’t care for it much at first, but come to love it when it [...]
