Bhutanese CHILI SAUCE! Bhutan Travel Guide from Punakha to Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan (Day 14)

you take some rice and you have to put it right on the I love you, yes, keep it right in the center, no, yes, not on top, okay, and once you have all the rice in the center of your palm, you just put it you throw it into your mouth as if you were eating peanuts. Hello, everyone. Your brand Wiens with Migration. We came here, it was pitch black, but I knew it was going to be beautiful here and it's absolutely stunning. I'm not sure if it will show up on camera, but I can see some rugged snowy peaks of the Himalayas far away while I'm at it.

The place is amazing, the view and I slept so well last night, it's so peaceful here so I don't think I even heard anything and it was also pitch black, it was a beautiful morning especially the sunrise when the sun peeked out. the mountains and the rice terraces, this is a beautiful place, but now we are sitting down to breakfast, which is another beautiful place and I just bought Suja, which is butter tea, oh yes, that's what butter tastes like more stronger than other versions I have If it had a very strong butter flavor, a little salty, it is quite good.

Wow, well that's very buttery for breakfast. Today we have these buckwheat pancakes that we had a couple of days ago and then thanks and trouble. I just bought some which is the key ingredient in everything and then also hard boiled eggs, this is potatoes and beef jerky and then just a little bit looks like a very light cheese

sauce

and also some onions, all cooked and fresh. then I also feel like eating a banana, look at the size of these, there are very fat bananas, yes, there is no other way to say it, these are fat and beautiful bananas, and they are straight from the garden, even at this height. of elevation and in this cold weather, then the bananas the skin turns a little brown but they are very good inside, so I take a piece of buckwheat pancake and this time they are nice and fluffy and I'm going to go. with some of that AZ and some of those potatoes today I'm with USAID all that Asia is beautiful all the flavor of the dried

chili

the onions there yeah and then I can really taste the I think there's also cottage cheese there to give it has a little bit of salt and then also some yeah, just that hint of blue cheese flavor, oh that's delicious and then with that pancake you can taste the buckwheat, it has a little bit of an earthy flavor and then these are very fluffy versions of pancakes.

I don't know if there could be anything better than boiled eggs and AZ and I'll have to use my spoon to scoop out the AZ and then it's okay, all that AZ is wonderful, yeah, really really good, okay. I'm going for that banana oh yeah that's a solid banana that's sweet and a little crunchy this is another award winning AZ it's so good it's so tasty and I really like essays with chunks like that all that's just a call man my egg couldn't balance, everything has to be pulled back, look, that's a beautiful bite. I'm going to lean over to see this bike.

Their award-winning call is so good on eggs. Enjoyment. So much so that the family has decided to show me how to do it, so I'm very happy that we all have a gift. Now she's going to do something for us and I'm going to try to film it right now so she First just chops up some onions and then makes the A's go back to the same bowl that we just finished. Oh, the beautiful onions go first and then that's all ginger. Okay, it's a little bit clear, but in thin pieces so you can chew it easily and I think it must be some kind of baby ginger because it's very soft and not too woody, okay, and this is the cool ingredient that we had.

I think we had it hot too. These are tree tomatoes. and when I tried it before it tasted almost like a combination between a tomato and a mango oh look at that oh Sh a pepper is fine and then a little Sichuan goes in that is ground and sews a pepper oh yeah Oh, cold and then dry includes

chili

dry to make things even better, oh yeah, and then she's just mixing all that together, oh man, that looks so good, that's why it tastes so good because of all those delicious ingredients, oh, that's the cheese is fine and then goes the cottage cheese to give it and that also gives it a little bit of salt, okay, I took a little time to take some photos, but while I was taking photos she added just an extra pinch of salt and then a bit. of water and then a little bit of cooking oil just so she gives it a spicier pasta texture and there's really no measured ingredients so if you want to make it and I definitely want to make it, you just have a guess.

The ingredients continue to accumulate and then they are all mixed together and it is delicious. Many thanks to the mother of the family and her daughter Tenzin Jordan for showing me how to do that. Oh thanks. Thank you so much. Shenzhen Kenzan just brought me. the AZ I really want to eat this. Maybe I have to eat it as is, without anything or with that banana. Oh, I might be fine with that banana. The family here has a rice mill, a machine for grinding rice, so some farmers. Other farmers in the region have just passed by with their big bags of rice and are then grinding the rice in that small room.

Goodbye, nice to meet you. We drove for about 15 minutes along the ridge from where we were staying and have just arrived at a monastery where we are going to stop for a few minutes. There is a door here. Oh, maybe it's to keep the animals away and just look at that incredible view of the Himalayas. Now we have stopped at another monastery. It's going to be just a short walk down the mountain because the road ends here. Hopefully, we'll have some more beautiful views. You have engines, yeah right, yeah, it looks like there was a landslide so the whole road just collapsed with rocks etc.

