Bhutan
Sikam Paa
སིག་ཀམ་པ།
Pork dried in strips over the winter and then fried with chilli and radish, chewy and intensely porky.
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Bhutan
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Suja
ཇ་སྲུབ་མ།
Brick tea boiled long, then churned with yak butter and salt into a hot, cloudy, savoury drink poured from a wooden churn.
Tibet, China
Thukpa
थुक्पा
Tibetan-style wheat noodles are simmered in a savory broth with vegetables and meat, a Himalayan soup carried into Nepal and Bhutan.
Tibet, Bhutan
Tsampa
糌粑
Roasted barley flour, the staple of the Tibetan plateau, mixed with tea and butter into a dough.
Trashi Yangtse, Bhutan
Urka Bangala Chilies
ཨུར་ཀ་བང་ག་ལ་ཚིལ་ལི
Small, fiercely hot chillies grown in Bhutan, a signature of the national cuisine.
Bhutan
Zoetay
ཟོ་ཏེ།
Datshi left to mature in the east until it turns greenish, sharp and very strongly smelling, then stirred into ezay or eaten in tiny amounts.
Bhutan
Zow Shungo
ཟོ་ཤུང་གོ
Leftover rice fried up with whatever vegetables are left from the previous meal, chilli and cheese.