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Tibetan Food in Thimphu - Bhutan Food and Travel Guide (Day 2)

May 07, 2020
It looks like I'm going to have to roll up my sleeves for this meal and it's not just a broth, it's like a thick sauce that looks really hot, so I might blow on it a little. Hello, everyone. Wiens with calm migrations in kim poo Bhutan I slept like a baby last night and luckily we were very warm, the heater worked well and the blanket was warm and I feel wonderful and refreshed this morning, it is a cool morning but the views are just right from our balcony here the views are fantastic today we are going to eat some and explore a little more around Tim Poo we are going to start with breakfast here soon the house where we will stay for me Bhutan is quite nice Actually, it is a bit high on the mountain, so we have to walk to the city.
tibetan food in thimphu   bhutan food and travel guide day 2
The hike takes about 15 minutes, but it is a beautiful hike and requires some off-road walking. A bit of a walk, but it's beautiful. I just arrived at a place called ambient cafe and roastery we're going to have some coffee and have breakfast here smart oh nice to meet you nice to meet you they're going to show us the roaster upstairs so you can roast your own coffee here oh and that's this is the room, these are the green coffee beans and then this is the coffee roasting machine. It has an amazing look, a very friendly cafe and very homey.
tibetan food in thimphu   bhutan food and travel guide day 2

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I love the way it feels, it actually reminds me of being an Ethiopian, the real feeling of hospitality and the coffee smells good, he said the coffee, the coffee beans are from India, oh yes that is a beautiful intense flavor , really good, very dark and very dark chocolate-like and earthy at the same time, as well as excellent. Cafe here they also have a mix of western dishes but also some kind of creative fusion dishes. I'm going to start with a dish, this is a Bhutanese spaghetti, so it's spaghetti and then topped with a bunch of cheese.
tibetan food in thimphu   bhutan food and travel guide day 2
I see some onions here, all that. The cheese is like mozzarella, but it is stickier. I think we also ordered hummus, which they make here. Hummus. There is some pita bread and it is also served. I like how they serve it with some vegetables. I'm just going to grab a carrot to dip it in, oh. and I love hummus Oh that's all good this is a chili sauce called AZ yeah okay it's called AZ yeah chili sauce and Matt's recommendation is to mix some into the hummus that sounds I eat something shiny and that will be my Next bite is pita bread, this time I break off a piece and go right where I mixed it with that chili sauce.
tibetan food in thimphu   bhutan food and travel guide day 2
Everything I'm going to need. I'm going to have to spoon it in this time. Oh yeah, look at that. Mmm-hmm, that's even better, a little spice and again, you really taste that dried chili flavor. We also got to share a sandwich where our grilled sandwiches were stuffed with cheese and onion and there are chilies here too and I don't know. yes I should Oh Tomatoes oh yes that's the ingredient and they also have chopped chili peppers okay I think I'll add a little bit of that chili paste although I think it's the same cheese as the one in the spaghetti that dry chili paste is delicious.
The coffee was really good and I especially like the Bhutanese spaghetti with that cheese. Now we are dating Duchin and she works with my Bhutan and she will accompany us and we will explore Thimphu for a while. To quickly enter it is called the Drop shopping complex and look at some clothes. I think there will be some traditional Bhutanese clothing here. We will just walk around and see that this is a very colorful textile fabric store, with all kinds of traditional Bhutanese clothing. The fabrics are silk and there are all kinds of different patterns. You can come here and buy a full set that is pre-made, but they also have rolls of fabric so you can pick out your fabric and maybe make something.
On a Sunday morning in Thimphu or now it is almost noon but it is very quiet and many things are closed. Now we are walking through the central craft market where we passed yesterday too, but we didn't stop, so now we are alone. slowly exploring many traditional crafts, very calm and very peaceful, we just walked for a couple of hours enjoying this peace and quiet at a pace, now we are going to eat some Tibetan

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for lunch and Bhutan has a very strong Tibetan influence. There are many similarities and parallels in the culture and there are also many influences in the