They have a small detour on the road and then we have to climb a staircase to cross to the monastery. It's a bit for me, there are about a hundred and sixty monks living in that monastery and it's really cool to watch them play. the instrument those long horns we are driving now on the way to Paktika and it should be about a five hour drive today we have been driving for at least two or three hours the road has been quite intense, very bumpy and winding around the ridge and They are doing a lot of construction, that's why part of the road is so bad, but it is quite intense, it actually makes you very hungry, so we stopped for lunch at a restaurant and again had other amazing views of the mountains behind me . and this is a completely different set of peaks than the one we had this morning, which was more on that side.

I think it's good, this dish is Shechem dottie with dried beef and cheese

sauce

and chillies and this is runner style point C and then This is Sikkim dottie C with sun dried pork with cheese also and then I ordered chilli chicken . I think I might be fried. I don't know if it's fried chicken or just sautéed and then well sautéed. stir-fry and then sometimes it can be very red in color when you order chili chicken, this is more of a yam or it looks like just stir-fried chicken with chilies and onions and then also some mixed vegetables, mainly cauliflower and a little bit of cabbage here, okay this is a chili sauce they have served us with an AZ made with dried roasted chilies which looks delicious add a little bit to taste it and then this is the aza we brought from the homestay this morning and which I know is awesome, first we add that to those vegetables, okay, I'm going to go get some of that chicken chili with some of those chilis hmm oh, and that dried chili contains citron pepper, the chicken is a little, almost knows. like a Chinese style chili chicken, kind of like stir-fried chicken with peppers and onions.

I'll add it to the beef jerky, hmm, yes, small pieces of beef jerky in cheese sauce with additional dried chiles for garnish. okay and then I also bought a plate of dal. The chicken was really good and we are going to get back on the road now that we have just reached Pope Jakka Valley which is our next destination. In fact, we'll be here for a couple. of days and we just arrived at our farm stay this afternoon, it's around 3:30 p.m. oh yes, this is a nice traditional farm, a being is already climbing the ladder.

You okay hello well when she g22 okay nice to meet you below the new Papa Jakka is much colder than where we were last night in

punakha

and right above me which is. Really impressive, these are turnip greens that are dried over a wood fire, so they are dehydrating and look like vegetable chips up there, but I hope we get a chance to eat them soon because they are really good, but this is a state very cozy and pleasant farmhouse. Now I'm sitting having a cup of tea by the log fire which feels amazing and some crispy rice and I think it has poppy seeds in it and it's such a good snack.

Crispy rice with chicken bones and teeth. I love you hmm, so warm here and this is another snack that is a kind of thorn, wow, that is really very crunchy, almost like a tooth breaking, crunchy, imagine cornflakes that are extremely crunchy. I think those are original cornflakes. I guess I see it when Zonk Their name is Ginza and we were lucky because Tenzin who is our driver is actually from Poop Joga so he knows this whole

valley

very well so now we are going to drive for a while. It is very cold. read correctly I think Poop Chica is a glacial

valley

, so it was an ancient glacier that carved this valley.

Oh, it's getting a little soft, a little dirty around here, but there are a lot of birds, I'm not sure if they're crows or crows. flying I think there's some kind of I think there's some food there, that's why they come haha ​​hello oh yeah, it's really very nice doctor, come on hello, what's your name? I'm right here in the middle of the crow or crow zone and it's like a symphony of birds singing and cackling which was great to see at the end. I found out that I think one of the dogs killed one of the birds, that's why the whole flock came there and then.

The dogs were just playing with all the birds. Those clouds are moving down the valley so fast. I'm hanging out with Egan and he's going to show me the garden and the turnips. You had turnips, oh right, yeah, drain, I'll go get them. right, yeah, so you're dry, how long does it take to grow? Oh, it's pretty fast, so it's fast. Oh, hahaha, that's a huge turnip, oh yeah, and this is what you'll feed to the cow, yeah, and then you dry it. Yes, you can lift the pass ticket, yes, okay, do you lift it late today?

So the leaves are very common to eat, like what hangs over the fire inside and then the turnip itself, a tuber. I don't know if it's a tuber or a root. I will do that. be fed to the cows yeah be careful yeah yeah okay damn there's only one cow and there's three bowls inside there but it's a little dark so it's hard to show it on camera but it's the night, oh, we have. Ducks too, oh okay, and there are cranes right there, yeah, should we go see? Mom just called from the top of the house and said there are a couple of black necked cranes that just arrived here and pop jakka is very famous for its black color.

