Been trying to make authentic Tibetan butter tea but I can't find any yak
butter nor any wooden tea bowls! Help!!!

On Sep 11, 6:58 am, "Zippy P" zongo.com> wrote:

I really don

On Sep 11, 4:06 am, psyfl...@yahoo.com wrote:

On Sep 11, 9:37 am, "Dominic T." gmail.com> wrote:

On Sep 11, 4:37 pm, "Dominic T." gmail.com> wrote:

I'd say your best bet is to take a trip to this part of the

Just in case, these days you can find some really nice greens and
oolongs in Lhasa and elsewhere.
Just in case ...

If I were you I

On Sep 11, 11:30 am, psyfl...@yahoo.com wrote:

On Sep 10, 9:58 pm, "Zippy P" zongo.com> wrote:

I don't know whether this will help or not: we have friends who have a
Tibetan restaurant here in the Bay area. The husband cooks for His
Holiness when he comes this way. My friend uses Hawaiian salt in the
tea and plain old organic UNsalted butter since he's unable to get yak
butter, and says that most Tibetans he knows (HHDL included) prefer
it.
In my visits to Dharmasala, I was given the option and chose cow
butter since I agree with Karsten, yak butter is pretty vile stuff.
Shen

On Sep 11, 5:48 pm, "Dominic T." gmail.com> wrote:

Ah well, the pic would have shown an incredibly nice area if ... if it
had been shot a few years earlier.
It would show
- a lovely lake [has been dried up and replaced with tarmac]
- old colourful tibetan houses [replaced by all those white prefab
buildings that you can see now]
- hoards of tibetans enjoying their picnics.

Some few locals and myself liked it much better back then, YMMV.

Back in the 30s Alexandra David-Neel described how she could make out
the mighty potala from tens of miles away.
Nowadays pretty much the only way to see it is to stand right in front
of it, just follow the giant "Nescafe" billboards.
Nestl

On Sep 10, 9:58 pm, "Zippy P" zongo.com> wrote:

Rosewood tea bowls -
http://cgi.ebay.com/LUXURIOUS-Butter-Tea-ROSEWOOD-Bowl-Silver-Liner_W0QQitemZ170...

Shen

In article <8gpFi.14718$3x.14067@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>,
Zippy P zongo.com> wrote:

You can't just buy commercial yak butter off the shelf. And even if you
could, you'd never know if it were properly rancid.

FIRST of all, you need to make your own butter using only fresh yak milk
and a genuine yak butter churn. And that means having your own personal
yak. Think of the benefits of having a yak in the yard. You'll never need
to mow the lawn again, and also it will prevent burglars from entering your
properly. It might even prevent postmen and meter readers from entering
your properly.

THEN once you have the correctly rancid yak butter (measured for rancidity
ONLY with a calibrated rancidometer), then you need the right tea. And
that is special Nepalese green tea from the Eight Obscure Tea Mountains.
No other tea will do.

THEN, you must have these blended together carefully only by properly
chosen young and nubile Nepalese girls, imported at great expense from the
mountains of Nepal.