Bhutan Info
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 Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: FOOD & DINING IN BHUTAN |
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FOOD & DINING IN BHUTAN
Restaurants are relatively scarce and most tourists eat in their hotels.
National specialties:
• Meals are often buffet-style and mostly vegetarian.
• Cheese is a very popular ingredient in dishes and the most popular cheeses are datse (cow’s milk cheese), sometimes served in a dish with red chillies (emadatse), and yak cheese.
• Rice is ubiquitous, sometimes flavored with saffron.
• The country is replete with apple orchards, rice paddies and asparagus, which grows freely in the countryside. There are also over
400 varieties of mushroom.
• Fat brown and rainbow trout swim amid the glacial waters of the Pa Chu River, but these will not be caught by Bhutanese Buddhists. However, recent restrictions on meat-eating have lapsed ever so slightly. Meat and fish are now imported from nearby India, and Nepali Hindus living in Bhutan are licensed to slaughter animals.
National drinks:
• The most popular drink is souza (Bhutanese tea). |
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