Necked cranes are an endangered species and I believe they come from Tibet every year. I think there are only a couple hundred in the world. I could be totally wrong, so don't hold me responsible for that. How many? Do you know how many? Oh great. yeah, how many cranes are down there trying to beat you, chew oh, okay, that's a good answer 302 those are the black-necked cranes right there, don't fly away, okay, let's try to get a little closer, but we have to be quiet and Unfortunately, my zoom is not long enough, to tease, we have decided to stop here because everything gets muddy and very, very swampy.

Unfortunately, my camera lens is not very long, so I made a cut as a kind of distant view, but they are really beautiful, uh, yeah. I wish I had a long telephoto lens to capture them, but I think we'll head back to the house from here, plus my mouth is frozen right now, it's very cold on the moon and right now we're sitting by the wood fire thawing out the cold. It's very cold outside mom just offered me a cup of ara and this is the local rice wine from Bhutan, yes it tastes very similar to sake, yes, yes, it's okay, you know it's a subconscious problem, no one, oh Yeah.

Monday, come, my oldest Gavita brings you the check. one is the cow a point C that's potatoes and cheese and there's some broccoli in here too maybe that's okay and then this is Kiowa Killa French Fries yeah okay that's okay too some fries so okay and these are all from the gardens Emma Dottie one of my favorite Bhutanese foods the chillies and cheese are always good okay this looks great this is the blind all with the bees okay whatever. I beat these pigs with dried pork with peas. I think they look like peas. a and then this is a completely different type of AZ than the one we had today, it's dried chilies and it looks like a bunch of cilantro and onions, so yeah, this is a completely different type of AZ that looks delicious, like Sinjin and onions also and some dried chillies, the food smells amazingly good as always and I'm going in with my fingers for this meal.

Oh, that has a very nice garlic flavor, which is different from other versions I've tried. Oh, it's almost like garlic. creamy cheese sauce, well that's amazing, AZ smells too and everything, and I have to go get some of that, Emma's dad,​​​​​see minute 7e, oh.that's amazing, well there's eight of them, it has a nice bitter taste, it's salty, you can taste the dried chiles and that's cilantro, it's almost like a cilantro salad, all of that is well, homegrown potatoes, hmm, oh, the texture of the potatoes are not starchy. not at all, but they are creamier, the other dish is called Sikkim, which is basically thick pieces of bacon, but I have one that has a little bit of meat in it and yes, I taste or eat all of it, oh that fat just juice.

I think I've said that before, but it just melts and then that one has a little bit of meat in it, in which case it's like jerky style meat, yeah, that's like an extra thick cut of bacon, really good food and I really like it. that Kuwaiti has a very pleasant garlic flavor. I think it's the best version I've tried so far. The family is teaching me to eat with my hands Bhutanese style, so I'm going to try it, but. actually, it's less about eating with your fingertips, but you take rice and then you make a ball, yes, you take it in your no like this, okay, this way, okay, this could be like this, oh, okay, do it yourself. to squeeze it right man, mine is not going to be so pretty, I could love myself a lot oh, okay, okay, I have a little, yeah, and then you eat it with Emma Dotty, yeah, with that, okay, okay , mine got a little dirty, but they eat very clean and then you take some Emma Dotty with that little rice ball and there's another style, you take some rice and you have to put it right on the I love you, yeah, keep it right on the center, no, yes, not above, okay, and once. you have all the rice in the center of your palm, you just throw it into your mouth, like you're eating peanuts, okay, that's possibly the most fun way to eat rice I've ever tried, and I.

I think I definitely spilled a little. Wow, okay, mom is teaching me how to wash my hands with rice Bhutanese style. Okay, make it tight, yeah, do that, make it really tight, you have to make it really tight and squeeze out all the rice. men and you can see it like oil on your hands and then seriously practice with dough to make it very tight so it doesn't stick to your hands but just wipe all that like oil off your hands yeah mine is not tight enough , but yes. of work, okay, oh, and look at my hands, yeah, oh, and then, and then use all that rice to clean the wooden floor, yeah, so that's all you can do with rice, there was a quick turn here, ohoho, so fast, oh, and there's a cat, now there's a cat now chilling under the fire stove that was an extremely delicious dinner uh definitely the coyote although the potatoes and cheese was the best version I ate that garlic it took it to the next level so I think we'll probably go to bed after this delicious dinner, so I'm going to end the vlog now.

Thank you all so much for watching and remember to like this video if you enjoyed it. It's been a fantastic day and I'll see you tomorrow for another day at the pub. jakka