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, so now we are going to have lunch at a Tibetan restaurant.
This restaurant is called Tibetan Cuisine and it's on the second level so you go up the stairs through a It's kind of a hallway and it opens up it feels like we're in someone's living room because we chose the restaurant you can see behind me, there are some tables, but we saw the sofas open, we went straight to the sofas, these are some, they may be some of the most giant-like and overstuffed sofas I have seen before. It looks like I'm going to have to roll up my sleeves for this meal, but this dish is the best pop, which is a Tibetan noodle dish and it's not just a broth but that's like a thick sauce that's hardiness covered with meat and there are some vegetables. here the noodles are underneath here are some tomatoes that you can put in something I really love I'm excited to season there's some shredded temperament of the situation and there's a big bowl of AZ that's the chili sauce and I'll probably season it but let me Try it to see how it tastes before seasoning, it looks very spicy so you might blow on it a bit. oh yeah, that's spicy and it's filling oh, it's the meat, it's a very natural good meat, it's simple because you're supposed to season it, but what I really tasted right away in that first bite is the ginger, you can do a little bit of good ginger.
There lately I've been really addicted to that type of pepper and I saw this whole bowl of that type of freshly ground pepper. Yes, I'm excited for it to smell, you can smell that citrus aroma coming off of it. I'm going to add a little bit to my bowl, okay, I hope I'm not overdoing it, that should be it, it should be good and everything without forgetting a little bit, a small spoonful of chili sauce, okay, I think you have to stir it, okay, oh yes, immediately. oh yes, you can decide to join the pepper, it's nice and citrusy, yes, almost like a cross between oh yes, and right now my tongue is starting to tingle, oh, that's what I love about Sir John pepper, everything that numbness is just one of the most beautiful. feelings, yes, citron pepper and chili, two of the best seasonings in the world, and then with that extra touch of chili it is a little spicy, not too spicy, but it tastes good, hmm, it almost eats more like a stew than like a noodle soup because it's so hearty and thick, here's another dish we have called Abu fing sha and potatoes, there's mung bean noodles here, there's mushrooms, what are those green things?
Oh I think it looks like Chili's Chili's and also maybe that vegetable that's also on the top pop and this yeah this is almost like a oh there's like some kind of creamy sauce underneath hmm no one's good it tastes like that It tastes like cream of mushroom soup it's nice, salty and buttery kinase the butter in it this here is a very famous Tibetan food and I actually ate it when I was in Nepal a couple of years ago. It's called Tim Momo and it's just steamed buns. Well, those are solids that will fill you up and seem like they will expand in your belly.
Also, but I'll try to make them a little bit doughy too, so it looks and feels like half-baked bread, but they're steamed and then this is the best chicken from a store, which is a looks like a chicken stew, There are pieces of chicken, there are tomatoes here, there are the same vegetables and this goes well to eat with the team's mole, so I'll dip some in there first for my first bite and it tastes something like this. that sauce, yes, that bread actually tastes like half-baked bread because it's that stickiness from the steamed chicken tomatoes, hmm, it almost has a barbecue sauce flavor, but not as spicy, this chicken stew, the chicken tie the store is really good. but you could definitely use some of that chili sauce, maybe put some on there and then eat it with this bread.
It's a really good combination and I'm not even sure exactly if they are okay. I will do that. use it like pita bread and pick it up like that oh ho ho yeah oh and also the vegetable the vegetable is, I think it's some kind of spinach, but it really has a slimy spinach texture. it has almost a crunchy texture like kale that combination that dried chili sauce the freshness of that wonderful vegetable I know exactly why they have couches in this restaurant because after eating that type of food the heavyness of that food I don't even think there is any way I can sit on this couch, I just have to lie down, which I don't mind at all.
Now we are going to take a short walk to a monastery and Achon has just taught me how to say his name. I hope I can do it. I'm going to remember here, okay, here goes the Sandow jungle for the comm. We arrived at the monastery and it's a very friendly, monastery-like neighborhood, the surroundings are beautiful with mountains surrounding it and it actually took us about five ten. minutes to walk from the center of tempo, very close to the city center, tempo is the largest city in Bhutan and the capital, but it is so amazing that you feel good, it is like half of the countryside and the whole city only has a country.
I feel the logic with you we didn't know the sub dean of Jing cheering the kilometer ah, thank you, thank you haha, yes, nice to meet you, yes, just walking around the monastery right now, we just met a very friendly gentleman who wanted me to meet him did. I took the photo of him, so I took a photo of him and then he explained to me that we don't speak the same language but we are all human and he was very kind and it was a pleasure to meet him. We've only been in Bhutan for a while. a couple of days so far and everyone we've met has been extremely generous, friendly and kind, so it's been another part of Bhutanese culture that we've only experienced a little bit and yet it's been such a beautiful thing so far that It sounds like a lot of fun to have dinner tonight, we're at a Thai restaurant and we just left Thailand yesterday, it was yesterday, but tonight we're having Thai food.
I have the table almost to myself and the girls are there hiding by the heater a couple of dishes have just come out of the kitchen, including the tomcod

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, which is a coconut milk, chicken and lemongrass soup, it's very thick, lots of mushrooms and chicken and looks like onion, let me try this, oh it's pretty good, it's nice and sour. and then really good coconut milk, mushrooms and chicken, we also have some thumb and this is green papaya salad. I guess it's a thumb tie which is the sweet and sour version so it's cold it's not very spicy and then this is the young Macau which is grilled eggplant or roasted eggplant salad and sometimes you can get it and the eggplant is sliced, this is almost like a sauce and oh, I see some sliced ​​chilis, there are some crunchy shallots.
Also, it's very nice and smoky, it has a nice lemon juice flavor and this is a quick type of pipe which is chicken stir-fried with chili paste. There are green beans here. There is something else. They add some mushrooms and some chilies. under my fried rice okay yes normally in Thailand they would use long beans but I think their green beans we decided to go home from here and since we are at the restaurant it was very cold outside and freezing while we were waiting for a Taxi, now we are back home, that was another good day walking around the pace, the highlight for me was lunch at the Tibetan restaurant.
I'm going to end today's vlog here if you enjoyed this video remember to like it. above and also leave a comment below and see you tomorrow for another day in Bhutan.

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